The Shermans in the film seem to be either 17-pounder armed "Firefly" M4s, or perhaps 105mm armed Israeli "Super Shermans." Anyone know which? I can't recall...
The scene with the Polish paratroopers massacred while still in air was also cut. The viewer does not see how a paratrooper gives his life to recuperate one of the few supplies landing near them, to obtain few useless head covers. And the viewer would appreciate the irony of the situation when the German general offers a chocolate to the surrendering British officer, and as the latter is reluctant to accept, he says: “It is excellent. It is British.”
Occasionally the statements issued by Lou Diamond Phillips or his guests are wrong.
Much more useful to the viewer would be the uncut version of a movie, especially when the “censor” seems to don’t understand what he’s doing.
Because of the cuts, the viewer does not know that the captured Allied plans were real and the Germans soon realized that they were real and acted accordingly, waiting ready at the supply dropping points or paratroop reinforcements.
The movie was recently offered on The Military Channel.
It is understandable that the Military Channel has to self-sustain with advertise during their late night weekend movies, but the interviews and comments from Lou Diamond Phillips should not steal actual footage time from the real movies.
In a serious enterprise like “A Bridge Too Far” every scene is there with a reason, and if the movie’s director wanted it there, it should be there.
@deltasword1994: Right you are.... as savage as the fighting was in the ETO (and it was, according to many Germans who had served in both places), the battles were smaller in scale, and didn't cost as much in men and material lost as did the titantic battles in the east. The war between Germany and the USSR in the east was so large as to defy imagination. Dr. Richard Overy's book "Blood Upon the Snow," is a good introduction to it.
A strenuous attempt to replicate the magic of "The Longest Day" and, of course, one even based on another Cornelius Ryan source, but just as assuredly a disappointing imitation of it....
I agree the cast of big name actors in this movie would be nearly impossible to duplicate in a remake, but I don't think its necessary to do so. Just like Band of Brothers where the actors were pretty unknown but the result was amazing, the same can be done here.
As a kid I loved this movie, but as I grew up I began to notice that not everything was as realistic as it could be. That's why it'd be great to have Speilberg do a remake to make it as real and gritty as he did with SPR
@JDubs878 Nah, this movie is fine the way it is. I wish someone would remake the Battle of the Bulge, and use A LOT of armor. Or how about an honest movie about Kasserine Pass.
I mean unrealistic based on action, none of the ambushes shown in this video were helpfull for Germans, also its funny how Germans almost always miss while Americans are accuruate as hell.
yeea i live near nijmegen. but this movie was not shot there, it was taken a few kilometers further up the river, cause they could not block the nijmegen bridge for this movie. still love this movie!
and all thanks for the brave men who truly fought these battles. they gained our freedom!
Gentlemen, I like to think of this as one of those American western films. The paratroops, lacking substantial equipment, always short of food- these are the besieged homesteaders. The Germans, well naturally they're the bad guys. Thirty corps, we my friends are the cavalry- on the way to the rescue!" what a line!
@GeoJnr92: Edward Fox - that guy practically stole the movie with that line. I wish he'd have done more action roles, he had a great deal of magnetism and charisma in them.
This is a very good movie. Funny enough movies from that era where higly unrealistic. And this movie is a great exception. It is even more realistic than modern day WWII movies. Haha.
@Wallonische I'm English, fully english, doesn't matter to me if I get called english or british. I know myself I'm not scottish or welsh so it doesn't matter to me. Each to their own I guess.
@buildingeverything The Allies didnt cross the Rhine River until 1945, because of the Ardenne Offensive that the Germans Launched in December 1944, which is the Battle of the Bulge, and if the Allies had actually crossed the Rhine, the Ardenne Offensive wouldve undoubtedly be canceled to deal with the Threat of the Allies pouring into Germany and WW2 wouldve been over way before May 8 1945.
After market garden fell flat the US managed to capture the first major German city, Aachen, while continuing the Battle of the Hurtgen Forest and also began driving the Germans out of Lorraine but until Wacht am Rhine (the Battle of the Bulge) was launched in December the other Allies were mainly besieging the Siegfried Line or clearing the channel coastlines, the Allies didn't get across the Rhine until March 1945 when they captured the Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen
They should have made another airborne in the eastern zone of Arnheim and a diversionary tactic by heavily attacking the Ruhr itself, to deceive all german units there and earn time to secure Arnheim.
They should have made another airborne in the eastern zone of Arnheim and a diversionary tactic by heavily attacking the Ruhr itself, to deceive all german units there and earn time to secure Arnheim.
They should have made another airborne in the eastern zone of Arnheim and a diversionary tactic by heavily attacking the Ruhr itself, to deceive all german units there and earn time to secure Arnheim.
@Shadowman4710 I myself consider stalingrad more of a campaign, but yes we may never deny it was indeed a battle, a very prolonged battle over a small city that took almost as much time as the germans did getting there. I would pesonaly say that Kursk would the most "devastating" battle of the Second World War. But if you would include long battles, (or relativley quick), you should, or may consider the Battle of Berlin the Siege of Leningrad,if you include seiges, or the battl-sorry, no space
@tromuniapp: one could fairly say that, to the soldier or civilian who died, or whose family was killed, that battle was the most devastating of WWII.
@nickie2011 This is going to be true of all movies made before the collapse of the Soviet Union. It's only been since the 90's that western historians (such as Steven Glantz) have had access to the Red Army files. "Stalingrad" (a German film) is an excellent introduction to the Eastern Front (if told from the German point of view). Another good film is Sam Peckinpah's "The Iron Cross" (1977) which again, is from the German point of view, although it is in English. Forget "Enemy At the Gates."
It would be funny if the allies won in the movie. I've never seen the movie but it looks like the kind of movie with the good guys winning in the end. We lost operation market garden.
I bought this DVD at pearl harbor eight years ago, I just found it in the attic yesterday, man it was the first WWII film I've seen!! Real special to me.
@Cool2BCeltic true but this movie was filmed back in 70 and band of brothers 2001, in this movie they use 50 milion dollars and band of brothers 120 milion dollars, and ofcourse you cant compare tech in 70' and in the 2000
@Cool2BCeltic yeah and 1o years from now some other series will be more realistic than Brothers...and realilsm isnt always for the best anyways. Anyways, Brothers as great as it is, only takes into account one company whereas Bridge is looking at the battle to a greater degree.
I hate to rain on anybodies parade, but they are both perfect examples of allied ( western+Israeli ) propoganda.
WHEN the "west" finally get wise to american imperialism and there PR machine ( Hollywood ), [ both run by zionism ]. The citizens of this planet are going to have to undergo a, cheap, 'off the shelf',' no frills', "this is a recession you know !", re-education program.
Brothers forcues entirly on Easy Company's experiences during the war in Europe but doesn't go into much detail on larger events like the Breakout from Normandy, Operation Market Garden (focuing primarily on Einhoven and Easy company's exploits while leaving out the other parts of the Operation) Crossing the Rhine, the Rhur Pocket. A Bridge Too Far focused enterily on Market Garden and the events surrounding it same way longest day focused soley on D-Day
I love the scene where Elliot Gould walks onto a little road, and start walking towards the camera, and gradually a bunch of other soldiers join them and walk towards the bridge. SO COOL!
@TheOwie15 It's very simple and cleaver really, the Germans used what were esseentilly Guerrilla warfare tactic's to stall the advancing tanks. The unit's in the way were small but realised that the Brits were advancing on a two lane road that was raised from ground leavel too keep it dry and the land on eighter side was wooded and marshy so all they had to do was disable the lead tanks and shoot a few bullets and the brits were stalled. Though they were lucky the Brits ignored intell.
Continued..the plan was flawed from the start when they expected 30 CORPS ( or XXX CORPS ) to advance up a narrow highway / road and reach Arnhem. Plus also not landing the british para's closer to Arnhem ( the " jeep squadron " ) as they were blocked / ambushed initially and had to fight through; suffering casualties and using up ammo before they even reached the bridge ( and fatigued ). Regards.
Hi, also along with comments ref " why it failed ", the allies / allied leadership were overconfident due to their success at " Normandy D-Day " and a perception that the Germans were " psychologicaly " defeated / or would withdraw / retreat to defend Germany. Hence reports of armoured forces in the area were " ignored " or " diminished "; it was in a way their ( the Airborne forces ) " Crete ". Plus...continued next comment....
Sorry, that's not completly right either. They had intel from the french resistance and aireal pic's that showed some tanks. They were in such a rush to want this to happen they ignored it. Yes 1st airborne is the modern day Regiment. They never fought again during the 2nd world war due to there loses at this drop. All of the top decision makers were to blame. They wanted this to happen, so it did.
The Polish airborne was completly wiped out. The british 1st airborne never jumped again due to such heavy closes. And Montgomery who planed it said it failed because it was not fully equiped.
Wow, I just learned that the bridge at Arnhem is now officially named the John Frost Bridge, in honor of John Frost (played by Anthony Hopkins) who defended the north end of it until he and his men were overrun. It took over thirty years until the official name change because Frost didn't want the honor. That was a fine man!
Great Film, sad . As a kid you view it as you want action in a film.When you get older you understand the real human cost as in this case the film based on real events. tactical planning seems that boats were over looked on this operation as a way of getting men arcoss rivers without using the bridges. 7 days madness for planning,I think blowing up/damaging Arnhem bridge in a air sortie would be better idea. It have stopped the german tanks - shows no fire air support except at the start
eacellent version of what really happened... i remember my dad telling me the story to this when i was a little girl.. he was there.. my hero.. my dad!! xxxxxxxxxxxx rip dad.. god bless xxxxx
Favourite moment is when the Germans advance on the beseiged and outnumbered paras and say they are there to talk about terms of surrender - meaning the surrender of the British, of course. The British officer replies 'I'm sorry, we don't have the facilities to accept your surrender!'
They should have just let Eisenhower handle the entire show. They would have made it to Germany much earlier. Market Garden was doomed from the very start.
I've more respect for brave men who fight in battles like the real Arnhem or our boys in Iraq and Afghanistan than the over-paid wankers who play football that society now class as 'heroes'....Its a brilliant film, especially as a portrayal of how futile war really is though.
This is one of my all time favourite moives.The things that made it so good are, the all star cast, great music score, great battle scences, famous lines, and a great depiciton of anit war. This is a great moive and i recommend it to anyone who likes war films.
@mariotrooper101 There were MANY reasons the entire operation was a travesty, it was just pure coincidence that the Germans rested 2 S.S. Panzer divisions and troops at Arnhem. Bad british intelligence, no radios working, over run drop zones for supplies, bad roads etc etc....
@TheMasterNo6 I know!!!!!! >:( I have the game (Close Combat: A Bridge Too Far) and the movie. Also, the British KNEW that there were tanks stationed in Arnhem but Monty didn't want to cancell it after at the effort he (and his troops) but into it already.
@AlexSDU plus all that rumors that "krauts" only had old men and boys... but as far as "bad planning" is concerned... it was a "deuce" again. better planning by the germans on d-day would probably crush the allied forces right on the beach. well... im glad how things happened...
Not a great movie, but definitely watchable. Only minor complaints: (1) Sometimes it seemed like Allies and Nazis were literally sharing the town, like one block Allies, next one Nazis. In reality, each side would have had to establish their respective fronts, and (2) chicken shit R. O'Neill playing a general? One of the all time sucky actors.
...wasn't so violent as Stalingrad but was hell just in 9 days allied casualties were over 17.000.. Stalingrad aside, Battle for Moscow (Oct 2, 41 - Jan 7, 42) casualties estimated around 400.000 German and 650.000 - 1.280.000 Soviets, Soviets defended the city., loosing minimum 10.000 people a DAY.
i can not identificate a tank in 1:44, i know, its some german tank in the film, but what type of tank is it in reality, maybe Leopard, i dont know, does anybody knows it? thx
@TheMasterNo6 It is actually a german made Leopard 1 tank (trying to go as a Tiger II), I don't know if it's the belgium army who loaned it out for the movie, fact is though that its a Leopard 1.
@sherminatorize If it had succeeded the war could of ended in 1944 ad many lives could of been saved. It would also have chnged the hstory of the next 40 or 50 years in Europe had it come off. We would of reached Berlin before the Russians and so there would have been no partioned Berlin or Wall come too that. There may have been no cold war either.
You see, the amazing thing about this movie is that there was no CGI in those days... that was all WWII aircraft and armor. That was the 82nd airbourne jumping en mass
The Shermans in the film seem to be either 17-pounder armed "Firefly" M4s, or perhaps 105mm armed Israeli "Super Shermans." Anyone know which? I can't recall...
GeorgiaBoy1961 2 days ago
CONTINUATION OF THE SECOND COMMENT
The scene with the Polish paratroopers massacred while still in air was also cut. The viewer does not see how a paratrooper gives his life to recuperate one of the few supplies landing near them, to obtain few useless head covers. And the viewer would appreciate the irony of the situation when the German general offers a chocolate to the surrendering British officer, and as the latter is reluctant to accept, he says: “It is excellent. It is British.”
FlorinSutu 1 week ago
CONTINUATION OF THE PREVIOUS COMMENT
Occasionally the statements issued by Lou Diamond Phillips or his guests are wrong.
Much more useful to the viewer would be the uncut version of a movie, especially when the “censor” seems to don’t understand what he’s doing.
Because of the cuts, the viewer does not know that the captured Allied plans were real and the Germans soon realized that they were real and acted accordingly, waiting ready at the supply dropping points or paratroop reinforcements.
FlorinSutu 1 week ago
The movie was recently offered on The Military Channel.
It is understandable that the Military Channel has to self-sustain with advertise during their late night weekend movies, but the interviews and comments from Lou Diamond Phillips should not steal actual footage time from the real movies.
In a serious enterprise like “A Bridge Too Far” every scene is there with a reason, and if the movie’s director wanted it there, it should be there.
CONTINUED IN THE FOLLOWING COMMENT
FlorinSutu 1 week ago
I know know why they call it that In tf2
Fenexs 2 weeks ago
it was an great movie? its stil an awsome movie @7dc
Lazybear22 3 weeks ago
"Most devastating battle of World War 2?" Maybe for the western allies, however Stalingrad was the most devastating battle EVER.
deltasword1994 1 month ago 6
@deltasword1994: Right you are.... as savage as the fighting was in the ETO (and it was, according to many Germans who had served in both places), the battles were smaller in scale, and didn't cost as much in men and material lost as did the titantic battles in the east. The war between Germany and the USSR in the east was so large as to defy imagination. Dr. Richard Overy's book "Blood Upon the Snow," is a good introduction to it.
GeorgiaBoy1961 2 days ago
Unlike many movies these days, this movie has an actual All-Star Cast!
borekfk1 1 month ago
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@Wallonische talk about English defensiveness, but you're right and I see where you're coming from.
Point taken.
knut761 1 month ago
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knut761 1 month ago
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@Wallonische talk about British defensiveness
Stevezom 1 month ago
I just love that typical english reaction, hilarious XD
europachef 1 month ago
this is by far the movie with the best actors i have ever heard off! Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Gene Hackman, Anthony Hopkins and others!!!
DbkGcw 1 month ago
nazi's should have won :(
erdal0 2 months ago
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@Wallonische what a british reaction.
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Tuttigiu 2 months ago
Wow, I had forgotten having seen this film. It's a hoot seeing all those actors so young!
We have precious few of the combatants that survived, alive today.
Starrman69 2 months ago
Looks like the longest trailer I've ever seen xD
T3436 2 months ago
my grandfather is one of these men! got letters and picture too!
fredogabilog 2 months ago
One of the great British war films. I just cannot bring myself to watch it though, Operation Market Garden is very sad and depressing
TalonMercenary 2 months ago
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Great Arnhem facts clip is at link below;
watch?v=WgG0rBvBD74
slizzler1 2 months ago
here's a nice quote. "we're saving you?"*camera pans to the right showing a hole in the wall* "or should you be saving us?"
SuperODST1 3 months ago
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0:46 You talking to me?
Trashcansam123 3 months ago
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Google "PARACHUTE 2 CLUB". Genuine comments and photos from guys who have served in 2 PARA,
Whatever81417 3 months ago
R,I.P staff sargeant Patrick Riches killed in arnhem and posthumorously awarded the george cross for defending the wounded my grandfather
greggyinfantry 3 months ago
@greggyinfantry "Posthumorously" ? Indeed, you englishmen are the true masters of sneaky humour.
Moonbotick 2 months ago 10
I thought the siege of Stalingrad was the most bloodiest WW2 battle.
MysteriousPinkFlufff 3 months ago
@MysteriousPinkFlufff You could say Operation Market GHarden Was the bloodiest battle of Europe, while Starlingrad was that of the eastern front
Giselle76502 3 months ago
@MysteriousPinkFlufff
Ooperation market garden - 30 000 losses on both sides
Battle of Stalingrad - 2 000 000 losses on both sides
Moonbotick 2 months ago
I never realized such a massive operation had taken place in my own country!!
CyclonicTuna023 4 months ago
It still is a great movie, i remember when i first saw it!
MEHall 4 months ago
Don`t forget the enormous losses of the RN in the Med. And they won. Italian landings.
transonicbuoy1 5 months ago
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This movie looks awesome!!!!
Awesomestudios789 6 months ago
Without a doubt one of the greatest war movies ever made.
Mustang84211 6 months ago
Don't know which had the better cast...this or the longest day...
KoMmIzZaR98 6 months ago
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I like this movie
TheCyberMenace1 6 months ago
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u can watch this movie 10 times and not get bored
greek909 6 months ago
SSSCCCHAWWNN KONNARYYY....
WaziHazi 6 months ago
One of the best cast line-ups of all time. Shame the film didn't turn out so good. I mean, it was good, but could've been a lot better.
LiamCrowley1990 6 months ago
Hurrah~ It's an old school version of Expandable~!
GoodFebruarian 7 months ago
looks great
MrMovielover1998 7 months ago
Yay for Holland :)
BurnedToast00 7 months ago
this a great film and one of the only ones... where the germans win
datsome80 7 months ago
A strenuous attempt to replicate the magic of "The Longest Day" and, of course, one even based on another Cornelius Ryan source, but just as assuredly a disappointing imitation of it....
kcolpaer 8 months ago
to transity 3- a few comments down - the word ur looking for is irony
tromuniapp 8 months ago
An all-star cast in what was, and still is,a great war movie .
globbo100 8 months ago
americans will be stay the same in propaganda art.
DaLynxfighta 8 months ago
this is what i like in movies...real explosions, sets and props, none of this CGI nonsense
irishboy664 9 months ago 15
Very, very fine film. I associated with some of the characters, which can't be said for war films with casts this large.
Tragicomedy at its finest, really. This battle played out so badly for the Allies, it was sad and funny at the same time.
transitny 9 months ago
I wish Speilberg and Hanks would remake this movie. It would be so damn awesome!
JDubs878 9 months ago
@JDubs878 There's no cast that could compete with the original cast, this movie has some of the best actors in history.
masterchef2244 9 months ago
@masterchef2244
I agree the cast of big name actors in this movie would be nearly impossible to duplicate in a remake, but I don't think its necessary to do so. Just like Band of Brothers where the actors were pretty unknown but the result was amazing, the same can be done here.
As a kid I loved this movie, but as I grew up I began to notice that not everything was as realistic as it could be. That's why it'd be great to have Speilberg do a remake to make it as real and gritty as he did with SPR
JDubs878 9 months ago
@JDubs878 Nah, this movie is fine the way it is. I wish someone would remake the Battle of the Bulge, and use A LOT of armor. Or how about an honest movie about Kasserine Pass.
Klendathue 8 months ago
Epic trailer!
BANZITOMMY 9 months ago
Too bad it has a sudden end :(
Perry12able 10 months ago
@stevinatornl thats probobly my Fav too- i watch this whenever i get to ssick for school. I jsut lay on the couch and watch this all day
Ksgamer103 10 months ago
I mean unrealistic based on action, none of the ambushes shown in this video were helpfull for Germans, also its funny how Germans almost always miss while Americans are accuruate as hell.
desetnik15second 10 months ago
Yeah great movie, but unrealistic as hell.
desetnik15second 10 months ago
yeea i live near nijmegen. but this movie was not shot there, it was taken a few kilometers further up the river, cause they could not block the nijmegen bridge for this movie. still love this movie!
and all thanks for the brave men who truly fought these battles. they gained our freedom!
SuperUndeadcat 10 months ago
SEAN CONNERY!!! ya, rock on!
Carrdude101 10 months ago
''Greatest Battles of WW2''?
My ass...KURSK > Market Garden
milanTHErocker 10 months ago
@milanTHErocker
kursk was for fags hiding in tanks. Market Garden was for real men
MustNotRead 10 months ago
@MustNotRead are you fucking retarded?
milanTHErocker 10 months ago
Gentlemen, I like to think of this as one of those American western films. The paratroops, lacking substantial equipment, always short of food- these are the besieged homesteaders. The Germans, well naturally they're the bad guys. Thirty corps, we my friends are the cavalry- on the way to the rescue!" what a line!
GeoJnr92 10 months ago
@GeoJnr92: Edward Fox - that guy practically stole the movie with that line. I wish he'd have done more action roles, he had a great deal of magnetism and charisma in them.
GeorgiaBoy1961 2 days ago
This is a very good movie. Funny enough movies from that era where higly unrealistic. And this movie is a great exception. It is even more realistic than modern day WWII movies. Haha.
tankeriv 10 months ago
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@Wallonische I'm English, fully english, doesn't matter to me if I get called english or british. I know myself I'm not scottish or welsh so it doesn't matter to me. Each to their own I guess.
jakf101 11 months ago
This movie is made in Deventer. Thats where i lives
Skittahboyz 11 months ago
Stalingrad and Kursk were the two most devastating battles of World War 2.
And btw, does anyone know what happened after Market Garden?
EvilFingers 1 year ago
@EvilFingers They crossed the Rhine
buildingeverything 11 months ago
@buildingeverything No, the Battle of the Bulge.
EvilFingers 11 months ago
@EvilFingers The crossed the Rhine after Market Garden too, he never asked for what happened right after :P
buildingeverything 11 months ago
@buildingeverything The Allies didnt cross the Rhine River until 1945, because of the Ardenne Offensive that the Germans Launched in December 1944, which is the Battle of the Bulge, and if the Allies had actually crossed the Rhine, the Ardenne Offensive wouldve undoubtedly be canceled to deal with the Threat of the Allies pouring into Germany and WW2 wouldve been over way before May 8 1945.
EvilFingers 11 months ago
@EvilFingers /facepalm
You really didn't get my replay didn't you...
buildingeverything 11 months ago
@buildingeverything Youre not being specific in your reply
EvilFingers 11 months ago
@EvilFingers
After market garden fell flat the US managed to capture the first major German city, Aachen, while continuing the Battle of the Hurtgen Forest and also began driving the Germans out of Lorraine but until Wacht am Rhine (the Battle of the Bulge) was launched in December the other Allies were mainly besieging the Siegfried Line or clearing the channel coastlines, the Allies didn't get across the Rhine until March 1945 when they captured the Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen
snakes3425 11 months ago
@snakes3425 Finally, someone that actually knows his/her History and Thank You.
EvilFingers 11 months ago
BEST EPIC TRAILER EVER
Tuttigiu 1 year ago
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They should have made another airborne in the eastern zone of Arnheim and a diversionary tactic by heavily attacking the Ruhr itself, to deceive all german units there and earn time to secure Arnheim.
Tuttigiu 1 year ago
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They should have made another airborne in the eastern zone of Arnheim and a diversionary tactic by heavily attacking the Ruhr itself, to deceive all german units there and earn time to secure Arnheim.
Tuttigiu 1 year ago
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Tuttigiu 1 year ago
great trailer, great actors, great movie
Sefco26 1 year ago
Actually the most 'devastating' battle of WWII was probably Stalingrad but this is still a very fine film.
Shadowman4710 1 year ago 26
@Shadowman4710 I myself consider stalingrad more of a campaign, but yes we may never deny it was indeed a battle, a very prolonged battle over a small city that took almost as much time as the germans did getting there. I would pesonaly say that Kursk would the most "devastating" battle of the Second World War. But if you would include long battles, (or relativley quick), you should, or may consider the Battle of Berlin the Siege of Leningrad,if you include seiges, or the battl-sorry, no space
tromuniapp 9 months ago
@tromuniapp: one could fairly say that, to the soldier or civilian who died, or whose family was killed, that battle was the most devastating of WWII.
GeorgiaBoy1961 2 days ago
@Shadowman4710 True... so Occident centered vision, isn't it?
nickie2011 8 months ago
@nickie2011 This is going to be true of all movies made before the collapse of the Soviet Union. It's only been since the 90's that western historians (such as Steven Glantz) have had access to the Red Army files. "Stalingrad" (a German film) is an excellent introduction to the Eastern Front (if told from the German point of view). Another good film is Sam Peckinpah's "The Iron Cross" (1977) which again, is from the German point of view, although it is in English. Forget "Enemy At the Gates."
Shadowman4710 4 months ago
@Shadowman4710 oh yeah
mohamedgna 6 months ago
@Shadowman4710 Forget WWII all together. WWI was nothing short of mass genocide...
CyclonicTuna023 4 months ago
It would be funny if the allies won in the movie. I've never seen the movie but it looks like the kind of movie with the good guys winning in the end. We lost operation market garden.
Kemjmcg19 1 year ago
i live like an hour from Arnhem
milaroos 1 year ago
@milaroos
you're so awesome, can i touch u ??
GollemTroll 11 months ago
I bought this DVD at pearl harbor eight years ago, I just found it in the attic yesterday, man it was the first WWII film I've seen!! Real special to me.
070150537 1 year ago
Not bad as a 70' propaganda movie.
SwordManPL 1 year ago
OK commander,..... without the sarcasm. Give me your "take", on this !
011258stooie 1 year ago
it's a goooood flick!
magbast9 1 year ago
Nowhere near as realistic as Band of Brothers.
Cool2BCeltic 1 year ago
@Cool2BCeltic true but this movie was filmed back in 70 and band of brothers 2001, in this movie they use 50 milion dollars and band of brothers 120 milion dollars, and ofcourse you cant compare tech in 70' and in the 2000
Nikola24able 1 year ago
@Cool2BCeltic yeah and 1o years from now some other series will be more realistic than Brothers...and realilsm isnt always for the best anyways. Anyways, Brothers as great as it is, only takes into account one company whereas Bridge is looking at the battle to a greater degree.
555paint 1 year ago
@555paint @Cool2BCeltic
I hate to rain on anybodies parade, but they are both perfect examples of allied ( western+Israeli ) propoganda.
WHEN the "west" finally get wise to american imperialism and there PR machine ( Hollywood ), [ both run by zionism ]. The citizens of this planet are going to have to undergo a, cheap, 'off the shelf',' no frills', "this is a recession you know !", re-education program.
It's not going to be very pretty.
011258stooie 1 year ago
@011258stooie OK good luck getting back to your home planet.
555paint 1 year ago
@555paint
Do you have the bottle, commander ?
011258stooie 1 year ago
@555paint
Hmmmmm....thought so. Another gutless, hit and run, ghostly keyboard warrior.
011258stooie 1 year ago
@011258stooie: Are you f*cked in the head or just plain stupid ?
gazzavc 1 year ago
@gazzavc
Do you have anything construcive to say about the video, or the statment that I made ?
011258stooie 1 year ago
@Cool2BCeltic
Brothers forcues entirly on Easy Company's experiences during the war in Europe but doesn't go into much detail on larger events like the Breakout from Normandy, Operation Market Garden (focuing primarily on Einhoven and Easy company's exploits while leaving out the other parts of the Operation) Crossing the Rhine, the Rhur Pocket. A Bridge Too Far focused enterily on Market Garden and the events surrounding it same way longest day focused soley on D-Day
snakes3425 1 year ago
music is dumb film is cool
poemalocko 1 year ago
that movie fill of stars
AssAssin00009 1 year ago
Heilige Maria, voll der Gnaden! That scene when Robert Redfort and his men cross the Waal at Nimwegen is absolutely terrific!
hammerhi99 1 year ago
omg I'm gonna slap myself because I didnt watch this movie and then I'm gonna download it and watch cause it have AMAZING trailer
Nikola24able 1 year ago
I love the scene where Elliot Gould walks onto a little road, and start walking towards the camera, and gradually a bunch of other soldiers join them and walk towards the bridge. SO COOL!
bigbenzon 1 year ago
Let's not forget that Hitler made more or less the same logistical errors with the Battle Of The Bulge.
boomshanka 1 year ago
Typing mistake in the description.. it's "a" not "an"
Nacalai 1 year ago
der film ist cool
cocacolacompany1 1 year ago
Gene Hackman's accent in this was appalling.
sdflksdfkfh 1 year ago
it was a god film
ChopperPiliot 1 year ago
Why does everyone talk on why the allies lost here and y not how the Germans won
TheOwie15 1 year ago
@TheOwie15 It's very simple and cleaver really, the Germans used what were esseentilly Guerrilla warfare tactic's to stall the advancing tanks. The unit's in the way were small but realised that the Brits were advancing on a two lane road that was raised from ground leavel too keep it dry and the land on eighter side was wooded and marshy so all they had to do was disable the lead tanks and shoot a few bullets and the brits were stalled. Though they were lucky the Brits ignored intell.
TheGroundedAviator 1 year ago
Continued..the plan was flawed from the start when they expected 30 CORPS ( or XXX CORPS ) to advance up a narrow highway / road and reach Arnhem. Plus also not landing the british para's closer to Arnhem ( the " jeep squadron " ) as they were blocked / ambushed initially and had to fight through; suffering casualties and using up ammo before they even reached the bridge ( and fatigued ). Regards.
Splitskirts 1 year ago
Hi, also along with comments ref " why it failed ", the allies / allied leadership were overconfident due to their success at " Normandy D-Day " and a perception that the Germans were " psychologicaly " defeated / or would withdraw / retreat to defend Germany. Hence reports of armoured forces in the area were " ignored " or " diminished "; it was in a way their ( the Airborne forces ) " Crete ". Plus...continued next comment....
Splitskirts 1 year ago
I have the soundtrack on LP.
RocketTCoyote 1 year ago
Am I glad that I have that movie!
Perry12able 1 year ago
This is the most ridiculously awesome cast I've ever seen.
DasPooperTrooper 1 year ago
Sorry, that's not completly right either. They had intel from the french resistance and aireal pic's that showed some tanks. They were in such a rush to want this to happen they ignored it. Yes 1st airborne is the modern day Regiment. They never fought again during the 2nd world war due to there loses at this drop. All of the top decision makers were to blame. They wanted this to happen, so it did.
wltflash 1 year ago
The Polish airborne was completly wiped out. The british 1st airborne never jumped again due to such heavy closes. And Montgomery who planed it said it failed because it was not fully equiped.
wltflash 1 year ago
This is such an amazing novel, and movie for that matter.
KaiserofGermany 1 year ago
this is the last great old fashioned wwii movie
DrSquidley 1 year ago
Wow, I just learned that the bridge at Arnhem is now officially named the John Frost Bridge, in honor of John Frost (played by Anthony Hopkins) who defended the north end of it until he and his men were overrun. It took over thirty years until the official name change because Frost didn't want the honor. That was a fine man!
Fortaker 1 year ago
Such a great movie about a great tragedy!
billace90 1 year ago
We my friends are the cavalry
Stevezom 1 year ago
This is one of the best world war II movies
92af 1 year ago
Great work Herr von Keiper! Thank you for posting these.
3hardrider7 1 year ago
Great Film, sad . As a kid you view it as you want action in a film.When you get older you understand the real human cost as in this case the film based on real events. tactical planning seems that boats were over looked on this operation as a way of getting men arcoss rivers without using the bridges. 7 days madness for planning,I think blowing up/damaging Arnhem bridge in a air sortie would be better idea. It have stopped the german tanks - shows no fire air support except at the start
theapeman10 1 year ago
Best war movie EVER!
wespozo 1 year ago
eacellent version of what really happened... i remember my dad telling me the story to this when i was a little girl.. he was there.. my hero.. my dad!! xxxxxxxxxxxx rip dad.. god bless xxxxx
sharijane71 1 year ago
Favourite moment is when the Germans advance on the beseiged and outnumbered paras and say they are there to talk about terms of surrender - meaning the surrender of the British, of course. The British officer replies 'I'm sorry, we don't have the facilities to accept your surrender!'
ClydeRowing 1 year ago
They should have just let Eisenhower handle the entire show. They would have made it to Germany much earlier. Market Garden was doomed from the very start.
Aleancelo 1 year ago
@Aleancelo
Eisenhower wasn't chosen as Supreme Commander for anything but his political abilities. He was there to rule on the plans put forth by others.
EssentialPedagogy 1 year ago
Look at the cast! wow
vnck25 1 year ago
This film should be called:
"An hour too long"
ttimothymurphy 1 year ago
i can not find my copy of this movie im so mad
PittsburghSteelersTS 1 year ago
I've more respect for brave men who fight in battles like the real Arnhem or our boys in Iraq and Afghanistan than the over-paid wankers who play football that society now class as 'heroes'....Its a brilliant film, especially as a portrayal of how futile war really is though.
TheMasterNo6 1 year ago
This is one of my all time favourite moives.The things that made it so good are, the all star cast, great music score, great battle scences, famous lines, and a great depiciton of anit war. This is a great moive and i recommend it to anyone who likes war films.
drewman4444 1 year ago
the allies where unlucky too there was just an panzer force stationed near arnhem. a bunch of kingtigers shot the crap out of them!!!!
boertje936 1 year ago
any more films made stating america defeated germany in workd war(not russia)
manjeshalex 1 year ago
You don't land paratroopers on top of two elite Panzer divisions and relieve them by going up a SINGLE road that can be cut at any time.
mariotrooper101 1 year ago
@mariotrooper101 There were MANY reasons the entire operation was a travesty, it was just pure coincidence that the Germans rested 2 S.S. Panzer divisions and troops at Arnhem. Bad british intelligence, no radios working, over run drop zones for supplies, bad roads etc etc....
TheMasterNo6 1 year ago
@TheMasterNo6 I know!!!!!! >:( I have the game (Close Combat: A Bridge Too Far) and the movie. Also, the British KNEW that there were tanks stationed in Arnhem but Monty didn't want to cancell it after at the effort he (and his troops) but into it already.
mariotrooper101 1 year ago
@mariotrooper101
All that bad planning and rushing (plus some bad luck too), because 2 generals on the same side wanted to beat each other to reach Berlin.
Y'all know who I'm talking about.
AlexSDU 1 year ago
@AlexSDU plus all that rumors that "krauts" only had old men and boys... but as far as "bad planning" is concerned... it was a "deuce" again. better planning by the germans on d-day would probably crush the allied forces right on the beach. well... im glad how things happened...
hammerhi99 1 year ago
ALLY
squiggiles 1 year ago
Not a great movie, but definitely watchable. Only minor complaints: (1) Sometimes it seemed like Allies and Nazis were literally sharing the town, like one block Allies, next one Nazis. In reality, each side would have had to establish their respective fronts, and (2) chicken shit R. O'Neill playing a general? One of the all time sucky actors.
spagandtuna 1 year ago
...wasn't so violent as Stalingrad but was hell just in 9 days allied casualties were over 17.000.. Stalingrad aside, Battle for Moscow (Oct 2, 41 - Jan 7, 42) casualties estimated around 400.000 German and 650.000 - 1.280.000 Soviets, Soviets defended the city., loosing minimum 10.000 people a DAY.
ihave1 1 year ago
i can not identificate a tank in 1:44, i know, its some german tank in the film, but what type of tank is it in reality, maybe Leopard, i dont know, does anybody knows it? thx
Lama006 1 year ago
@Lama006 It was actually a loaned Dutch army tank from the 1970s made to look like a German ww2 one.
TheMasterNo6 1 year ago
@TheMasterNo6 It is actually a german made Leopard 1 tank (trying to go as a Tiger II), I don't know if it's the belgium army who loaned it out for the movie, fact is though that its a Leopard 1.
GreenPCan 1 year ago
@GreenPCan Your right about the tank. I'm also sure it was the Belgium army that loaned it now come to think of it.
TheMasterNo6 1 year ago
your grammar (it was an(a) great movie)
luolohweijie 1 year ago
Saving prvate Ryan was fake, but it was a good movie, this was real, and in this briged, British Batallion lose angaist panzer elite of germans...
Russo016 1 year ago
SAVING PVT RYAN NOT FAKE GUYS!!!!
ebayman2 1 year ago
@ebayman2 trollface.jpg
thedevo01 1 year ago
i think its the best war-movie ever... because it is a real story and anti-war. not like saving private ryan...
TheEcki83 1 year ago
Holland was difficult to capture by the germans, and was hard to recapture by the allies...
234jari234 1 year ago
kane looks young
datnotfair 1 year ago
"the most devastating battle of WW2"?
Only if your a 3 year old. It was mickey mouse compared to Kursk, Stalingrad, Moscow, Kharkov or even Monte Cassino.
capetown99 2 years ago
If you were on of the british soldiers in Arnhem you woudn't think operation Market Guarden was a mickey mouse.
This operation wasn't so violent as Stalingrad but was hell just in 9 days allied casualties were over 17.000
sherminatorize 2 years ago 33
@sherminatorize If it had succeeded the war could of ended in 1944 ad many lives could of been saved. It would also have chnged the hstory of the next 40 or 50 years in Europe had it come off. We would of reached Berlin before the Russians and so there would have been no partioned Berlin or Wall come too that. There may have been no cold war either.
Professor6871 1 year ago
@sherminatorize
You see, the amazing thing about this movie is that there was no CGI in those days... that was all WWII aircraft and armor. That was the 82nd airbourne jumping en mass
mmorrell2007 1 year ago
@sherminatorize agreed and RESPECT and HONOR for red devils who lost about 8000 men :((((
Nikola24able 1 year ago