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Fortieth War

Original title: Neljakümnes sõda

2005 | Documentary | Director: Andres Sööt

Documentary by Andres Sööt about the Narva Battalion. The greatest value of the battalion was the Estonian men who volunteered to the Estonian Legion in the autumn of 1942.

Documentary by Andres Sööt has been dedicated to the Narva Battalion of Estonian Grenadiers where the soldiers fought for the independence of the Republic of Estonia in World War 2. These Estonian men who volunteered to Estonian Legion in the autumn of 1942 got a proper training in order to fight in the corps of Wiking SS division against the Soviet troops. The battle of Tannenberg and battles in Ukraine caused many victims; yet, it was not up to them to prevent the second Soviet occupation in Estonia.
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Paragrahv 58/4

1996 | Documentary | Director: Pinchas Schatz
The Summer War

Original title of the film: Suvesõda

1991 | Documentary | Director: Leo Ilves
1941.a.suve sündmused Vaimastveres.Meenutab pr.E.Vähi.Kõneleb Maalehe ajakirjanik Tiit Lääne.

1989 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Heli Speek
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Baltics 1987 – Demonstration and Parade in Toronto

Original title: Balti ühtsuse päev Torontos 1987

1989 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Celebrating the memorial day of those deported from the Baltic States in Toronto where the local Baltic people hold a street procession and speeches on June 14th, 1989.

The procession of the Baltic people living in Canada moves from St Paul's Cathedral towards the Toronto City Hall along Bloor, Yonge and Queen Streets. First goes the drummer, followed by young women in Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian national costumes and waving the national flags. Riina Kindlam is carrying the Estonian national flag. The slogans at the demonstration express disapproval towards the occupation of the Baltic states and deportation that took place on June 14th 1941 that ruined the lives of more than 800,000 Baltic people. When the sun goes down the memorial candles are being carried. Demonstration and speeches ...
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Tartu vangla veresauna mälestuseks.

1989 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Heli Speek
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Estonians. That's the Way it Was.

Original title: Eestlased. Nii see oli

1984 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Film for the children of expatriate Estonians in Canada introduces the history of the Republic of Estonia, events of WW2 and the destiny of refugees.

Lesson of the expatriate Estonian pupils in Canada, singing class. Film's director Arved Viirlaid with his wife explains the reasons of making the film. Chronicle frames: Tallinn before World War I, Nicholas II of Russia, battle scenes from World War I. Revolution of 1917 in St. Petersburg, Kerenski, Lenin, manifesto of declaration of the Republic of Estonia; German forces in 1918, the Red Army, Danish volunteers in the Estonian War of Independence, armoured trains and armoured vehicles; the original document of the Treaty of Tartu. Chronicle scenes about the restructuring of the Republic of Estonia after the War of Independence: ...
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Viimse hingetõmbeni

1941 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director:

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