Battlefield S6/E1 - The Battle For The Crimea
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- Опубликовано: 12 ноя 2012
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Directed by Dave Flitton, Andy Aitken, James Wignall
Produced by Dave Flitton (series prod.), David McWhinnie, Ken Maliphant, David Rozalla
Written by Dave Flitton, Andy Aitken, James Wignall
Narrated by Jonathan Booth
Music by David Galbraith
Distributed by Public Broadcasting Service
Release date(s) 2002
Running time 6 116-minute episodes
Country USA
Language English
Vasile luga, whoever you are and from the bottom of my heart, thank you for uploading these videos.
John mousseau...
Pain sure looks good on other people ..eh..?
@@getredytagetredy shut up
@@getredytagetredy lol 🥱
@@getredytagetredy history looks interesting from any point of view
he died filming all this during ww2
This Battlefield series is the best of the best among WWII documentaries. Any political bias are kept to the absolute minimum. Credits are given to either side when it's due. This series allows you to really appreciate the courage of the soldiers and the strategies of the generals.
Yup I agree but the American ones seem to capture the spirit of the men also. I am back in UK for short spell and will return to the scene of the biggest naval battle in world history. 280 war ships between American and Japanese fleet. type into serch engine "hill 120 Dulag Leyte". Its where I live
flashwaver totally agree, wish there were more at least produced by the same people, the "Scorched Earth" series of documentaries I believe are made by the same I think the soundtrack is the same in places but it has interviews and focuses on equipment and units rather than being titles after battles.
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jb 927, WWII is *not* the great war, WWI is. And you should watch the *The World at War* documentary series. Its a detailed, very good documentary series that doesn't "ram holocaust down your throat" on every opportunity.
Sadly though the film footage often shown dose not match the commentary, for instance when he is talking about things in 1941 the film footage shows Tigers which did not enter service until late 1942 and at 50..6 he is talking about things that happened in 1942, yet the film footage is showing Panther tanks which did not enter service until 1943.
These battle field series are the best world war 2 documentaries I’ve watched and this is by far my favorite episode
Watch World At War universally known as best documentary series on the war made 27 years after wars end when it was fresh in the mind+many of its main protagonists where still alive+commented on the war
I know nothing is perfect, but watching these videos I don’t feel manipulated. It seems the facts as they are understood are presented honestly with keeping the truth in mind as they are.
Thats a great feeling when you get the unfettered truth.
It says the name of the commanders on both sides. That's how you can tell.
Thank you for Vasile for all of your work and dedication on uploading these videos as they are the absolute best documentaries!
The narration, script, research and use of music as background only, are SUPERB. Many kudos. Lack of political bias is also apparent: no propaganda here, which i applaud immensely. Thank you soooooo much for uploading this wonderful series.
Cannot get enough of this series, so good.
All of these wwll documentaries heavily remind me of my Grandad and my GreatGrandad , they were both full-time professional Army officers in the Greek Royal Army. Miss you guys❗
When I visited Crimea back in 2010, I could feel the ghosts of WW2 all around me.
dont drink and drive
It was Putin
I just got back from Ukraine myself.I went to many battlefields.Agreed on your comment.
My opa served in Ukraine. 2 generations later that was my first military deployment.
RW4X4X3006 no. That’s not how it works.
Manstein was the greatest General of WWII; A military genius who's strategies and tactics are studied in military academies today.
MD21037 And don't forget Erwin Rommel too.
@Jack Wehrung Yea, Im sure Manstein's Ardennes offensive plan in 1940 was an Allied construction as well? Do you even know the history? Go away.
@@kv6256 Get him! Well said Sir.
No he wasn't! He was an overrated Nazi fuck.... he made a massive fuck up at Kursk for one
@@PalookaD yup , he did indeed , largest tank battle , lost by the nazzis
Congratulations to all of the people involved with the development and dissemination of this valuable documentary program.
May I gently suggest that the Ukrainian military commanders study this valuable documentary to empower their own frequently announced intentions to recapture The Crimea especially given that the basic geography and topography of Crimea has not changed since the 1940s?
Awesome. This is by far the most balanced and detailed historical account of this theatre I have thus far seen. Kudos
Balanced! Sure!
Detailed not biased and accurate. Great documentary!
once again, an outstanding documentary. mr. vasile luga you deserve a medal!
Erich Von Manstein was arguably the most brilliant battlefield commander of WW2, and his capture of Sevastopol may have been his most impressive victory.
I truly believe that the plan to defeat France was he's most brilliant strategy out of all. For no one was expecting so many divisions to make it through the Ardennes, and because of that he caught the enemies off guard.
Bruh it took him almost a year get out of here with your 8444 crap
A general obeying a first war corporal. I will prefer exile .
Those who won , were the best. Germany amputated armament in 1933. Stalin trusted Hitler. Killed his best generals in a purge. Zhokov was better.
The Victor always have the best commannders like Alexander thee great.
this has always been my favourite battlefield episode.
Same
why may i ask? i love all. manchuria is awesome. normandy of course
Why are so many armchair generals getting bent out of shape
with their "expert" opinions on how this campaign should have been conducted.
History cannot be changed, why not just back and enjoy what is obviously an excellent documentary series.
all that matters is...could Germany have won with an army of armchair generals?
Ken Robertson ikr?
From my armchair expertice I would ask: is it Manstein's 11th army as the speaker says or is it 6th army as it is written on the map? VI is 6th, XI is 11th.
@@VIItut It's 11th Army. I noticed the same thing
Can't we sit back and enjoy by being armchair Generals and talking out are asses? That's why I'm here. :)
This is an incredible and important video. I have watched many of the videos of the Eastern Front. But it took me a while find this one. Glad I did. I always wondered what was the situation south of the main actions toward Stalingrad. Well done.
One of my favorite documentaries. Thanks for uploading
I originally saw seasons 1 and 2 of this series on PBS back in the 90s. Great stuff. I didn't realize until years later that there were subsequent seasons up to 6. I find the first two seasons to be the gold standard of this series. (admittedly, I never saw season 3 about Vietnam so can't comment on the quality of that one) Seasons 4-6 vary in quality but I was particularly impressed with this one. Definitely one of the best of the series. The Crimea is one of those theaters of WW2 that I didn't know much about.
Battlefield series is pretty awesome although they sometimes mix the footage a little bit confusing together, the facts are accurate and the documentaries style very interesting!
"Battlefield" gives good Insights in the theatres of war!
Thanks for posting all these episodes of this remarkable series. Television at its best.
these battlefield docs are just fantastic.
thanks for uploading.
I love the battlefield documentary series. I especially appreciate how they present facts over propaganda.
I love it how English speaking authors pronounce Soviet city names :D Especially Zaporozhye :DD
The only War documentaries worth watching , forget the rest these are the best , factually , great narration and film . Top stuff.
The best WW2 documentary series.. S1 and 2 are even better rather best among all episodes...thanks to the narrator of those two series....
that soundtrack at the end (from 1:36:10 to 1:40:00) is SO powerful.. can anyone post a link for it please?
i have been looking for this magnificant tune øf war for a long time.AND STILL I AM... it makes me very happy to see this sound has powerfull effect on others.
My grandfather fought in this battle.
My grandfather fought in this battle too. 4th Ukrainian Front, Separate Coastal Army, 318 "Novorosiyskaya" infantry division, 1331 infantry regiment. He was a regiment commander.
Pretty dramatic footage starting at 47:40. I can only imagine what these soldiers and tankers were going through. What a brutal campaign...
That footage must be from a re enactment or a movie.
It is sobering to watch this in early 2023 with the prospect of the Ukrainians and Russians perhaps fighting over Crimea in the coming year. Although the weapons and details are different now compared to WWII, the basic geography has not changed which of course is a very significant consideration for any military operation.
I have to say that this series is one of the most detailed and unbiased documentaries about WW2 i have seen. Unlike History Channel's more recent, US chestpounding, documentaries that glorify the way and US efforts.
Suddenly relevant
This was always relevant.
More so than now?
Oxide Absolutely. Google Ukraine and read the Wikipedia page.
Oxide xd what are you doing here
Also, those who don't know history are bound to repeat it.
Well earned rank of general field marshal by Von Manstein
Geo-politically the Crimea was invaluable as it meant Germany would not be fighting alone in their "Ost-Krieg" bringing both Romania and Ukraine into the fight upon the German side same said be true of Finland for Army Group North.
Hitler's military Command was sound in ordering the first strike against Moscow in October of 1941 but after the stunning successes of Operation Typhoon it was easy to see any multitude of Napoleonic warning signals being missed going into that November...though not here initially in what remains a masterpiece of War Craft the German shock overland assault upon Fortress Sevastopol 1941 absolutely.
A good show-brings back fond memories.
Excellent Series.
At 47:39 there is a heck of a camera scene. Does anyone know where it is from? A movie perhaps.
Imagine being bombarded by the Giant Gustav Cannon "The largest during ww2" in sevastopol. Jesus christ it's gonna be a severe nightmare for a civilian living in sevastopol.
I think people are thinking of the wrong war. This video is talking about WWII or somewhere in the time frame of the 1940's. Not 2014.
The music on this one is almost unbearable.
They really hit full speed on the melodrama.
Still, top notch documentary.
The footage in these things is great, but they always make me realize I should be reading instead. Even a few hours isn’t enough for much detail.
cpmenninga ☆ I have the wiki open for any questions during this Fast Paced Presentation.
Very appropriate background music for this super human efforts by both sides.General Feld Marschal Von Manstein remains the hero,forced to fight set pieces against a determined foe.Fantastic video.First class narration.
11:47 -- German soldier with PPSh.
I'm sure both sides took all sorts of stuff off the dead bodies of the other side. It's there, so is the ammo for it, you captured it fair and square by killing its owner in war, so why not give it a try, eh?
TommygunNG they'd convert them to 9x19 and use them. Same thing with some other weapons like Steyr Hahn. Anything in 8mm Mauser or 9x19 was used by The Wehrmacht
Captured weapons were uesd by the Germans
The German Army authorized the use of the Poppa Shaw and even produced and supplied ammo for them
Lee T. Walker I saw that as well.
This is soooo good!
Excellent video !!
Thank You!
So many men wasted on two megalomania's ego. May these brave men RIP.
Excellent documantery 👍
It’s rather amazing the Germans could look at a map and not realize the trap they were setting for themselves.
It was assumed that the Red Army would fall apart in the first 3 months after the invation.
Multumesc pentru aceste documentare :) .
In my opinion manstein and rommel were some good field marshall offensive and defensive capabilities where the other field marshalls were just capable with one of the characteristic
To me this is the most interesting episode in the series
Right? With all the soviet landings to retake the peninsula to the massive guns the Germans used made this super cool and movie like.
Awesome Documentary. Thank you.
Always like to watch the Battlefield series. No sides just knowledge.
MrBigstick25 Agreed!
Don't scroll down there. It's like the 'Special Olympics' of online debates. Trust me on this one.
Hindsight makes it all too easy, of course. I think one of the great lessons of that era is the way the war plans themselves carried so much weight. Moltke had the plan for sweeping through Belgium into Paris down to every train, every hour. It was meticulous and had to be timed right to work. When Wilhelm had second thoughts and suggested turning it all east instead, Moltke freaked out and said "impossible!" The machine was moving and stopping it seemed more dangerous than just letting it roll
49:54 Tigers and Panthers were definitely not in the Crimea in early 1942. For as good as this series is, this makes me suspect that the footage used is not from the campaign featured.
+Ben Bowman (Sabresfan948) If you watch most of the Battlefield series the footage shown has very little in common with what the narrator is talking about. In the end , I watch battlefield more for the fact that it gives you a visual of how the operations were planned and which divisions were engaged and how. For footage relevant to a topic I watch German War Files.
Agreed. Its footage is not as recycled as other war documentary series, but one always is suspicious.
The unrealistic camera positions after 1h30m say something too, probably Russian movies of the 50s-60s were used where there was no genuine war footage.
The Battle For The Crimea~ Propaganda Video has hundreds of fake parts in it. Watch this one if you really want an eye opener: ruclips.net/video/LTr7wTHDYE8/видео.html
Meh minor flaws
I'm watching this to research for improving some Wikipedia articles about the Crimea Campaign and Crimea Offensive in World War 2.
Edit: I see you guys saying in the comments that the Battlefield series are good. I will probably watch more.
The 'start' line of the operation Barbarossa is not 100% correct... It supposes that Transcarpathia is in the part of the Soviet Union but it was the part of Hungary in 1941...
Interesting small mistake :-)
Sharp eye...quite correct, sir.
Wow, I really appreciate how Battlefield looks at every aspect, and the nitty-gritty facts and movements. While CGI planes, ships, and explosions may be appealing to the eye, if you really want to know what happened, watch this!
Not showing the Gamma and Karl Mortars they're talking about > 57:48
On the lips > 1:15:02
manstein is a damn genius
a war criminal as well.
lots of this comes from his own writings about himself. good on a tactical level but not so good strategicly
Kutsnutzov was no match for Manstein
sathish Kumar: Manstein, poisoned the waters in the villages while retreating to the west.Many civilians and soldiers were poisoned..That is crimes against humanity and not a war tactic..
@@emmanuelzepernick7209 He wasn't a dedicated Nazi or not even a member of Nazi party. He had no intentions of killing innocent people, but he was unable to stand against Hitler's orders to destroy villages and poison wells. He didn't do anything that was his fault but he just simply tolerated the warcrimes done by the SS divisions under his command.
Let's put those for a moment. Which country in ww2 did not commit any war crimes? British bombed German cities killing 100s of thousands of people in single night, Americans dropped atomic bombs on innocent civilians not Japanese military (Eventhough Japanese never killed a single American civillian), Russians raped many German women and mass murdered in Poland and Ukraine.
Atleast Manstein and many Germans were punished in the end in Nuremburgh trials but none of the Allied war crimes were looked back then.
Russians: You can’t just cross a bay that’s heavily defended on the far side.
Manstein: observe.
thanks for posting
56:02 “by the 15th [of May, 1942], Kerch was in German hands and three Soviet armies had been annihilated in a week. Eleventh Army had captured 170,000 Soviet troops and over 1100 guns and 250 tanks, at a total cost of just over 7,500 casualties. Operation Bustard Hunt was a miniature example of Blitzkrieg tactics, planned and executed by one of the greatest masters of the art”.
Sums up why Manstein was Germany’s most able general
Hard not to see Von Rundstedt as one of the greatest and deadliest Generals of all time.
It would be nice if there was a way to know if the footage tat is being shown at a given time of the video actually relates to the battle or not... Not that it must be, but I am always left wondering if the some footagesrelates to it or not
This is a very good documentary. Quite objective, informative and well narrated. You can also learn a lot from maps and animations showing movements of divisions or armies.
Whatever you think of Russians and Germans, these were gigantc clashes
which shaped our modern world.
As someone pointed here this episode is about war of 1941-45 not 2014.
But if you insist on putting it into present day affairs, to be frank I understand that Ukrainians just do not like remeber that they supported Nazis Germant, formd SS divisions (for exmaple the infamous SS-Galizien), murdered 100,000 Poles in Volyn Massacre (Genocide), and now are mere american puppets. They lost Crimea (which was part of Ukr. only by chance) and are sliding into total chaos.
Were Tiger and Panther Tanks really in the Crimea? Very well narrated and excellent maps..Why are the Romanians represented by an iron cross on the maps? They were long lived enemies of the Russians and Soviets in the 19th & 20th Centuries..
hey thanks for all these uploads on ww2... erich.
Tigers and Panthers in the Kerch Peninsula in April 1942? Nyet
I doubt the accuracy of this ... at the beginning it places Ploiesti (misspelled Ploesti) north of the Danube delta in Ukraine instead of south of the Carpathians inside Romania.
Another mistake Luga 🤦
Greetings fellow Bedtime Battlefield friends. lol
Thank you
Any idea where I could find the music at 1:32:12 ? The tracks haunts my dreams
Oh poor Von Manstein, he didn't have enough power in the beginning to commit the perfect war crime. The poor war criminal had to wait.
THE LACK OF GERMAN AIR COVER BEGAN TO SAP THE SOLDIERS MORAL. " LUXARY
SOLDIERS"
Can someone tell me what the meaning of the german troops fist pumping signal is, I have seen mobile troops signaling the following troops as well as infantry doing the same signal, have googled but just get the political meaning.
How was the 'bird's eye fly by' view accomplished, from 47:39 to 47:56? Is it a computer generated simulation? Models? Or a combination?
Good question, saw that too.
Soviet reconstitution of the '50s or '60s, probably
@@larochelleben from a movie by the looks of them.
War...war never changes.
does anyone know the name, or any info, on the theme music to this doc?
Music by David Galbraith, if that means anything to you.
Despite the maps, Manstein commanded the XI (Eleventh) Army, not the VI (Sixth) Army.
Annoying how Manstein's 11th army is marked as the 6th.
Joel Chabot That actually annoyed the living shit out of me for some reason. I couldn't take it seriously after that.
Joel Chabot X.. V... what's the difference, really?
+Joel Chabot looks like a typo - VI instead of XI
I was quoting Stolfi's "Hitler's Panzers East", in which he stated the cause for Hitler's defeat was the diverting of his forces to Leningrad and Stalingrad, thereby leaving a much smaller force facing Moscow. It was all an absurd strategy from day one anyway.
A saying:Glory stays at Battlefield,it is right.
Early in film Zaporizhzhya was too far east of Dnieper river , they got it right half way through presentation
Failure to destroy the Russian army's in the first 6 months,was a death sentence to the German army😬
sun spots T they destroyed numerous Russian armies in Operation Barbarossa its just that Russia has an almost infinite manpower to replace them Invading Russia in the first place sealed Germanys fate
Yes, as it was for eastern Europe.
@@isprikitikburkabush6200 They didn't have a choice, Stalin was boosting Russian industry extremely fast and builded rail roads all across the country, The more Germany delayed the attack the stronger the Russians would get especially when they are at peace time compared to Germans full state war.
@CK the Russians fought under the same conditions as the Germans, the Russians were ready to die for the sake of victory, but the Germans did not, the military losses of the Russians and the Germans were about the same, a huge difference in the losses of the civilian population that the Germans destroyed en masse
Failure to think in purely militaristic terms with additional mental muddying from illogical, emotion-driven racial 'beliefs' was the death sentence in this context; failure to destroy or neutralize Soviet military in first 6 months of Unternehmen Barbarossa, as I would posit, was the failure of Plan A, Option A of an operation foolishly and shortsightedly designed with no backup plan or differing options from which to choose. Case in point: occupations in Baltic states and Ukraine. Had there been a plan to incorporate occupied and axis allied areas into a Greater Reich empire, operational failures such as moonshot objectives as needing to destroy Soviet military would not have been fail-or-die death sentences. Failing to include economic considerations and aims cannot be overstated. Empires are not built by complete subjugation, by purely militaristic means, by conquering armies and utter destruction of enemy forces alone, and so on. Empire is built by coordinating economy and industry, currency zones, creating allied governments and stabilizing civil society that projects both the power of the conqueror and demonstrates to the vanquished the participatory role they now have as members of the imperial union, and so forth following the completion of realistic military objectives guided by clear-cut, achievable but elastic, malleable plans.
Looove!!
I love tartar on my scampi.
Karl-Albrecht von Groddeck (18 February 1894 - 10 January 1944), But this documentary states that he died during the first Crimean offensive 55:50
houston gd, vasile luga and must see i would like to thank you for educating me about ww2, because of you i will go study history and geography in college
@1:23:13 that looks like one of Stalin's doubles, just something about his body language, barely raises his eyes.. Probably wrong but Im sure these WW2 leaders and Commanders had doubles just wonder what happened to the Doubles on the losing side - where did they go or did their own side kill them lest they fall into enemy hands ???
Excellent very imformative thankyou.The British Crimea War Graves need a lot of attention . Thankyou Be Blessed.
After all the new information we have, especially since the fall of the SU. Are these documentaries still correct and actual? Honest question. Thanks in advance.
We now know the Battle for the Don Bend weakened Paulus more than Manstein's memoirs implied
The Battle For The Crimea the Soviet forces remained on the peninsula until a 9 April German counterattack. They held on for another month before being eliminated on 18 May. With the distraction removed, German forces renewed their assault on Sevastopol, penetrating the inner defensive lines on 29 June. Soviet commanders had been flown out or evacuated by submarine towards the end of the siege and the city surrendered on 4 July 1942, although some Soviet troops held out in caves outside of the city until 9 July.
1:00:00 The footage is in the wrong order. The mortars are shown at the end instead of the beginning of the segment.
This channel has been abandoned for like 8 years
Superb, though the fractured mis-pronunciation of Russian names and place-names is amusing.
GOD BLess YOU!!!!!!!
I'm just here to learn military history, not argue about what's going on in Ukraine today. I fell for arguing my opinions before. But now, I don't give a *damn* about what goes on in the present day anymore.
you better the future depends on it. what happens today is history tomorrow. dont you want to help shape history?
Gofo Nuda
im sure a lot of dead tyrants said the same thing. :)
"But now, I don't give a damn about what goes on in the present day anymore."
It's that exact mentality that allows people like Hitler to come to power. Don't take my word for it...the man said it himself...
Kevlar Burrito True. It's just that the last time I tried saying my opinion regarding the Ukraine, which was pro-Ukrainian and anti-Putin, I received a barrage of verbal abuse from the rest of people involved in the topic.
Christopher Manson If I were you, I'd rather be hated for the right reasons than be loved for the wrong ones.
The Germans got far closer than "within 200 miles of Moscow". The forward high tide mark placed the Germans 10-12 miles from Moscow. They reached the outer train station of Moscow, and were looking at the Kremlin through binoculars.
that is correct .
The Russians had learnt their lesson this year: you can only beat your opponent by stripping own uniform insignia and pretend to be locals. Only they forgot to change the truck number plates!
You can look this video and you will undestand why Crimea is Russia now and eastern ukraine in near future.
Be prepared to loose Kaliningrad and other old foreign regions like Karelia, Leningrad, Kamtchatka, Kuril Islands. What is left for russia is Siberia - for some time.
the last time Stalin promised to walk to Helsinki in 2 weeks just like Putler to Kiov. Well Stalin did not make it but lost 500.000 men. Why not try again, artillery waiting...
Markku Ranin 500.000 ???????? Really???? Are you sure???? I don't remember this Stalin promise. Where are you read that????? But any man in planet remember the promise of Adolf hitler and Napoleon to destroy Russia completelly, and everybody know what happen in the end.
*****
Finland won't be alone :) Even in Bangladesh life expectancy is longer than in Russia.