Then There Were Giants: Part 2 (1994) | Full Movie | Michael Caine | Bob Hoskins | John Lithgow
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As the world was at the brink, the three most powerful men in world history met and decided its fate.
Director: Joseph Sargent
Stars: Michael Caine, Bob Hoskins, John Lithgow, Ed Begley Jr., Jan Triska
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This was so great! I am overwhelmed at the way this was put together: the actors, real footage of the battles, and blending the conversations of the leaders as they talked through the issues. The Winston character was very good. John Lithgow actually began to look like Roosevelt and portrayed him with extreme sensitivity depth, and Michael Caine as Stalin -- incredible! Thank you for showing this great film for free. Much of the Russian issues are in the news today. Amazing.
I agree! 🗽
What acting. Mar velous. Hitler had to be stopped. All the world saw that clearly. But at what a cost...
Me too, so good.😊 from Australia. 😊
I hope michael caine got an academy award. He was outstanding in the way he acted as Stalin.
It's a TV movie. I don't think they give Oscars to those types of movies.
Wik: It was nominated for 6 Emmy Awards, including Best Actor for Michael Caine, but only won for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Lighting Direction
@@brennonguilbeau569 Wik: It was nominated for 6 Emmy Awards, including Best Actor for Michael Caine, but only won for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Lighting Direction
It was nice to hear him do something completely different.
The scenes where Michael Caine doesn't blink for pretty extended periods or sort of terrifying then he can instantly switch over to Good Old Uncle Joe let's have a couple of drinks a masterful performance very subtly underplayed yet really conveys the terror that man was capable of setting in motion with no more than a glance
Magnificent series, about a profound and dangerous time in our history. Unfortunately, the lasting world peace did not happen.Well acted by all!!
Thank you to all those who fought for our freedoms, and watch out to all those who would take them.
My late step Dad used to watch this movie when I was a kid... I always thought it was boring, 'til now...
Excellent to see the differing perspectives of each of these great men laid out so well.
90% of Americans today have almost no idea that these events ever happened!
There was a world war "two".
Great fllm , superb acting all three leaders . Thanks all . Dave
Thanks for such a fabulous film. Sad to think about our world today,not even 100 years later. What,if anything did we learn? 🇨🇦👏
"we" learnt a lot but our leaders didnt
we relish killing each other equal to loving one another . baffling dichotomy . bizarre polarity 🙃🙂
In present times we must acknowledge the foresight of Churchill . No Russian leader can be trusted , its in their blood as a people .
Lithgow is a great FDR
Superb film making in every respect--the concept, writing, directing, and acting. A magnificent production.
A truly awesome movie, the actors were superb.
Michael Caine is a Legend
A living legend who'll still be a living legend after loads of other living legends have died.
Poor boy makes good. I never missed his movies while growing up and I'm still watching him.😊
A real history lesson.
If your intrested in WW2, this is a must watch. From Australia 😊
Excellent. So impressed with the actors, story and clarity. It is a shame though that there was not a mention of the brave Canadians who were also there fighting along side the Brits before the U.S. decided to enter.
Canada part of the political oxymoronic phrase the
Commonwealth, represented by Churchill. Canadians great and courageous people that should not forget many US politicians considered you fair game in USA's Manifest Destiny. feel lucky you escaped Trump, 2 Bush,s & Reagan. 🙄🫢🫣
@@markbahouth2713 …Trump. We will soon find out when he gets re-elected I assume.
There were many details skipped / overlooked to make this storyline flow. It's a good miniseries for the amount of time it was allotted. If you're interested in more well-rounded details, there are some very good RUclips channels out there that I have learned a great deal from.
Very good, thanks for sharing this gem. Even if I am no fan of the Soviets no one can deny that they took the highest casuslties against the Germans and should be given the cred they deserve for beating the Nazis.
Ppl look at me aghast when I try to appreciate what the Russians did by winning the war for us, buy as you say, credit where it's due.
They armed and colluded with the germans. I feel for the people but the leadership was EVIL. In hindsight its too bad America didn't get in early then having fortified Britain hammered down agreements for a free Europe in return for supplies to ussr. Then let them bleed bleed bleed. THEN. jump in. Maybe as well as a southern and western invasions, a northern one. Thn allied troops could taken all of Germany plus maybe Poland and the baltics.
A fascinating film. The three primaries all give a solid performance.
A fabulous, uniquely directed film. Most importantly, a very fitting tribute to Harry Hopkins; President Roosevelt's “Envoy of Trust” within the Grand Alliance.
Harry Hopkins seem the only sober official when the Big 3 are plastered most of the time. Not so comforting realizing that Powerful figures that control immensely powerful weaponry make momentous decisions with repercussions that kill and maim hundred of thousands sometimes million of ordinary people are UNDER THE INFLUENCE 🍺🍸🥂🤪
I agree with you this series so well shows the inner workings of great power pretty unique perspective
The realization of today are our doubts tomorrow” good movie….thanks 4 sharing 😊
Mike Caine was excellent , his best serious roll. .
Homophone:a similar -
sounding word.
Role is the right 1.
Jan16Su2022
Bar🇧🇧bados
I have been searching out movies and tv shows that show the political side above the battle scene side of the war. So far winds of war was my favourite but I think this one tops it.
Caine as Stalin was masterful and the gaunt look of Lithgow as FDR in his final days at the Yalta conference is scary realistic.
Amazing piece of cinematography
Thanks. Great movie!
Combination of stage play, documentary, and standard cinema bombine for a great effect
Good movie. First time watching this, I dont know how i've never seen this before. I've watched almost all WW2 movies that I have found. It's like watching high stakes poker, only tens of thousands die at the outcome of every hand
I´m looking forward to parts 3 & 4. The Giants from WW2 were magnificant. I was born March-46 in UK.. Now 80 years later, who will be our future Giants? As we see today: there is still a lot of work to be done.
Being Polish myself and Polish-American for past 22 years, I can’t imagine how my people not only survived both World wars but Russian occupation after WWII for 47 years.
I will never forget food shortages, waiting for hours in lines for basic necessities. Even today smell of oranges reminds me of Christmas because that was the only day most people could afford it. At least in my neighborhood ( Gdansk- Przymorze)
Today’s Poland is the most beautiful country on earth and I miss it so much. Unfortunately I can’t afford to live there. Maybe one day 🇵🇱🙏 I will never lose hope.
As an Englishman, I think the Polish are perhaps the greatest, toughest people in the whole world. To survive Hitler and Stalin takes an iron will. I wish we had been better allies to you but we were stuggling with our own problems throughout the war. Anyways, much love to my Polish brothers and sisters.
Ok, gentleman, but what have you
done for the Ukraine, lately ???👈😁..
I'm asking for an American that wants to send no more money....
Thanks for posting: this aired when I was in high school, just learning about WWII, and to this day it's these actors I hear when I read those leaders' speeches . I've learned much more since then, and some of these scenes take on some very dark connotations in retrospect.
(Fun Fact: when it aired here, it was called "WWII: When Lions Roared". No wonder I couldn't find it till now!
Thank you for posting this.
I knew nothing of it before your posts.
☮
Praise God for mighty men!
Well, they didn't insult Stalin's intelligence in this program. He came across very smart.
He was very smart. What wasn't smart was that they didn't curtail his power immediately after the war. He was a tyrant and a mass murderer, responsible for the deaths of more of his own people than the nazis. His character should be insulted. Stalin's place in history as Russia's leader through these times is truly the only redeeming thing about the man.
@@richardmcguigan7834 ..and Stalin is today 'enjoying' a resurgence in popularity in Putin's Russia.
@@richardmcguigan7834 When Nazi Germany first invaded the USSR, Stalin hid in his home like a frightened rabbit, not the bravest man in the world.
@@MrMenefrego1 You're right he did. He was also in denial that the Nazi's would ever invade the Soviet Union. But he unlike Hitler he was smart enough to let his generals do their job as oppose to Hitler who wanted final say in military matters. Still think Stalin was a just as bad as Hitler.
@@richardmcguigan7834 It was difficult at that time after the war to do that when he had that cult of personality around him. But he did move the Soviet Union to become more industrialized and produce more arms for the military. That and leaving his generals to do their duties would be the difference in the Red Army defeating the Nazi war machine. Still Stalin is responsible for millions of deaths of his countrymen.
And we think we have problems!
It's incomprehensible to think that we could perceive such horrors!
I hope the kids today in 2021, see this, a learn what real men are like.
@Jim LaGuardia
the real men were the men in frontline combat
Thanks for the wonderful movie that was more an education than an entertainment. The political considerations behind many decisions are neatly presented.
Superb. Beautifully made series.
Great insight into the Tehran and Yalta Conferences!
EXCELLENT !!!! --- nothing more to say .
Really enjoyed this very unusual production
never thought i'd learn much going into this movie. wrong. great insights into the planning of victory. wonder how accurate it is.
Watch how FDR pushes Churchill aside and supports Stalin making way for the American Empire. FDR's death changed the direction the US would take when dealing with the USSR and later Russia.
@@DennisCambly If he had kept his VP in the loop, things might have been different.
Hey there.👏👏= Great film, and two part series that took volumes to write as well as catalog. The Big Three were extraordinary men as well as extremely intelligent. The way the producers, @ directors portrayed them is excellent. I thoroughly enjoyed this program. Thanks: 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌
very good, thanks for the upload
Hi 👋 = good film / fine acting / well **produced etc , cheers 🥂
Thank you for this excellent post.
A quibble with the program.
It is true to say, long before the late entry into the war by the USA the British & Commonwealth forces were planning an assault on northern France, with or without the Americans.
The raid on Dieppe is part of the proof.
Although a disaster, very many useful lessons were learned for the eventual Normandy invasion.
It is also true to say Churchill was very aware of the post war 'difficulties' if Russia was permitted to overrun eastern Europe including the Balkans and to take Berlin.
Roosevelt opposed Churchill in those regards.
Poor FDR was worn slap out from pushing WC uphill in a barrel. WC created and talked up the iron curtain and cold war until he died.This movie filled in the details about these "giants" for me. Great actors and production.
..and Churchill was worn out from trying for years to persuade FDR to get off the fence and actually do something before it was done to him...
i recall a witness to these pow wows between the Big 3 saying FDR and Uncle Joe Stalin would make wry quips about pompous Winston. i must say i would not relish having Joseph Stalin ( Russian word for Steel ) my real uncle. that might cost the end of my life or a trip to the Gulag. utterly ruthless man without a doubt. his biographers said Stalin loved American Cowboy movies and admired gun slingers that made a living with Pistol dueling.
and yes he had his own movie theatre and numerous dacha's we would call mansions. Communism was very lucrative for Stalin . he made Churchill look like a pauper.
funny phrase " up hill in a barrel " that would be a load. no doubt Winston would be smoking a cigar inside the barrel. if he could of managed it he would have had a whiskey in the other hand. brings to mind the lyric
" he aint heavy he's my brother" . Transatlantic of course 😊
Winston was a great man, one thing he said, if you want to know where your going? Look to where you've come from??
He knew how mad Starlin was?
Not being voted in after the war, gave Starlin he's grip.
🆘😢😳✌️. The great friends that our Bob & Michael are there acting along with John's is absolutely TOP DRAW 🎬💯
GREAT TO SEE THIS THANKS. ✌️🇬🇧🧐😵😱☠️🆘🗣️🤫👁️💥👁️💪👍
This material could have been as dry as toast. But here is some brilliant writing and editing. Some of the one-liners are scorching hot zingers. For all their failings, these were indeed great men who carried the weight of the world on their shoulders. These men argued their way into an agreement. The thought occurs that Hitler lost in part because he brooked no objection. He took credit for all, assigned blame elsewhere, and surrounded himself with panderers.
1:10:00 The map is inaccurate for early 1945. That is a modern map he is pointing at.
Bob Hoskins looks like Churchill crossed with a mafia mob boss!! Well worth the watch though
Roosevelt and Churchill did a remarkable job of getting their two worse enemies to destroy one another. Brilliant!
Rip Bob mate🙏👍💪🇬🇧🎬💯 another movie I just seen with Bob is
Where the Eskimos live,
2002, great stuff form him and a young talent ✌️🙏😇🗣️ Thanks for the stuff mate, you and Michael could have done so much more... Sleep WELL God Bless🙏😇🗣️💯🇬🇧💪👍
I use to be a huge fan of Winston Churchill when I was younger but I've come to realize that he was a far better speaker than military strategist. Every military operation he had any serious roll in turned out to be a straight up disaster or close to it. I've actually come to realize that FDR was the best leader in that conflict. He basically used Lend Lease to pick the British Empire to pieces and bribed Stalin into sacrificing 25 million Soviet citizens to save 2 million American GIs... Which was the loss estimate of retaking Europe had the USSR fallen or made a separate peace with Hitler prior to D Day.
Very smart man.
Excellent.
Well worth watching. They even covered the “nasty paper!” not included, was the inclusion of the Balkan states in that paper.
Lithgow as fdr. More please.
Funny that Churchill was a great wartime PM, but got voted out at the end of the war.
Quite fond of Historical War
Dramas,this wz ntriguing & provocative.Credible portrayals by the Main Cast:
Mr Bob Hoskins,Mr Mykl Caine,
Mr John Lithgow,Mr Ed Begley Jr. & 'Mr Molotov'
[name unknown].
Njoyd the Split-screen style where the illusion of them having simultaneous talks.
KUDOS 2 all nvolvd w/this
Mpresiv f🎥lm 💂🇺🇸🇬🇧🇹🇷
Thx 4 p📭sting😉👌🏿
Jan17M2022
Bar🇧🇧bados
GREAT WWII HISTORY MINISERIES WORLD BORN IN PEACE THANKS TO THREE GREAT LEADERS.
Churchill was as committed to an invasion of France as much as the other two but seemed to be the only one to realise there was only going to be one shot at it.
And then John Lithgow played Churchill in "The Crown"
a film about the manager class
There is a similar BBC film ‘Behind closed doors’ and even a better book with the same name.
The end result of anything is war will always exist but to what extent and how horrible can be controlled but not the wars themselves.
And that such negations although extremely tedious display clearly how to control such events but that war now can happen in minutes and the increase speed of war makes the future more and more impossible to control that the only thing that can be controlled is good people in leadership and not corrupt or evil men for in this is the only true prevention of such crisis.
Each a legend in his own mind.
Totally!
I noticed one flaw in this brilliant film. In the scenes with stalin the map of Europe shown is post 1945 where polands border has moved to the oder Neisse. In other scenes it shows the border as the 1939 border which was one hundred and forty kilometres eastward !
I watched both parts of this film and not until the very end did it dawn on me that Michael Caine was Josef Stalin! I’m still not quite sure !
Who the fuck else would it be? Did someone else with a moustache rule the USSR in 1941.
@@jamestaylor8807 no but someone else could have played him
Behind the scenes of todays world.
And now look...
Historically speaking, Stalin was the one who gambled and instigated WW2. He hoped that Germany and the Western Powers would bleed each other out in a prolonged fight such as ww1 and that he would come in last and reap the spoils.. And thus he enabled the initiation of war, by signing the German-Russian Pact of No Agression.. Hitler off course got back at him, because he was less of a planner and more of a fanatic (he hated communism and Slavs and underestimated them)...
Roosevelts belief of faith was not in the people., a free people, it was a faith in government. That is a huge mistake
Oh dear
I thought that John Lithgow did a really good as Roosevelt
This is just beginning and I'm watching the opening scene, and I'm thinking how spot on the British were about the war! Churchill really was a genius in many regards, Roosevelt was a fool. Churchill wanted to chip away at Germany and let the Soviets bear the brunt of the burden. Why were we allied with Russia to begin with! The treaty that led France and Britain to declare war on Germany was that they attacked Poland. But Russia simultaneously attacked Poland at the same time. Germany massacred Polish army officers, so did Russia.
During the war, Russia, using the resources we sent them, attacked neutral Finland which after a bloody war fought off Stalin's power grab. But still we continued to support him. Roosevelt was so gullible. He simply wanted to see Hitler defeated at all cost. Under British Gen. Fuller, a person who I've read his writings and mostly disagree, but he had one plausible idea; don't attack at Normandy or Italy, but attack at Trieste from where we could try a spearhead to get to Berlin before the Russians. This was the British plan. Roosevelt, of course, dismissed it leading us doomed to the following Cold War (which Churchill foresaw), and to the situation that we have today.
I’m confused - Wasn’t one of the meetings between the big three held in Canada?
No, Stalin never went to Canada.
@@scottkrater2131
not that we know of but
Stalin might of slipped in unnoticed to do a little fishing. Great fishing in Canadian lakes and rivers. seriously your correct but Churchill might of had a pow wow with Political leaders in the Common Wealth. Canada . Ay?
Before I born
The Allied powers have allowed and even encouraged Germany to rearm! What fools! They won’t be stopped next time!
Who play Hitler ?
They got the coat wrong for Churchill he was known for wearing a Black Coat
It is a little difficult to believe that when the Allied leaders discussed the Iinvasion of Poland by the National Socialists in 1939, no person bothered to rmention that, by agreement between the Germans and Soviets, while Hitler invaded western Poland, the USSR, under Stalin, had invaded and occupied the eastern half of Poland!
Indeed... our propaganda prior to 1940 tended to have Hitler and Stalin as besties
But that is not quite correct. Stalin did not move into Eastern Poland until more than two weeks after the Germans had invaded.
Yes, they had a non aggression pact and yes, they had agreed spheres of influence but to say they invaded at the same time is not correct. It was only after Germany had destroyed Poland's army that Russia moved to occupy its sphere.
In much the same way that the allies carved up post war Europe.
The actors in this movie played their parts well, and I can commend them for that. However, I must in all honesty assert that after showing all of this, the Bolsheviks should have been tried for their crimes against humanity after the Soviet Union collapsed, and those who were already dead should've been tried in absentia. The Bolsheviks were just as evil as the Nazis for the crimes they committed, yet for very peculiar reasons, the Bolsheviks are still looked at through rose-colored lenses by certain people and come up smelling like roses when placed next to Hitler and his Nazi thugs and maniacs.
Very bizarre treatment I have to say!
way too many ads/segment
Scroll it to the end, let the next upload begin, arrow back, begin it again - sometimes (sometimes) that nukes the ads.
Ehhhh bitch bitch bitch. Pony up 12 bucks for ad free or use brave. Get on it!
Churchill was the best when it came to selective memory.
Churchill abandoned all the Polish military men who fought for the allies during WWII. He sent them back to Poland where they were all shot by the Soviet Union which had divided and occupied Poland with Germany at the start of the war. Churchill should have been arrested and tried as a war criminal for their deaths.
The Polish officers murdered by the Soviets, aka the Katyn massacre, were not returned by Churchill. They had been captured by the Russians and were executed in 1940. Therefore whilst the USSR was still in alliance with Germany. If you're going on a Churchill hatefest at least check facts.
Churchill and FDR abandoned the entire nation of poland. Forced them to be yoked to pure evil for 50 years.
@@vwalsh63
To some extent that's true. But bear in mind the circumstances. Churchill did consider whether it would be possible to stop the Russians from taking over Poland in 1945. It was Operation Unthinkable. It would have involved rearming German soldiers. Neither Britain nor the USA had sufficient troops. The Americans were not willing to fight Russia and Churchill would not have had the support of the British public. Also of course by then he was no longer PM.
The Russians had invaded Poland when Germany did in 1939 and taken their half. Churchill was at least instrumental in freeing the Polish soldiers from Russian prison camps in 1942 so they could get to England via Iran to fight the Germans. He was unable to save the officers who had been murdered by Russia in April 1940. In fact Chamberlain was still PM when that happened. No fault of Churchill's.
Ok. Should Britain and America have gone to war with the Soviet Union in 1945? If the Polish army was unable to defend Poland in 1939 then that's Poland's problem.
You are wrong. Stalin refused to release allied POWs unless Soviet troops that had served under Hitler were returned to the USSR. Churchill had no choice. Polish people that had escaped to Great Britain were permitted to remain!
Cockney-Stalin, lol.
Very good summary of the Big Three in WW II. But the incorrect & ,frankly moronic , ignorant subtitles leave a poor impression. Who can’t spell Donitz or Jodl
Interesting to see the politics being the whole basis of the movie.
"...We will have peace for a hundred years..." - Churchill. Did not happen.
Never will happen under man's watch.
Only when God intervenes once again in human affairs, the "second time".
Hmmmm...Stalin, sounds like what Putin is saying about Ukraine today! You will not ,place missiles (NATO) in Ukraine,s border pointing east at Russia!
It sounds like sovereignty to me.Makes sence from a Russian, s point of view. Poland, at the end of WWII and here we are ,almost eighty years later,(2022),Ukraine this time!
Russia! Russia!Russia!Only God, knows!Pray ! Pray! and Pray! To the Almighty God in Heaven!
Michael Caine! Ausum!
Notice that in the film sequence for the D-Day sequence only shows Americans.
Yes, definite lack of Tommies and Canucks.
There was clearly a scene with British troops landing at Normandy.
@@jimfritz9503
For troops
The film times should be 39.5% British, 14% Canadian and 46.5% US.
For aircraft
The film times should be 55% British and 55% US.
For shipping
The film times should be 67% British and 33% the rest.
For warships
The film times should be 79% British and 21% the rest.
Fair?
@@thevillaaston7811 It s a movie. Who was the producer / financier/ writer , etc. ? Fair ? Maybe not. It s from the 90 s. War and life are not fair . It tells a story. That s all.
Stalin didn't speak English, he needed an interpreter to talk with Churchill and Roosevelt.
Brilliant film with Brilliant actor's they Russia is a threat now it looked to me like if it wasn't for Britain and America Russia may have been in deep trouble so maybe someone should give Russia a gentle reminder
The chinese should have had a seat at that table.. we might have avoided the mess of today.
Why does this film show America nearly blowing Stalin.
FDR naively trusted Uncle Joe...subsequent events bore this out.
@@lordemed1
Stalin knew exactly where Roosevelt was coming from...
...He had a squeaky wheel on his wheelchair.
@ Greg Miller
well President Truman told Stalin we had a Big Bomb and Stalin was amused because very soon after the Russians had the BIG BOMB.
So eventually both sides were willing to blow each other . this is called political 69.
It is difficult to learn the lessons of history when it is so distorted as in this film. The victors write the history books and fools misinterpret even those distortions.
Too bad Roosevelt was compromised by the Commies.
1:03:42 -- But of your seven million Poles in America, only seven thousand vote. I know I'm right--I looked it up. On the internet. I googled it."
In the end Stalin and Soviet Russia won all so Western Democracy was blind
Old Joe lied he never let Poland be capitalist.
FDR was too soft on the USSR.
Truman was right to stand up to them after the war.
They should have said that all
Counties return to 1939 boarders for the allies.
So no one gets extra land.
Churchill was right Poland
Should have been free,that's
What the war was about.
They should of stop Stalin after the war was over pushed him back to Russia.
so many planes ships guns Ect being made so quickly, No talk of the German advanced technology, anyway new world order coming soon cheers LOL
THE HIDDEN HAND
[46:04 to 46:20] Joseph Stalin is shown walking with his right hand unnaturally held inserted between two buttons of his jacket, in the "Hidden Hand" position.
What were the director and editor of the movie trying to say by emphasizing this non-accidental, non-random, iconic gesture?
Roosevelt and Churchill were Socialists -- Stalin was a Communist -- Hitler was a Fascist -- and all four of them were tyrants, malevolent tyrants who were controlled by the same Hidden Hand.
Reportedly, FDR was fatally poisoned by his personal doctor while recovering in hospital and died from "complications of pneumonia".
@ Arty See
FDR was not a tyrant !
Helped pulling USA out of a brutal depression .
dealt with a terrible handicap , paralyzed legs from polio. that he was poisoned by his doctor sounds like a wacky conspiracy theory lie. Stalin had a weak arm from a wagon injury in his youth and probably rested it in his vest or uniform. whats hidden or hiding is your brain. go find it and report back NOW !