I think A Bridge Too Far is my second favourite bridge-related war movie, ahead of The Bridge at Remagen but not as good as The Bridge on the River Kwai.
I loved this film as a kid, easily my favourite war movie for years. As I grew older though and read more and visited Arnhem and Oosterbeek, I realised how limited it is in portraying the geography of the Arnhem battle.
This was the next equivalent of "The Longest Day", all the bright stars pf hollywood were cast here in this epic movie, by far 1 of the best ever made!
Ps: Love this movie! fair non biased view from all sides but to any history buffs or whatever buy the book telling the full true story of a bridge too far u find out how command & generals messed up&how they knew in detail abt the panzer regiments near by yet they let the operation go forward expecting it to fail dramaticly after the 1st bridge! i swear it'll make u so mad at the generals & their ego's & make u respect the sheer courage & will of the troops that fought to push & hold as they did
@anticapitalista100 Well, the movie, makes it look as though everyone knew the mission would fail. This was not true. SHAEF had no way of knowing that the Panzer Corps was there. Most of the error fell on Montgomory. He refused to accept Dutch intel reports, and refused to scale down the operation. This blame is thrown on General Browning in the film, and is somewhat unfair. Read the book A Bridge Too Far, and you will see what I mean
@tmtv633 You are right about what you say, but lets give credit where credit is due! Patton pulled out of a major winter battle, turned his Army, and advanced 100 miles from where he was, to Bastogne... Where he DID save the 101st Airborne Division from anialation. Like Patton or not, My Father, was under his command at Omaha Beach, and he died there, so if you want to say more, bring it on, cause I carry my father's honor every day I live, every hour, every moment, Maybe no one else does,
@F15Eaglejet1 With hind sight we can say all this but what happened happened may not like it but its the way things happened.
'Competency on the battlefield is a myth The side which screws up next to last wins it's as simple as that'
& F15Eaglejet1 anyone who fought is a hero regardless of their leader or side nothin can tarnish ure fathers name! the only problem i have is with what u said abt saveing the 101st, Not one member of the 101st airborne ever said they needed to be rescued by patton.
one thing about this film i could never understand was why Gene Hackman kept referring to the enemy as the 'Grr-mans'. Is this how Polish people pronounce Germans?
look montgomery was careful with his troops,some say he was over cautious,but what a field marshall.you forget the german code was broken,they must have known the ss units were there...... !protecting ultra?
The heroic actions of the soldiers (and civilians) at this battle have make me proud for I am a descendant of one of these august men. Long live the will to fight for freedom and our courageous soldiers who fight battles on and off the battlefield.
Great music and great film.My grandmothers brother Reg Thomas took part in this battle and was shot down while parachuting down and spent three months in pow camp before being liberated.
@Milhouse224 Oh yes? Patton used common sense did he? Tell that to the thousands of men he sent to needless, pointless deaths against the Metz Fortifications, tell that to the men he got killed doing the same at Brest before giving up & leaving it for someone else to deal with. Patton was all offense & no subtlety & his response to any fixed fortifcation was to bypass it & leave to someone else to deal with or to attack it frontally. Simpson & Patch were both vastly superior generals to Patton.
This film doesnt really tell the story well enough I feel. It was my favourite film as a kid and the market garden story is one of the most exciting of the war so one film cant encompass it. Much time wasted on pointless side stories. having visited the places you quickly realise how much is skimmed over or totally ignored. Shame, still ... great theme tune.
Don't forget the Canadians, they had arrived in Great Britain prior to Christmas 1939, fought at Dieppe 1942 and had one of the five invasion beaches on D-Day. They got the furthest inland by day's end 6 June 1944. At Arnhem it was Canadian Engineers that got the remnants of General Urquharts 1st British Airborne across the Rhine on the night of 25 September 1944. Like the Polish who fought with 1st Canadian Army, the Canadians never get their due.
@Lakehope7 i have never read another history book quite like it tbh, it is phenominal, especially how he interviwed everyone from the german commander to even eisenhower for it! Briliant
this music is a tribute to army and the cabalry, you will see the best scene in my channel, the video is called "El espirirtu de la caballeria" (the spirit of cabalry)
Germany unveiled FALSE economic system ruling the world,by getting rid of Brutal Taxes High interest rates Devaluations (dollar of no use) No Restriction to local money printing Unnecesary IMF credits Mass media,jew controlled Financial system,jew controlled Industrial limitations,jew controlled Commerce Monopole,jew controlled Tech+Services,jew controlled Catle and Grain additional fees to farmers This is why Judea declared war to germa ny 24.3.1933 Daily Express issue
That was the last (and maybe the only?) war, where i would say, the fight was necessary and the only right thing to do. Of course war is hell and terrible and morality fades away on all sides. But after all, Good and Evil was clearly to be seen in this time of history and fighting was after all for freedom and peace.
A brilliant and exciting piece of music. I own the entire soundtrack on CD. I bought it on e-bay all the way from England. I might point out this is very difficult to find nowadays.
No one can complain about Polish bravery in world war two... one Polish Destroyer even attacked the Bismark when it was being followed... the mad ba*****s.
Salute to Polish flag! This film is an exeption among Western Europe productions because it shows bravery of Polish soldiers among Allies. It shows how Polish paratroopers were dropped in a dead zone and were killed and even in that hopeless situation they kicked off Nazis and mantled to create an organized and well defended post as it was required in Monty's orders.
@TwojaStaraStraszy this is a movie. you have not been there neither have I. so you can not judge. its as simple as that. unless they had some secret cameras over there
Film is great but Sosabowski played by Hackman is .... strange. In a scene when Polish pass the Rhein he was speaking "Śnur, śnur" In Polish it's hear overwise ;) 5/5
@Tripserpentine The polish para brigade didnt land untill the third or forth day though? So Sosabowski couldnt have been the first to land, seeing as half the first aiborn division was already there HOWEVER if allied intelligence had done its job maybe the polish paras lives wouldnt have been wasted a bloody way. A discrace really that they got dropped in the utter shit of it
@scottspianist its a bigger disgrace they where fighting to free my country, and we didnt returned te favour, no they had to wait until the soviet union fell.
i only wanted to pay homage to the polish, they where promissed that they could return and free theyre own country instaid they where used here, and than they where forgotten. well Sosabowski was honoured after he was dead.
@Tripserpentine well that wasnt what i was trying to point out but fair enougth, they were still wasted just as the other three divisions and so were the resources they could have used to push through into germany with the third army but never mind bless them for fighting for as long as hard as they did
british government equipped polish army after the fall of France, gave them aircrafts and they helped to protect Great Britain from German invasion; gave them ships and they protected many convoys, and put one of them - ORP Ślązak ahead of the d-day fleet; gave them tanks and they fighted everywhere as if it was in Poland. that's why the dissillusionment was so huge when we were left to Stalin. but we know that Britain remembers our help, and we remember yours.
and the valour of the Poles an Dutch too please. and No I don't doubt american Valour. as a descedent of the an evacuee form Dunkirk, I thank your nation for its help.
Great film because it's mostly accurate and also it doesnt portray the Germans as blithering idiots who like walking in front of Allied bullets for fun. The only thing I laugh at is Gene Hackman pronouncing 'Germans' as Gurrmans'. Also respect to the Polish soldiers, very brave in all the theatres they fought.
very brave, and very abandoned in the end... Poland, first to fight, was left alone by British and American governaments... our soldiers were fighting everywhere - Poland, France in 1940, Tobruk, Battle of England, eastern front hand in hand with USSR who invaded us on 17 september '39, Warsaw upraising of Home Army, Monte Cassino, Falaise, Arnhem, Breda, Wilhelmshaven, etc - Polish soldiers fought everywhere, but we lost the war...
Left alone? Britain France declared war on Germany to try and get them out and we got hammered. Incidentally it's not the Battle of England, it's the Battle of Britain.
yes, LEFT ALONE. i can daclare war on you and nothing happens. it France invaded Germany in september '39 the WWII would end before Christmas, before Christmas 1939. but they were cowards and only thrown some propaganda over Germany. Boże, chroń mnie od przyjaciół - z wrogami sam sobie poradzę.
You seem to have missed out the continual two years of bombing we suffered. I do however note that the French government completely screwed up and managed to let its people down.
And it categorically does matter that it's the Battle of Britain, not England. To continue to say that continues to Denigrate and insult and ignore all the Welsh and Scottish who gave their lives in a war, that we entered because of your country being invaded.
no, i haven't missed anything. it's obvious that British people suffered very heavy bombings and many of them died. and i didn't say, that Great Brittain left us in 1939 - Brittain was unable to invade Germany in '39; France should have done it. but you must agree, that later you left us, leaving half of Europe to USSR. Polish army, the 5th biggest alied army(USSR, USA, Great Brittain, France, Poland) was not invited for the big parade in London. do you think it was fair?
Aye, I do agree. we argued with Russia over it but we were a spent force. we could not have forced Russia out by then. we mistakenly believed that we could negotiate Polish Freedom with Stalin.
And no, that was not fair at all, nor was the blame for the failure of Arnhem being laid at the feet of Gen Sosabowski by British High command.
the post-war situation of Poland was mostly fault of Stalin and Roosevelt, Churchill's position between them was not strong enough, but maybe he could have done more... the fact is that Great Brittain and Commonwealth became the second home for many polish soldiers who stayed there because they didn't want to go back to a comunist Poland. we even had a exile government in London untill 1990.
The movie is a lie. Guards Armoured Division stopped just beyond Nijmegen because 1. It was almost dark. 2. all infantry were still securing Nijmegen town and 3. they had to rearm and refuel.
Jim Gavin (82nd) should have taken Nijmegen town or at least the bridge on day 1 (17th sept) or day 2 (18th sept) - (AS ORDERED)
I don't know about it 'selling' in the USA; the MOST featured characters were Sean Connery & Anthony Hopkins...by comparison, O'Neal, Redford, Gould & Caan were practically 'cameos'...the film heavily concentrated on Red Devils because THEIRS was the most compelling story.
@kealyc Patton was't Monty's rival. He wasn't even on Monty's radar. Monty was spending most of his time in late 1944 arguing with Eisenhower, he didn't give a damn about getting one over Patton. If Monty had a rival in Europe it was Omar Bradley or Jacob Devers because they were the other Army Group Commanders. Patton was never anything more than an Army Commander and spent the vast majority of his career subordinate to another commander, making no higher command decisions at all.
@11nytram11 - possibly, but Monty was trying to get into Germany before the Americans. Unfortunately, 1st British Airborne was sacrificed in his attempts to hatch a hastily prepared plan, with a shortage of planes, meaning that the element of surprise was lost.
@kealyc Monty was trying to finish the war as quickly as possible because he, like most Britons, was fed up of the war having been in it from the beginning and he knew more than anyone else that the longer the war went on the weaker Britain would be once it was finished.
MARKET GARDEN was a gamble worth taking but mistakes made by everybody involved - from Eisenhower down - and Bradley's refusal to halt 12th Army Group so the operation could be properly supported led to its failure.
@11nytram11 You are right Patton was not Monty's rival, he had surpassed him in Sciliy. Monty was the best man for the British Army, do nothing and keep the British Army alive. Patton had no parallel in either army. When you talk of the waste at Brest and Metz you are right Patton felt that the honor of the US Army was important.. Unfortuantely you obviously have not heard of the Huertgen Forrest where far more men died for less reason.
@tmtv633 Patton didn't surpass Montgomery in Sicily as his advance on Palermo was against negligible opposition and when he actually faced the German rearguard in his one sided race to Massena - Monty having suggested Patton take it - he proved no more effective than the British. Patton's reputation was vastly improved after his death but during his lifetime he achieved no equivilent of El Alamein or Alam Halfa.
@tmtv633 I have heard of the Hurtgen Forest Offensive and I regularly criticise Bradley and Hodges for conducting the operation for no apparent reason and continuing it well beyond the point that it could have been of any use but even so Patton lost 2,000 more men in his Lorraine Campaign than Hodges did (Hurtgen Forest - 31,000 casualties/Lorraine Campaign 33,000 casualties). So my criticism of Patton at Metz remains unchanged - he did not show any common sense in that operation at all.
@tmtv633 Furthermore, Patton was never a crucial element to the planning of a major Allied offensive nor did he ever command one where as Montgomery was the principal architect of Operation OVERLORD and was the Ground Forces Commander in charge of the campaign until the Falaize Gap was almost closed and Paris was taken. Patton has nothing to equal that either. Montgomery's MARKET GARDEN, while a failure, also cost the Allies a lot less than either the Hurtgen Forest or the Lorraine Campaigns did
The 60's and 70's brought the most unparalleled WWII films to date!!! A great theme song that as a kid and even now in the same I enjoy. Such brilliance coupled to a renowned war film mega classic!!!
Patton was far too reckless, and Montgomery too cautious. Using a liberal dollop of both was a potent mixture (as Normandy showed). Personally, Eisenhower must have been a miracle worker to stop them killing each other.
while i agree the soviets bore the brunt of the war 75 percent of the wehrmacht was in russia..it was england and the us that sent so much logistical support that the russians could concentrate on tanks , planes and other special equipment..
i really cant describe how much i love this music . Not only is it a great tune, but i also thinks it sums up the whole film/operation really well were it has the really cheerful bit at the start to show them all gearing up and dropping into enemy territory during the largest airborne operation in history, and then it goes low to show how the brits radios fail and there too far away and the convoy runs into trouble
its just an amazing piece of music, made for an amazing film
winjinsinjon K this movie was based on a Book, by an American How ever this American, was not aware of Ultra when he wrote his book,,,, Ultra and its secrets only became public domain Circa 1985. was Monty a Wanker ? prolly but he did not have the self doubts that Ike had
how true is the film to what realy happend???? at the end of the film the allies are still holding there own when the rest of the drops are cancled, to hold out as long as they did with limited ammo ect against tanks i just wonder if with re enforcments they may have pulled it off.
The film is extremely accurate. The only fictious character is the American officer played by Elliot Gould. In all other respects, the film is accurate. The confrontation between Robert Redford & a British officer in XXX Corps outside NM did happen, but it was another US officer who was a Capt, as opposed to Major that Redford played.
well that makes it an even better film then, not like the modern trash where the americans found the enigma machin (cant spell for anything) or won the war all on there own.
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if you would bother to check more than one enigma machine was captured by the american navy during the war as was more by the british navy...the actual first copy was mysteriously delivered to a british embassy in poland before the war
dont take that tone with me, the FIRST enigma machine was captured by the british, but as it was an american film it was americanised as they would all like us to belive they won the war on there own. you cant deny that alot of the modern war films glarorise the american part in the war unlike this film.
nope. seen movie Fatherland? basically it's what happens IF D-Day had failed and the US concentrated on Japan only and left Hitler to the Brits and the Soviets.
with US supplies, which had been restoring UK since '39 anyway i think UK could have beaten Hitler, but it would have taken a few years longer and the USSR would have gained a f*ckload more territory than it did anyway.
Britain would have lost the war without America, but America couldn't have won it without us.
and to be fair, neither of us would have got far without the Soviets, not to mention all the allied nations and the commonwealth. Twas a team effort, not just the big burly brute at the front, but the smaller guys too :)
Too be completely honest, I doubt the Soviets even really needed any of us except to tie up some garrison divisions in the West, and a few in North Africa.
Actually the only major inaccuracy was just the Airborne crossing the river in the dingies... as a load of British Guards did so as wlel but they needed a very American scene for the US audience.
The British officer was Captain Lord Carrington MC, later Defence Secretary to Ted Heath and Foreign Secretary to Margaret Thatcher. He took the blame for, and resigned over, the Falklands invasion of '82. A man of honour, a gentleman (in the truest meaning of that word) and a delightful neighbour of mine.
My German friends can't believe that Carrington was in the 2nd or 3rd tank to roll over the Nijmegen bridge as Harmel attempted to blow it. In reality, Robert Redord's character truly existed and Carrington was almost set upon by him, having to get back in his tank.
People keep on going on about Arnhem. I had a relative who fought at Grave. I am pleased to see that this is mentioned here in 1:02 of the sequence. My relative was in the 505th which was fighting around that bridge.
I always enjoy seeing the veterans walking through Oosterbeek. Medals pinned on their chests, barely able to move...but if you put a Lee Enfield in their hands, I'm sure they'll start demolishing things and shooting German tourists...again.
fantasic film and probalby my fav theme to any film.
a total waist of life on a pointles mission even tho we came close to actualy pulling it off. i realy hope they never try and remake this film as stated in another post, it could never be as good as the original, i trobably wouldnt make much money eather with todays youth not actualy careing what they did for us back then.
It wasn't a 'pointless mission.' Had Arnhem worked it would undoubtedly have gone down as the most daring & ambitious plan of the war. Von Molke's adage:-"No plan survives contact with the enemy," sums it up perfectly. When one fights soldiers as good as the Germans, you can ALWAYS expect a extremely hard fight. They reacted extremely quickily after the initial surprise of the landings & quickly mobilised a
their forces to respond. I agree with you re the remake-it would never complete!
An ill conceived battle, plans made on the fly - especially the airborne operation, which was BIGGER than Normandy - that destroyed an entire division so Monty could get to Berlin First. An object lesson in not paying attention to intelligence that doesn't fit preconceptions (the dutch underground and aerial photos showed German armor at Arnhem) And the hutzpa of generals - it was a 90% success even though the whole point was to capture the Bridge at Arnhem, and cross the Rhein, which failed.
@ryoushii : The operation made perfect sense. The German Army was being chased across France, and was not standing. The allies were at the end of their supply lines, and had to stop to refuel and re-arm. In that brief period the Germans managed to re-organise. It was a amazing piece of Staff work by Student, Model et al. Read "It Never snows in September". The Dutch Underground was known to be broken by the Germans, and the Allies couldn't trust it.
Yes indeed; I recall a documentary about German Paratroopers & some of them fought against The Paras in Arnheim; in their words RE: the British Paras: 'magnificent men all; not a mama's boy among them!'
That is a very sweeping statement! Had Bittrichs superb SS Panzergrenadiers not been kicking their heels in the locality, there is every chance Arnhem could have worked. The allies were unlucky to come up against high quality German units with excellent armour-simple as that.
It WAS a gamble...however IF it had worked & they captured ALL the bridges AND gotten a 'proper' bridgehead over the Rhine, what was the state of supply for the Allies? Could they have supported it adequately without clearing the Scheldt estuary & opening the port of Antwerp first?
If you want to look at it like that, then your comment that it was a 'gamble' can be applied to ANY & EVERY military operation ever undertaken. Nothing is certain in warfare- Von Molke- "NO PLAN SURVIVES CONTACT WITH THE ENEMY."
Apart from El Alamain could you tell me another Monty success ? Caen??? The British troops were supposed to take the city in D-Day +1 but they they achieved this only after one and a half months of bitter fight.
At El Alamain the British troops were vastly superior to the German in any respect: numbers and quality. Furthermore the British were defending a very well equipped and heavily armed line. El Alamain wasn't a victory at all. It was the normal thing to happen: the highly motivated, numerical superior 2nd Army stop the advanced of the inferior Afrikakorps whose supply line were stretched to the maximum. El Alamain is famous for being the first British.
one criticism I have for this mix is too much Browning at the start. I would've left him out and showed only the real fighting characters at the start.
Eine wundervolle Melodie zu einen der weltbesten Kriegsfilm. Oder DEM Besten?
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i loved this movie
Stevezom 4 months ago
I think A Bridge Too Far is my second favourite bridge-related war movie, ahead of The Bridge at Remagen but not as good as The Bridge on the River Kwai.
asdasd439 7 months ago
A Toilet Too Far.
cla52470 7 months ago
I loved this film as a kid, easily my favourite war movie for years. As I grew older though and read more and visited Arnhem and Oosterbeek, I realised how limited it is in portraying the geography of the Arnhem battle.
NotoriousMannk 9 months ago
This was the next equivalent of "The Longest Day", all the bright stars pf hollywood were cast here in this epic movie, by far 1 of the best ever made!
housekeeper25 10 months ago
やっぱ戦争映画の大きな醍醐味の一つは音楽だよね。
60~80年代くらいの戦争の栄光みたいなものを描いた映画では特に音楽が素晴らしい。
80年代以降らへんの反体制的な思想のある凄惨な映画も面白いけどね。
KENU3399SAS 10 months ago
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dragonquest20 10 months ago
Ps: Love this movie! fair non biased view from all sides but to any history buffs or whatever buy the book telling the full true story of a bridge too far u find out how command & generals messed up&how they knew in detail abt the panzer regiments near by yet they let the operation go forward expecting it to fail dramaticly after the 1st bridge! i swear it'll make u so mad at the generals & their ego's & make u respect the sheer courage & will of the troops that fought to push & hold as they did
ronny5001 11 months ago
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Hi ronny, why did operation market garden go ahead knowing that their own forces would fail? Was it political?
Thanks in advance for your reply
anticapitalista100 10 months ago
@anticapitalista100 Well, the movie, makes it look as though everyone knew the mission would fail. This was not true. SHAEF had no way of knowing that the Panzer Corps was there. Most of the error fell on Montgomory. He refused to accept Dutch intel reports, and refused to scale down the operation. This blame is thrown on General Browning in the film, and is somewhat unfair. Read the book A Bridge Too Far, and you will see what I mean
ColdWarShot 4 months ago
@tmtv633 You are right about what you say, but lets give credit where credit is due! Patton pulled out of a major winter battle, turned his Army, and advanced 100 miles from where he was, to Bastogne... Where he DID save the 101st Airborne Division from anialation. Like Patton or not, My Father, was under his command at Omaha Beach, and he died there, so if you want to say more, bring it on, cause I carry my father's honor every day I live, every hour, every moment, Maybe no one else does,
F15Eaglejet1 11 months ago
@F15Eaglejet1 With hind sight we can say all this but what happened happened may not like it but its the way things happened.
'Competency on the battlefield is a myth The side which screws up next to last wins it's as simple as that'
& F15Eaglejet1 anyone who fought is a hero regardless of their leader or side nothin can tarnish ure fathers name! the only problem i have is with what u said abt saveing the 101st, Not one member of the 101st airborne ever said they needed to be rescued by patton.
ronny5001 11 months ago
one thing about this film i could never understand was why Gene Hackman kept referring to the enemy as the 'Grr-mans'. Is this how Polish people pronounce Germans?
ivangrozny27 11 months ago
look montgomery was careful with his troops,some say he was over cautious,but what a field marshall.you forget the german code was broken,they must have known the ss units were there...... !protecting ultra?
salian66 1 year ago
The heroic actions of the soldiers (and civilians) at this battle have make me proud for I am a descendant of one of these august men. Long live the will to fight for freedom and our courageous soldiers who fight battles on and off the battlefield.
HMSMALTON 1 year ago
One of the great movies. They don't make epics like this anymore.
gteraka 1 year ago
Great music and great film.My grandmothers brother Reg Thomas took part in this battle and was shot down while parachuting down and spent three months in pow camp before being liberated.
welshcourtland 1 year ago
Wow! Edward Fox at the scene beginning at 1:00 reminds me on Ozymandias from Watchmen (played by Matthew Goode). Could be father and son!
hammerhi99 1 year ago
@Milhouse224 Oh yes? Patton used common sense did he? Tell that to the thousands of men he sent to needless, pointless deaths against the Metz Fortifications, tell that to the men he got killed doing the same at Brest before giving up & leaving it for someone else to deal with. Patton was all offense & no subtlety & his response to any fixed fortifcation was to bypass it & leave to someone else to deal with or to attack it frontally. Simpson & Patch were both vastly superior generals to Patton.
11nytram11 1 year ago
Operation Market Garden was possibly one of Germanys biggest defeats by winning because it gave the red army more time to push on the eastern front.
ArchMadman 1 year ago 3
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Fucking stupid left-wing film by the communist cunt Attenborough. I will celebrate his death.
JuanMacready 1 year ago
@JuanMacready time for your meds...
irish89055 1 year ago
@irish89055 I wish the talentless bald midget had died of lung cancer 30 years ago.
JuanMacready 1 year ago
i cant stop watching this epic film!!!
MattttyyB23 1 year ago
they should do more movies like this
hinz9303 1 year ago
This film doesnt really tell the story well enough I feel. It was my favourite film as a kid and the market garden story is one of the most exciting of the war so one film cant encompass it. Much time wasted on pointless side stories. having visited the places you quickly realise how much is skimmed over or totally ignored. Shame, still ... great theme tune.
NotoriousMannk 1 year ago
gentlemen this is a story that you will tell your grandchildren....and mightly bored they'll be
matt2house 1 year ago 5
i love this movie it's one of my favs
davo1193 1 year ago
chills down my spine every 13 times that ive seen this film. especially when the allies take Nijmegen bridge.
ColonelChamberlain 1 year ago
Where do you get this full version of the overture?
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yellowbeach1 1 year ago
Don't forget the Canadians, they had arrived in Great Britain prior to Christmas 1939, fought at Dieppe 1942 and had one of the five invasion beaches on D-Day. They got the furthest inland by day's end 6 June 1944. At Arnhem it was Canadian Engineers that got the remnants of General Urquharts 1st British Airborne across the Rhine on the night of 25 September 1944. Like the Polish who fought with 1st Canadian Army, the Canadians never get their due.
yellowbeach1 1 year ago 4
Highly under rated film.
FalconKPD 1 year ago 4
Oh you mean Polish Cowardice right?
Wordpie 1 year ago
@Wordpie your father was a coward so he married your mother and make you but do not insult Polish heroes you dumb fuck
Buner92 1 year ago
My favorite among great war themes because it is not too martial and to me seems sentimental, which I am.
Etnecserc 1 year ago
great movie..best ever
Filosofem2008 1 year ago
@Lakehope7 i have never read another history book quite like it tbh, it is phenominal, especially how he interviwed everyone from the german commander to even eisenhower for it! Briliant
scottspianist 1 year ago
der beste kriegsfilm überhaupt den es gibt ^^
mr187task 1 year ago
Great Movie!!And a cool Song!!I like the old WW 2 Movies!!Up the Irons!!
tyr030 2 years ago
Gorgeous music!
marekryszka 2 years ago
this music is a tribute to army and the cabalry, you will see the best scene in my channel, the video is called "El espirirtu de la caballeria" (the spirit of cabalry)
mamonycabron 2 years ago
agreed. this is the book that made me fall in love with nonfiction
ferbess 2 years ago
A very nice tribute to the greatest generation of men. Brave warriors of WW2 we owe you so very much, let your memory never be forgotten ..... !!!
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piacentini 2 years ago
That was the last (and maybe the only?) war, where i would say, the fight was necessary and the only right thing to do. Of course war is hell and terrible and morality fades away on all sides. But after all, Good and Evil was clearly to be seen in this time of history and fighting was after all for freedom and peace.
Unfortunately it isn't that easy anymore today...
schnubbel76 2 years ago
best film!!
mamonycabron 2 years ago
A brilliant and exciting piece of music. I own the entire soundtrack on CD. I bought it on e-bay all the way from England. I might point out this is very difficult to find nowadays.
Ken Palmer
kenpalmer1965 2 years ago
as a brit all credit to the poles ,also the czechs and the few yanks who came to britain to fight
craigpaul69 2 years ago 2
No one can complain about Polish bravery in world war two... one Polish Destroyer even attacked the Bismark when it was being followed... the mad ba*****s.
clive3262 2 years ago 7
Salute to Polish flag! This film is an exeption among Western Europe productions because it shows bravery of Polish soldiers among Allies. It shows how Polish paratroopers were dropped in a dead zone and were killed and even in that hopeless situation they kicked off Nazis and mantled to create an organized and well defended post as it was required in Monty's orders.
TwojaStaraStraszy 2 years ago 52
@TwojaStaraStraszy
war is a gamble,especially so
when the aggressor was well armed/smart n motivated.
hlimkb 1 year ago
@TwojaStaraStraszy this is a movie. you have not been there neither have I. so you can not judge. its as simple as that. unless they had some secret cameras over there
therealbamlee 7 months ago
@TwojaStaraStraszy The 1960s film "The Battle of Britain" also highlighted the Polish servicemen. This time as fighter pilots.
waratah08 3 weeks ago in playlist Favorite videos
does anyone know where i can download this version of the song. itunes and torrents all have the wrong version.
ColonelChamberlain 2 years ago
Film is great but Sosabowski played by Hackman is .... strange. In a scene when Polish pass the Rhein he was speaking "Śnur, śnur" In Polish it's hear overwise ;) 5/5
Kawosz96 2 years ago
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mr187task 2 years ago
.. Yee and the role of general Sosabowski was played by Gene Hackman in this film.
upiter75 2 years ago
The polish warrior where among if not the bravest, Sosabowski was the greatest general, he was among the first to land here,
Respect to poland, freeing holland, while germany and russia where playing games with their country!!
respect to poland, and Sosabowski!!
Greetings a dutch man
Tripserpentine 2 years ago 39
@Tripserpentine The polish para brigade didnt land untill the third or forth day though? So Sosabowski couldnt have been the first to land, seeing as half the first aiborn division was already there HOWEVER if allied intelligence had done its job maybe the polish paras lives wouldnt have been wasted a bloody way. A discrace really that they got dropped in the utter shit of it
scottspianist 1 year ago
@scottspianist its a bigger disgrace they where fighting to free my country, and we didnt returned te favour, no they had to wait until the soviet union fell.
i only wanted to pay homage to the polish, they where promissed that they could return and free theyre own country instaid they where used here, and than they where forgotten. well Sosabowski was honoured after he was dead.
Tripserpentine 1 year ago
@Tripserpentine well that wasnt what i was trying to point out but fair enougth, they were still wasted just as the other three divisions and so were the resources they could have used to push through into germany with the third army but never mind bless them for fighting for as long as hard as they did
scottspianist 1 year ago
Nice to see that the current Polish generation ise as tenacious as their forebears mr Svennnson!
ShawnMorgan 2 years ago
british government equipped polish army after the fall of France, gave them aircrafts and they helped to protect Great Britain from German invasion; gave them ships and they protected many convoys, and put one of them - ORP Ślązak ahead of the d-day fleet; gave them tanks and they fighted everywhere as if it was in Poland. that's why the dissillusionment was so huge when we were left to Stalin. but we know that Britain remembers our help, and we remember yours.
olunio1svennssonn 2 years ago 3
The Polish pilots in the Battle of Britain proved to be vital in holding the RAF numbers up long enough to hoid off the Luftwafffe
ShawnMorgan 2 years ago 2
Most of them were more experienced than our pilots aswell
nikon005 2 years ago 2
On top of that I read an article about The French command going into Germany and sending that should scare the Germans enough and then pulling back!
I don't like being on the other side of an argument to a Pole. If you don't know what I mean people, go visit Monte Cassino...
ShawnMorgan 2 years ago
ok, in Poland we say Battle of England. it absolutely doesn't metter...
olunio1svennssonn 2 years ago
On side note to the other reply I've left, trying saying that in Cardiff or Edinburgh.
ShawnMorgan 2 years ago
and the valour of the Poles an Dutch too please. and No I don't doubt american Valour. as a descedent of the an evacuee form Dunkirk, I thank your nation for its help.
ShawnMorgan 2 years ago
Great film because it's mostly accurate and also it doesnt portray the Germans as blithering idiots who like walking in front of Allied bullets for fun. The only thing I laugh at is Gene Hackman pronouncing 'Germans' as Gurrmans'. Also respect to the Polish soldiers, very brave in all the theatres they fought.
ivangrozny27 2 years ago 2
very brave, and very abandoned in the end... Poland, first to fight, was left alone by British and American governaments... our soldiers were fighting everywhere - Poland, France in 1940, Tobruk, Battle of England, eastern front hand in hand with USSR who invaded us on 17 september '39, Warsaw upraising of Home Army, Monte Cassino, Falaise, Arnhem, Breda, Wilhelmshaven, etc - Polish soldiers fought everywhere, but we lost the war...
olunio1svennssonn 2 years ago
jo a i za Mnichova se činili
zdenekklos 2 years ago
Left alone? Britain France declared war on Germany to try and get them out and we got hammered. Incidentally it's not the Battle of England, it's the Battle of Britain.
ShawnMorgan 2 years ago
yes, LEFT ALONE. i can daclare war on you and nothing happens. it France invaded Germany in september '39 the WWII would end before Christmas, before Christmas 1939. but they were cowards and only thrown some propaganda over Germany. Boże, chroń mnie od przyjaciół - z wrogami sam sobie poradzę.
olunio1svennssonn 2 years ago
You seem to have missed out the continual two years of bombing we suffered. I do however note that the French government completely screwed up and managed to let its people down.
And it categorically does matter that it's the Battle of Britain, not England. To continue to say that continues to Denigrate and insult and ignore all the Welsh and Scottish who gave their lives in a war, that we entered because of your country being invaded.
ShawnMorgan 2 years ago
no, i haven't missed anything. it's obvious that British people suffered very heavy bombings and many of them died. and i didn't say, that Great Brittain left us in 1939 - Brittain was unable to invade Germany in '39; France should have done it. but you must agree, that later you left us, leaving half of Europe to USSR. Polish army, the 5th biggest alied army(USSR, USA, Great Brittain, France, Poland) was not invited for the big parade in London. do you think it was fair?
olunio1svennssonn 2 years ago
Aye, I do agree. we argued with Russia over it but we were a spent force. we could not have forced Russia out by then. we mistakenly believed that we could negotiate Polish Freedom with Stalin.
And no, that was not fair at all, nor was the blame for the failure of Arnhem being laid at the feet of Gen Sosabowski by British High command.
ShawnMorgan 2 years ago
the post-war situation of Poland was mostly fault of Stalin and Roosevelt, Churchill's position between them was not strong enough, but maybe he could have done more... the fact is that Great Brittain and Commonwealth became the second home for many polish soldiers who stayed there because they didn't want to go back to a comunist Poland. we even had a exile government in London untill 1990.
olunio1svennssonn 2 years ago
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good job, 5 stars
ThePunisher1978 2 years ago
'A bridge too far'
The movie is a lie. Guards Armoured Division stopped just beyond Nijmegen because 1. It was almost dark. 2. all infantry were still securing Nijmegen town and 3. they had to rearm and refuel.
Jim Gavin (82nd) should have taken Nijmegen town or at least the bridge on day 1 (17th sept) or day 2 (18th sept) - (AS ORDERED)
But the movie has to sell in USA right ?? ;0)
funkmasterjee 2 years ago
I don't know about it 'selling' in the USA; the MOST featured characters were Sean Connery & Anthony Hopkins...by comparison, O'Neal, Redford, Gould & Caan were practically 'cameos'...the film heavily concentrated on Red Devils because THEIRS was the most compelling story.
nickmitsialis 2 years ago
Respect!
mfealy 2 years ago
try visiting the memorial at Arnhem, the average age of those that are remembered there is about 19. They gave their tomorrows so we may be free
landie68rover 2 years ago
On my "to do" list is to lay a wreath at Arnhem bridge!
adamski010 2 years ago
I've always said that Monty should have resigned after Market-Garden. He just wanted to get into Germany before Patton.
kealyc 2 years ago
Monty's ego cost too many brave men their lives!!!
adamski010 2 years ago 3
@kealyc Patton was't Monty's rival. He wasn't even on Monty's radar. Monty was spending most of his time in late 1944 arguing with Eisenhower, he didn't give a damn about getting one over Patton. If Monty had a rival in Europe it was Omar Bradley or Jacob Devers because they were the other Army Group Commanders. Patton was never anything more than an Army Commander and spent the vast majority of his career subordinate to another commander, making no higher command decisions at all.
11nytram11 1 year ago
@11nytram11 - possibly, but Monty was trying to get into Germany before the Americans. Unfortunately, 1st British Airborne was sacrificed in his attempts to hatch a hastily prepared plan, with a shortage of planes, meaning that the element of surprise was lost.
kealyc 1 year ago
@kealyc Monty was trying to finish the war as quickly as possible because he, like most Britons, was fed up of the war having been in it from the beginning and he knew more than anyone else that the longer the war went on the weaker Britain would be once it was finished.
MARKET GARDEN was a gamble worth taking but mistakes made by everybody involved - from Eisenhower down - and Bradley's refusal to halt 12th Army Group so the operation could be properly supported led to its failure.
11nytram11 1 year ago
@11nytram11 You are right Patton was not Monty's rival, he had surpassed him in Sciliy. Monty was the best man for the British Army, do nothing and keep the British Army alive. Patton had no parallel in either army. When you talk of the waste at Brest and Metz you are right Patton felt that the honor of the US Army was important.. Unfortuantely you obviously have not heard of the Huertgen Forrest where far more men died for less reason.
tmtv633 11 months ago
@tmtv633 Patton didn't surpass Montgomery in Sicily as his advance on Palermo was against negligible opposition and when he actually faced the German rearguard in his one sided race to Massena - Monty having suggested Patton take it - he proved no more effective than the British. Patton's reputation was vastly improved after his death but during his lifetime he achieved no equivilent of El Alamein or Alam Halfa.
11nytram11 11 months ago
@tmtv633 I have heard of the Hurtgen Forest Offensive and I regularly criticise Bradley and Hodges for conducting the operation for no apparent reason and continuing it well beyond the point that it could have been of any use but even so Patton lost 2,000 more men in his Lorraine Campaign than Hodges did (Hurtgen Forest - 31,000 casualties/Lorraine Campaign 33,000 casualties). So my criticism of Patton at Metz remains unchanged - he did not show any common sense in that operation at all.
11nytram11 11 months ago
@tmtv633 Furthermore, Patton was never a crucial element to the planning of a major Allied offensive nor did he ever command one where as Montgomery was the principal architect of Operation OVERLORD and was the Ground Forces Commander in charge of the campaign until the Falaize Gap was almost closed and Paris was taken. Patton has nothing to equal that either. Montgomery's MARKET GARDEN, while a failure, also cost the Allies a lot less than either the Hurtgen Forest or the Lorraine Campaigns did
11nytram11 11 months ago
Nice, thank´s ..;-)
Br3Ak3r19 2 years ago
The 60's and 70's brought the most unparalleled WWII films to date!!! A great theme song that as a kid and even now in the same I enjoy. Such brilliance coupled to a renowned war film mega classic!!!
DetroitLove4U 2 years ago
Beautiful This has to be one of my all time favorites
SSUnitedStateslife 2 years ago
Patton was far too reckless, and Montgomery too cautious. Using a liberal dollop of both was a potent mixture (as Normandy showed). Personally, Eisenhower must have been a miracle worker to stop them killing each other.
Qorlan 2 years ago 2
while i agree the soviets bore the brunt of the war 75 percent of the wehrmacht was in russia..it was england and the us that sent so much logistical support that the russians could concentrate on tanks , planes and other special equipment..
pdogone1 2 years ago
i really cant describe how much i love this music . Not only is it a great tune, but i also thinks it sums up the whole film/operation really well were it has the really cheerful bit at the start to show them all gearing up and dropping into enemy territory during the largest airborne operation in history, and then it goes low to show how the brits radios fail and there too far away and the convoy runs into trouble
its just an amazing piece of music, made for an amazing film
dannym1911 2 years ago 2
I couldn't agree more, one of the greatest War films I've ever seen and that's coming from a Desert Storm combat vet
karlmoles65 2 years ago
Amen brother!
DrRedhawk 2 years ago 2
Jeden z najlepszych filmów o 2 wojnie światowej. A muzyka do tego filmu to czysta poezja . MAGNIFICENT 5/5 !!!
sakaklaps 3 years ago 2
winjinsinjon K this movie was based on a Book, by an American How ever this American, was not aware of Ultra when he wrote his book,,,, Ultra and its secrets only became public domain Circa 1985. was Monty a Wanker ? prolly but he did not have the self doubts that Ike had
keirfree 3 years ago
i think one can certainly concede monti was a bit full of himself then again so was patton we could use them know
neweast1 3 years ago
how true is the film to what realy happend???? at the end of the film the allies are still holding there own when the rest of the drops are cancled, to hold out as long as they did with limited ammo ect against tanks i just wonder if with re enforcments they may have pulled it off.
winjinsinjon 3 years ago
The film is extremely accurate. The only fictious character is the American officer played by Elliot Gould. In all other respects, the film is accurate. The confrontation between Robert Redford & a British officer in XXX Corps outside NM did happen, but it was another US officer who was a Capt, as opposed to Major that Redford played.
LIVERPOOLSCOTTISH 3 years ago
well that makes it an even better film then, not like the modern trash where the americans found the enigma machin (cant spell for anything) or won the war all on there own.
winjinsinjon 3 years ago
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if you would bother to check more than one enigma machine was captured by the american navy during the war as was more by the british navy...the actual first copy was mysteriously delivered to a british embassy in poland before the war
SONOFHERO52 2 years ago
dont take that tone with me, the FIRST enigma machine was captured by the british, but as it was an american film it was americanised as they would all like us to belive they won the war on there own. you cant deny that alot of the modern war films glarorise the american part in the war unlike this film.
winjinsinjon 2 years ago
I don't disagree, but could you have won it without us?
skoalman666 2 years ago
nope. seen movie Fatherland? basically it's what happens IF D-Day had failed and the US concentrated on Japan only and left Hitler to the Brits and the Soviets.
with US supplies, which had been restoring UK since '39 anyway i think UK could have beaten Hitler, but it would have taken a few years longer and the USSR would have gained a f*ckload more territory than it did anyway.
devi2691 2 years ago
Britain would have lost the war without America, but America couldn't have won it without us.
and to be fair, neither of us would have got far without the Soviets, not to mention all the allied nations and the commonwealth. Twas a team effort, not just the big burly brute at the front, but the smaller guys too :)
Qorlan 2 years ago 4
Too be completely honest, I doubt the Soviets even really needed any of us except to tie up some garrison divisions in the West, and a few in North Africa.
skoalman666 2 years ago 3
True, but had we not been involved, by 1945 you could have stood on the white cliffs and looked at the Soviet Union (if you catch my drift...)
Qorlan 2 years ago 3
Very true.
skoalman666 2 years ago
That's true. poles build copy of enigma before war and give it to French and Brits.
ManWithNoName1980 2 years ago 3
Indeed.
Tomacatos 2 years ago
Actually the only major inaccuracy was just the Airborne crossing the river in the dingies... as a load of British Guards did so as wlel but they needed a very American scene for the US audience.
SgtSwiper 3 years ago
The British officer was Captain Lord Carrington MC, later Defence Secretary to Ted Heath and Foreign Secretary to Margaret Thatcher. He took the blame for, and resigned over, the Falklands invasion of '82. A man of honour, a gentleman (in the truest meaning of that word) and a delightful neighbour of mine.
thohols 2 years ago 2
My German friends can't believe that Carrington was in the 2nd or 3rd tank to roll over the Nijmegen bridge as Harmel attempted to blow it. In reality, Robert Redord's character truly existed and Carrington was almost set upon by him, having to get back in his tank.
kealyc 2 years ago
Yeah that's pretty ironic. But then again, those nations had a lot in common. As opposed to the Soviets, Chinese and Japanese.
CabronDioz 3 years ago
People keep on going on about Arnhem. I had a relative who fought at Grave. I am pleased to see that this is mentioned here in 1:02 of the sequence. My relative was in the 505th which was fighting around that bridge.
swanningaround 3 years ago
I always enjoy seeing the veterans walking through Oosterbeek. Medals pinned on their chests, barely able to move...but if you put a Lee Enfield in their hands, I'm sure they'll start demolishing things and shooting German tourists...again.
Arnhem1972 3 years ago 6
Nou nou, jongetje van het jaar 1972 zeker.
marcuslars 3 years ago
Nee, ik heb zomaar wat cijfertjes achter mijn nick geplakt.
Arnhem1972 3 years ago 2
Fag.
rockandroll93 3 years ago
fantasic film and probalby my fav theme to any film.
a total waist of life on a pointles mission even tho we came close to actualy pulling it off. i realy hope they never try and remake this film as stated in another post, it could never be as good as the original, i trobably wouldnt make much money eather with todays youth not actualy careing what they did for us back then.
winjinsinjon 3 years ago
It wasn't a 'pointless mission.' Had Arnhem worked it would undoubtedly have gone down as the most daring & ambitious plan of the war. Von Molke's adage:-"No plan survives contact with the enemy," sums it up perfectly. When one fights soldiers as good as the Germans, you can ALWAYS expect a extremely hard fight. They reacted extremely quickily after the initial surprise of the landings & quickly mobilised a
their forces to respond. I agree with you re the remake-it would never complete!
LIVERPOOLSCOTTISH 3 years ago
One of my favorite movies and soundtracks. The overture is very inspirational. Thank you!
GoofyTurp 3 years ago 3
An ill conceived battle, plans made on the fly - especially the airborne operation, which was BIGGER than Normandy - that destroyed an entire division so Monty could get to Berlin First. An object lesson in not paying attention to intelligence that doesn't fit preconceptions (the dutch underground and aerial photos showed German armor at Arnhem) And the hutzpa of generals - it was a 90% success even though the whole point was to capture the Bridge at Arnhem, and cross the Rhein, which failed.
ryoushii 3 years ago
@ryoushii : The operation made perfect sense. The German Army was being chased across France, and was not standing. The allies were at the end of their supply lines, and had to stop to refuel and re-arm. In that brief period the Germans managed to re-organise. It was a amazing piece of Staff work by Student, Model et al. Read "It Never snows in September". The Dutch Underground was known to be broken by the Germans, and the Allies couldn't trust it.
LastHussar 1 year ago
Yes indeed; I recall a documentary about German Paratroopers & some of them fought against The Paras in Arnheim; in their words RE: the British Paras: 'magnificent men all; not a mama's boy among them!'
nickmitsialis 3 years ago 2
Glad to be of service, My Liege! I was only quoting the comments of a prominent British General!
nickmitsialis 3 years ago
JohnBull: With My tongue firmly planted in cheek I have to say that in regards to Allied Defeats, I think The Germans had a lot to do with them...
nickmitsialis 3 years ago 2
Market Garden would never have worked.
THEF22RAPTORACE 3 years ago
That is a very sweeping statement! Had Bittrichs superb SS Panzergrenadiers not been kicking their heels in the locality, there is every chance Arnhem could have worked. The allies were unlucky to come up against high quality German units with excellent armour-simple as that.
LIVERPOOLSCOTTISH 3 years ago
It WAS a gamble...however IF it had worked & they captured ALL the bridges AND gotten a 'proper' bridgehead over the Rhine, what was the state of supply for the Allies? Could they have supported it adequately without clearing the Scheldt estuary & opening the port of Antwerp first?
nickmitsialis 3 years ago
If you want to look at it like that, then your comment that it was a 'gamble' can be applied to ANY & EVERY military operation ever undertaken. Nothing is certain in warfare- Von Molke- "NO PLAN SURVIVES CONTACT WITH THE ENEMY."
LIVERPOOLSCOTTISH 3 years ago
Fair enough...Von Moltke's comments are certainly among the most well known;
nickmitsialis 3 years ago
COMING TO THE BIG SCREEN IN 2014!!!!
A BRIDGE TOO FAR.
With:
Colin Firth as LT Gen Fredrick Browning.
George Cloony as ssg Eddie Dohun
Daniel Craig as Lt Col John Frost
Robert Lindsay as Major-General Roy Urquhart
AND GET THIS...
ELLEN PAGE!!!!! AS THE DUTCH NURSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(havnt got the rest of the names, not even shore if this is real myself).
hmasmelbourne 3 years ago
Good god I hope not
EddieUKNL 3 years ago
Neither do i, sounds like a disaster in waiting!
hmasmelbourne 3 years ago
you just remixed the Trailer with the ending music
KaliumPhos 3 years ago
Apart from El Alamain could you tell me another Monty success ? Caen??? The British troops were supposed to take the city in D-Day +1 but they they achieved this only after one and a half months of bitter fight.
LiviuFloreaRo 3 years ago
At El Alamain the British troops were vastly superior to the German in any respect: numbers and quality. Furthermore the British were defending a very well equipped and heavily armed line. El Alamain wasn't a victory at all. It was the normal thing to happen: the highly motivated, numerical superior 2nd Army stop the advanced of the inferior Afrikakorps whose supply line were stretched to the maximum. El Alamain is famous for being the first British.
LiviuFloreaRo 3 years ago
Poland-big P
ciumciumhaha 3 years ago 3
Proud to be Polish when you watch this :]
Johnno3D 3 years ago 7
Watched this film when I was a kid, admired the Paras ever since, dropped on German Panzers and still fought like Red Devils..
mhffc 3 years ago 3
Yes. Too bad their General, Montgomery was a complete idiot when it comes to field tactics.
LiviuFloreaRo 3 years ago
het is deventer hoor
baross01 3 years ago
This has got to be one of the best movies I've ever seen. And absolutely great soundtrack.
Seneka4295 3 years ago 6
one criticism I have for this mix is too much Browning at the start. I would've left him out and showed only the real fighting characters at the start.
slizzler1 3 years ago
best war film ever!!!!TOP
1990male 3 years ago 6
One of the greatest films and the greatest soundtracks ever. Proud to be British when you hear this
destructivedandy 3 years ago 9
Love it!!!
has anyone a MP3 of this?
rockandroll93 3 years ago 4
Marvellous!!
cjkoby 3 years ago 7