The Polish Brigade really were the unsung hero's of Market Garden. They jumped into a battle that was already lost yet they still crossed the Rein.. Brave men. Sadly General Sosabowski was used as a scape goat for the failure of the operation. I'm glad the people of my country (UK) now know the truth.
The Netherlands made it up in 2006 by awarding 1st Polish the Order of William, the highest Dutch military award. Queen Wilhelmina wanted that in 1947, but was opposed by the government because of the start of the cold war.
Good ole monty just couldn't accept that his plan was overly ambitious and doomed to fail, he only blamed the men who fought and died and never himself.
This movie came into Polish cinemas in 1979. I was 15. Remember it and was proud that western film production showed our boys effort. In 1979 we were on the other side of iron curtain...and big changes would have come
I'm sorry that your country was suffering so much and I was born in 1997 and watched this film when I was 7 or 8. I am an American and I really admired by how brave the men were to fight vs an extremist German society who were hell-bent on destroying and conquering the world. For me, if Poland released this film in 1979 despite the communism rule and with it being a Western film it still shows that they show this movie out of respect for their countrymen despite Poland during the war were in the UK as exiles fighting alongside the allies. I'm happy to see Poland now being a top country in the world and with no more dictatorship or extremist. Peace be with you amazing Polacks!
The Polish dropped into a FUBAR situation and yet they still fought and tried to salvage the situation. Brave guys. Sad that they were used as scapegoats....
@Salvador Vizcarra Dude you are manipulating facts. ZSRR had help from allies in the form of equipment (lend-lease act) so it isn't true to say "won without the help of nobody". And if USA and other Western allies applied same strategy as soviets (pushing with many unnecessary casualties, executing officers for lack of progress and killing their own retreating soldiers), then they would get faster to Berlin then ZSRR did, but at what cost? Many of us living today wouldn't be born if they used methods that communists did. They just didn't value life (be it enemy or their own soldiers) so they pushed Germans a lot faster then any other nation would.
@@Mantades Additionally it wasn't just equipment like guns, tanks, planes, and the like. The US gave huge quantities of food, clothes, boots, trucks, jeeps, raw materials, and trains that don't get mentioned but were massively important for the soviet war effort. It doesn't matter if you have the best weapons if you can't get them to frontline, and clothe and feed the men to use them.
@Salvador Vizcarra Additionally would it hurt you to please space out your words because holy shit that fucking wall of text is extremely hard to read.
@Salvador Vizcarra The Soviets carried most the load in Europe the US in the Pacific. Try and tell the whole story. Most of what you describe as failure or success were political and management failures and excuses to profiteer vis a vis military excursionism. The US combat soldier acquit themselves favorably in all encounters regardless the political outcome. Numbers i.e. body count, enemies KIA, don’t lie, and the numbers are there for any prudent scholar. As for the Vietminh, Vietcong, and NVA, to describe them as peasants is very xúc phạm. Did you miss this part of the war? No you deal in subterfuge and misrepresentation don’t cha….. The Paris Peace Accords, (Vietnamese: Hiệp định Paris về Việt Nam) officially titled the Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Viet Nam (Hiệp định về chấm dứt chiến tranh, lập lại hòa bình ở Việt Nam), was a peace treaty signed on January 27, 1973, to establish peace in Vietnam and end the Vietnam War. Your summation about Grenada is a bald faced lie and liars deserve zero credibility. US invading force was opposed on Grenada by about 1,500 Grenadian troops and 700 armed Cuban military engineers working on the expansion of the Point Salines Airport. Despite having a clear advantage in manpower and equipment, the U.S.-led forces were hindered by a lack of intelligence on the capabilities of the Cuban troops and the geographical layout of the island, often forced to depend on outdated tourist maps. The primary objectives of Operation Urgent Fury were to capture the island’s two airports, the disputed Point Salines Airport and the smaller Pearls Airport, and to rescue the American medical students trapped at St. George’s University. By the end of the invasion’s first day, U.S. Army Rangers had secured both the Point Salines and Pearls airports, and rescued 140 American students from St. George’s University True Blue campus. The Rangers also learned that another 223 students were being held at the university’s Grand Anse campus. These students were rescued over the next two days. By October 29, military resistance to the invasion had ended. The U.S. Army and Marines proceeded to scour the island, arresting officers of the Grenadian military and seizing or destroying its weapons and equipment. You portray an emotional diatribe which appears to have the research continuity of an 8th graders single source book report. Your opinion may contain some facts but moreover is there to distort and not reveal the truth which historically speaking is between the “Black Legend” and “The White Legend.” Your implication therein is that US military Pax Americana post WWII is a failure, your examples are like dots on a Jackson Pollock painting and quite unconvincing because primarily you omit the over abiding presence of the entire work, after all here we are, discussing it in America, in English, on Technology by in larger created and proliferated by the same. Most people do not recognize Marxist revisionism, your attempt is not even worthy of the charlatan Howard Zinn. If you are going to do the America bad America failure bit do it it better you might convince someone and not come across like a howling lunatic.
Is our Polish General here. Actress Gene Hackman. Long live Poland 🇵🇱 ❤. Down whit nazi. Down whit communism. 1.8.1944 Remember. Old Polish soldier. Godbless UK 🇬🇧. Greetings from Leicester UK 🇬🇧 😀.
Such an incredible pity Polish WWII heroes like Sosabowski who sacrificed so much for their war-torn homeland died rejected by its government as enemies of the state, in a foreign country, with Poland under yet another occupation, unable to do anything about it and likely considering themselves failures for the rest of their lives. At least now, after the Soviet downfall, we're able to reflect on his and his brave men's heroism. May my wonderful homeland never again experience the horrors of war.
>rejected by its government It wasnt polish goverment. This guys were comunist puppets installed by soviets and accepted by brits as "offical polish gov". Sosabowski was betrayed by brits. +He never expect nothing more than hatered from so called "polish gov"
Sosabowski was treated terribly by Browning, and Thomas, the GOC of the 43rd Wessex; and Horrocks and his staff did a miserable job of managing XXX Corps. The Poles and the Americans did their jobs, the senior British officers did not.
Not really true. Market Garden room for failure was just too small. The 82nd Airborne failed to capture their bridges and allowed German forces to fortify Nijmegen. The British 1st Airborne and the U.S 101st both did their jobs. In my opinion if Montgomery was actually commanding the operation directly it would have had a larger chance of success but he was busy with the Normandy breakout. The top allied commanders should have put a British Field Marshall or American General in directly in charge. Even then it might have still failed. The fact that XXX Corps was expected to make it to Arnhem in 3days was just too optimistic and as I said before if anything went wrong (Like the 82nd Failing to capture the Bridge over the Vaal) it was going to fail. But at the time it was worth the risk and a lot of historians believe that if it had worked then the war would have been over in 1944 with the British and Americans making it to Berlin before the Soviets.
@@elliott7531XXX corps made it to Nijmegen with only a few hours delay (after building a baileybridge!). The 82nd should have captured the bridge immediately..They didn't. That's what doomed the operation.
There are too many reasons why the operation failed to point to one. The narrow road, blown bridges, stronger than expected German resistance, bad radios….everyone forgets that the paratroopers dropped on top of 2 SS Panzer divisions. Tanks against rifles and bazookas is always a long term bad outcome. The road was cut in multiple places at multiple times AFTER the forward XXX Corps units had passed through. So even capturing all the bridges wouldn’t have guaranteed success.
What a load of nonsense. Clearly the opening poster has no clue about Market Garden. Most of the mistakes came from American commanders Brereton, Williams, Gavin and Taylor.
General Ludwig was a made up name. It was supposed to be Harmel, however Harmel pulled out of being an advisor for the film when he found out that he was to be depicted as the one against the cease fire, which he did not do.
Wow, thank you. During the filming, a favorite of mine hardy Kruger, former Hitler Youth, when in costume and between takes, would wear an over coat over the uniform.
Cornelius Ryan acknowledged that Bittrich and his subordinates were very cooperative when he was writing his book, which was unusual because former SS officers tended to be hard to find and tight lipped about their wartime service.
@@fishingthelist4017 SS officers were not hard to find the veterans organizations were publicly published as well as their meetings in Germany all through the 90s please
@@JMark-zk5pj I am going on Ryan's statements published in A Bridge Too Far. Apparently he had trouble getting SS veterans to talk to him about their wartime experiences. Bittrich was active in one of those SS veterans groups after the war, and he tried to counter the postwar image of the Waffen-SS as a ruthless fighting force that committed atrocities wherever they went. He wanted to focus on the military exploits of the SS instead. Bittrich helped make it possible for others that served in the SS to be more open about their service.
4:05 Really hammers the absolute desperation to get resupplied that even the commanding officer is frantically trying to pull on the makeshift rope system to get supplies across the river.
@Salvador Vizcarra Wow! Now I've really learned something today, most interesting. I have read a lot of history books, but to be fair, only specific ones about specific Operations like Operation Mincemeat, for example. You know your stuff!
@Salvador Vizcarra Made possible by Lend Lease trucks, jeeps, food, millions of rounds of ammunition, artillery and rounds for them. The Western Allies pulled many German troops to the western front.
@Salvador Vizcarra How hard is it for people to understand the word allies? It wasn't just a band name, it actually meant something. Not one single county won, the allies won. It's also bullshit that western powers didn't put soldiers in Europe between Dunkirk and Normandy. Countless raids aside there was a whole campaign in Italy. Not to mention that there were other fronts as well as it was a WORLD War
It's funny you write this after there have been films made depicting loss
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One of the diamonds of the golden age of cinematography. My favorite real life Polish general played by one of my favorite American actors. How did they managed to cross the Rhine beats me....just an honorary mention....the first American soldier to enter Germany was Sergeant Alexander A. Drabik, Polish-American who was given credit as the first American to cross the bridge to the east bank of the Rhine.
I always forgot Gene Hackman plays as Sosabowski in this movie, to be fair I just realized after watching it for 3rd time on blu ray or high definition that the movie had ensemble cast like Connery, Redford, Hopkins etc. The first and second time I watched the movie was when I was a kid, who was carefree of the cast and story but always eager to see the action and skipping the vital part of the story.
If my memory is correct it was actually SS Sturmbahnfuhrer Dr Egon Skalka from Division Hohenstaufen who proposed the cease fire. The Germans occupied a number of dressing stations and evacuated the wounded to the rear.
+aguynamedscott11. Now, _who_ would want to see a silly space adventure, instead of a realistic, well-made epic about one of WWII’s most tragic episodes? Unbelievable. 😊
Those brave polish soldiers trying to cross the rhine in rubber dinghies to get to the otherside and help their british allies even though the situation was already well and truly fucked!
2:22 Seems they couldn't be bothered to learn a few lines properly. Accent in heavily wrong place, everything wrong. Even the line itself doesn't make much sense.
In a situation like that were I wounded and had to be left behind my friend would offer to shoot me rather then become a POW. Likewise he knows I would do the same for him. But both of us know the other one would try to save them first
which situation? sorry not sure why you would? Vast majority of Prisoner taking between the German Military and western Allied powers was absolutely fine
@@burnbobquist8999 many German prisoners of war were sent to England to work on farms or road repairs and were given alot of freedom whilst working the farms (aprox 170k were working on farms)and many liked it so much ,(many got friendly with the young women but this was strictly forbidden)that they preferred to stay after the wars end from aprox 400k POWs aprox 25k elected to stay and make a new life in the UK
@@burnbobquist8999 During but not after the war ended, then some German POWs got treated badly. sorted and graded into white grey or black status. according to unit or party status.
Regardless of a segment of Ukraine's population's political persuasion, their nation is still being invaded by another more powerful nation, which is ruled by an authoritarian murderer.
Russians went from supporting Nazi-Germans 1939-1941, to fighting against Nazi-Germans 1941-1945 and now to becoming NaziRussians in 2022... Stop Russian imperialism! Stand with Ukraine!
Oh it has. The film as a cinematic effort, for the time, was outstanding. No computers, no green screen, just real actors in a local setting, literally "on location". The para drop at the beginning was shot with actual DC-3 planes, with real paras jumping out of the planes, over the original dropping zones at the Ginkelse Heide.. you can not get any better than that. Sir Richard Attenborough has said that that was a one off attempt, and if it didn't work out, they would not have had the budget to shoot it a second time..... CGI "I'll just tweak that explosion a little more" eat your heart out. Lots of local actors, mostly speaking in their native language, and most of the lines for Sir Laurence Oliver and Liv Ullmann in Dutch, because they played Dutch characters. Some of the historical accuracy of the movie, and the background of the actual planning of the operation, has been amended by additional research, and new documantion thta has been unearth over the last fourty years. But A Bridge too Far stands as an outstanding movie.
aah yes,the greatest blunder of mighty monty.why on earth would he sacrifice the lives his men to drop behind enemy lines unprepared,poor communications,bad intelligence and planning?no bazookas against panzers,no mortars?and for what,for his ego and glory?
The 1st Airborne dropped with 6pdr anti tank guns, and even a few 17pdr anti tank guns, as well as PIAT's, all against Panzers. They also brought their own artillery, with the Pack 75 Howitzers (who, incidentally, from their position in Oosterbeek, played a big part in helping the 2nd Batt at the bridge to hold out for nearly four days...). They also brought plenty of 2 and 3 Inch mortars. It was not the lack of equipment that the 1st Airborne landed with that was the reason for their defeat. It was, first, XXX Corps' failure to do their part (not their fault though), and the RAF's fault to 1. Drop the 1st Airborne near the target, and 2. resupply them during the battle. Did Monty drop the ball? Yes he did. Was it, at the time, a reasonable attempt? probably, yes. Hindsight is a beautifull thing to have...
The Polish Brigade really were the unsung hero's of Market Garden. They jumped into a battle that was already lost yet they still crossed the Rein.. Brave men. Sadly General Sosabowski was used as a scape goat for the failure of the operation. I'm glad the people of my country (UK) now know the truth.
The Netherlands made it up in 2006 by awarding 1st Polish the Order of William, the highest Dutch military award. Queen Wilhelmina wanted that in 1947, but was opposed by the government because of the start of the cold war.
as a Pole, answers for great information about Polish soldiers and their system during the Second Civil War. Yes.
@@ulcolandheer773 Too bad the Netherlands went to shit, itself, years ago.....
Good ole monty just couldn't accept that his plan was overly ambitious and doomed to fail, he only blamed the men who fought and died and never himself.
The plural of "hero" is "heroes." No apostrophes need apply for the job of pluralizer.
Total and complete classic. Arguably the best war movie ever made.
I agree.
This movie came into Polish cinemas in 1979. I was 15. Remember it and was proud that western film production showed our boys effort. In
1979 we were on the other side of iron curtain...and big changes would have come
I'm sorry that your country was suffering so much and I was born in 1997 and watched this film when I was 7 or 8. I am an American and I really admired by how brave the men were to fight vs an extremist German society who were hell-bent on destroying and conquering the world. For me, if Poland released this film in 1979 despite the communism rule and with it being a Western film it still shows that they show this movie out of respect for their countrymen despite Poland during the war were in the UK as exiles fighting alongside the allies. I'm happy to see Poland now being a top country in the world and with no more dictatorship or extremist. Peace be with you amazing Polacks!
The Polish dropped into a FUBAR situation and yet they still fought and tried to salvage the situation. Brave guys. Sad that they were used as scapegoats....
@Salvador Vizcarra Dude you are manipulating facts. ZSRR had help from allies in the form of equipment (lend-lease act) so it isn't true to say "won without the help of nobody". And if USA and other Western allies applied same strategy as soviets (pushing with many unnecessary casualties, executing officers for lack of progress and killing their own retreating soldiers), then they would get faster to Berlin then ZSRR did, but at what cost? Many of us living today wouldn't be born if they used methods that communists did. They just didn't value life (be it enemy or their own soldiers) so they pushed Germans a lot faster then any other nation would.
@@Mantades Additionally it wasn't just equipment like guns, tanks, planes, and the like. The US gave huge quantities of food, clothes, boots, trucks, jeeps, raw materials, and trains that don't get mentioned but were massively important for the soviet war effort. It doesn't matter if you have the best weapons if you can't get them to frontline, and clothe and feed the men to use them.
@Salvador Vizcarra Additionally would it hurt you to please space out your words because holy shit that fucking wall of text is extremely hard to read.
@Salvador Vizcarra The Soviets carried most the load in Europe the US in the Pacific. Try and tell the whole story. Most of what you describe as failure or success were political and management failures and excuses to profiteer vis a vis military excursionism. The US combat soldier acquit themselves favorably in all encounters regardless the political outcome. Numbers i.e. body count, enemies KIA, don’t lie, and the numbers are there for any prudent scholar. As for the Vietminh, Vietcong, and NVA, to describe them as peasants is very xúc phạm. Did you miss this part of the war? No you deal in subterfuge and misrepresentation don’t cha…..
The Paris Peace Accords, (Vietnamese: Hiệp định Paris về Việt Nam) officially titled the Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Viet Nam (Hiệp định về chấm dứt chiến tranh, lập lại hòa bình ở Việt Nam), was a peace treaty signed on January 27, 1973, to establish peace in Vietnam and end the Vietnam War.
Your summation about Grenada is a bald faced lie and liars deserve zero credibility.
US invading force was opposed on Grenada by about 1,500 Grenadian troops and 700 armed Cuban military engineers working on the expansion of the Point Salines Airport. Despite having a clear advantage in manpower and equipment, the U.S.-led forces were hindered by a lack of intelligence on the capabilities of the Cuban troops and the geographical layout of the island, often forced to depend on outdated tourist maps.
The primary objectives of Operation Urgent Fury were to capture the island’s two airports, the disputed Point Salines Airport and the smaller Pearls Airport, and to rescue the American medical students trapped at St. George’s University.
By the end of the invasion’s first day, U.S. Army Rangers had secured both the Point Salines and Pearls airports, and rescued 140 American students from St. George’s University True Blue campus. The Rangers also learned that another 223 students were being held at the university’s Grand Anse campus. These students were rescued over the next two days.
By October 29, military resistance to the invasion had ended. The U.S. Army and Marines proceeded to scour the island, arresting officers of the Grenadian military and seizing or destroying its weapons and equipment.
You portray an emotional diatribe which appears to have the research continuity of an 8th graders single source book report. Your opinion may contain some facts but moreover is there to distort and not reveal the truth which historically speaking is between the “Black Legend” and “The White Legend.” Your implication therein is that US military Pax Americana post WWII is a failure, your examples are like dots on a Jackson Pollock painting and quite unconvincing because primarily you omit the over abiding presence of the entire work, after all here we are, discussing it in America, in English, on Technology by in larger created and proliferated by the same. Most people do not recognize Marxist revisionism, your attempt is not even worthy of the charlatan Howard Zinn. If you are going to do the America bad America failure bit do it it better you might convince someone and not come across like a howling lunatic.
The Germans had plenty of Tanks and Artillery in Normandy.
The Poles were some of the bravest and most determined soldiers in WW2.
And they got awfully screwed after the war. Decades of sowjet opression...
As the world saw in 1939 ;-)
@@TOFKAS01 Indeed, from one occupation to the next one.
Look up Inmate 4859.
"A Bridge Too Far. Caine and Hackman in the same movie. This is my thesis, man. This is my closing argument. I can stop watching TV"
Have not watched this movie in full in awhile, because of the cast we always laughed and called in An Actor To Far
Still a good movie
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Anthony Hopkins as well
Is our Polish General here.
Actress Gene Hackman.
Long live Poland 🇵🇱 ❤.
Down whit nazi.
Down whit communism.
1.8.1944 Remember.
Old Polish soldier.
Godbless UK 🇬🇧.
Greetings from Leicester UK 🇬🇧 😀.
GERMAN !!!! not nazi!!!
Actor
I like how the general played by Sir Sean Connery at times speaks like James Bond. 😄
Such an incredible pity Polish WWII heroes like Sosabowski who sacrificed so much for their war-torn homeland died rejected by its government as enemies of the state, in a foreign country, with Poland under yet another occupation, unable to do anything about it and likely considering themselves failures for the rest of their lives. At least now, after the Soviet downfall, we're able to reflect on his and his brave men's heroism. May my wonderful homeland never again experience the horrors of war.
>rejected by its government
It wasnt polish goverment. This guys were comunist puppets installed by soviets and accepted by brits as "offical polish gov".
Sosabowski was betrayed by brits. +He never expect nothing more than hatered from so called "polish gov"
Sosabowski was treated terribly by Browning, and Thomas, the GOC of the 43rd Wessex; and Horrocks and his staff did a miserable job of managing XXX Corps. The Poles and the Americans did their jobs, the senior British officers did not.
Not really true. Market Garden room for failure was just too small. The 82nd Airborne failed to capture their bridges and allowed German forces to fortify Nijmegen. The British 1st Airborne and the U.S 101st both did their jobs. In my opinion if Montgomery was actually commanding the operation directly it would have had a larger chance of success but he was busy with the Normandy breakout. The top allied commanders should have put a British Field Marshall or American General in directly in charge. Even then it might have still failed. The fact that XXX Corps was expected to make it to Arnhem in 3days was just too optimistic and as I said before if anything went wrong (Like the 82nd Failing to capture the Bridge over the Vaal) it was going to fail. But at the time it was worth the risk and a lot of historians believe that if it had worked then the war would have been over in 1944 with the British and Americans making it to Berlin before the Soviets.
@@elliott7531XXX corps made it to Nijmegen with only a few hours delay (after building a baileybridge!). The 82nd should have captured the bridge immediately..They didn't. That's what doomed the operation.
There are too many reasons why the operation failed to point to one. The narrow road, blown bridges, stronger than expected German resistance, bad radios….everyone forgets that the paratroopers dropped on top of 2 SS Panzer divisions. Tanks against rifles and bazookas is always a long term bad outcome. The road was cut in multiple places at multiple times AFTER the forward XXX Corps units had passed through. So even capturing all the bridges wouldn’t have guaranteed success.
What a load of nonsense. Clearly the opening poster has no clue about Market Garden.
Most of the mistakes came from American commanders Brereton, Williams, Gavin and Taylor.
General Ludwig was a made up name. It was supposed to be Harmel, however Harmel pulled out of being an advisor for the film when he found out that he was to be depicted as the one against the cease fire, which he did not do.
Wow, thank you. During the filming, a favorite of mine hardy Kruger, former Hitler Youth, when in costume and between takes, would wear an over coat over the uniform.
@@jjahsepuyeshd he was also former Waffen SS.
Cornelius Ryan acknowledged that Bittrich and his subordinates were very cooperative when he was writing his book, which was unusual because former SS officers tended to be hard to find and tight lipped about their wartime service.
@@fishingthelist4017 SS officers were not hard to find the veterans organizations were publicly published as well as their meetings in Germany all through the 90s please
@@JMark-zk5pj I am going on Ryan's statements published in A Bridge Too Far. Apparently he had trouble getting SS veterans to talk to him about their wartime experiences. Bittrich was active in one of those SS veterans groups after the war, and he tried to counter the postwar image of the Waffen-SS as a ruthless fighting force that committed atrocities wherever they went. He wanted to focus on the military exploits of the SS instead. Bittrich helped make it possible for others that served in the SS to be more open about their service.
4:05 Really hammers the absolute desperation to get resupplied that even the commanding officer is frantically trying to pull on the makeshift rope system to get supplies across the river.
Amazing film. Never again will a film be depicted where we (western powers against German opposition) are defeated. Brilliant cast too.
@Salvador Vizcarra Wow! Now I've really learned something today, most interesting. I have read a lot of history books, but to be fair, only specific ones about specific Operations like Operation Mincemeat, for example. You know your stuff!
@Salvador Vizcarra Made possible by Lend Lease trucks, jeeps, food, millions of rounds of ammunition, artillery and rounds for them. The Western Allies pulled many German troops to the western front.
@Salvador Vizcarra How hard is it for people to understand the word allies? It wasn't just a band name, it actually meant something. Not one single county won, the allies won.
It's also bullshit that western powers didn't put soldiers in Europe between Dunkirk and Normandy. Countless raids aside there was a whole campaign in Italy. Not to mention that there were other fronts as well as it was a WORLD War
It's funny you write this after there have been films made depicting loss
One of the diamonds of the golden age of cinematography. My favorite real life Polish general played by one of my favorite American actors. How did they managed to cross the Rhine beats me....just an honorary mention....the first American soldier to enter Germany was Sergeant Alexander A. Drabik, Polish-American who was given credit as the first American to cross the bridge to the east bank of the Rhine.
wonder if Charles Bronson may have been a more authentic hollywood Pole
@@IndieVolken I like to refer to Poles as Lechici...they are all over Central and Eastern and Southern Europe as their empire was vast.
I always forgot Gene Hackman plays as Sosabowski in this movie, to be fair I just realized after watching it for 3rd time on blu ray or high definition that the movie had ensemble cast like Connery, Redford, Hopkins etc. The first and second time I watched the movie was when I was a kid, who was carefree of the cast and story but always eager to see the action and skipping the vital part of the story.
GRANDEST OF THE GRAND SALUTES TO ALL THE SOLDIERS 🙏🙇♂️ WHO FOUGHT FIGHTING & SURVIVING MOST ADVERSE OF THE ADVERSE CIRCUMSTANCES & TERRAINS!TRIBUTES!
This is much better than Apocalypse Now imo
Can you do "we've hit an ammo dump" scene, only. very short I know
I think the answer immediately after this is important. I didn't want you to cut it if you could.
It seems so long ago...but maybe it wasen't -
It was just yesterday at Biltmore estate.
Why did you end the video with the most important scenes? I think it is important to convey "approval of truce" and feel at ease with that answer.
If my memory is correct it was actually SS Sturmbahnfuhrer Dr Egon Skalka from Division Hohenstaufen who proposed the cease fire.
The Germans occupied a number of dressing stations and evacuated the wounded to the rear.
God bless Holland xxx
Those poor beggars in the rubber boats never had a chance.
that was murder.
@@streamofconsciousness5826 The Jerries never played fair.
@@streamofconsciousness5826No that was war.
@@reynaldoflores4522So what do you suggest, they should have let them cross then shot them???
@@frankvandergoes298 The soldiers should've been given some covering fire, at the very least .
Surely a bit of grease on the damp pulley would have been easy to sort
You Tube is messed up today.
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Didn't the polish paras land on the side of the river where 30th corp was coming up from, they dropped at Elsk or something?.
I remember buying tickets to watch this movie so that we could sneak into Star Wars.
? Were you too young and bought a ticket for starwars and went into this instead?
+aguynamedscott11. Now, _who_ would want to see a silly space adventure, instead of a realistic, well-made epic about one of WWII’s most tragic episodes? Unbelievable. 😊
Those brave polish soldiers trying to cross the rhine in rubber dinghies to get to the otherside and help their british allies even though the situation was already well and truly fucked!
....yeah, right.
2:22 Seems they couldn't be bothered to learn a few lines properly. Accent in heavily wrong place, everything wrong. Even the line itself doesn't make much sense.
The fog of war my old son
In a situation like that were I wounded and had to be left behind my friend would offer to shoot me rather then become a POW. Likewise he knows I would do the same for him. But both of us know the other one would try to save them first
which situation? sorry not sure why you would? Vast majority of Prisoner taking between the German Military and western Allied powers was absolutely fine
easier said than done tough guy.
To be fair, in general british and german POWs were treated quite well by both sides.
@@burnbobquist8999 many German prisoners of war were sent to England to work on farms or road repairs and were given alot of freedom whilst working the farms (aprox 170k were working on farms)and many liked it so much ,(many got friendly with the young women but this was strictly forbidden)that they preferred to stay after the wars end from aprox 400k POWs aprox 25k elected to stay and make a new life in the UK
@@burnbobquist8999 During but not after the war ended, then some German POWs got treated badly. sorted and graded into white grey or black status. according to unit or party status.
SNOOORE!!!
Britain went from fighting German Nazis to arming Ukrainian Nazis
Nazis invade motherfucker. Nazis cross borders and murder.
Thank god , I'm not the only one who can see this bull*hit for what it is, as for the western news media and their rampant propaganda, makes me sick.
Regardless of a segment of Ukraine's population's political persuasion, their nation is still being invaded by another more powerful nation, which is ruled by an authoritarian murderer.
Grow up kiddo and smell the Russian propaganda you're swallowing 🤣🤣
Russians went from supporting Nazi-Germans 1939-1941, to fighting against Nazi-Germans 1941-1945 and now to becoming NaziRussians in 2022... Stop Russian imperialism! Stand with Ukraine!
This film has not aged well
How so?
Oh it has.
The film as a cinematic effort, for the time, was outstanding. No computers, no green screen, just real actors in a local setting, literally "on location". The para drop at the beginning was shot with actual DC-3 planes, with real paras jumping out of the planes, over the original dropping zones at the Ginkelse Heide.. you can not get any better than that. Sir Richard Attenborough has said that that was a one off attempt, and if it didn't work out, they would not have had the budget to shoot it a second time..... CGI "I'll just tweak that explosion a little more" eat your heart out.
Lots of local actors, mostly speaking in their native language, and most of the lines for Sir Laurence Oliver and Liv Ullmann in Dutch, because they played Dutch characters.
Some of the historical accuracy of the movie, and the background of the actual planning of the operation, has been amended by additional research, and new documantion thta has been unearth over the last fourty years.
But A Bridge too Far stands as an outstanding movie.
aah yes,the greatest blunder of mighty monty.why on earth would he sacrifice the lives his men to drop behind enemy lines unprepared,poor communications,bad intelligence and planning?no bazookas against panzers,no mortars?and for what,for his ego and glory?
The 1st Airborne dropped with 6pdr anti tank guns, and even a few 17pdr anti tank guns, as well as PIAT's, all against Panzers. They also brought their own artillery, with the Pack 75 Howitzers (who, incidentally, from their position in Oosterbeek, played a big part in helping the 2nd Batt at the bridge to hold out for nearly four days...). They also brought plenty of 2 and 3 Inch mortars. It was not the lack of equipment that the 1st Airborne landed with that was the reason for their defeat. It was, first, XXX Corps' failure to do their part (not their fault though), and the RAF's fault to 1. Drop the 1st Airborne near the target, and 2. resupply them during the battle.
Did Monty drop the ball? Yes he did. Was it, at the time, a reasonable attempt? probably, yes. Hindsight is a beautifull thing to have...