Variant title: Know Your Ally: Russia
World War II documentary, part of the Why We Fight series. Tiomkin served as music director.

| Role | Person |
|---|---|
| Composer | Dimitri Tiomkin |
Listed on cue sheet:
| Title | Status |
|---|---|
| Scene Music for The Battle of Russia | Published |
| Title | Image |
|---|---|
| US One Sheet Description: Coming Soon! |
Will Come Soon!
Description: second 1 sheet
Will Come Soon!
Description: Coming Soon!
Total Time:
39 minutes, 26 seconds
| Cue | Title | Reel | Part | Usage | Timing | Collaborators |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Original Composition Description: Partially Based on Song of Stalingrad and Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony. |
1 | 1 | Background Instrumental Entire | 1:25 | Dimitri Tiomkin (Composer) |
| 2 | Original Composition Description: Partially Based on Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony. |
1 | 2 | Background Instrumental Entire | :08 | Dimitri Tiomkin (Composer) |
| 3 | Original Composition Description: Partially Based on Tchaikovsky’s Sixth Symphony, Red Flag and Call to Arms – Army Bugle Call. |
1 | 3 | Background Instrumental Entire | 1:07 | Dimitri Tiomkin (Composer) |
| 4 | Original Composition Description: Based on To Arms – Army Bugle Call, Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony and Song of the Steppes by Knibber. |
1 | 4 | Background Instrumental Entire | 1:08 | Dimitri Tiomkin (Composer) |
| 5 | Original Composition Description: Partially based on Ach Du Lieber Augustine. P.D. |
1 | 5 | Background Instrumental Entire | :12 | Dimitri Tiomkin (Composer) |
| 6 | Original Composition Description: Partially Based on theme from Alexander Nevsky by Prokofiev. |
1 | 6 | Background Instrumental Entire | :32 | Dimitri Tiomkin (Composer) |
| 7 | Original Composition Description: Partially Based on theme from Alexander Nevsky by Prokofiev. |
1 | 7 | Background Instrumental Entire | :25 | Dimitri Tiomkin (Composer) |
| 8 | Original Composition Description: Coming Soon |
1 | 8 | Background Instrumental Entire | :37 | Dimitri Tiomkin (Composer) |
| 9 | Original Composition Description: Partially Based on Marseillaise. P.D. |
2 | 1A | Background Instrumental Entire | 1:49 | Dimitri Tiomkin (Composer) |
| 10 | Original Composition Description: Coming Soon |
2 | 3 | Background Instrumental Entire | :12 | Dimitri Tiomkin (Composer) |
| 11 | Original Composition Description: Coming Soon |
2 | 4 | Background Instrumental Entire | :15 | Dimitri Tiomkin (Composer) |
| 12 | Original Composition Description: Partially Based on theme from Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture. |
2 | 5 | Background Instrumental Entire | :25 | Dimitri Tiomkin (Composer) |
| 13 | Original Composition Description: Coming Soon |
2 | 5B | Background Instrumental Entire | :36 | Dimitri Tiomkin (Composer) |
| 14 | Original Composition Description: Coming Soon |
2 | 8 | Background Instrumental Entire | :18 | Dimitri Tiomkin (Composer) |
| 15 | Original Composition Description: Partially Based on Greetings to Moscow |
2 | 10 | Background Instrumental Entire | :42 | Dimitri Tiomkin (Composer) |
| 16 | Original Composition Description: Partially Based on Greetings to Moscow |
3 | 1 | Background Instrumental Entire | 2:48 | Dimitri Tiomkin (Composer) |
| 17 | Original Composition Description: Arrangement based on My Moscow. |
3 | 2 | Background Instrumental Entire | :39 | Dimitri Tiomkin (Composer) |
| 18 | Original Composition Description: Partially Based on Shostakovich’s Seventh Symphony. |
3 | 3 | Background Instrumental Entire | 1:04 | Dimitri Tiomkin (Composer) |
| 19 | Original Composition Description: Partially Based on theme from Shostakovich’s Seventh Symphony. |
3 | 4 | Background Instrumental Entire | :20 | Dimitri Tiomkin (Composer) |
| 20 | Original Composition Description: Partially Based on Greek National Anthem – P.D. |
3 | 5 | Background Instrumental Entire | :14 | Dimitri Tiomkin (Composer) |
| 21 | Original Composition Description: Partially Based on Yugoslavian National Anthem & Shostakovich’s Seventh Symphony. |
4 | 1 | Background Instrumental Entire | 1:09 | Dimitri Tiomkin (Composer) |
| 22 | Original Composition Description: Coming Soon |
4 | 2 | Background Instrumental Entire | 2:04 | Dimitri Tiomkin (Composer) |
| 23 | Original Composition Description: Coming Soon |
4 | 3 | Background Instrumental Entire | 1:46 | Dimitri Tiomkin (Composer) |
| 24 | Original Composition Description: Partially Based on theme from Shostakovich’s Seventh Symphony. |
4 | 4 | Background Instrumental Entire | 1:04 | Dimitri Tiomkin (Composer) |
| 25 | Original Composition Description: Partially Based on Shostakovich’s Seventh Symphony & Song of the Steppes by Knibber |
5 | 1 | Background Instrumental Entire | 1:55 | Dimitri Tiomkin (Composer) |
| 26 | Original Composition Description: Partially Based on Greetings to Moscow and Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony. |
5 | 3 | Background Instrumental Entire | 1:30 | Dimitri Tiomkin (Composer) |
| 27 | Original Composition Description: Partially Based on When Tomorrow is War and Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony. |
5 | 4 | Background Instrumental Entire | :28 | Dimitri Tiomkin (Composer) |
| 28 | Original Composition Description: Partially Based on Song of the Steppes by Knipper, Shostakovich Seventh Symphony and Greetings to Moscow |
5 | 5 | Background Instrumental Entire | :54 | Dimitri Tiomkin (Composer) |
| 29 | Original Composition Description: Partially Based on Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony & Buddeny March by Pokrass. |
6 | 1 | Background Instrumental Entire | :55 | Dimitri Tiomkin (Composer) |
| 30 | Original Composition Description: Partially Based on Buddeny March by Pokrass, Greetings to Moscow, and Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony. |
6 | 2 | Background Instrumental Entire | :43 | Dimitri Tiomkin (Composer) |
| 31 | Original Composition Description: Partially Based on Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony, Greetings to Moscow and Shostakovich’s Seventh Symphony. |
8 | 1 | Background Instrumental Entire | 1:03 | Dimitri Tiomkin (Composer) |
| 32 | Original Composition Description: Partially Based on Shostakovish’s Seventh Symphony. |
8 | 2 | Background Instrumental Entire | :52 | Dimitri Tiomkin (Composer) |
| 33 | Original Composition Description: Coming Soon |
8 | 3 | Background Instrumental Entire | 1:34 | Dimitri Tiomkin (Composer) |
| 34 | Original Composition Description: Partially Based on Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony & Columbia The Gem of the Ocean. P.D. |
8 | 4 | Background Instrumental Entire | 1:53 | Dimitri Tiomkin (Composer) |
| 35 | Original Composition Description: Partially Based on Song of Stalingrad and Russian Folk Tune from Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture. |
8 | 5 | Background Instrumental Entire | :58 | Dimitri Tiomkin (Composer) |
| 36 | Original Composition Description: Partially Based on Shostakovich’s Seventh Symphony. |
8 | 6 | Background Instrumental Entire | 1:20 | Dimitri Tiomkin (Composer) |
| 37 | Original Composition Description: Partially Based on Shostakovich’s Seventh Symphony and Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony. |
9 | 1 | Background Instrumental Entire | :54 | Dimitri Tiomkin (Composer) |
| 38 | Original Composition Description: Coming Soon |
9 | 2 | Background Instrumental Entire | :34 | Dimitri Tiomkin (Composer) |
| 39 | Original Composition Description: Partially Based on Red Flag and Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony. |
9 | 3 | Background Instrumental Entire | :50 | Dimitri Tiomkin (Composer) |
| 40 | Original Composition Description: Partially Based on Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony, Over There by George M. Cohan, Heart of the Oak P.D., Song of Stalingrad. |
9 | 4 | Background Instrumental Entire | 2:04 | Dimitri Tiomkin (Composer) |
Tiomkin Collection at USC
| Storage Contents | Storage Number |
|---|---|
| Original score by Dimitri Tiomkin in the hand of the arrangers: Charles Maxwell, Leo Arnaud, Joseph Nussbaum and Albert Glasser. |
Original musical sketches by Dimitri Tiomkin, holograph; music cues and timing sheets, heavily annotated by Dimitri Tiomkin; conductor parts, ozalid; orchestral parts, ozalid masters.
War Department Music Cue Sheet and Continuity Report with Copyright Status; same but mimeographed. 23 and 27 pages each.
2 sets of breakdown sheets for music recording and timing.
Orchestral parts and conductor parts, ozalid and holograph.
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Orchestral, conductor parts: ozalid masters, in the hand of the copyist.
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Original musical sketches by Dimitri Tiomkin, holograph.
Selection sheets.
Music timing sheets, original and carbon typescripts; some holograph.
Orchestral parts, ozalid and holograph; some music sketches, too. Ozalid masters.
Conductor parts. (In folders consisting of ditto leaves from various other music [film] by other composers.)
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| Storage Contents | Storage Number |
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| *dubbed from eleven 16 discs: No, 232: R2-5-1 to R5-2-2 No. 233: R2-2-1 to R9-1-3 No. 234: R4-2-3 to R1-5-1 No. 236: R3-1 Reh. to R6-1A-2 No, 301: R5-3:T2 / R8-1:T1 / R5-4:T1,T2 / R9-3:T1 / R4-4:T1,T2 / R9A-1:T1,T2 No. 266: R2-1A to R1-83 No. 267: R1-2:T1 to R2-6:T1 No. 289: R5-5:T1,T2 / R5-1:T1,T2,T3,T4 / R8-2:T1 / R5-3:T1 No. 302: R9A-2:T1 / R8-3:T1 / R9A-2:T2 / R9-2:T1,T2,T3 / R9A-2: T3,T4,T5 / R8-6:T1 / R9-1:T1,T2 No. 303: R8-5:T1,T2,T3,T4 / R8-4:T1 / R3-2 :T1,T2,T3 / R3-4:T1 / R2-10:T1 // R2-3:T1,T2 / R2-7:T1,T2 / R2-4:T1 No: 304: R2-1:T1 / R2-8:T1,T2,T3,T4,T5,T6 / R2-2:T1,T2 / R2-5:T1,T2,T3 |
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| Storage Contents | Storage Number |
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Sketches; Conductor
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| Storage Contents | Storage Number |
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| *dubbed from eleven 16 discs: No, 232: R2-5-1 to R5-2-2 No. 233: R2-2-1 to R9-1-3 No. 234: R4-2-3 to R1-5-1 No. 236: R3-1 Reh. to R6-1A-2 No, 301: R5-3:T2 / R8-1:T1 / R5-4:T1,T2 / R9-3:T1 / R4-4:T1,T2 / R9A-1:T1,T2 No. 266: R2-1A to R1-83 No. 267: R1-2:T1 to R2-6:T1 No. 289: R5-5:T1,T2 / R5-1:T1,T2,T3,T4 / R8-2:T1 / R5-3:T1 No. 302: R9A-2:T1 / R8-3:T1 / R9A-2:T2 / R9-2:T1,T2,T3 / R9A-2: T3,T4,T5 / R8-6:T1 / R9-1:T1,T2 No. 303: R8-5:T1,T2,T3,T4 / R8-4:T1 / R3-2 :T1,T2,T3 / R3-4:T1 / R2-10:T1 // R2-3:T1,T2 / R2-7:T1,T2 / R2-4:T1 No: 304: R2-1:T1 / R2-8:T1,T2,T3,T4,T5,T6 / R2-2:T1,T2 / R2-5:T1,T2,T3 |
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