Panfilov’s Twenty-Eight Guardsmen
Panfilov’s 28 Men is a 2016 war film based on a Soviet propaganda legend about a group of soldiers – Panfilov’s Twenty-Eight Guardsmen – heroically halting and destroying Nazi tanks headed for Moscow before all perishing together on the battlefield.[3] It is set in the Eastern Front of World War II and covers the 8th Guards Rifle Division operations during the 1941 Battle of Moscow.[4][5] On DVD, it is also known as Battle for Moscow.