Enemy at the Gates was inspired by a true story and set against the siege of Stalingrad during World War II. This movie begins with the deployment of the Soviet Union army into German territory in Stalingrad on the banks of the river to the west of Stalingrad. This movie depicts the lack of respect for the military life and civilian life. The soldiers that make land alive are lined up and passed by a truck and every other soldier is given a gun and the men in between are given a clip of bullets and told to pick up the gun and continue shooting once the man in front with the gun has been killed. This shows that they are going to try and advance into enemy ground by the sheer use of numbers of men with no respect to the amount of life loss. Both sides loss a tremendous amount of men, some estimates around one point five million lives loss in the battle of Stalingrad. Besides being a turning point in the war, Stalingrad was also revealing in terms of the discipline and......

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Title: Enemy At The Gates
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