This scene is from the movie. "They Shall not Grow Old". The footage you're seeing is real authentic film produced in color with the latest film technology.
@@ВалБал-н3й Apparently the average Tommy was against those reparations, they felt it was unfair to punish the German army after it's surrender, but the generals and upper classes were out to show the Bosch who the boss was.
@@ВалБал-н3й Here's a nice article for you - ' The Myths of Reparations' - cited widely since publication: www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0008938900018707 Very few historians today would agree that reparations caused Germany's troubles in the 1930s.
Can you imagine risking your life everyday in a foreign country and then suddenly someone, somewhere decides that is no longer necessary and there you are wondering why you were so important yesterday and now you are not needed.
1:17 the good looking chap in the bottom left corner smirking at the camera has been confirmed as my great grandad Lancelot Miles. Lived a long life an died in 1979!
Mario79 my auntie does all the ancestry/ family tree stuff. My g grandad was part of the West Yorkshire regiment during WW1 and the footage is from an old York’s regiment video. We knew it existed prior to the film been made but nice to see it in colour. He wasn’t very old at all when it was filmed maybe 20-21.
Can you believe this footage is a 100 years old. Mind blowing stuff. This is much more then a film. Its a piece of history that had been forgotten by many. Thank you Peter Jackson and all the restoration team for this priceless historical document.
Forgotten? Maybe by these stupid social media age kids... There have been plenty of other amazing documentaries where you can see and listen to actual veterans. Search on RUclips- A game of ghosts Lions led by donkeys The last platoon Harry patch the last Tommy
"He shut his watch and said 'I wonder what we're all going to do next.'" I can't imagine after all that time suddenly realizing that it was over and now you had to just...move on. What really would you do next?
Come home and become an alcoholic. Go to work in a mine or a steel mill. Suffer from PTSD and become ostracized socially. Or pick up where you left off if you were lucky. Tolkien went home after a harrowing experience in the war and went on to write his books. And of course, watch helplessly as the very next generation slid into a worse and longer tragedy.
@@imranasghar8690 Of course they do lose in their sense, but in terms of war the allies did win,I mean, they kept their territories while Germany lost territory and got a HUUUUGE debt, Austria-Hungary got crushed into bits and the Ottomans were partitioned by the allied powers.
in this case, that "Sie" is not plural but an polite form of "you". He problably tried to talk to an english man who doesn´t understand german and vise versa. "I Said, you are very kind"
Everything they did afterwards must have seemed utterly trivial. Digging out coal in mineshafts. Adding and substracting numbers in an office. Milking and feeding cows and clearing up manure. Having to worry about things like the costs of groceries, winter fuel and clothing. While before they had to be constantly on their guard and make decisions about life and death 24/7 for sometimes years in a row.
War is the purest feeling of life you can get. Nothing else will flash you as hard as this. Your brain just don't care about contracts, insurances, company policies or other lists. Its just the human nature of staying in first place. Being first in the race against death.
As Remark put it - "at war i risked life to run 20m from one hole to another under fire. Now i have to smile and bow for 10 years to get a small promotion. Fuck that shit."
@Imix Muan That's pretty common for combat vets even now, if not more so now because of the way recruits are conditioned. As for machines doing the fighting for us...unfortunately that's well and truly in to the far and distant future. We're developing all sorts of remote controlled drones yes, but if the civilian death toll tells you anything it's that their effectiveness is extremely contextual and best served in support of boots on the ground. As for entire autonomous ones? That kind of AI is light-years ahead. As for machines turning on us...that's a nice meme but I don't see why. There are species on this Earth that actively seek out human dominance as a default behavior and will put up with ungodly behavior so long as their basic needs are met at some level. I don't see why an entirely artificial being we know completely down to the very molecular level would be made such that it would want to "turn on us", especially given that it can't have any objective gain from it. Lastly, as for humans being machines at the time...it depends on who you ask. I'm sure the Kaiser saw it that way but most people down the ranks didn't, there's a reason WW1 sparked so much outrage among the population of most of the world much like WW2 did. We're not talking about mid 19th century aristocratic industrialists here, and even within that context not all nations are equal.
people talkin bout the teeth , im from the countryside in holland ,and my family were poor farmers who only got acces to a dentist after ww2 . this was normal then . also , antibiotics were invented in ww1 , so a few years before this movie people could still die from an infected wisdomtooth , imagine that
Penicillin is from 1928. Antibiotics are as old as plants. The real medical usage however was in 1907 with Salvarsan, invented by the Germans. But ancient Greek, Chinese and others used molds and plants with antibiotic features over two thousand years ago. They just didnt know why it worked and it wasnt as strong as the modern medical antibiotics, like Salversan and later Penicillin.
@@beersmurff You seem to know so much about it but you fail to mention that 'widespread' use of Penicillin only happened after 1941 thanks to the US Military just in time for WWII - before then the average person wouldn't have a snowball's chance in hell to get any.
@@AcePanno1 Doesnt change the fact that Penicillin was discovered in 1928. But yes it was expensive and hard to come by. That is why the Germans used Salvarsan and other less effective antibiotics. They still worked though. To some degree. Dont think I failed by not mentioning it. It was never my goal to educate all around. Just mention that penicillin was discovered in 1928 after the war and antibiotics has been know for thousands of years.
@@alantreloar1113 Absolutely, to my knowledge, my grandfather, great grandfather, great uncles all fought in WW1 or WWII, and they were all Scottish. People need to note that Britain meant all countries in the U.K, and you could say, the British Empire too.
Yes. I think about the same thing too. There's nobody left now. They were so important when that footage was taken. All in their prime. Some would day the very day they were filmed. Some in the days and weeks to years after. But eventually they all went the way everyone eventually does. But how supremely sad that they're all of them gone. Some won't ever be found.
As an Indian, I thank you for putting that "and Empire" in the concluding statement. Most of the time, sacrifices of the soldiers of the British Indian army are just brushed away. We might have played a small part by being just 1 million strong but this small gratitude towards the soldiers is deeply respected.
Without all the troops from the rest of the empire it wouldn't of been possible, as a British person I have the greatest of respect for them and their bravery.
It might appear to be brushed aside but most people I know of are very aware of it and acknowledge the contribution and losses of soldiers from India and all over the Empire. I think there's also more official acknowledgement now than in the past, finally.
That is not a small part Akshat. 1 million troops is a huge commitment and I agree; Indian soldiers never receive any recognition. Even now, too many people forget all the sacrifices made by people from across the former British empire. We have a remembrance Sunday every year that includes their sacrifice but in the public conscience... People need to recognise the sacrifices made by India and other former colonies.
I enlisted in the marine corps. Infantry. I don’t want to kill anyone. I joined so I could help people and be the first to respond to a disaster and keep people from hurting other people. A war like this, I would refuse to fight.
Millions lost their lives after 11 am. Spanish flu killed 50-100 million. Started before the war ended and lasted until 1920. It got super-infectious because of cramped war camps and medical facilities. Hunger, poverty and disease killed millions after the war, especially in Russia and Germany. The War wasnt the end of it. Sadly.
don’t forget the 300+ episodes of “the great war” portraying the men from all countries involved. but this one is impressive as far as the human aspect of war is concerned.
@Wayne Wallace Peter Jackson and his buddies put the color etc in. The sound too, obviously, is not from the original video. They had to read the Lips of the people to understand what some were saying and then dubbed it with actors voice.
@@bepinkfloyd814 I shed a tear when i watched the actual broadcast of it...When the film slowly becomes colourised and you hear the voices. Lest we forget.
@Imix Muan nah, people have been criticizing war for a long time. It was a horrendous, pointless tragedy then, as it is now. You can find plenty of historical writings from the era criticizing the war
I spent most of my life just trying to survive my parents and now i'm all alone. I know it's not quite the same, but when i stopped talking with my parents and moving out, this question popped into my head too: "I wonder what we are going to do next". And when i saw it in this movie, i couldn't help but burst into tears.
Yes, every major change in our lives can be very scary and make us feel we're jumping off a cliff but once we understand that everything is only temporary and that what we do best, us human beings is adapt, some days mat be hartder than others but we always survive if that's what we want. I also stopped talking to my dad 10 years ago, it just didn't work and honestly, after I got used to it I never had any regrets and I felt so free. Good luck.
@@tallenbruh1021 nah, they died because of corrupted goverment. The reason there are war in the first place is the higher ups being such dougche bags sending peoples men to war for their own profit gains.
You like them because they're gone, there's nostalgia of the bygone era. You wouldn't like it so much had you really been there, or even just lived an ordinary, hard life.
Eino Lappi what are you on about? he was saying that war is pointless and he is right. there isnt a single soldier that was on the front and came back and loves to remember their days in war like some wholesome memory. they remember hell. their sacrifice? soldiers are heroes to your country and murderers to the other country lol
What bizarre animals we are. Spend 4 years killing each other in ruthless cold blood, then we get told from some higher ups on a piece of paper brought up to the front that it's all to stop. And even stranger, it actually did. People just stopped fighting. Goes to show how everyone was just so worn out.
@@jbell5686 He means 'they exhibited more humanity than he expected them to considering the ordeal they'd been through'. Like when the (ex)soldier was saying 'Neither the Germans or us gave a damn anymore who won the war, we just wanted the thing to stop'. I mean, that line hit home quite hard.
I think he means that, when we talk about WW1, and we see in history books and museums those black and white (today even colour) pictures or filmed scenes and the people on the war. Everything seems so... Distant, we sometimes dont even relate, if the people is even our country man, race, culture etc or human like us. And they are people from other age of the world, its hard to relate to it, to those people and era, or WW1, because it seems its on a bygone age. But like this, it connect us more, we could see, they were people, living their life, with feelings, they loved and they were loved, they had family waiting for them, sometimes they also had bad people, they sometimes made bad actions, sometimes good. In general, they were humans, like you and me, brought to that horrible situation, that i think the modern man, couldnt handle it (we are talking about a age, that some places in England, clapping was banned, because people cant handle it).
@i hate anime ironically it's the otherway around, having a beard is what makes you masculine, I bet you're just jealous because you can't grow a beard, man up soyboy.
I was about 15 years of age, and I was talking to my grandfather about ww1. I said, " I wish I had been there with them boys". He said, " no you don't". And we didn't say anything else.
what's sad is not a single person from this video is alive anymore, not even the camerman. And what's incredibly sad is that the sons of these same men will be the ones most probably dying in the next war instead of them.
I know this feeling, about surviving a war, in reality i went to it knowing that the possibility of death was almost 100% , i just assumed that I was going to die and I was ok with it, but when I survived and came back i was practically dead because I had no plans no motivation to do anything.
@@pastalavista2732 people are natural born liars, it's common sense to not trust a person you don't know at first meeting. And I'm starting to notice that in youtube comment sections a lot of people use sad stories of their past family members to get empathy from people and upvotes, its the same as how people are copying and pasting quotes other commenters have posted that got a lot of likes. It happens and without knowing the background of the poster you should assume it could be both true and false until you have seen the prove with your own eyes. Trusting strangers is how you get scammed like how those fake virus pop-up ads people are trying to scam you by calling you and telling you to pay them to fix your computer.
You could also get scammed by trying to prove things to random idiot's ho want information about you on the internet. Don't give information away to random people.
I am glad I didn't serve in a war but when I finished my mandatory service I felt like I lost my job as well. I wasn't happy, but worried. What do I do now?
In the words of my grandfather who fought from '15 throughout; "I don't give a fig for France or Europe Germans can have it. But we're here now, and can't let them shove us about" he was RFA. Lost finger, part of an ear, the concussion of a shell hitting nearby (which killed 4 of his mates in one go) blew his eye out of its socket (still attached). After the war he worked at the local gas works and had to fib a bit to get in. "Don't mention the war"..not fawlty towers but what they had to endure in the first show. Signs in shop windows 'servicemen need not apply'. Still he smoked like a chimney, drank like a sailor and lived to a ripe old age, seeing me grow a bit before he went and even taught me a bit about gardening which he loved. "Sweet memories of you I'll always keep, God saw you were tired and sent you to sleep". Harold 'Harry' Morgan, an absolute madlad and a best friend to all.
MY GRANDFATHER LIED AT THE AGE OF 13 TO GO TO THIS WAR AND SURVIVED.. THEN HE FOUGHT IN WW2 AND SURVIVED AND THEN MADE IT ALL THE WAY TO AGE 89 AND PASSED AWAY PEACFULLY IN HIS SLEEP.
This is my favourite movie. I can watch it a thousand times and still have the same emotions as the first watch. I’ve cried throughout it, and mainly at the credits. Seeing the name of the men I heard, and know omg their gone, it is sad. But at least we can remember
Devastated & disheartened, wondering whether all the sacrifice was worthwhile! If they were to come back to Britain 2020 I think the answer would be NO!!!!
I’m pretty sure those who weren’t conscripted wouldn’t have signed up if they had known. My late father was a Lancaster pilot during WW2 and I often wonder if those crews would have risked their lives for the U.K. of today.
My grandfathers brother died in France at the Hartmannsweilerskopf. The people in the village wanted to create a memorial for the dead soldiers and so a group of them was send with a horse carriage to take the body home. So his grave was initegrated into the memorial. Later they included the names of ww2 soldiers on the other side of the big stone wall. I am still in thoughts why they took that body. To get a better memorial? These were cruel times.
mkmm60 Not at all ! I m french and the way we see it, it was an honor ! Your grandfather represents all the dead who fight in this area. I understand it must have been difficult for your family not having his grave close to you, but trust me, the idea was to honor him and his comrades
I read an article on J. B. Priestley about how he would attend an annual regimental reunion. One year, in The 1930's, fewer attended and he was asking, " Where's so-and-so and so-and-so?" Only to be told they didn't have a decent suit to attend in so wouldn't come. I also downloaded my wife's granddad's army record as he had served and was surprised to find photocopies of letters from him to his old regiment from 1922 saying he didn't want to be a nuisance but when could he expect his service medals? He, like millions of others, had more than earned them. Robin Witting England
The last living veteran of World War I was Florence Green, a British citizen who served in the Allied armed forces, and who died 4 February 2012, aged 110. The last combat veteran was Claude Choules who served in the British Royal Navy (and later the Royal Australian Navy) and died 5 May 2011, aged 110. The last veteran who served in the trenches was Harry Patch (British Army) who died on 25 July 2009, aged 111. Harry Patch’s book ‘The Last Fighting Tommy’ is well worth a read. The last Central Powers veteran, Franz Künstler of Austria-Hungary, died on 27 May 2008 at the age of 107.
IN the USA There is reshowing this year 2019 on only December 7th, DEC 17 & December 18th on the big screen. The theaters are very limited as are the show times. You need to see this on the big movie screens and with the full sound experience, to get the full detail of all the work in this restoring of archival footage.
@@Vadoksam I am not. Just answer the question please, I am not letting you off the hook so easily. I assume you are British? How did the British soldiers dying in Flandres fight for you? I really want to know.
@Natasel Exactly, it wasnt just the assasination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand that caused WW1, there were other things that would have most likely caused it even if he wasnt assasinated
HeaDShoT Yeppp, peace. Break all treaties and takes all bribes saying he won’t invade said countries, then invades them. Then has Japan pull a pearl harbor.
Someone recommended this movie to me, so I watched it out of sheer curiosity. Man, it had me glued to the screen. To KNOW this was the REAL THING; not some movie scene. My dad fought in WW2 and he rarely talked about it, even when my brothers asked him what it was like; how it felt to kill someone. His reply was along the lines of: That's something I hope you never have to learn. I think it haunted him terribly. Some days, he would be extremely quiet and not speak to anyone; not want anyone around him. Some nights, he had bad dreams; but he would NEVER talk about it. He taught all of us kids how to properly handle and respect a gun; the pistol and rifle. We always had one of each in our home with ammunition right beside them...and not locked up. He made sure we understood they were NOT toys and were NOT to be touched unless ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY. Why I had to share this, I don't know...but I think ALL soldiers felt the same blankness when the war ended. To have spent so much time, fearing you'd be dead before night fall, and then suddenly...you're not in danger any longer. At least, not like you were. These men have my respect and always will. And I don't say just the Americans or the Brits or the French. I mean it for ALL soldiers who fought for what was right. Yes, each side felt they were right and I won't go into the moral codes about all that...but those who fought for what was the right thing, regardless of what the right thing was, have my respect.
Triple Entente: These have been four years of cruel war. Let's hope we will not have another one. Also the Entente: *WELL LET'S PUT ALL THE BLAME ON GERMANY!*
@@anarchonazbol6768 wrong, Germany's entire war plan was built upon how all russian troops would be too slow to mobilise, Germany wouldn't of bothered if Russia had these troops in place like you said
That soldier with the goat was the captain, he seemed so young and it shows him dead. I have to admit seeing these chaps alive then dead the next slide makes me feel sad
I remember when I first looked at the documentary I was very disappointed why it was moving at the wrong speed - why it was black and white, and why it was silent when the trailer showed something completely different. Then some time in the screen suddenly zooms in and you are taken on this immersive ride, and when it finally ends, the screen zooms out, becomes black and white and the sound is gone. That's when it really hits you.
I can imagine they were quite frustrated to see history literally repeat itself. Next generations making the same mistakes and reliving the same horrors.
My great-granddad Pietro was born in 1899 in Italy. In 1917 he fought in Caporetto...he came back to home. After one year, he fought in Vittorio Veneto where he was shot, but he survived. He died for cancer in 1970. Two years before, in 1968, the state gave to him two medals, one for Caporetto and one for Vittorio Veneto. In the 80s, his wife Maria threw away the medal from Caporetto...i don't know why 2019: a 15-years-old girl who has a medal from Vittorio Veneto. I'm proud of this, i love my my homeland and PROUD OF ALL THE MEN WHO DEATH FOR THEIR HOMELAND! 🇮🇹🇦🇹🇫🇷🇨🇦🇩🇪🇬🇧🇷🇺
Caporetto was a disaster for the Italians but this is no reason to throw away the medal , that is very unfortunate , a lot of people other than Italians and possibly some people from Austria and the Balkans do not know what a long difficult and brutal campaign the Italian front was. It is also not widely known even in Italy that British troops fought at the battle of the Asiago plateau .
My Great Granfather, was a Austrian barber and shaved English troops after captured, for trinkets, and my family loves that story. Cant help but see him in one of the grey, navy blue garb there and think what could of happened if he was killed and my family non existent including myself.... Im going to bed with a heavy heart. And this is what you get for delving into family history. Im appreciative, but goddamn.
"What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood." - Aldous Huxley
The crazy thing is, all those men aged 17-18 when they entered service, had lost all the university/college years of their life. All they had known was war & surviving 24/7.
willshealy Most didn’t go to university anyway, most people worked resource productions like mines, farms, fishing etc. Plus, just because someone missed a 4 year gap in their life hardly means they couldn’t go to uni after. Hell, people join the forces these days and leave it after the age of 25 and are able to go to college with the cost covered by the military.
Actually, the average age of an Australian soldier in WW1 was just over 24. Young men under 21 had to have parental consent and although there were some under 18s who managed to lie about their age and get away with it, the reality is that they were a miniscule percentage of enlistments.
The work that has been done to make this film is incredible. From research coloring and to making the sounds from scratch. I heard they hired lip readers to understand what is being said in the video. Amazing
My Thomas OC’s, Dylan & Dexter, Claude, and Axel, felt the same too when the war ended. The only thing my OC’s ask themselves now is: “Was it all worth it? Millions died, and it ends so quietly.”
I wonder why americans seem to have this concern about the state of British teeth ?. Fifty million Americans do not have health cover and live in fear of Medical bills ( Number 1 cause of bankruptcy in USA ).
I cant wait until the day that everyone realizes everyone sucks, including themselves. America sucks, russia sucks, Africa sucks, asia sucks, the UK blows, Mexico is a dumpster fire. Antarctica is like the only cool place, minus the scientists because they suck. Verstehen? Comprende? Capiche?
By great great great grandfather was a u.s doughboy a rifleman he joined up in 1917 and fought in the battle of belleau wood and sadly lost his life in the second battle of the Marne and I have some of his letters he sent to his wife or my great great great grandma he was in the 2nd division and yes was one of the earliest to see combat in his squad but I have his old American flag and a old knife he used to own I wish I could of met him he was a brave but crazy man he was 22 when he died I come from a war family so this isn't new to me but he will be remembered as a hero
Watching Prussian guys and allies being happy no matter the outcome , is one of the most amazing things . Now compare that to the bitterness at the end of ww2 . In ww1 people still realised they were humans and lived through the trenches and hardships .
@@RhNegA- probably a mix of everything. I believe fluoride toothpaste wasn’t a thing, they had abrasive tooth cleaning powder instead. Still, idk why our teeth were worse than everyone else’s
This does ring true with sentiments I've come across before. The soldiers who had survived wanted to have a proper victory, not a cessation. They had endured years of hard combat and lost many friends along the way, and wanted to be victorious to make all that sacrifice worth the effort. Some really wanted to carry on fighting, and punish the opposition. Obviously, some were so weary and mentally exhausted, they just wanted to be home. And others just knew they would not be the same again at home, and knew they had changed. Such is war, nothing has changed. Bless 'em all, the long and the short an the tall . x
Happy Veterans Day, to those who are serving currently and in the past, we appreciate you. We thank you for everything you've done, the amount of damage you took for our freedom. You are a legend and an important part of us all. Once again, I thank you all very much for your service. Those who are going through boot camp, good luck, and I thank you for trying out for the Military trying to serve and protect us. Farewell, fellow readers, and Veterans/Military Personnel.
'Neither the Germans, or us, gave a damn any more who won the war. We just all wanted it to stop'. Quite a moving sentence really.
@@ВалБал-н3й Apparently the average Tommy was against those reparations, they felt it was unfair to punish the German army after it's surrender, but the generals and upper classes were out to show the Bosch who the boss was.
Blame the French
Blame those in power whose sons never went to war
@@ВалБал-н3й Here's a nice article for you - ' The Myths of Reparations' - cited widely since publication: www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0008938900018707 Very few historians today would agree that reparations caused Germany's troubles in the 1930s.
War is only sad when white people kill other white people
Crazy, those people had no idea that the film they were on would be seen by millions over 100 years later
I like the excitement of that man at the begining when he is being filmed.
Thats awesome... and eerie
And imagine 100 years later people will still think that right side won.
@@depresseddog9283 there was no right side in ww1 it was gonna happen either way
@EQ Nation considering it was a new technology.. probably not.
Can you imagine risking your life everyday in a foreign country and then suddenly someone, somewhere decides that is no longer necessary and there you are wondering why you were so important yesterday and now you are not needed.
Quite eery actually
that's how desmond doss's dad felt
This really hits the mark
@No lmao good movie tho
@Bryan Ott thank you for your service
1:17 the good looking chap in the bottom left corner smirking at the camera has been confirmed as my great grandad Lancelot Miles. Lived a long life an died in 1979!
How was he confirmed? Did someone from your family recognize him? I'm curious :)
Mario79 my auntie does all the ancestry/ family tree stuff. My g grandad was part of the West Yorkshire regiment during WW1 and the footage is from an old York’s regiment video. We knew it existed prior to the film been made but nice to see it in colour. He wasn’t very old at all when it was filmed maybe 20-21.
SuperMilesy wow that's amazing! thanks to him and everyone else for serving in the war ❤️❤️
Yes he was a good looking chap
Super cool!!!!
My great uncle survived through the whole war but sadly died the day after the war ended of the flu
Biggest case of bad luck I could imagine, poor sod.
Spanish flu killed nearly 30million people after world war 1
@Laura Streeter Poor man so sad, bless him.
Cameron Steven holy shit, talk about bad luck
Cameron Steven imagine surviving one of if not the deadliest wars in history just to die of the flu after it’s over
Can you believe this footage is a 100 years old. Mind blowing stuff.
This is much more then a film. Its a piece of history that had been forgotten by many.
Thank you Peter Jackson and all the restoration team for this priceless historical document.
Wogsy Kirk I dint realize this documentary was made by Peter Jackson
wait not peter jackson from lord of the rings?
@@peterdes6792 yes that one
@@peterdes6792 His grandpa also fought in the Great War.
Forgotten? Maybe by these stupid social media age kids... There have been plenty of other amazing documentaries where you can see and listen to actual veterans.
Search on RUclips-
A game of ghosts
Lions led by donkeys
The last platoon
Harry patch the last Tommy
Weird way of thinking but their sons on both sides would be fighting each other in the next war...
@@naturesquad9174 There's no God though.
@@wesleys4507 cant say for sure tho
@@naturesquad9174 what
You're dumb @@wesleys4507
Many of themselves would be fighting against each other again in the next war.
"He shut his watch and said 'I wonder what we're all going to do next.'" I can't imagine after all that time suddenly realizing that it was over and now you had to just...move on. What really would you do next?
Fade into history, I guess.
Come home and become an alcoholic. Go to work in a mine or a steel mill. Suffer from PTSD and become ostracized socially. Or pick up where you left off if you were lucky. Tolkien went home after a harrowing experience in the war and went on to write his books. And of course, watch helplessly as the very next generation slid into a worse and longer tragedy.
I'd probably be standing around confused, wondering what the next order was.
Brainstorm ideas to conquer all of Europe. Oh wait, that was Hitler.
@@Redrum-707 And during the great depression, some of these veterans wanted it sooner. Which unfortunately would clash with the Fed's in '32.
"There were no cheers" - There are no winners in war.
Sure there are.
@@YouHaxerr minus the millions of people dead yeah. Both sides lose in this sense.
@@imranasghar8690 Of course they do lose in their sense, but in terms of war the allies did win,I mean, they kept their territories while Germany lost territory and got a HUUUUGE debt, Austria-Hungary got crushed into bits and the Ottomans were partitioned by the allied powers.
@@miguelpadeiro762 true
Biggest nonsense ever, everything in our history is formed by war.
1:40 a german soldier says:“ich sagte, sie sind sehr freundlich“
„I said, they were very kind“
the dialogue has been dubbed actually with the help of deaf people good at lipreading
in this case, that "Sie" is not plural but an polite form of "you". He problably tried to talk to an english man who doesn´t understand german and vise versa. "I Said, you are very kind"
there was no sound recorded when filming back then
Actio libera in causa are u stupid?
@@slabhead4424 No, are you?
Everything they did afterwards must have seemed utterly trivial.
Digging out coal in mineshafts.
Adding and substracting numbers in an office.
Milking and feeding cows and clearing up manure.
Having to worry about things like the costs of groceries, winter fuel and clothing.
While before they had to be constantly on their guard and make decisions about life and death 24/7 for sometimes years in a row.
@Imix Muan Lets treat the machines kindly then. Want to make a good impression!
War is the purest feeling of life you can get. Nothing else will flash you as hard as this. Your brain just don't care about contracts, insurances, company policies or other lists. Its just the human nature of staying in first place. Being first in the race against death.
As Remark put it - "at war i risked life to run 20m from one hole to another under fire. Now i have to smile and bow for 10 years to get a small promotion. Fuck that shit."
@Imix Muan
That's pretty common for combat vets even now, if not more so now because of the way recruits are conditioned. As for machines doing the fighting for us...unfortunately that's well and truly in to the far and distant future. We're developing all sorts of remote controlled drones yes, but if the civilian death toll tells you anything it's that their effectiveness is extremely contextual and best served in support of boots on the ground.
As for entire autonomous ones? That kind of AI is light-years ahead.
As for machines turning on us...that's a nice meme but I don't see why. There are species on this Earth that actively seek out human dominance as a default behavior and will put up with ungodly behavior so long as their basic needs are met at some level. I don't see why an entirely artificial being we know completely down to the very molecular level would be made such that it would want to "turn on us", especially given that it can't have any objective gain from it.
Lastly, as for humans being machines at the time...it depends on who you ask. I'm sure the Kaiser saw it that way but most people down the ranks didn't, there's a reason WW1 sparked so much outrage among the population of most of the world much like WW2 did. We're not talking about mid 19th century aristocratic industrialists here, and even within that context not all nations are equal.
@@arvedludwig3584 You just descibed Óðr. The ecstatic feeling that gave name to Óðinn (or vice versa), which explains why norsemen sought conflict.
people talkin bout the teeth , im from the countryside in holland ,and my family were poor farmers who only got acces to a dentist after ww2 . this was normal then . also , antibiotics were invented in ww1 , so a few years before this movie people could still die from an infected wisdomtooth , imagine that
Penicillin is from 1928.
Antibiotics are as old as plants.
The real medical usage however was in 1907 with Salvarsan, invented by the Germans.
But ancient Greek, Chinese and others used molds and plants with antibiotic features over two thousand years ago. They just didnt know why it worked and it wasnt as strong as the modern medical antibiotics, like Salversan and later Penicillin.
yes , fact remains that a huge tooth infection ment death aswell as a appendix , figure the randomness of death you could encounter
@@CunningStuntsGoFast Indeed
@@beersmurff You seem to know so much about it but you fail to mention that 'widespread' use of Penicillin only happened after 1941 thanks to the US Military just in time for WWII - before then the average person wouldn't have a snowball's chance in hell to get any.
@@AcePanno1 Doesnt change the fact that Penicillin was discovered in 1928. But yes it was expensive and hard to come by. That is why the Germans used Salvarsan and other less effective antibiotics. They still worked though. To some degree.
Dont think I failed by not mentioning it. It was never my goal to educate all around. Just mention that penicillin was discovered in 1928 after the war and antibiotics has been know for thousands of years.
"The only way we could have celebrated with regards to a liquid would have been tea, that's all" - it can't get more English than that.
Codetutor not English British welsh Scots and some Irish fought that war typical English think they done it all
@@alantreloar1113 Absolutely, to my knowledge, my grandfather, great grandfather, great uncles all fought in WW1 or WWII, and they were all Scottish. People need to note that Britain meant all countries in the U.K, and you could say, the British Empire too.
yes like the tx said not just english @@OrganMusicYT
alan treloar yee but not no where near as many English, remember England makes up 8/10 percent of the United Kingdom’s population including Ireland
alan treloar but still respect to the other nations that fought with us
Everyone in that clip is dead, how crazy..
As will we all be. A brief existence
Yes. I think about the same thing too. There's nobody left now. They were so important when that footage was taken. All in their prime. Some would day the very day they were filmed. Some in the days and weeks to years after. But eventually they all went the way everyone eventually does. But how supremely sad that they're all of them gone. Some won't ever be found.
yeah spanish flu , that killed mostly young adults.
@Fernando Cunha oh shit dude you make a good one there
In 100 years, everyone who commented on RUclips will most likely be dead too.
That goes for every comment you've read and from here on forward.
As an Indian, I thank you for putting that "and Empire" in the concluding statement. Most of the time, sacrifices of the soldiers of the British Indian army are just brushed away. We might have played a small part by being just 1 million strong but this small gratitude towards the soldiers is deeply respected.
Without all the troops from the rest of the empire it wouldn't of been possible, as a British person I have the greatest of respect for them and their bravery.
You boys were warriors on our side. Thank you from Britain.
It might appear to be brushed aside but most people I know of are very aware of it and acknowledge the contribution and losses of soldiers from India and all over the Empire. I think there's also more official acknowledgement now than in the past, finally.
Want to talk about being brushed aside no one talks about Serbia's situation during ww1 when they caused the got damn thing.
That is not a small part Akshat. 1 million troops is a huge commitment and I agree; Indian soldiers never receive any recognition. Even now, too many people forget all the sacrifices made by people from across the former British empire. We have a remembrance Sunday every year that includes their sacrifice but in the public conscience... People need to recognise the sacrifices made by India and other former colonies.
A war that ends similar to how a school day would, strange.
Well said 😂😂😂😂
I guess you do hate it but you still love how it gives you purpose
Rasmusb I had friends on that Death Star man
I enlisted in the marine corps. Infantry. I don’t want to kill anyone. I joined so I could help people and be the first to respond to a disaster and keep people from hurting other people. A war like this, I would refuse to fight.
Well actually I did celebrate everyday the school ended.
Very moving. We shall not forget them.
AMEN
The sad truth is, most of them actually are forgotten.
Fuck them
I've already forgotten these losers.
@@La-PetitMort The fuck do you mean losers?
It's so sad that thousands lost their lives up until 11am, especially on the last hour of the war
Millions lost their lives after 11 am.
Spanish flu killed 50-100 million. Started before the war ended and lasted until 1920. It got super-infectious because of cramped war camps and medical facilities.
Hunger, poverty and disease killed millions after the war, especially in Russia and Germany.
The War wasnt the end of it. Sadly.
The last French soldier who died in the war was sniped as he was running up to tell his friends that the war had ended right at 11 o’clock
Blame overzealous lieutenants trying to cash in on their last chance at glory. Some things never change...
Efrafa Wrong. The last French soldier died at 10:45.
but the figthing didnt end there. allied forces intervened in the russian civil war after that..
Imagine hearing birds sing for the first time in 4 years.
Heart of Iron RGF underrated comment :)
They did hear birds during war wtf
sending all my love to you today, my darlings what you did for our country the UK 🇬🇧 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 thank you for everything👍👍👍
This is by far the best WW1 documentary ever made.
don’t forget the 300+ episodes of “the great war” portraying the men from all countries involved. but this one is impressive as far as the human aspect of war is concerned.
100%
@Wayne Wallace Peter Jackson and his buddies put the color etc in. The sound too, obviously, is not from the original video. They had to read the Lips of the people to understand what some were saying and then dubbed it with actors voice.
@@bepinkfloyd814 I shed a tear when i watched the actual broadcast of it...When the film slowly becomes colourised and you hear the voices.
Lest we forget.
@@mgDuckyyy yeah it is a powerful movie
My Great nan (Who recently passed ) lost 3 brothers in this pointless stupid war.
Lest we forget.
@Imix Muan
War never changes.
@Imix Muan nah, people have been criticizing war for a long time. It was a horrendous, pointless tragedy then, as it is now. You can find plenty of historical writings from the era criticizing the war
If you think about it, if the driver didn't take a wrong turn this most likely would have never happened. Oh and Hitler might have had 2 balls as well
@Noel Westwood 1)Isn't true
2)Wtf does that have to do with anything.
Imix Muan God being in Heaven isn’t universally ludicrous.
“Alright lads, see you at the next one!”
“Wait what?”
You can see the effects of the millitary packing more cigarettes than toothbrushes.
I mean, they're also Brits so... :P
@@halflifeger4179 Got the whole gang laughing.
True they need to smoke to calm nerves.
It's more the effect of being British
@@multifunctioneletreksok7973 Might have been true back then, certainly not true today.
I spent most of my life just trying to survive my parents and now i'm all alone. I know it's not quite the same, but when i stopped talking with my parents and moving out, this question popped into my head too: "I wonder what we are going to do next". And when i saw it in this movie, i couldn't help but burst into tears.
Yes, every major change in our lives can be very scary and make us feel we're jumping off a cliff but once we understand that everything is only temporary and that what we do best, us human beings is adapt, some days mat be hartder than others but we always survive if that's what we want. I also stopped talking to my dad 10 years ago, it just didn't work and honestly, after I got used to it I never had any regrets and I felt so free. Good luck.
I'm sorry to hear that, I hope you're doing well now, I wish you joy and happiness.
Yeah you are neet
This needs to be number one video on the internet. I feel like everyone needs to see this. Whoever color restored this should win a medal
Peter Jackson and his team (directed Lord of the Rings etc) Agreed. It really is incredible work.
man so many brave and good men died in that war
carlindelco for no fucking reason either lol what a joke
@@tallenbruh1021 nah, they died because of corrupted goverment. The reason there are war in the first place is the higher ups being such dougche bags sending peoples men to war for their own profit gains.
Stefan Urban that’s the most ignorant thing I’ve ever heard
@@cjames2925 I know you're trolling, but maybe one day you'll grow up and realize if you were born 100 years ago, that would of been you.
@Logikure no they didn't, atleast the British didnt lose as many soldiers in ww2
Watching WW1 and WW2 films always gives me the chills for some reason , somehow i like these eras.
You like them because they're gone, there's nostalgia of the bygone era. You wouldn't like it so much had you really been there, or even just lived an ordinary, hard life.
Absolutely stunning to hear how they’d come to realise just how pointless it all was. Lest we forget
fuck you bitch
Don't ever say that. If you say that the war was pointless, you make their sacrifises feelpointless. Show some goddamn respect.
Eino Lappi what are you on about? he was saying that war is pointless and he is right. there isnt a single soldier that was on the front and came back and loves to remember their days in war like some wholesome memory. they remember hell. their sacrifice? soldiers are heroes to your country and murderers to the other country lol
@@yopeepthestyle8308 ww2 was pointless too.
@@yopeepthestyle8308 yeah sorry about my bad engilsh i live in finland
What bizarre animals we are. Spend 4 years killing each other in ruthless cold blood, then we get told from some higher ups on a piece of paper brought up to the front that it's all to stop. And even stranger, it actually did. People just stopped fighting. Goes to show how everyone was just so worn out.
And then hype up the next generation to do it all over again twenty years later!
They feel so human..
Wait, they're not humans?
J Bell No in a literal sense..
-Really?- What exactly do you mean then? I'm very *confused* by your choice of words, sir.
@@jbell5686 He means 'they exhibited more humanity than he expected them to considering the ordeal they'd been through'. Like when the (ex)soldier was saying 'Neither the Germans or us gave a damn anymore who won the war, we just wanted the thing to stop'. I mean, that line hit home quite hard.
I think he means that, when we talk about WW1, and we see in history books and museums those black and white (today even colour) pictures or filmed scenes and the people on the war. Everything seems so... Distant, we sometimes dont even relate, if the people is even our country man, race, culture etc or human like us. And they are people from other age of the world, its hard to relate to it, to those people and era, or WW1, because it seems its on a bygone age.
But like this, it connect us more, we could see, they were people, living their life, with feelings, they loved and they were loved, they had family waiting for them, sometimes they also had bad people, they sometimes made bad actions, sometimes good. In general, they were humans, like you and me, brought to that horrible situation, that i think the modern man, couldnt handle it (we are talking about a age, that some places in England, clapping was banned, because people cant handle it).
I felt the point of transition from the black and white to the enhanced colour was the most moving thing I saw on TV in 2018.
"You we're so dazed you could stand up straight and not be shot" 😢
"The staff officer shut his watch up and said, "I wonder what we're all going to do next."
Oh, if only he knew what was coming...
The soilders never hated eachother. They didnt know eachother. They were fighting for people who knew and hated eachother.
Not the British though, Brit did not start the War.
I can’t believe anybody would give the thumb down to this incredible footage of exceptional men.
We really need to bring back the mustache trend
That trend was shortly revived in 70s porn industry , but than went away again .
@@anatolyex f
i hate anime nah only a fuckboy would say that
i hate anime I don’t even have facial hair, but ur comments screams fuckboy, so much cringe
@i hate anime ironically it's the otherway around, having a beard is what makes you masculine, I bet you're just jealous because you can't grow a beard, man up soyboy.
Me: hits elbow on corner of desk.
My entire nervous system: 0:01
I was about 15 years of age, and I was talking to my grandfather about ww1. I said, " I wish I had been there with them boys". He said, " no you don't". And we didn't say anything else.
what's sad is not a single person from this video is alive anymore, not even the camerman. And what's incredibly sad is that the sons of these same men will be the ones most probably dying in the next war instead of them.
I know this feeling, about surviving a war, in reality i went to it knowing that the possibility of death was almost 100% , i just assumed that I was going to die and I was ok with it, but when I survived and came back i was practically dead because I had no plans no motivation to do anything.
Which war you fought on ?
Daniel Byrne Jesus man do you have trust issues
@@pastalavista2732 people are natural born liars, it's common sense to not trust a person you don't know at first meeting. And I'm starting to notice that in youtube comment sections a lot of people use sad stories of their past family members to get empathy from people and upvotes, its the same as how people are copying and pasting quotes other commenters have posted that got a lot of likes. It happens and without knowing the background of the poster you should assume it could be both true and false until you have seen the prove with your own eyes. Trusting strangers is how you get scammed like how those fake virus pop-up ads people are trying to scam you by calling you and telling you to pay them to fix your computer.
Stefan ah ok I guess im a bit to naive
You could also get scammed by trying to prove things to random idiot's ho want information about you on the internet. Don't give information away to random people.
It hits you hard that these men were actually there and really fought there. Real soldiers, not actors.
The Innocence, Simplicity and Down-to-Earth Character in the surviving Soldiers of the Worst War yet in 1918 is just remarkable.
I am glad I didn't serve in a war but when I finished my mandatory service I felt like I lost my job as well. I wasn't happy, but worried. What do I do now?
In the words of my grandfather who fought from '15 throughout; "I don't give a fig for France or Europe Germans can have it. But we're here now, and can't let them shove us about" he was RFA. Lost finger, part of an ear, the concussion of a shell hitting nearby (which killed 4 of his mates in one go) blew his eye out of its socket (still attached). After the war he worked at the local gas works and had to fib a bit to get in. "Don't mention the war"..not fawlty towers but what they had to endure in the first show. Signs in shop windows 'servicemen need not apply'. Still he smoked like a chimney, drank like a sailor and lived to a ripe old age, seeing me grow a bit before he went and even taught me a bit about gardening which he loved. "Sweet memories of you I'll always keep, God saw you were tired and sent you to sleep". Harold 'Harry' Morgan, an absolute madlad and a best friend to all.
rest in peace boys, and everyone else, on both sides
Now all I want to do is pet that doggie in the video.
100 year old dogo
@@McFluff33 It sounds weird when you put it like that. Strange.
You have serious issues! Wake up and take a sniff of reality (and not a sniff up a dogs but like you enjoy doing now).
Wondered if the dog got adopted and brought back
Its been dead for nearly a century. Sorry. : (
MY GRANDFATHER LIED AT THE AGE OF 13 TO GO TO THIS WAR AND SURVIVED.. THEN HE FOUGHT IN WW2 AND SURVIVED AND THEN MADE IT ALL THE WAY TO AGE 89 AND PASSED AWAY PEACFULLY IN HIS SLEEP.
YOUR GRANDFATHER WAS A BOSS!
@@jonsnow3300 voel jij iets tijdens het neuken?
Jesus, what a fucking man.
Hans Günther Odin isn’t real
@@drunkensailor112 Hahaha ja dat wil ik ook wel weten😂
This is my favourite movie. I can watch it a thousand times and still have the same emotions as the first watch. I’ve cried throughout it, and mainly at the credits. Seeing the name of the men I heard, and know omg their gone, it is sad. But at least we can remember
I saw this movie with my grandma (she isn't a veteran she just knows I like war history) it became one of my favorite movies
If they currently looked at the state of the UK, I wonder how they'd feel
They wouldn’t want the fact that they have no colonies.
@@tarik8600 They got reverse colonized by the countries they made up tho
Devastated & disheartened, wondering whether all the sacrifice was worthwhile! If they were to come back to Britain 2020 I think the answer would be NO!!!!
Don't Speak To Electrohead did 15 million brits get killed by the countries Britain colonised? I doubt it.
I’m pretty sure those who weren’t conscripted wouldn’t have signed up if they had known. My late father was a Lancaster pilot during WW2 and I often wonder if those crews would have risked their lives for the U.K. of today.
One of the most interesting clips I’ve ever seen, fascinating. Rest in peace to all the brave men and women lost in war ✌️.
My grandfathers brother died in France at the Hartmannsweilerskopf. The people in the village wanted to create a memorial for the dead soldiers and so a group of them was send with a horse carriage to take the body home. So his grave was initegrated into the memorial. Later they included the names of ww2 soldiers on the other side of the big stone wall. I am still in thoughts why they took that body. To get a better memorial? These were cruel times.
mkmm60 Not at all ! I m french and the way we see it, it was an honor ! Your grandfather represents all the dead who fight in this area. I understand it must have been difficult for your family not having his grave close to you, but trust me, the idea was to honor him and his comrades
It's weird to know that almost every single person you saw in this video is dead. Time is cruel.
Not almost, all are dead.
No one in those clips are alive now they’d be 119 at the youngest
Not almost buddy, there are no more ww1 vets alive in this world
@@JohnnyLouisXIX the last recorded ww1 soldiers were a French man in 2008 and a Senegalese in 2011
Everyone is dead in this clip.
I read an article on J. B. Priestley about how he would attend an annual regimental reunion. One year, in The 1930's, fewer attended and he was asking, " Where's so-and-so and so-and-so?" Only to be told they didn't have a decent suit to attend in so wouldn't come. I also downloaded my wife's granddad's army record as he had served and was surprised to find photocopies of letters from him to his old regiment from 1922 saying he didn't want to be a nuisance but when could he expect his service medals? He, like millions of others, had more than earned them. Robin Witting England
There are no more ww1 veterans alive today
Last one died 2012 , a Bulgarian soldier if i remember right
The last living veteran of World War I was Florence Green, a British citizen who served in the Allied armed forces, and who died 4 February 2012, aged 110.
The last combat veteran was Claude Choules who served in the British Royal Navy (and later the Royal Australian Navy) and died 5 May 2011, aged 110.
The last veteran who served in the trenches was Harry Patch (British Army) who died on 25 July 2009, aged 111. Harry Patch’s book ‘The Last Fighting Tommy’ is well worth a read.
The last Central Powers veteran, Franz Künstler of Austria-Hungary, died on 27 May 2008 at the age of 107.
Amazing footage to see. How could 41 people dislike restored footage of human beings happy that violence has ended?
IN the USA There is reshowing this year 2019 on only December 7th, DEC 17 & December 18th on the big screen. The theaters are very limited as are the show times. You need to see this on the big movie screens and with the full sound experience, to get the full detail of all the work in this restoring of archival footage.
The colour makes them REAL people for the first time.
And it's amazing how they managed to make the quality look HD.
Wow, this footage is gold worth, huge respect to the man who put his work on this.
366 dislikes? How dare they... these men fought for us... this film was beautiful... never shall they be forgotten!
How did they fight for us?
@@Mathias-kz5dr please tell me you're joking...
@@Vadoksam I am not. Just answer the question please, I am not letting you off the hook so easily. I assume you are British? How did the British soldiers dying in Flandres fight for you? I really want to know.
@@Mathias-kz5dr You're ignorant and very disrespectful. You must live a very miserable life
"We're gonna be in da pictures...huhuhuh."
😂
@MichaelKingsfordGray Cower? What the hell are talking about?
@@ChadtheHammer ignore him.
When I was a child, I asked a WW1 veteran what The Great War was like. He said 'If your'e very lucky, you won't find out'.
I had a great grandfather who had to serve in both world wars for Germany.
the best piece of wartime footage i have ever watched!!.....the smiles on those brave fellas faces....priceless!!
0:32 - 0:38
Happiness 100.
[Happiness noise]
And then the Treaty of Versailles came and a guy with a weird mustache wasn't happy
Nearly one million British and Empire (Canada, Australia, India, etc) were killed between 1914 and 1918, and it was only the beginning.
If Franz Ferdinand hadn't been shot. One of the European issues of the 20th century would have happened.
Actually nearly anyone in Germany was mad about this Treaty..
@Natasel Exactly, it wasnt just the assasination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand that caused WW1, there were other things that would have most likely caused it even if he wasnt assasinated
Soldiers of WW1: Right, the war is over and we are exhausted of it. Time to go back to attend my family and my farm.
Hitler: *Why hello there*
*)EWS
HeaDShoT *Aggresively taking sudetenland, danzig, and austria*
yeah sure bud whatever floats your boat
HeaDShoT Yeppp, peace. Break all treaties and takes all bribes saying he won’t invade said countries, then invades them. Then has Japan pull a pearl harbor.
Larry Garoth break all the treaties? Bribes? What are you on about? I suggest you look at my comment that I wrote above.
Larry Garoth You are so uneducated on the topic.
Someone recommended this movie to me, so I watched it out of sheer curiosity.
Man, it had me glued to the screen.
To KNOW this was the REAL THING; not some movie scene.
My dad fought in WW2 and he rarely talked about it, even when my brothers asked him what it was like; how it felt to kill someone.
His reply was along the lines of: That's something I hope you never have to learn.
I think it haunted him terribly. Some days, he would be extremely quiet and not speak to anyone; not want anyone around him.
Some nights, he had bad dreams; but he would NEVER talk about it.
He taught all of us kids how to properly handle and respect a gun; the pistol and rifle. We always had one of each in our home with ammunition right beside them...and not locked up. He made sure we understood they were NOT toys and were NOT to be touched unless ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY.
Why I had to share this, I don't know...but I think ALL soldiers felt the same blankness when the war ended. To have spent so much time, fearing you'd be dead before night fall, and then suddenly...you're not in danger any longer. At least, not like you were.
These men have my respect and always will. And I don't say just the Americans or the Brits or the French. I mean it for ALL soldiers who fought for what was right.
Yes, each side felt they were right and I won't go into the moral codes about all that...but those who fought for what was the right thing, regardless of what the right thing was, have my respect.
What a thoughtful comment, and a good read... thank you for the write up
The idea we live in a world so transformed by something happened a hundred years ago but it feels like less than half of that long ago.
if you told me this footage was taken 5 years ago I would not be surprised. It looks fantastic.
Very emotional, my grandfathers generation
Man, imagine being the last casualty.
"All right boys, here it comes, we're in the pictures"
Fabulous footage of men who fought together as brothers. May they all rest now .
Triple Entente: These have been four years of cruel war. Let's hope we will not have another one.
Also the Entente: *WELL LET'S PUT ALL THE BLAME ON GERMANY!*
All of the treaties had that clause, it was quite standard. Only the germans had a tantrum over it.
Nobody wants the blames, it’s only human.... Germany however was just one country vs many... treaty was obvious bias for the many instead of the few
Blame France for that one, They got their arses handed to them 20 years later though.
I blame the Russians, they wanted the war. They mobilized their army before fighting even broke out in Serbia.
@@anarchonazbol6768 wrong, Germany's entire war plan was built upon how all russian troops would be too slow to mobilise, Germany wouldn't of bothered if Russia had these troops in place like you said
That soldier with the goat was the captain, he seemed so young and it shows him dead. I have to admit seeing these chaps alive then dead the next slide makes me feel sad
I will most certainly own this Blu-Ray
Words cannot describe how amazing this movie was
I remember when I first looked at the documentary I was very disappointed why it was moving at the wrong speed - why it was black and white, and why it was silent when the trailer showed something completely different.
Then some time in the screen suddenly zooms in and you are taken on this immersive ride, and when it finally ends, the screen zooms out, becomes black and white and the sound is gone.
That's when it really hits you.
imagine what must've went through the hearts of these people when the second war started
Yeah even better they had to see their children get drafted
@@moritzlober1783 and realized that they'd been fighting and dying and suffering for 4 years, all for it to start all over again
I can imagine they were quite frustrated to see history literally repeat itself. Next generations making the same mistakes and reliving the same horrors.
Unfortunately the terms of the treaty of Versailles, laid the foundations of the 2nd world war
My great-granddad Pietro was born in 1899 in Italy. In 1917 he fought in Caporetto...he came back to home. After one year, he fought in Vittorio Veneto where he was shot, but he survived. He died for cancer in 1970.
Two years before, in 1968, the state gave to him two medals, one for Caporetto and one for Vittorio Veneto.
In the 80s, his wife Maria threw away the medal from Caporetto...i don't know why
2019: a 15-years-old girl who has a medal from Vittorio Veneto. I'm proud of this, i love my my homeland and PROUD OF ALL THE MEN WHO DEATH FOR THEIR HOMELAND!
🇮🇹🇦🇹🇫🇷🇨🇦🇩🇪🇬🇧🇷🇺
thank you. Blessings to Italy from UK
Caporetto was a disaster for the Italians but this is no reason to throw away the medal , that is very unfortunate , a lot of people other than Italians and possibly some people from Austria and the Balkans do not know what a long difficult and brutal campaign the Italian front was. It is also not widely known even in Italy that British troops fought at the battle of the Asiago plateau .
Id like to watch the whole thing
www2.putlockerhd.io/film/they-shall-not-grow-old/watching.html?ep=0
Hopefully you watched the whole movie by now. It's an amazing film
It was on Netflix not sure if It still is
My Great Granfather, was a Austrian barber and shaved English troops after captured, for trinkets, and my family loves that story. Cant help but see him in one of the grey, navy blue garb there and think what could of happened if he was killed and my family non existent including myself....
Im going to bed with a heavy heart. And this is what you get for delving into family history. Im appreciative, but goddamn.
"What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood." - Aldous Huxley
The crazy thing is, all those men aged 17-18 when they entered service, had lost all the university/college years of their life. All they had known was war & surviving 24/7.
willshealy Most didn’t go to university anyway, most people worked resource productions like mines, farms, fishing etc.
Plus, just because someone missed a 4 year gap in their life hardly means they couldn’t go to uni after. Hell, people join the forces these days and leave it after the age of 25 and are able to go to college with the cost covered by the military.
@@v4enthusiast541 i do not think a lot of these soldiers could live a normal life after what they experienced. Let alone go back to college/school.
Actually, the average age of an Australian soldier in WW1 was just over 24. Young men under 21 had to have parental consent and although there were some under 18s who managed to lie about their age and get away with it, the reality is that they were a miniscule percentage of enlistments.
1:10 Who knew mr Bean served in ww1
Us British will always fight to the bitter end, exhaustion of the enemy is key, yet I believe will our finest hour be still to come 🇬🇧
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The work that has been done to make this film is incredible. From research coloring and to making the sounds from scratch. I heard they hired lip readers to understand what is being said in the video. Amazing
My Thomas OC’s, Dylan & Dexter, Claude, and Axel, felt the same too when the war ended.
The only thing my OC’s ask themselves now is: “Was it all worth it? Millions died, and it ends so quietly.”
are you mentally ill
I wonder why americans seem to have this concern about the state of British teeth ?. Fifty million Americans do not have health cover and live in fear of Medical bills ( Number 1 cause of bankruptcy in USA ).
I cant wait until the day that everyone realizes everyone sucks, including themselves. America sucks, russia sucks, Africa sucks, asia sucks, the UK blows, Mexico is a dumpster fire. Antarctica is like the only cool place, minus the scientists because they suck. Verstehen? Comprende? Capiche?
0:32 Me and the boys on class photo day
By great great great grandfather was a u.s doughboy a rifleman he joined up in 1917 and fought in the battle of belleau wood and sadly lost his life in the second battle of the Marne and I have some of his letters he sent to his wife or my great great great grandma he was in the 2nd division and yes was one of the earliest to see combat in his squad but I have his old American flag and a old knife he used to own I wish I could of met him he was a brave but crazy man he was 22 when he died I come from a war family so this isn't new to me but he will be remembered as a hero
Let's appreciate how far dental work has evolved
Yup 100 years later we are still watching you in the pictures
It’s so Sad to see all of them to go. 😢
Don't you wish you'd known them?
Watching Prussian guys and allies being happy no matter the outcome , is one of the most amazing things . Now compare that to the bitterness at the end of ww2 . In ww1 people still realised they were humans and lived through the trenches and hardships .
Ιn ww2 soldiers became hazardous puppets . And many warcrimes were committed .
@@andreasgiasiranis5206 there was certainly more honour in ww1
I see where we got our stereotype from for bad teeth...
I noticed the same... No dentists ??
@@RhNegA- probably a mix of everything. I believe fluoride toothpaste wasn’t a thing, they had abrasive tooth cleaning powder instead. Still, idk why our teeth were worse than everyone else’s
This does ring true with sentiments I've come across before. The soldiers who had survived wanted to have a proper victory, not a cessation. They had endured years of hard combat and lost many friends along the way, and wanted to be victorious to make all that sacrifice worth the effort. Some really wanted to carry on fighting, and punish the opposition. Obviously, some were so weary and mentally exhausted, they just wanted to be home. And others just knew they would not be the same again at home, and knew they had changed. Such is war, nothing has changed. Bless 'em all, the long and the short an the tall . x
Happy Veterans Day, to those who are serving currently and in the past, we appreciate you. We thank you for everything you've done, the amount of damage you took for our freedom. You are a legend and an important part of us all. Once again, I thank you all very much for your service. Those who are going through boot camp, good luck, and I thank you for trying out for the Military trying to serve and protect us. Farewell, fellow readers, and Veterans/Military Personnel.
Some of us were peacetime vets. I never went to combat simply because there were no wars at that time.
50% bravery
50% honor
0% teeth