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  • Guys i'm sorry to spam on here. at air cadets, we play this song in our band and its by far my favourite military song. I made a cover of it on my channel where i play all the instruments in a collab, it took quite a long time to make so if you could just take a minute of your time to watch i'd be grateful :) xx

  • If only we'd started trading with the Commonwealth...

  • Time to escape from the EU's tyranny!

  • Breathtaking! Excellent quality! Thanks for the goose bumps! :^)

  • Best whistling tune of all time.

  • Leave it up to the dumb fuck with the huge trunk to screw it ALL UP!

  • @SteveoMcNello he fell over and didnt tell them to make the tunnel longer

  • You got the description wrong... It should say "The greatest movie soundtrack in the world from undoubtedly the best escape movie in the world."

  • The tale is true but there weren't any americans in the camp so no Hilts, 52 were shot and at Nuremburg it was this that put the rope around Goerings neck

  • Playin' this in my Band this year XD 7th grade

  • If there hadn't been so much damn barbed wire, Hilts would've gotten away for sure.

  • 23 people are nazi's

  • A Luftwaffe run POW camp ! I wonder how bad that really was , as compared to a Japanese run POW camp ? Personally, I think compared to what our boys actually suffered in the far east under the japanese , Hollywood's "Great Escape" story is a joke!

  • reminds me of the theme from that old disney show "Recess"

  • Whenever things look bad I pretend that I am Hilts the Cooler King, bouncing my baseball against the wall and plotting my next Great Escape.

  • what the hell!!!! why is everyone talking about WWII trivia instead of how amazing this movie is?

  • @BennyG0 This is a WWII film is it not?

  • @soldier4670 yup. based on a true story i think

  • @choopdewoot yes it happened..mind you they exageratted alot......germans..did have a right to shoot those pow's though.....see geneva convention says you are allowed to escape...but you better have your uniform on....take it off and you would be considered a commando..a saboteur..and can be shot

  • One more thing.....that fool Obama is talking about sending aid to NORTH Korea, of all things. He's surpassed Lyndon B. Johnson and Jimmy Carter as the most inept president we've ever had. 4 more years of Obama and we might NEVER get over it.

  • @FlierFrank172

    How the fuck did you bring that into a video about a great WW2 movie?

  • What is this? Advertisments? See ya later. Taking this off my playlist!

  • Anyone Remember This Song In a TTTE Episode?

  • From the perspective of a British citizen it would seem that German and France Governments are ganging up on Britain "Let's put a tax on bank transactions." Germany and France both know that would affect Britain more than any other country as we are the biggest bank in the EU.

  • Cooler.

  • Best movie and game

  • These movies should be seen only on the big screen not video or TV.

  • The best WWII Movie and video game ever in the world R.I.P Steven Mcqueen the best actor ever

  • better version of this song: watch?v=lupk2oqy4JU

  • They don't make them like this anymore

  • Un de mes films préférés.Steve Mac Queen reste un de mes acteurs fétiches. Vu tous ses films et bien entendu la fameuse série "au nom de la loi" dont il tenait le rôle principal de Josh Randall. En France, pour les gens de ma génération, il reste une icone.

  • One of my favorite movies of all time.

  • Thanks ad for coming up right in the middle of the song -_-

  • I am addicted to this film, BEST FILM IN HISTORY!!!!

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  • anAutumn'sDay:Sorry but I don't feel sorry for the Germans!!

    Before you claim how"1million Germans werre annihilated in POW Camps by the allies,think about such wonderful places like Auschwitz;Beregen Belsen;Buchenwald;Dachau;Sorbi­bor and the folks who died there for the crime of being Jewish;Gay;Freemason;Jehovah's Witnesses;Gypsy and Mentally and Physically Handicapped!!

  • @kingbushwickthe33rd your lack of empathy is not justified. Just because someone committed mass murder doesn't make it okay for you to do the same. Those that died in Nazi camps are adequately and rightfully remembered and memorialized. Those who died in Allied POW camps are swept under the rug and forgotten. A crime is a crime - no matter how large or small.

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  • Out of interest did anyone only come to this vid because it was mentioned in "the sigh of Haruhi Suzumiya"? Or would that just be me?

  • did anyone else come here after hearing this song on a video about the EU?

  • Standing bye and allowing Hitler and his bandits take over was a disgrace. No one stood up to him until well into WW2 except a few brave students. Nothing to do with racism; just fascism.

    

  • there were no innocent Germans in WW2 unless they were Jewish!

  • @TheKalant What a wonderfully inaccurate blanket statement.

    Before you go around making generalizations, I want you to consider Otto Wels (Stood in a room full of SS guards and said he would not put his vote for the enabling acts). Or Erwin Rommel (Refused to execute prisoners of war. Was blackmailed into committing suicide to save his family after Hitler discovered Rommel was in a conspiracy to kill him.)

    In short, put some effort into researching racist statements before you speak.

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  • They played this on "The Simpsons" when Maggie and other babies wanted to get their pacifiers back. Damn funny!

  • BRITAIN MUST ESCAPE FROM THE EU FASCISTS

  • More like the EU must escape from the British, who still has their own currency? Britain! Who does not? The European nations that gave it up to with the "Euro" currency. If Draconian measures are being drafted, it's from the elite of each country directed out of the City of London.

  • @TheJoker7682 The Euro is a stupid idea, yes sure it's great when things are good but in this sort of economic climate were in, it's just one big domino effect which could bring the whole of Europe to it's knees.

  • Your from the US for fuck sake you have no clue about other nations, why the fuck should we change our currency? Its not our fault we were successful during the times of Empire and such. Why should be slowly demolish our history when its such a great one. Not to mention the Euro is shit and so is France and Germany, two pathetic nations that have to team up against Britain. HA Europe is petty and Britain should never have been considered with them.

  • @AxiomQuibble lol you are ridiculous. Saying such things in times when the pound has double the inflation rate of the euro and in a time when ,for the first time ever, the riots in london outclass those in paris. We're pathetic by outproducing you 3:1?

    If you think Britain would have any significance without partners in europe you surely have no knowledge of economics or history. Go ahead leave the eu leave the single market ans soon the uk will have a recession like never before.

  • @BugMagnet the euro is fucked it can never work. You don't need political integration to trade with other countries. Norway, Iceland, Switzerland all trade with the eu.

    London riots are irrelevant, look at the on going riots in the Greece caused by the eu.

  • @sprPee either greece will come back to her feet or leave the euro. no matter which option will be the final result, greece is fairly irrelevant. As long as Italy keeps a steady course the euro is save for now. And one thing is certain: central europe is the only place on earth that can compete with the emerging markets in terms of industry.

    And if we want to have influence in world affair and not be a toy for foreign powers like in the cold war, we need at least political coordination.

  • @sprPee iff we still had an airforce we could go and bomb the bastards again

  • @sprPee Europe doesn't have Fascists. It's more left wing than britain. Look how popular the conservatives are in Britain compared to any right wing party in europe. Most governments are left centre or left, look at all the socialist leaders like Sarkozy and Merkel for example.

  • @LusoAustralian Good post

  • @STFCstoneroses Thanks. Some people just don't know what they're talking about.

  • @LusoAustralian You're right but I'm French and Sarkozy isn't Socialist ^^, he is from a Right-Wing Party

  • @TheBeatles1465 Really? I was misinformed on that part then, my bad.

  • @LusoAustralian ...Some nations just didn't learn from the failed experiments by the Communists and the Socialists......the best way is capitalism and the free market system...IF it's allowed to operate unencumbered by scrofulous politicians, and that is a BIG if.

  • @sprPee Idiotic Sun reader

  • @sprPee In what possible way are we fascists.

  • @sprPee WORD

  • Excellent music when thinking about the UK and the EU commission.

  • I swear revisionist retards like AnAutumnsDay must hunt videos in packs to get that many thumbs up, no sane person would thumb up such utter nonsense.

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  • @AnAutumnsDay You delete your comment 2 secs after making a juvenile remark? really?

  • that is a lie. basic math would tell you that. I was in The last war.as an American Infantryman.

  • TOM, DICK AND HARRY, YOU GOT TO LOVE EM MAN XMASS AINT XMASS WITHOUT THHE GREAT ESCAPE LOVE IT .

  • Apparently, the directors of "Chicken Run" used this music as template for the introductory scene, when Ginger and the other hens try and try to escape. Gotta say it fits :o)

  • @Belphegor82 Chicken Run was the animated version of the great escape with chickens

  • @ThaPolski I know, I've seen both. I wouldn't say it's the animated version with chickens, though, not exactly; but it's certainly the same premises and the shout-outs are obvious.

  • Wow clicked on this video and all I can think of as I scroll down the comments is READ A GOD-DAMN HISTORY BOOK!

  • Classic!!!

  • Looks like there's a Wikipedia war going on in the comment section.

  • me and my dad sometimes start randomly whistling this

  • What a great movie in which Steve did the role that he was born for.Steve will live in our thoughts n minds forever.the role has made him immortal .long live the great Steve Macquine

  • Im a lifeguard!

  • i like bums

  • tune.

  • Steve McQeen was the mans man

  • reminds me of green army men.

  • @AnAutumnsDay Bolocks complete and utter bolocks. Where they shot? Yes but starved to death, no. not by the hands of the yanks. The Russians maybe but america doing that is bullshit. I'm a big fan of WW2 history and I have never heard anything like that.

  • Give em hell Hilts!

  • Cooler, 20 days!!!

  • VYBZ KARTAL LOOOL

  • thought of what? im slovakian and a patriot. but still have no clue what youre talking about.

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  • Its good stuff Hilts.

  • Cooler !!!!

  • Ives !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­

  • I play this in my Air Cadet band :D

  • So THIS is what our band is supposed to sound like.....

  • I always make it a point to watch this film when it comes on the 'telly in the hope that he will make that second jump over the wire this time!!! They should show this film on Christmas Day every year like they always used to out of general bloody principle, and to instruct the young to always, and I mean always, to keep an eye on the bloody germans who are about to try for the domination of Europe for a third time.

  • "Hilts. Cooler. 10 days."

    "Ahem. CAPTAIN Hilts."

    "...20 days."

  • @MarkramUK God, I love that line.

  • 20 people were sent to ze cooler

  • No evidence of the dead ? well considering excavation in the area is strictly forbidden , might go some way to explaining that one. !

    I wonder if the obscene number of  losses suffered by federal pows, at Andersonville camp,during the Civil War, ( which were directly accountable from the treatment they received) , were are also crap ? and that the reports of what occurred there are also only accepted by deluded revisionists?

  • Here's hoping you English lads pair up with The Krauts in the Euro 2012 draw. Looking forward to hearing THAT THEME from the terraces yet again!!!

  • in music we are doing this song on the piano

  • great war movie based on real events

  • i play that song in band :D

  • 20 people didn't escape

  • very british

  • Cooler, three weeks! :)

  • 20 dudes are guards at the camp!

  • "Long Vays to Dig!!"

  • legend

  • whenever I ditched school, I always had this playing in my head whilst sneaking out

  • @Rugbypack Same here, but I used to use this song in basic training :D I ran combat missions to the vending machines near the battalion HQ I had a brave crew to help out with these dangerous missions, I can't tell ya how many missions we ran thats secret material, but we were never caught :D

  • @DJxSGGxNeo Ah, I tried to escape from mine aka Colditz Castle but got caught :(. Got taken to the Kommandant and everything! We had every escape route mapped out, but never had the guts to leave xD.

  • @Merobotz Yes and out of those three in the cast, only two were involved in the escape. Though yes IRL none of the escapees was an American but really I wouldnt call two large! Still a classic film

  • the jews will play hopscotch in the minefield XD

  • Send zem to ze cooler!

  • The great escape is a sick (good) film I love it

  • Muy interesante.

  • This song inspired my Great Escape from a dead-end job with the Postal Service.

  • I used to watch this movie all day as a kid. Makes you appreciate your freedom.

  • One of the top 10 best war films of all time!!!

  • ther are 20 douche bags who watched this vid

  • do you know where can i listen/download the woodpecker version of this song.

  • am 15 and I LOVE this film xD

  • @judgeman090 I'm also of this age range and i can honestly say no one gives a fuck, neither do i sit down shut up and watch the film or fucking don't

  • @byronjamesbaillie Get fucked up and die asshole, And shut up your youtube account says your in your 30's so let it be known how imature and fucking retarded you are to be talking to me like that- infact for one moment I really did think you were my age- and thanks again because im gonna spread your fucking name all over the internet bitch (byronjamesbaillie) SUCKS !!

  • @judgeman090 It says that so i can view certain content ,idiot, say what you like i've made my point, Whatever floats your boat

  • @byronjamesbaillie but why 31? if you put your age as 18 you can watch everything

  • @judgeman090 It's 38 but because 1973 which is the birth year, was the last great year for music and it was the year Life on mars was set in

  • @judgeman090 dude calm down

  • @judgeman090

    and you said he was immature

    I AM DISAPPOINTED!!

  • this song playes when i escape from school!

  • only halfway through this did i remember i am wearing a Steve McQueen top:D:D!!

  • Steve Mcqueen is the King of the cooler!

  • James Coburn playing an Aussie escaped by boat

  • trouble with great escape there were no americans in the camps

  • First i thought it was recess, then star wars, then i realised it was the Great escape theme so i went searching for it! :D

  • Thank you for posting this!

  • sickest film

    

  • Probably the best war movie ever made as it was as realistic as possible. One of my favorites.

  • @Ricco99100 it was real the whole thing, even down to the capture and killing of most of the escapees, in fact only two people made to absolute freedom, the rest were captured and either killed or put back into the camps

  • @MrCjgv93 3 actually the two guys in the boat and one other i cant remember i havent seen it in a while

  • @TheMicktube86 In the movie, it was three: two who were in the boat and one who made it to Spain.

  • My Dad was a POW during WWII. After capture he spent 10 days on a cattle car freezing. When he got to Germany he was processed the 1st day then started a death marchedt the next. He started out with an est 3000 US soldiers and finished 6 months later with 900. My father went from 186 lbs down to 108lbs. He had everything from dysintary to pneumonia. He died at age 92 a& always claimed it was "the limeys in that camp" that showed him how to survive.

  • @towergrove100 Sounds like a faggot.

  • @Dorminay42 Damn troll.

  • @Dorminay42 LOL omg hahah

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  • @towergrove100 Luckier than the estimated 1 milion german POWS , who were deliberately strarved to death or died from exposure whilst in the hands of the Yanks at the end of the war, then!

  • @AnAutumnsDay what about the russians then?

  • @AnAutumnsDay 1 million is only excepted by disillusioned revisionists, despite there being no evidence of such a huge loss of life, no graves, no bodies, and don't even quote James Bacques nonsense at me I've heard that crap all before.

  • @AnAutumnsDay just because the Nazi government was bad doesn't mean all Germans were bad, the 1 million they killed were solders just like the yankys and English.

  • @warwickxp97 I my self and English and have a great respect for the SS and other German troops. i have met SS veterans and one of them told me a story about when he was in a trench in Germany well any way he was in this trench drinking

  • @warwickxp97 when they saw 30 English power troopers crawling through the field with sticks tied to them. so one of the younger Germans said what should we do well he said find some one that speaks, English well they did find some one that could speak good English any way the troops got close to the trench and then the Germans jumped out

  • @warwickxp97 shouting wankers well the English speaking German spoke to there commander and sent them back to there camp. Any way my point is germans are not animals and you should respect them not as evil beasts but as men. NOTE SORRY FOR ALL THE POSTS IT WOULDN'T ALL FIT IN ONE BLOCK

  • @AnAutumnsDay They should have thought of that before they invaded Czechoslovakia.

  • @AnAutumnsDay You got a reference for that sweeping statement? I know the Russians/Japanese were pretty bad but i highly doubt that 1,000,000 German POW's died in american captivity.

  • @mcdonaldluke6 Perhaps you should read an account by Colonel Ernest F. Fisher, 101st US Airborne Division. " in April 1945, the United States Army and the French Army casually annihilated one million [German] men, most of them in American camps . . . Eisenhower's hatred, passed through the lens of a compliant military bureaucracy, produced the horror of death camps unequalled by anything in American history . . . an enormous war crime."

  • @AnAutumnsDay well that would be the worst thing in american history expect we have the the "trail of tears," the nuking of Japanese cities, the slave trade, and the occupation of Mexico after the mexican american war.. All of these involve civilians, and while I understand that "soldiers are people too" I think it a much bigger crime, no matter the difference in numbers, to kill an innocent civilian than it is a soldier.

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  • @CaptainHellblaze well if you think so, then you could also have mentioned the innocent German civilians who were killed in the deliberate carpet bombing and the resulting fire storms in Hamburg, Berlin, Dresden etc and the USAF's murderous role in this, the US's other war crime ! The estimated numbers of 300,000 innocent German civilians killed and 600,000 wounded may not be as high as in the other war crime of the Million murdered German POW's but as war crimes go, it's right up there!

  • @AnAutumnsDay wow looks like someone is full of shit. Your estimates are way too high, and those truly wouldn't count as war crimes but casualties of war. get your facts straight first. Secondly the US and Germany i guess fought by what the Germans had established early on in the war as "rules of engagement" if there truly were any. It was mainly in the air and air raids were supposed to only attack the targets, if ANYTHING hit somewhere else it would be considered an accident.

  • @AnAutumnsDay Thirdly, US pow camps were nothing like what you had explained. The European war took care of its POW's. It was a mutual understanding between the two superpowers. Germany had taken prisoners of war to their camps and didn't do shit to them as did the us. Fourth, if the US had ever committed and true crimes, it would be the executions of SMALL groups of soldiers being taken prisoner by small groups going AGAINST orders because of revenge purposes. -

  • @AnAutumnsDay - and the REAL crimes of war were in the Pacific, where almost no prisoners were taken, however, the fighting was so intense and crazy, that both sides had a mutual hatred for each other. not just an ooooh ur my enemy type thing like with Germany, but a bitter resentment of the other side. At this point, shit was so crazy, that there truly aren't any exact estimates. However, since the US soldiers went through so much shit, i wont give them shit. -

  • @AnAutumnsDay please, next time you go say something stupid, read several books on the subject and have some specific facts and details. your logic is flawed and you're another fucking hippie who spits on soldiers and complains about every little fucking thing. ITS A WAR, deal with it! You make me sick.

  • @uclabruins211 So Numbnuts , not only do we have US war crimes against innocent German civilians ,German POWS, innocent Japanese civilians but according to you also against the Japanese military! My ,my, you really are as stupid as you sound, aren't you! Never mind , I am sure in "Computer Game" world , it all makes sense to you!

  • @AnAutumnsDay no war crimes were made against the Germans by the US, any bombs that hit civilians anywhere aren't war crimes because they weren't intentional. war crimes are completely intentional. anything else would be considered an accident. with that said, no war crimes were made against Germany by the allies. Please read a dictionary, and not your fantasy world where every little fucking thing that happens is a crime. OH! i stepped on a bug! I'm going to jail!

  • @uclabruins211 every army do war crimes but only the losers were hanged by the neck.

    

  • @jguzmand i never said the US didn't do war crimes, but that tard had it all completely wrong. but yes there were several war crimes in the pacific, but i dont blame the soldiers down there. the fighting was apeshit and the soldiers were bombed everyday. I respect the soldiers who fought there even if they had killed pows. and yes, it truly was the losing side that had the blunt of it all. but in comparison, the us didn't do any bad... except in the pacific.

  • @AnAutumnsDay I don't know where you keep bringing up the Germans. Seriously, you keep bringing them back up when they're already out of the question. I will admit there were tons of war crimes in japan, but i dont understand why you keep trying to prove an argument that's already been proved wrong. i cant stress this enough, no war crimes happened against germany! except by the russians