电影史上制作精致，构思严谨的宏篇巨制。外景地多达一百六十多处！场面壮阔，气势磅礴，继承了苏联在拍摄历史题材与军事题材影片方面的传统，完美的融托尔斯泰原着精神于其中，再现了俄法战争时期俄罗斯大地广阔的历史画卷。 　　影片以1812年俄国卫国战争为中心，反映了1805年至1820年的重大事件，包括奥斯特利茨大战、波罗底诺会战、莫斯科大火、拿破仑溃退等。通过对四大家庭以及安德烈、彼埃尔,娜塔莎在战争与和平环境中的思想和行动的描写，展示了当时俄国社会的风貌。 　　影片共分四部。

The 500,000 strong Napoleon's army moves through Russia and causes much destruction culminating in the battle of Borodino. The Russian army has to retreat. Moscow is occupied, looted and burned down, but soon Napoleon loses control and has to flee. Both sides suffer tremendous losses in the war, and Russian society is left irrevocably changed.
As Moscow is set ablaze by the retreating Russians, the Rostovs flee their estate, taking wounded soldiers with them, and unbeknownst to them, also Andrei. Pierre, dressed as a peasant, tries to assassinate Napoleon but is taken prisoner. As the French are forced to retreat, he is marched for months with the Grande Armée, until being freed by a raiding party. The French are defeated by Kutuzov in the Battle of Krasnoi. Andrei is recognized and is brought to his estate. He forgives Natasha on his deathbed. She reunites with Pierre and they marry as Moscow is being rebuilt.

三个卫国战争时期的歼敌英雄聚集在莫斯科，迎接一年一度对他们来说最为重要的日子胜利日。然而就在他们兴致勃勃地为参加胜利日的阅兵式忙碌之际，不幸的事件发生了，其中一位朋友遭人陷害而被捕。为救朋友出狱，其余两个朋友想尽一切办法，在走投无路之际，他们劫持了飞机。待朋友被送来、机上全部人质撤离后，等待他们的将是被全部杀害。于是他们驾机而起，消失在蓝天白云之间，再也没有返回地面。

In explanation of the early works of Anton Chekhov
• Ot nechego delat (From nothing to do)
Director: Sergei Solovyov
• Nervy (Nerves)
Director: Alexander Shein
• Mstitel (Avenger)
Director: Andrei Ladynin
• Predlozheniye (Proposal)
Director: Sergei Solovyov

由莫斯科电影制片厂摄制的12集电视剧。

该片被人们誉为“非凡的影片，它甚至使那些惯于吹毛求疵地把影片同历史进行对照的人，也不由得倾倒于影片的魅力。”编导出色地把纪实手法与艺术虚构融合在一起。影片的故事情节以施季里茨调查法西斯上层人物与西方秘密谈判媾和为核心，却又以他与德国党卫军的周旋以及党卫军内部的斗争为线索，剥丝抽茧、层层推进，全片不见“历史瞬间”的快速闪过，而是以慢节奏细腻展现主人公的斗争历程，使纪实性、戏剧性、历史性得以完美统一。

影片围绕1945年3月在瑞士伯尔尼和洛桑进行的谈判即英美盟国背着苏联与法西斯单独媾和的“日出行动”进行。

1918 year. A woman commissar has been appointed from the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party to the Russian warship Gromoboi, which is ruled by anarchist sailors. The leader of the ship is the anarchist Vozhak. The Commissioner was instructed to reorganize the naval detachment into the First Sailor Regiment. She faces a difficult task: to win the authority of the sailors and eradicate anarchy. Of the remaining officers on the ship — lieutenant Bering, who served in the tsarist fleet on the battleship "Emperor Paul I". He must become the commander and, together with the sent commissar, lead the regiment to the front in the Black Sea region.