Frontline

Season 4 Episode 29: Comrades X: Soldier Boy

For the first time on Western television, Frontline details a recruit's life inside a Soviet Army barracks. Frontline cameras follow Valera Krylov, 18, through the exertion and boredom of basic training in the military and focuses on his parents, who worry that in the next two years he may be fighting in Afghanistan.

Genre:

Documentary, News

Seasons:

45

Episodes:

862

Cast:

Will Lyman

Quality:

HD

Duration:

55 min

First Air:

1983

Rating:

6.5