For those that don’t know, this film is called Journey’s End. I went to watch it in the cinema and it just pulled you in, every little thing that happens you feel like you’re there. This film is set around the start of the Spring Offensive of 1918 near the end of the war, the young officer isn’t even in his 20s in the film. So I recommend watching it since these clips barely show off how amazing the film was, I think the only films I can compare the feel to is Saving Private Ryan and Hacksaw Ridge.
Cannot reproduce the feeling of being so afraid of something that I lose all my senses....horrible; and that not as a once-in-a-life occassion but as your every-day-routine. My deepest respect for anyone who went through this and stayed at least somewhat sane.
That's the worst part, is you know you're gonna die one way or another. Imagine facing Death, losing your sense from the artillery and fear of getting killed. If you survive till nightfall. Next day you are sent back out again.
True although in most cases it was the only way to survive. If you stay still in No Man's Land you are done, and retreating was punishable by death or jail time. So pushing forward was the only hope for many. Veterans often mentioned that in interwievs and journals.
From statements for survivors of those events, especially the documentary called “They shall not be forgotten”, most soldiers in those situations kinda just went on autopilot, the things going around them were overwhelming them mentally so they did not think as much about it.
The absolute sheer terror one feels right before "going over the top"... Knowing that death and destruction awaits you.... Praying, cursing, and crying at the exact same time ... Hoping against all hope that somehow you make it back to your lines in one piece. Later, you reflect upon your comrades laying dead dying, and wounded out there in no man's land ... Wanting to go and retrieve your brothers in arms somehow, but knowing that death patiently bides it's time ... Their bodies shredded by burning lead and jagged pieces of metal ..... Truly it was hell on earth ......
its unbelievable, cant believe the horror. And imagine you survive all that and guess what your officer gives the command... tomorrow you have to do it again.
@@Haamre Well the brigadier wanted a couple but the idea was to identify the unit that had moved up opposite the British line and it appeared any one would do for that -- though even that was a costly enough quest. Six out of ten on the afternoon trench raid didn't return.
@Hellcat Robert Cedric Sherriff was an English writer best known for his play Journey's End which was based on his experiences as a Captain in World War I. Later with another writer helping him, he created a novel version of the play. So the work is fiction based on the wartime experiences of an English officer. Sherriff served as an officer in the 9th battalion of the East Surrey Regiment in the First World War, taking part in the fighting at Vimy Ridge and Loos. He was severely wounded at Passchendaele near Ypres in 1917.[ Found an article that said, "The ultimate confirmation of the authenticity of came in 1929 at the conclusion of a special performance for holders of the Victoria Cross when Sherriff was applauded for many minutes."
‘You smug faced crowds with kindling eyes who cheer when soldier lads march by, Sneak home and pray you’ll never know the hell where youth and laughter go.’ - Siegfried Sassoon, Suicide In The Trenches FYI - This is from a film called Journey’s End.
@@MarkGoding I can never remember the other stanza’s, they always escape me. The third stanza however, I will never forget, as it speaks the most truth.
@@jackbrooks1252 from memory it is: "I new a simple country boy who grinned at life with empty joy. Who whistled softy in the dark. And rose each day to hear the lark." If possible try to find Brian Blessed's reading of it.
Those Brodie helmets grow on you after a while. Like a stylish steel fedora. Those should be appreciated for their own merits and unique in their own rights.
They provide zero protection almost if your are out of a trench but if you are down in a trench they actually do a half decent job at keeping the shell fragments and lumps of earth raining down from bashing your head in.
@@jordanhicks5131 They did their job protecting against shrapnel, which was the no1 killer in WW1. The Brodie helmet was based on the medieval kettle helmet, which was also popular with medieval English/Welsh men at arms, and archers. Of course the Brits replaced the Brodie with the MK3 which employed as superior turtle shaped design in ww2.
The saddest part it was rated one of the worse helmets of its time. It was practically like wearing a pot on your head and didnt protect the skull much compared to the germans helmets.
My great-great grandfather earned a Military cross for leading his company on a night time trench raid just before Vimy Ridge. Crazy to think he would have experienced something similar to this.
In WW1 it was a common practice to raid an enemy trench with the goal of capturing prisoners for intelligence. This is clearly what the scene is attempting to show. However these acts were normally done at night not the day time for means of sneaking up on enemy positions. Hope this helps you understand 👍
Was it ever any different? Brave, brave men being ordered to their deaths by politicians who were safely miles away. These soldiers, at the start of their adult lives, suddenly had to confront that death was likely to happen on the next few minutes. To them, it must have been an incredible shock that they were not going to live, to love, have children and great children. When you are old, the fact that death is near becomes an acceptance - but to these soldiers, it was a shock. I believe - I would like to believe - that soldiers today are equally as fearless; that officers today are much better leaders and tacticians; that politicians remain inept sending people they don’t know into conflicts with no game plan and no strategy. Iraq? Afghanistan? Vietnam? That’s not a party political attack nor on a single country. Think USA, UK, USSR, Australia et al.
we are totally impresed by humans living intense lives and it does not get more intense than war. it either kills one, breaks one mentally or finally makes one feel alive. the only other thing that comes close is exploration of the unknown, and that is where we as a species should set our focus on.
@@sternleiche I don’t disagree but it would require political will. That’s just not going to happen in my lifetime. Imagine if there was asteroid ready to obliterate is in 30 or 40 years; that would focus the minds of almost everybody but can you imagine all the world “leaders” coming together agreeing how to explore a new world? I can’t. Not only power struggles between the countries in the first world but struggles within each country. As for the second and third world, we can forget about them...... I’m afraid the reality is that dominance is probably the pre-eminent emotion amongst those people who put themselves forward for power. There are those who admit it and those who don’t admit it but hide behind other motives. Very cynical of me but that 67 years of experience of the b**t**ds
@@martincox7354 yes it is far more profitable to keep us in front of the screens virtual adventures. real exploration would be too expensive and uncomfortable but really satisfying those simulations are not. that is why mankind is confused and unhappy.
@@martincox7354 oh 100%, I would join the army.. if we had a better government. I'd find it far more immoral to fight and defend the government currently
@@S_sleepin 'hes a cheery old card', grunted harry to jack, as they slogged up to Arris with rifle and pack And he killed them both with his plan of attack.
Exactly. The irony of fighting a war using people who have nothing to do with it in order for the ones to benefit from it not doing the fighting at all
Not at this time. An infantry platoon in 1917 (when this is set) was broken into 4 sections of different sizes and specialisations; A rifle section of nine men, a bombing section of five men, a rifle grenade section of nine men and a Lewis gun section of 9 men.
Saw this last week, it's deserving of way higher than it's imdb score. And the guy who played the co lead, whisky drinker with the mustache, he would make a good superman.
Seeing this in reality and real time, one wonders how they ever got young men to “Go Over TheTop”. Amongst them, fathers and sons, brothers, mates very often from the same hamlet, village, town. Lest we forget 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
@@hshgf3410 Sad to say that it is very true. However I would hope, like to think that there were members of the Officer Class who should compassion. Monash comes to mind, with his new strategies in 1917/19218, many lives were saved. Unlike the previous years of the Somme, Pachendale the list goes on, the carnage horrific on both sides. Lest we forget🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
@@itsnotalwaysblackandwhite8624 shame lessons like Gallipoli had to be learned. At least what they learned there helped with the d day landings. Lest we forget ANZAC cove.
They also went over because their mates, brothers, cousins, and fathers were with them. They fought for their small little piece of England. This is just the same as what happened 50 years earlier in the American Civil War. The reginal makeup of units lead to whole sale slaughter for towns and counties. Go to Gettysburg NPS RUclips and look for the battle between the 24th Michigan and the 26th North Carolina. Both were the larges units in their respective armies at the battle. Both had 80 % losses in the battle.
@@hshgf3410 Gallipoli was an absolute disaster thanks in great part to the First Lord of the Admiralty, one Winston Churchill. He gained his experience on the back of a horse charging the enemy. There was no intelligence as to the terrain our strength of the Turks. The Somme was essentially the same story. Days bombarding the German Lines, to no avail, they had dug in up to many metres deep, immune to the fall of shell. The Killing Field was well known by The Hun. Machine Gun Emplacements did the work. The British lost more men killed and injured on a single day than in any past or since engagement. Lest we forget 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
Good point..it really does and went right over my head, so I suppose it does succeed in many ways..actualy I'd like to watch the whole film coz of you point..thanks
My great great uncles Hubert and John were both in World War One for the whole four years. They refused to help my great grandmother when she became destitute after her husband died because she’d married a draft-dodger. And they refused to speak to him either. Not nice, but then again, I can understand why: they endured this nightmarish hellscape, along with all the other boys, and he was too afraid. Such brave men, and so extraordinary that they returned. On my father’s side, my great great uncles all got cut down by the maxim gun and sent home in a box. Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori?
A very good depiction, no mans land was typically larger and the smoke was a bit confusing for the brits but the way it showed you how it felt and how the officers were leading their men was great
Nothing was really known about my ancestor(s) that fought in ww1, but during ww2 that’s a totally different story, there are tons of stories to tell about them. For example my great uncle was a gunner on a plane but the plane got shot and during that shot it fatally injured him so he didn’t make it home. There is also my great grandad who joined and not much is known about him just that he made it home
Sad that there's less known about WWI, I know both of my 2 grandfather's served in WWII, one in the British Army, one in the RAF, but literally nothing about my great grandfather who served in WWI
@@AndrewMRoots It isn't surprising that not a lot is known though, if you experienced that for a year, let alone 4, who would want to talk about those horrors? It wasn't just gunfire that killed them, or gas, it was starvation, infection, some would have probably commit suicide.
@@AndrewMRoots It does to some extent, but I'd say it'd be worse to be in WW1 than in WW2 in all honesty. This film was based off of a drama piece for example so there were people talking about their experiences, but there was also more people fighting in WW2 and WW2 was where modern combat started, shifting from how people used to fight, standing strong no matter what and "holding the line." On top of that when documentaries and films were made of the wars, WW2 was more recent in peoples memories than WW1, WW2 vets would be in their 30s-60s when documentaries started being made for that while WW1 vets would be in their 50s and older if they weren't already dead at the time.
My great uncle was shot in no man's land raid he was out there after the British took the german trenches they went to check 2 days later and found him still alive died an hour later. His final words were "be the hero...."
My grandfather did that. 9th Battalion, Royal Scots. Back in the 50s and 60s, when we were out together at Hearts matches we'd bump into his mates from the 'first War' as everybody called it. I rarely if ever heard regret at what they had done. Sorrow about pals who never came back but the 'Blackadder' view of WW1 was entirely missing.
A Trench Raid to capture a Prisoner ... and the results were typically like that, sheer chaos and losing a whole bunch of soldiers and many times not even getting a Prisoner. In reality these were mostly done at night with a Box Barrage protecting the section of German Trench being assaulted - but they were an utter chaotic mess and extremely disliked by the Troops.
That’s because the movie is trying to give you a visualize if you were actually there but it could also just be crappy filming I seen this movie it’s kinda boring most parts but it’s good if your a WWI guy
@@michaellorenzen7410 Yes. Zoom in and focus on a hand holding a bayonet, then back to the British soldier who saw it as he screams and lunges at it. Pan towards the german soldier down the trench, then back to the british soldier who spotted him and him quickly raising his rifle with eyes wide open, then back to the german getting shot. People in very intense situations see things. Specific focus. Hyper-alert and quick reactions. Of course they make mistakes, too. So how about a soldier aiming his rifle down into the trench, and getting knocked down inside by another soldier behind him.
I am sure it is a good movie, but the problem I have with most war movies, even Private Ryan, is that the actors are too old for the soldiers that they portray. Sorry, but...
In saving private Ryan’s case, by 1944 the US was drafted people up to age 45. By 1945 they were drafting 49-50 year olds. There are only so many dumb 18 years olds willing to enlist.
Hard to top this movie for WWI drama. My only critique is I would doubt they would use the company XO Lieutenant 'Uncle' Osborne for the snatch and grab. Yes following orders, but they already knew an attack was coming in a few hours, grabbing a prisoner was not really what the front line guys needed, it was really for posterity to keep HQ commander happy about their own assumptions.
It was important to walk and not run because they needed to still have enough energy for fighting and crawling was too slow which increased the chances of being hit by artillery. Walking was the safest way forward.
@@srinathradhakrishnan By late 1916/1917 the BEF (British) would normally attack using 'fire and movement tactics' with platoons or sections laying down covering fire for each other and moving from cover to cover. By mid-late 1917 10 man sections split into a rifle group and LMG group with a Lewis gun would be the most basic unit to do that. By 1918 the BEF had pioneered what would be basic military tactics right up to the present day. Fire and movement, all arms warfare, air cover, artillery techniques of creeping barrage, counter battery fire etc. They even converted some of the tanks of the era into APCs to ferry troops and supplies round the battlefield.
@@ruadhagainagaidheal9398 I don't know precisely why NCOs cannot salute “normally” if they are not wearing the cap. NCOs do give respect to a higher rank by presenting/touching their weapon by coming to attention. That is what Sargent Major did in this scene.
Your correct but, the Sgt major slapped his rifle which is the salute you do when you have a rifle in your hand and so the Captain as you would replied with the salute, but tbf it doesn’t kinda cut it out massively
Not a common practice even in WW1 to salute when when wearing helmets in the field. And anyway, why does the officer keep saluting the SNCO? If anyone was saluting anyone it would have been the other way around.... and any decent officer would have returned the salute.
Imagine joining the army when war broke out thinking it would be an adventure, where you’d fight in line battles and gain glory and medals only to realize the horrifying realities of modern warfare
i don't get why people found war adventurous back then before modern warfare came to be like, they all know there was a chance they were gonna get hit in line battles and it was gonna be painful getting hit did it really have to take a world war and the evolution of warfare just to make people realize war isn't adventure?
@@TheRealFocalors You have to keep in mind that Britain hadn't been involved in a war with another strong modern European power since the Crimean War. For the last 50 years British wars had consisted of shipping off to africa to fight tribesmen with a rifle and a gatling gun. Still brutal if you get caught, but when you look at some of the battles, you'd have like 12,000 tribesmen facing 60 British soldiers and losing. So people didn't take it seriously.
My great grandfather was 14 when he lied about his age and enlisted he spent 3+ years on the western front . Lived to be 95 tough as hell worked in a steel mill for 40 years .
@@forresternick nah there were so many that had been turned down and thats how winston churchill made the private army before the Battle of Britain after dunkirk he has assmebled young and old and scartered them in devensivd positions around the coutnry and being positioined in wooded areas and ditches and riversides like gurilla warfare so that the germans had a hard time moving consistently and breaking up there panzer and blitzkreig tactics if the germans did come so the 14 year oldsand other young aged groups and older had made up this 3 million secret army which the nazis had no idea and if so the secret army had hundreds of thousands of tanks of gas ready so those people made up tht army and they didnt join at tht age they usually joined at 15 or almost 16 so learn about your countries history and its not my country learn about ur own country and then come talk to me
The 1988 (BBC?) production of Journey’s End is excellent and it’s on RUclips. The quality is not brilliant but it’s the best version of this stunning play that I have seen. At the end of the original stage performance in 1928 the audience was stunned into silence......
I was in this play in 2014-( played the Sargeant-Major). In the whole two week run there was not one night that there was less that 30 seconds of hard, thick silence (apart from a few sobs) between the end and applause
I can't imagine waiting to go on a raid, or over the top. The anxiety and fear could have been paralyzing. Knowing you were most likely going to die or get maimed or die slowly in a muddy hole for days, getting eaten by rats, shitting yourself....hell on earth
I always saw it as ludicrous that the British walked across no man's land rather than being more covert in tactics such as crawling ( making them more difficult to shoot) added to the fact that they'd blow a whistle to go ' over the top' - this must've been a bit of a giveaway for the Germans to prime their guns.....
Well, since ties are originally a military garment (a derivative of roman military scarfs and more recently croatian merceneries), your question should really be why we started to wear military neckwear in offices.
@@carmelwinton8540 some of the events are slightly exaggerated however it is hard to know exactly what happened i think that is what he's trying to say
Even though the British and French pushed back the Germans in 1914 the Germans determined not to lose anymore ground rather than surrender played hard ball by digging trenches with the allies following suit. This lead to trench warfare on the western front.
My great grandfather was a prussian and was a soldier who fought for unifying Germany but they moved to usa in 1970 and now most of our family members are Americans
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For those that don’t know, this film is called Journey’s End. I went to watch it in the cinema and it just pulled you in, every little thing that happens you feel like you’re there. This film is set around the start of the Spring Offensive of 1918 near the end of the war, the young officer isn’t even in his 20s in the film. So I recommend watching it since these clips barely show off how amazing the film was, I think the only films I can compare the feel to is Saving Private Ryan and Hacksaw Ridge.
Vince Vaughn getting pulled along on a blanket firing a machine gun wearing a helmet thats too small......
Wait until you see the new All quiet on the western front
You could be an officer in your teens? Without a college degree?
My great grandfather fought in Gallipoli survived and was then sent to the Somme and survived both
He must have a good kd by now
@@TTRISK66 lol
If that's true, he's a very lucky bastard
@@jakobinobles3263 yeah 😂
Death got scared of your Great Grandfather and his rifle he might have threatened death to not take him or he will execute him
0:57 that guys in every British movie ever
Stephen Graham
He was also in band of brothers..lol
@@stanleyhughes1155 al capone in boardwalk empire
Kind of looks like Alex Jones
@@guillermoavendano73 anthony provenzano in the irishman..
billy bremner too!
Cannot reproduce the feeling of being so afraid of something that I lose all my senses....horrible; and that not as a once-in-a-life occassion but as your every-day-routine. My deepest respect for anyone who went through this and stayed at least somewhat sane.
That's the worst part, is you know you're gonna die one way or another. Imagine facing Death, losing your sense from the artillery and fear of getting killed. If you survive till nightfall. Next day you are sent back out again.
Its the dead that deserve your respect, we the living only ask for one of two things; peace or death.
2/7 B company
The trench scene was fantastic, perfect example of the confusion they would of experienced
We will never truly know what these brave men experienced 😢
I guess their eyes were so shaky they all had Alzheimer’s.
Could have/Could've.
Should have/Should've.
Would have/Would've.
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@@gujwdhufjijjpo9740 ...what?
Claymore - me trying to insult the shaky cam. Did so very badly.
The movie is called “Journeys End”...made in 2017 based on a famous book by RC Sheriff
Report this dude he make shit tons of moneys without giving credit
@@SobaYatai This man maybe got 150 dollars from this video.
@@willh.4569 every single vids he pirated yes
Thanks
I tried to adapt the play for school when I found the book in the school library but ran into problems immediately
Crazy how those officers charged through barbed wire, mines, artillery and machine gun fire while wearing a shirt and tie
Highest % casualty rate of the war.
balls of steel to keep moving forward when people are being cut down around you
True although in most cases it was the only way to survive. If you stay still in No Man's Land you are done, and retreating was punishable by death or jail time. So pushing forward was the only hope for many. Veterans often mentioned that in interwievs and journals.
From statements for survivors of those events, especially the documentary called “They shall not be forgotten”, most soldiers in those situations kinda just went on autopilot, the things going around them were overwhelming them mentally so they did not think as much about it.
The absolute sheer terror one feels right before "going over the top"... Knowing that death and destruction awaits you.... Praying, cursing, and crying at the exact same time ... Hoping against all hope that somehow you make it back to your lines in one piece. Later, you reflect upon your comrades laying dead dying, and wounded out there in no man's land ... Wanting to go and retrieve your brothers in arms somehow, but knowing that death patiently bides it's time ... Their bodies shredded by burning lead and jagged pieces of metal ..... Truly it was hell on earth ......
its unbelievable, cant believe the horror. And imagine you survive all that and guess what your officer gives the command... tomorrow you have to do it again.
Scene is a trench raid to capture a German soldier who may know when the big attack is coming...
Just one random guy, not even a NCO/Officer...?
@@Haamre Well the brigadier wanted a couple but the idea was to identify the unit that had moved up opposite the British line and it appeared any one would do for that -- though even that was a costly enough quest. Six out of ten on the afternoon trench raid didn't return.
@Hellcat Robert Cedric Sherriff was an English writer best known for his play Journey's End which was based on his experiences as a Captain in World War I. Later with another writer helping him, he created a novel version of the play. So the work is fiction based on the wartime experiences of an English officer. Sherriff served as an officer in the 9th battalion of the East Surrey Regiment in the First World War, taking part in the fighting at Vimy Ridge and Loos. He was severely wounded at Passchendaele near Ypres in 1917.[ Found an article that said, "The ultimate confirmation of the authenticity of came in 1929 at the conclusion of a special performance for holders of the Victoria Cross when Sherriff was applauded for many minutes."
Me: Why are you here?
British soldier: Because
*We're here because we're here*
bruh lmao
@@anti-loganpaul7827 lmao😂😂
@@anti-loganpaul7827 You again wtf, literally just an hour ago
@@SStupendous Well hello there
‘You smug faced crowds with kindling eyes who cheer when soldier lads march by,
Sneak home and pray you’ll never know the hell where youth and laughter go.’ - Siegfried Sassoon, Suicide In The Trenches
FYI - This is from a film called Journey’s End.
In winter trenches cold and glum, with crumps and lice and lack of rum.
He put a bullet through his brain.
We never talked of him again..
@@MarkGoding I can never remember the other stanza’s, they always escape me. The third stanza however, I will never forget, as it speaks the most truth.
@@jackbrooks1252 from memory it is:
"I new a simple country boy who grinned at life with empty joy.
Who whistled softy in the dark. And rose each day to hear the lark."
If possible try to find Brian Blessed's reading of it.
@@MarkGoding I will. Thank you.
Heavy quote, lad.
Those Brodie helmets grow on you after a while. Like a stylish steel fedora. Those should be appreciated for their own merits and unique in their own rights.
I’ve got to say, I prefer the American M1. Although the Brodie was cool too.
They provide zero protection almost if your are out of a trench but if you are down in a trench they actually do a half decent job at keeping the shell fragments and lumps of earth raining down from bashing your head in.
@@jordanhicks5131 They did their job protecting against shrapnel, which was the no1 killer in WW1.
The Brodie helmet was based on the medieval kettle helmet, which was also popular with medieval English/Welsh men at arms, and archers.
Of course the Brits replaced the Brodie with the MK3 which employed as superior turtle shaped design in ww2.
The saddest part it was rated one of the worse helmets of its time. It was practically like wearing a pot on your head and didnt protect the skull much compared to the germans helmets.
@@matth7952 oh thats not fair the M1 is a classic
This scene captured the confusion and panic extremely well
My great-great grandfather earned a Military cross for leading his company on a night time trench raid just before Vimy Ridge. Crazy to think he would have experienced something similar to this.
You post the most superb combat clips but PLEASE state the movie. Thank-you in advance.
Journeys end, think it's on Netflix still
@@patrickphilpott364 it’s on Amazon prime too.
@Aj Fauzi same
@Aj Fauzi lol
The movie is journey's end. It's a good movie
It must have been so incredibly scary to go from green field to mud and death in a matter of steps. I couldn't even imagine
0:35 soooooooooooooooooooooo many troops! I was expecting to see only 10 or less soldiers there!
We’re here because we’re here we’re here because we’re here because were here
Well, it's a company so..
Why's that 🤔
@Ryan Serdan company’s back then were much larger than now. At the time a British company was about 200 men.
what in the piss is going on, it kinda looks like one of the soldiers took out an iphone from his pocket and started filming.
i think thats exactly the point of it..
In WW1 it was a common practice to raid an enemy trench with the goal of capturing prisoners for intelligence. This is clearly what the scene is attempting to show. However these acts were normally done at night not the day time for means of sneaking up on enemy positions. Hope this helps you understand 👍
@@loslobos786 Filming it on daylight enhance greatly the reading of characters emotions ;) Even if it is a breach of realism
Bruh
Did he seriously blow his whistle during their smash and grab raid on Germans trench?!?! :D I wouldn't have wanted to be in his unit...
Was it ever any different? Brave, brave men being ordered to their deaths by politicians who were safely miles away. These soldiers, at the start of their adult lives, suddenly had to confront that death was likely to happen on the next few minutes. To them, it must have been an incredible shock that they were not going to live, to love, have children and great children. When you are old, the fact that death is near becomes an acceptance - but to these soldiers, it was a shock.
I believe - I would like to believe - that soldiers today are equally as fearless; that officers today are much better leaders and tacticians; that politicians remain inept sending people they don’t know into conflicts with no game plan and no strategy. Iraq? Afghanistan? Vietnam?
That’s not a party political attack nor on a single country. Think USA, UK, USSR, Australia et al.
we are totally impresed by humans living intense lives and it does not get more intense than war. it either kills one, breaks one mentally or finally makes one feel alive. the only other thing that comes close is exploration of the unknown, and that is where we as a species should set our focus on.
@@sternleiche I don’t disagree but it would require political will. That’s just not going to happen in my lifetime. Imagine if there was asteroid ready to obliterate is in 30 or 40 years; that would focus the minds of almost everybody but can you imagine all the world “leaders” coming together agreeing how to explore a new world? I can’t. Not only power struggles between the countries in the first world but struggles within each country. As for the second and third world, we can forget about them......
I’m afraid the reality is that dominance is probably the pre-eminent emotion amongst those people who put themselves forward for power. There are those who admit it and those who don’t admit it but hide behind other motives. Very cynical of me but that 67 years of experience of the b**t**ds
@@martincox7354 yes it is far more profitable to keep us in front of the screens virtual adventures. real exploration would be too expensive and uncomfortable but really satisfying those simulations are not.
that is why mankind is confused and unhappy.
@@martincox7354 oh 100%, I would join the army.. if we had a better government. I'd find it far more immoral to fight and defend the government currently
@@claymore7315 Nonsense. Government's change every few years. No one joins to defend the government. If you had it in you, you would join up.
I was an extra in one of these films in 1985 called the Monocled Mutineer. We got £35 a day. That's like £100now.
That's really cool, did you ever get into anything eles or take up acting as a living?
@@TheGodParticle no
The officers with their ties and their swagger sticks. What a way to fight a war.
The last well-dressed war.
A man with lots of responsibility and intelligence, sure, they do deserve their swagger sticks and ties.
@@billysinge8977 ww2 germans
@@S_sleepin
'hes a cheery old card',
grunted harry to jack,
as they slogged up to Arris with rifle and pack
And he killed them both with his plan of attack.
All those lives lost for the few that made financial gains.
Exactly.
The irony of fighting a war using people who have nothing to do with it in order for the ones to benefit from it not doing the fighting at all
In uk armed forces, squad is a section. 8 men led by a corporal.
Not at this time. An infantry platoon in 1917 (when this is set) was broken into 4 sections of different sizes and specialisations; A rifle section of nine men, a bombing section of five men, a rifle grenade section of nine men and a Lewis gun section of 9 men.
UK you mean Britain
@@HO-bndk Exactly
@Harry Ford I think the point is that in UK and the Commonwealth, we do not have squads but sections.
Saw this last week, it's deserving of way higher than it's imdb score. And the guy who played the co lead, whisky drinker with the mustache, he would make a good superman.
Seeing this in reality and real time, one wonders how they ever got young men to “Go Over TheTop”. Amongst them, fathers and sons, brothers, mates very often from the same hamlet, village, town. Lest we forget 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
they would get shot if they didnt
@@hshgf3410 Sad to say that it is very true. However I would hope, like to think that there were members of the Officer Class who should compassion. Monash comes to mind, with his new strategies in 1917/19218, many lives were saved. Unlike the previous years of the Somme, Pachendale the list goes on, the carnage horrific on both sides. Lest we forget🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
@@itsnotalwaysblackandwhite8624 shame lessons like Gallipoli had to be learned. At least what they learned there helped with the d day landings. Lest we forget ANZAC cove.
They also went over because their mates, brothers, cousins, and fathers were with them. They fought for their small little piece of England. This is just the same as what happened 50 years earlier in the American Civil War. The reginal makeup of units lead to whole sale slaughter for towns and counties. Go to Gettysburg NPS RUclips and look for the battle between the 24th Michigan and the 26th North Carolina. Both were the larges units in their respective armies at the battle. Both had 80 % losses in the battle.
@@hshgf3410 Gallipoli was an absolute disaster thanks in great part to the First Lord of the Admiralty, one Winston Churchill. He gained his experience on the back of a horse charging the enemy. There was no intelligence as to the terrain our strength of the Turks. The Somme was essentially the same story. Days bombarding the German Lines, to no avail, they had dug in up to many metres deep, immune to the fall of shell. The Killing Field was well known by The Hun. Machine Gun Emplacements did the work. The British lost more men killed and injured on a single day than in any past or since engagement. Lest we forget 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
I’d also like to comment on how good the movie can emphasize how cramped the trenches can get at times
Good point..it really does and went right over my head, so I suppose it does succeed in many ways..actualy I'd like to watch the whole film coz of you point..thanks
Surprised no one has posted the ending scene of this yet.
My great great uncles Hubert and John were both in World War One for the whole four years. They refused to help my great grandmother when she became destitute after her husband died because she’d married a draft-dodger. And they refused to speak to him either. Not nice, but then again, I can understand why: they endured this nightmarish hellscape, along with all the other boys, and he was too afraid. Such brave men, and so extraordinary that they returned. On my father’s side, my great great uncles all got cut down by the maxim gun and sent home in a box. Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori?
Journey’s End. Probably the saddest story I’ve read in a long while
Agreed
A very good depiction, no mans land was typically larger and the smoke was a bit confusing for the brits but the way it showed you how it felt and how the officers were leading their men was great
Nothing was really known about my ancestor(s) that fought in ww1, but during ww2 that’s a totally different story, there are tons of stories to tell about them. For example my great uncle was a gunner on a plane but the plane got shot and during that shot it fatally injured him so he didn’t make it home. There is also my great grandad who joined and not much is known about him just that he made it home
Sad that there's less known about WWI, I know both of my 2 grandfather's served in WWII, one in the British Army, one in the RAF, but literally nothing about my great grandfather who served in WWI
@@AndrewMRoots It isn't surprising that not a lot is known though, if you experienced that for a year, let alone 4, who would want to talk about those horrors? It wasn't just gunfire that killed them, or gas, it was starvation, infection, some would have probably commit suicide.
@@hydra9627 Wouldn't the same logic apply to WWII?
@@AndrewMRoots It does to some extent, but I'd say it'd be worse to be in WW1 than in WW2 in all honesty. This film was based off of a drama piece for example so there were people talking about their experiences, but there was also more people fighting in WW2 and WW2 was where modern combat started, shifting from how people used to fight, standing strong no matter what and "holding the line." On top of that when documentaries and films were made of the wars, WW2 was more recent in peoples memories than WW1, WW2 vets would be in their 30s-60s when documentaries started being made for that while WW1 vets would be in their 50s and older if they weren't already dead at the time.
My great uncle was shot in no man's land raid he was out there after the British took the german trenches they went to check 2 days later and found him still alive died an hour later. His final words were "be the hero...."
Which no mans land? There was loads of them
lol he fought for the wrong side
Pure bullshit
@@thegreenskull4244 dumbass there was no right side in ww1. Literally both were fucked up
@@thegreenskull4244
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Director: What’s our budget for the trench scene?
Budget guy: well we’ve got 4 actors, 3 uniforms and a iPhone 4
And it still came out perfect
Yep
@@safman1018 if shit is your idea of perfect yea
I almost puked too, from the shaky cam.
These people deserve more than one day, they deserve everyday of us appreciating what they do and what they did
My grandfather did that. 9th Battalion, Royal Scots. Back in the 50s and 60s, when we were out together at Hearts matches we'd bump into his mates from the 'first War' as everybody called it. I rarely if ever heard regret at what they had done. Sorrow about pals who never came back but the 'Blackadder' view of WW1 was entirely missing.
I was really impressed by Sam Claflin's performance in this film.
Though much less known than 1917, this is a far superior film.
more realistic
i like how in the corner of the screen it just says
*g u n*
I now consider this lore-accurate in the Peaky Blinders universe
NO MORE BROTHER WARS!
What on earth is happening? I almost had a seizure watching the combat scene
A Trench Raid to capture a Prisoner ... and the results were typically like that, sheer chaos and losing a whole bunch of soldiers and many times not even getting a Prisoner. In reality these were mostly done at night with a Box Barrage protecting the section of German Trench being assaulted - but they were an utter chaotic mess and extremely disliked by the Troops.
Its war where ppl die for nothing only to please their government. That war was over before it even started
@@gonefishin02 Yes Jacob,mankinds most pathetic activity.
IKR what the hell kind of camerawork is this
Jesus the camera work at the trench scene is awful.
That’s because the movie is trying to give you a visualize if you were actually there but it could also just be crappy filming I seen this movie it’s kinda boring most parts but it’s good if your a WWI guy
@@jlish1917 I'm definitely a WW1 guy, and I understand what they are trying to do. It just failed spectacularly for me.
could you do better ?
@@michaellorenzen7410 Yes. Zoom in and focus on a hand holding a bayonet, then back to the British soldier who saw it as he screams and lunges at it. Pan towards the german soldier down the trench, then back to the british soldier who spotted him and him quickly raising his rifle with eyes wide open, then back to the german getting shot.
People in very intense situations see things. Specific focus. Hyper-alert and quick reactions.
Of course they make mistakes, too. So how about a soldier aiming his rifle down into the trench, and getting knocked down inside by another soldier behind him.
@@stevemcgee99 okay you are correct I enjoyed the film and did not let the details distract me
I am sure it is a good movie, but the problem I have with most war movies, even Private Ryan, is that the actors are too old for the soldiers that they portray. Sorry, but...
All mustache old men
No in 1918 britain didnt have so much old soldiers anymore. Even the us armies avg. Age was about 24-26
Some of the main actors name this movie play a character younger than they are, like asa butterfield
In saving private Ryan’s case, by 1944 the US was drafted people up to age 45. By 1945 they were drafting 49-50 year olds. There are only so many dumb 18 years olds willing to enlist.
@@agape-704 the moustache was uniform
Moment of silence for the soldiers who died
9 or 10 million of them in WWI alone
only for the germans
Best WW1 movie ever
Imagine going into a battle wearing a tie. The hallmark of this confusing scene for me is that it brings home the confusion of battle.
Hard to top this movie for WWI drama. My only critique is I would doubt they would use the company XO Lieutenant 'Uncle' Osborne for the snatch and grab. Yes following orders, but they already knew an attack was coming in a few hours, grabbing a prisoner was not really what the front line guys needed, it was really for posterity to keep HQ commander happy about their own assumptions.
Does this brilliant plan means climbing out of our trenches and walking very slowly towards the enemy?
Capt. Blackadder
How the devil did you know that?
By late 1917 / 1918 the BEF was the greatest killing machine in the world. The following year it and the French destroyed the Heer.
It was important to walk and not run because they needed to still have enough energy for fighting and crawling was too slow which increased the chances of being hit by artillery. Walking was the safest way forward.
@@peterhunt1968 So the best way to face machine guns and heavy howitzers is to walk in a bunch like line infantry of the 18th and 19th century? Cool.
@@srinathradhakrishnan By late 1916/1917 the BEF (British) would normally attack using 'fire and movement tactics' with platoons or sections laying down covering fire for each other and moving from cover to cover. By mid-late 1917 10 man sections split into a rifle group and LMG group with a Lewis gun would be the most basic unit to do that.
By 1918 the BEF had pioneered what would be basic military tactics right up to the present day. Fire and movement, all arms warfare, air cover, artillery techniques of creeping barrage, counter battery fire etc. They even converted some of the tanks of the era into APCs to ferry troops and supplies round the battlefield.
Journey's End is probably the best modern WW1 film
1917 is also pretty good
When I see that Brits helmat I feel like grandpa pee pot
the battlefield looks like an apocalypse after months of battle in the same frontline...
This movie broke my heart. All those men that stayed there for nothing. Knowing they will be dead once the shelling begins.
What movie is it
@@maceosaitta7 Journeys End
@@broheim3348 thanks my bonkers
Imagine being in a kill or be killed situation.
Combat is what makes you feel truly alive
Daily life in American schools lol
@@tbone9672 about the most ignorant thing I have heard on the internet today including everything that was said during the impeachment
@@ar494 hey man, its called a joke. Please shut up
Well good thing we have the fight or flight response
That shaky cam nonsense totally ruined it. I can't wait for shaky cam to die as a cinematography technique.
I disagree totally. It added chaos and terror. A stable camera would be like seeing a Great War strategy video game.
@@presidentlouis-napoleonbon8889 A stable camera would be like watching "1917" the movie. Are you trying to compare that great film to an RTS?
@@presidentlouis-napoleonbon8889 Shaky cams can be good but that was just excessive I had no clue what was going on
Good old Tommy, as solid and dependable as they come. Pity the Rupert's were mostly idiots who couldn't tie shoelaces
This is why I stay away from Walmart when the sales start.
That salute was crisp and perfect!!
The officer seemed to be saluting the sergeant major. It didn’t look like he was returning a salute, at least not from what I saw.
@@ruadhagainagaidheal9398 I don't know precisely why NCOs cannot salute “normally” if they are not wearing the cap. NCOs do give respect to a higher rank by presenting/touching their weapon by coming to attention. That is what Sargent Major did in this scene.
Captain saluting sgt major in the first 5 seconds. *face palm*
Your correct but, the Sgt major slapped his rifle which is the salute you do when you have a rifle in your hand and so the Captain as you would replied with the salute, but tbf it doesn’t kinda cut it out massively
This movie was way better than 1917 way better
Yes and better than All quiet on the western front.
Not a common practice even in WW1 to salute when when wearing helmets in the field. And anyway, why does the officer keep saluting the SNCO? If anyone was saluting anyone it would have been the other way around.... and any decent officer would have returned the salute.
This is the cameraman who recorded all the school fights
Imagine joining the army when war broke out thinking it would be an adventure, where you’d fight in line battles and gain glory and medals only to realize the horrifying realities of modern warfare
Modern warfare and ancient warfare all savage
i don't get why people found war adventurous back then before modern warfare came to be
like, they all know there was a chance they were gonna get hit in line battles and it was gonna be painful getting hit
did it really have to take a world war and the evolution of warfare just to make people realize war isn't adventure?
@@TheRealFocalors napoleonic era tactics will do that to you
@@TheRealFocalors You have to keep in mind that Britain hadn't been involved in a war with another strong modern European power since the Crimean War.
For the last 50 years British wars had consisted of shipping off to africa to fight tribesmen with a rifle and a gatling gun. Still brutal if you get caught, but when you look at some of the battles, you'd have like 12,000 tribesmen facing 60 British soldiers and losing.
So people didn't take it seriously.
@@Dryhten1801 oh ok
Oswald mosley brother in arms with shelby’s
Hahahaha I noticed too. Story adds up 👀
BF1 be looking good with this graphics mod
My great grandfather was 14 when he lied about his age and enlisted he spent 3+ years on the western front . Lived to be 95 tough as hell worked in a steel mill for 40 years .
Nah u lying they could tell 14 year olds back then dont lie about these things
Just not that funny bcs u seek attention.
@@ibrahimaa2079 You would be surprised how many underaged Brits lied about their age and joined
@@forresternick nah there were so many that had been turned down and thats how winston churchill made the private army before the Battle of Britain after dunkirk he has assmebled young and old and scartered them in devensivd positions around the coutnry and being positioined in wooded areas and ditches and riversides like gurilla warfare so that the germans had a hard time moving consistently and breaking up there panzer and blitzkreig tactics if the germans did come so the 14 year oldsand other young aged groups and older had made up this 3 million secret army which the nazis had no idea and if so the secret army had hundreds of thousands of tanks of gas ready so those people made up tht army and they didnt join at tht age they usually joined at 15 or almost 16 so learn about your countries history and its not my country learn about ur own country and then come talk to me
@@ibrahimaa2079 Dunkirk? U sure ur talking about the right war?
@@ibrahimaa2079 He's right many British soldiers who were only 14 lied about their age.
Unfortunately my great grandfather was said to be shot and killed at the battle of passchendaele, RIP
Edward Mosley before Peaky Blinders era
Germany be like: SURPISE ATTACK
Every country that Germany fought: bro stop hacking
0:03 The boys getting ready to run the pacer.
Brilliant film this. Christopher Nolan take note - this is how you make a war film, on a meagre budget as well
Favourite it just pulls you in so much and every time you hear a gun shot or an explosion you think it’s actually happening
Amazing vid M8.
The 1988 (BBC?) production of Journey’s End is excellent and it’s on RUclips.
The quality is not brilliant but it’s the best version of this stunning play that I have seen.
At the end of the original stage performance in 1928 the audience was stunned into silence......
I was in this play in 2014-( played the Sargeant-Major). In the whole two week run there was not one night that there was less that 30 seconds of hard, thick silence (apart from a few sobs) between the end and applause
Its very British when you see that Enfield and Webley
I can't imagine waiting to go on a raid, or over the top. The anxiety and fear could have been paralyzing. Knowing you were most likely going to die or get maimed or die slowly in a muddy hole for days, getting eaten by rats, shitting yourself....hell on earth
My great grandfather served in the Italian army in WW1
Oof.
my great grandfather fought in the German army in France
And my grandfather was in the Air Force during ww2 while his brother was fighting overseas
Men don't hate each other on battlefield but the leader are hate eachothers
That’s deep
If saving private Ryan was a ww1 movie
With british soldiers instead
@@kk4977 yep and I just finished watching saving private Ryan
Good movie.
That Camera man needs to lay off the caffeine was half expecting Liam Neeson to bust out of the trench
I always saw it as ludicrous that the British walked across no man's land rather than being more covert in tactics such as crawling ( making them more difficult to shoot) added to the fact that they'd blow a whistle to go ' over the top' - this must've been a bit of a giveaway for the Germans to prime their guns.....
Well if they charge the germans they will 'suprise' them and some may not even be awake
I love war films but my TV had broken and I don't have Netflix on my phone so this helps alot 🙃
I don't think people got the picture with the camera work on this movie it's just chaos and that's exactly what war is.
One of the best movies I’ve ever seen
whats it called? wtf no one has the decency to at least add the title.
Journey’s end. You will love it. I used to be a US Army Officer. Really gripping and sad what these guys went thru
Cannot believe that officers would wear TIES in combat.
Well, since ties are originally a military garment (a derivative of roman military scarfs and more recently croatian merceneries), your question should really be why we started to wear military neckwear in offices.
No need to let standards slip in front of the men (or the dirty Hun).
that ain't a squad
He literally says *"COMPANY MARCH"*
And did you see a whole company charge a German Trench or just a section?
Only the Brits could go to war wearing a tie 😀😀😃
Yeah cuz it's part of their in uniforms .I mean the high rank official . I like that thou
General Gorge S. Patton would disagree
My grandfather fought in WW I. An incredibly stupid and horrible war.
This channel is known to make things up, but the scenery is just fine.
@@carmelwinton8540 some of the events are slightly exaggerated however it is hard to know exactly what happened i think that is what he's trying to say
Vastly underrated movie. Preferred it to 1917 or Western Front
German machine gun runs like clockwork.....excellent 👌👌
The stage play is really good too.
Even though the British and French pushed back the Germans in 1914 the Germans determined not to lose anymore ground rather than surrender played hard ball by digging trenches with the allies following suit. This lead to trench warfare on the western front.
Dang. Such an aggressive cadence.
Uncle didn't return back.... Horrors of war
That's not a squad but nice scene anyway.
You've introduced me to a lot of movies that I wouldn't have seen otherwise.
Well, if we want to get technical, officers do not salute sergeants-major without being saluted first.
War…War never Changes
My great grandfather was a prussian and was a soldier who fought for unifying Germany but they moved to usa in 1970 and now most of our family members are Americans