BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI - 1957 Clip 1

[KALEIDOSCOPEN]

i feel like cans er

[DwightKoh93]

The British-- can anyone break them? :)

[AmersfoortTristan]

@DwightKoh93 Thatcher came close...

[MrJerrytheBerry]

At 16 years old, my best friend and my literature teacher at school are both huge movie buffs. They started making fun of me for the amount of movies I've never seen. So I've decided to take on an adventure of my own to see all these fantastic movies. In the past two weeks, I've watched Citizen Kane, Taxi Driver, All Quiet on the Western Front, The Godfather, Raging Bull, and The Bridge over the River Kwai all for the first time in my life.

[DwightKoh93]

@MrJerrytheBerry Oh dude! You should watch 'Bullit' too!

[IceRoadTrucker1000]

the only reason why I'm watching this is because I'm writing a paper on it for english.

[CSATexan]

@IceRoadTrucker1000

The movie is magnificent and well worth a watch

[MrThepally]

THEY TOOOK MAAAHH JAAAWWWBBB!!!!!!!

[JHSchwarzkopf]

Beeee Haaapi in urrrrrr wuuurk...

[theexpliotedforlife]

If they started singing or whistiling on the real construction of the Bridge they would all get a horrific beating by the guards. This movie totally downplays the brutality and suffering that occured in these camps.

[dday0606]

@theexpliotedforlife This was made in the days of "sanitized war movies", when there was actually some consideration about subjecting an audience to the real graphic horrors of war. For its time, the film was very graphic in the depiction of the beating of Col. Nicholson and the threat of killing the prisoners.Yes, by today's "standards", the film is "watered down", but consider the time it was made. 

[ironpirites]

@dday0606 You are quite right. The public that this movie was made for actually fought WW2. They didn't need Hollywood to show them what graphic bloody horror was. Many of them had already had their fill of the real thing. After WW3 Hollywood will go back to subtlety, good taste and respect for the sensitivities of their audience, that is if there is a Hollywood and an audience.

[AmersfoortTristan]

@dday0606 1957, no ?

[russcarlin]

real men real lives a sarcastic comment to the brave !!!!!

[crumpetbutterdrips]

" It did not become WW1 until 1941 when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor to start WW2. Then it changed from The Great War to WW1."

This was posted by onebaud who I imagine is American. It's one of the funniest versions of history I've ever heard. Just complete and utter twaddle in every respect. Well done.

[freelove1967]

@crumpetbutterdrips I think he means that it was called "The Great War" until another great war came about, WWII, and then it was dubbed WWI because calling it WWI before there is another World War is just very...ominous...lol. Or he's completely wrong...I have no idea.

[argyll1854]

"2nd Bn A & SH, respect

[adanhawki]

Great movie showing soldiers exhibiting duty, courage & honor. Alec Guinness EARNED the Oscar for his role.

[Jennings03]

A work of fiction based on some factual events of WW2. For some crazy reason the British army in Malaysia were ordered by the UK government to surrender to the Japanese and the Japanese were left with the problem of what to do with so many prisoners of war. It was decided to put them to work building an essential railway through dense jungle.

[getback9691]

Sessue Hayakawa was a great actor. Such a pity that he was typecast and all.

[onebaud]

I can't believe @dday0606 asked did people die in WW1. Long before it was WW1 it was called the Great War or the War to end all wars. So many men on both sides died in muddy trenches. It did not become WW1 until 1941 when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor to start WW2. Then it changed from The Great War to WW1.

[dday0606]

@onebaud I (dday0606) did NOT make that comment, someone called 'garfrain' did. I do not like the new format of YouTube comments, it is confusing. I agree with your comment, but direct it to 'garfrain', not me. :-)

Blue Skies!

[GoldenZealot21]

@onebaud

Uh WW2 didn't start with Pearl Harbor. learn history, idiot.

[CaptainHellblaze]

@onebaud you act as if pearl was the reason WW2 started.................

[SamBuddwing]

Someone else has posted a pan-and-scan version of the Colonel Bogey March scene. And one thing I immediately noticed (aside from the different framing) was the difference in the soundtrack - when the movie cuts to the closeups of the men's feet, you can hear the tromp-tromp-tromp of their shoes in the pan-and-scan version, but you don't hear the sound effect here. Wonder why.

[MrColin1832]

These men are real heros. I drank with them in the FEPOW club in Newcastle upon tyne. They Stopped taking their medication,so's they could drink with their pals,they would not sit in a Japanese car,or own a japanese camera/television,etc. These men are real,real heros to a man.

[jerrythedutchmapler]

Wow, can't believe it's made in 1957! Very good quality for that time! =)

[StolenMonkey]

@jerrythedutchmapler you do realise that most films shot pre digital HD are actuallly BETTER quality than HD don't you ?

[Trook08]

Never forget indid!!! But The bridge still stands!!! And the British men that were there are not happy with the way the movie potriat them!!! Just ask them!!!

[cdkgb]

I think Col. Saito makes for an excellent villain, because in spite of his pomposity and misguidedness, he believes totally in the cause, which in his case happens to be the construction of a certain railroad bridge.

[dday0606]

Right on "blue language". No matter what you think of the film, millions died in WWI fighting the Axis. Be respectful of those lost by articulating thoughts without "blue language".

[karnousky49]

@dday0606 your damn right!!!!!!!!

[garfrain]

@dday0606 did people die in world war i?

[anghmho]

@garfrain Did people die in WW1, you ask? Does an entire generation of young men count? But this movie is about WW2, where a mere 50-60 million died, about half of them Russian, for those of you who didn't know. No need to reply. You doubtless know this. I just wanted to get these figures posted.

[garfrain]

@dday0606 what about wwii, did people die in that one as well?

[pablononescobar]

@dday0606 WW II you mean. I realize that it's a minor typo, but to avoid confusion...

[75goodies]

@lightningmcqueen85 I dig the Japs. they got monarchy like us and they drive on the left like us. Nuff said. UK resident who likes the Japs. Plus they have hundreds of flavours of KitKat. Respect.

[columbiaclassics]

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[Trook08]

The Bridge is still standing!! There were never ever any British commandos that went to blow it up. The British soldiers never marched in whistling. The Colonel that was in charge of the British troops was beating up so bad every time there was a complain from him, decided to just keep his mouth shut. It was all Hollywood!! And though I loved the movie as a young boy. It very disappointing to find out all of this later in life....

[The1stPoster]

@Trook08 WWII happened. British Commandos did fight fiercely within it. British soldiers did occasionally whistle, men did keep high spirits even when captured, and bridges were indeed blown up.

They may have jazzed things up a bit, but Hollywood did not create WW2. Our lads DID actually fight it, and all the things depicted within the film probably happened at one point or another during the course of the war.

Never forget.

[Insperato62]

Over 40 years ago I went to see this film at the NFT in London. There were a few dozen French school exchange students in the audience. They boo-ed. 'nuff said. Forty years is a long time to have such a memory. I wonder if any young English people think of the impression they might be leaving as they vomit and fornicate their way round The Mediterranean. Enough to make these poor men depicted here weep.

[DeeJaySulphur]

the point of this movie is made very plain at the end... did Colonel Nicholson go too far by attacking the officer who was trying to blow the bridge up? should he have assisted the enemy to the extent that he did? bearing in mind that he had the welfare of his own troops at heart and mind, do you think that, in the end, he went too far and became a traitor??

[Jennings03]

Superb filming making; Superb acting by great actors, and a Superb script! Post WW2 the camp's commandant (a sergeant and not a colonel) became a Christian.

[0906peter]

This is a great movie, but as a Dutchy, I'm always a little irritated by the fact that they totally ignored the role of the Dutch POW's.

"The dead POWs included 6,318 British personnel, 2,815 Australians, 2,490 Dutch, about 356 Americans and a smaller number of Canadians."

[hibob418]

@0906peter Hats off to the Dutch people for helping save my father's life in WWII. One of the best stories he tells involves his crew parking their armored car outside a Dutch house one night. Dad cracked the steel door and set his boots outside for a moment to get situated. Minutes later, he saw his boots were gone, and he was starting to get mad, when the Dutch kids from the house brought out his boots cleaned of all the mud and shined. That's what our family thinks of your people. Cheers.

[0906peter]

@hibob418

Thank you for your reply, that's a wonderful story.

We owe people like your dad a lot, people tend to forget what happened back then way too often.

[elfyboy]

My take on the theme of this excellent film is that loyalty and blind obedience to authority leads inevitably to muddled morality. War is hell, yes, but also, a morass of confusing and conflicting ethical dilemmas.

[Hoboman145]

some nice foot drill at the start but could have been better but then again they have been captured tho

[b18c5integra]

strubborn english... but great to see them standing for what they believe in!

[dday0606]

OK, we are going to clean this up right now. Post what you want, but if you cannot articulate your opinion without blue language, your comment will be removed. Why? I posted this clip to encourage people to learn about what was given up for us all by the WWII generation. Respect them by not using blue language.

[fudgedogbannana]

@dday0606 Yezza mazza

[NobleKorhedron]

@dday0606: "Blue language" means swear words, right cobber?!

[alabski]

@dday0606 

[Wallonische]

The English are a breed of their own, as tough as the come.

[VictorLepanto]

I wonder what sort of point they are trying to make w/ this movie. It has very little to do w/ what really happened w/ this bridge project. I see it as a kind of allegory of the appeasement policy which blundered the world into WWII in the 1st place.

[dday0606]

First, remember it is THEATER, not a documentary. Theater develops characters and a story which may or may not be factual. At the time of its release, this movie created ill will because those who survived the real bridge saw it as a slap in the face for their true suffering. Again, it is theater, and in that light [I feel] an excellent movie. Secondly, I think the move does try to focus on the point of appeasement leads to tyranny and the horror of what is depicted in the theater of this movie.

[TheStubbleking]

The point of the movie is that the British never give up!! No matter what!!  I'm Canadian eh!!

[alabski]

@VictorLepanto 

[19Ewcia]

No tak ,po nie naszemu ,ja też tego słucham:)

[ANDRABRAM]

Creo que aprendi a silbarla antes que a hablar, la primera vez que entre en un cine donde la daban yo aun estaba en el vientre de mi madre, fifu fifififiiiiiiiiiiiiiiififuuuuu­uuuuu

[whelljack]

@ANDRABRAM la mia desfilaba con sus compañeras de secundaria con esta cancion de fondo ( la clsica melodia con el silbido)

[LastCommodore]

"Be happy in your work" is a motto still used in Japanese businesses. :)

[qqnh9dc9]

I do not think so. The times has changed. from an old Japanese.

[259jdog]

The movie looks restored.

I saw it when it came out.

You gotta love this movie.

[Reubenhubert]

You just gotta love the British. No matter how bad they get knocked down they get right back up and shake it off.

[Heidelberg777]

Second that. They never gave up no matter how awful the situation.

[celtazeezee]

funny and sarcastic comment by Reubenhubert.

[75goodies]

@Reubenhubert An American praising the Brits? Whatever next? This film reminds of my grandad who spent 3 years in a Jap camp in Singapore now that was a bloody disaster

[Reubenhubert]

@75goodies Believe it or not, most Americans aren't running around chanting "USA! USA!" and believing that the US is the only country that matters.

[GoldenZealot21]

@Reubenhubert

Only in movies XD

[fortunateson14]

Awesome film despite Historical Inaccuracy

[7yournext7]

may I interject some appropriate humour?

This tune was a popular tune in war time Britain "Colonel Bogie March"

The words were-

"Hitler has only got one ball,

Goering had two but they were small.

Himmler, had something similar,

But poor old Goebels has no balls at all..."

[LITOBEL]

O Filme da minha juventude!

Recordo-o com muita saudade!!

[kapakai2]

"You must be the enemy."...

"Im an american if thats what you mean"

William Holden classic line.....

[TheUploaderMan]

A good movie

[alfriendo2008]

"See the movie once for the ending, and then bury it???" I'm glad Stephen Spielberg did not do that, it along with other Lean films inspired him so many times. The film is a flat out masterpiece.

[drcoxcentral]

I think throughout Spielberg's career you can always detect Lean's influence upon him especially the Indiana Jones films.

[alfriendo2008]

You are so right on both counts. Must find the time to view those action adventure classics again. Thanks for the reminder.

[zillsbury]

LOL. a slap in the face to the guys that were there in terms of what it was really like. watch this movie once for the ending, and then bury it.

[khtervola]

I always admire the general for building a good bridge for the enemy: just my own strategy in life: where there are no friends but only enemies deciding, you have to talk them to your own side and that goes typically via their own good.

[TyneBridge56]

You do realise this is a hollywood movie and not in any way as it was in real life ? the colonel who built the bridge was in no way a collaborator in real life in fact he flatly refuded to attend the premier and all ex japanese prisoners were asked to boycott the movie... it is almost 100% fiction .

[khtervola]

I did not know that, I watched the movie and read the book at some time in my childhood, but on the other hand my point had nothing to do with the truth of this story, it had to do with my own strategy in life, :)

Like if the 9/11 attack was by the US army, like some think, then we have soldiers in power and we have to convince them of the civilian ways. I have written a book about a similar subject: power benefit calculations that support good moral -you can see it at createspace com / 3369849

[skelenk]

good job!!!thanks for your upload.

[bbraym46]

its a nice movie but its a bit to long

[shouinjinja]

In wartime everyone lose their mind.Even modern American and English soldiers commited brutal acts in POW camps in Iraq.Didn't they?

[shadaliciousbaby]

While I guess you can include the explicite photo controversy as being degrading to Iraqi POWs, they can be in no way a comparison to them and the atrocities committed by the Japanese, Germans, and Russians during WWII. Russia, while overlooked, could be the worst because they detained prisoners well after the war was over, often until they died.

[HuRrIcAnE3000]

Who cares about factions? It's about humanity.

[choipnugget]

this movie is amazing. interestingly, i first got the urge to go out and buy it after I saw a clip of this opening scene here on youtube. never saw it before but was not disappointed.

anyone know the name of the song they're whistling? I know it was written during world war I or something like that. thanks

[ChubbyDick76]

It's called the Colonel Bogey March

[choipnugget]

thanks!

[Zachary91193]

Ok france got its ass owned in like 67 days... so dont say that france did anything... and Charles Degaul was just another womenizing drunk...

[shadaliciousbaby]

Im not saying France was a great military force during the time, but if you look at the alliances that were formed after WWI, nobody had the balls to hold up their end of the deal and help the frenchies out. They were all by themselves, and no nation could have defended themselves against Nazi Germany in their position.

[Xycondetsu]

Sie Bliztkrieg!!!!!

[erico72]

LOL great vid

[DavidValkema]

Forget about politics American, British or Russian.  This film is about the human spirit!

[hsxtcqm]

@DavidValkema Said very aptly

[DavidValkema]

Who cares about politics American or British. This movie is a testament to the human spirit!

[matt2house]

you know the burmese campaign was pretty much bitter for the british as it did dragged from the earliest beginnings of the war. Not only that but it was forgotten by churchill and roosevelt

[globegarbage16]

Films like this and (Empire of the Sun) Justify if your not European or American and your not white your ass is evil and must be destroyed.

[matt2house]

you clearly dont make any sense lad

[wengilee]

What is your intention ? You planning to do something

Secretly without notice again in future?

Are you repeating same old mistake did in WW2 ?

Okay , You said you don't like to become a human,

but how about your grandchildren?

Do they want to become like you also ?

[wengilee]

Why you never tell your children honestly,

You stole rubber from Malaya,

You stole women from Nanking village,

You beat American /Australian soldiers in the POW camp,

You kidnapped 10 y-old child in Borneo jungle,

You stole the island of Guam from US military base.

etc.

[wengilee]

On December 8, 1945, three U.S. Marines

were ambushed and killed.

On January 24, 1972, Sergeant Shoichi Yokoi

was discovered by hunters.

He had lived alone in a cave for 27 years.

"Gigi i have one question .

Why Japanese sergeant so fear to go home ?"

Well ,I shall cook up another fresh novel

story to let you understand !"

[wengilee]

Do you remember Guam ?

Do you know why Guam so many

Jpnese tourists today ?

You mean the island of Pacific Ocean

"US military Base, is it ?

Yea ...why so many Japanese ??!"

[wengilee]

On December 8, 1945, three U.S. Marines

were ambushed and killed.

On January 24, 1972, Sergeant Shoichi Yokoi

was discovered by hunters.

He had lived alone in a cave for 27 years.

"Gigi i have one question .

Why Japanese sergeant so fear to go home ?"

Well ,I shall cook up another fresh novel

story to let you understand !"

[wengilee]

Japanese highschool textbook nowdays are all COVERED/CENSORED abt the INVASION/ATTACK secrets .

Japanese children today still believe,

WW2 wasnt a attack /invasion by Nippon !!!

Read my protest letter to United States.

[wengilee]

Japanese claimed that there is NO OFFICIAL EVIDENCE

which supported their INVASION/ATTACK towards

Asia Pacific region ,mainly during 1941-45.

[wengilee]

Japanese gov. always argued that people

from Asia-Pacific like to lie (Cook-up stories)

in purpose to ask for more money (compensation).

Because most of the Asian-pacific children 1940's

were not educated ,did not have chance

to go to school ,DID NOT LEARN TO WRITE AND READ

there will be hardly some written evident left,

mostly just memories as oral evidence.

Because of NO GO TO SCHOOL ( 1940s-1970 )

[wengilee]

Gigi you must hate Japan after all these cold boring political studies . "Wrong I love Japan." Why ? Because of Buddhism and Nature Art ? And also many intelligent people . But they are Japanese ? Japanese doesn't equal Nippon Seifu . Like Chinese doesn't nesasarily has to be Communist or Tibetan intruder. Gigi I like you ,can we be friends , will you stay in Japan longer ? "No I am afraid . I will be UNDER OBSERVATION if talking more SECRETS to you ."

[wengilee]

☆ To the following destination :

(ASIA PACIFIC region )

／第二次世界大戦期間 during WW2.

亞太平洋區域出身

(British) HongKong ,Singapore, Burma, Malaya ,

Manchuria, Korea,(Dutch)Indonesia, Taiwan,

(US military base)Pearl Harbor,Okinawa ,Guam ,

Phillipines,Vietnam,Iwo Jima.

[dday0606]

IMPERIAL Japan. It is important to distinguish 'tyranny' from 'nationality'. Just as with 'Nazi Germany' versus 'Germany', there is a difference in lumping an entire nationality with the evil perpetrated by a political party, and an entire nation and time period.

[ludocrat]

Well said, dday0606.

[ianuus]

Except we all know that he meant those Japanese depicted in this video, or Imperial Japan anyway, so only a pedantic freak would bother rectifying it.

[ludocrat]

That doesn't make sense. And Kwai is well known for its massaging of the truth so Hollywood could have its 'goodies' and 'baddies'. The real Colonel Nicholson (Colonel Toosey) disrupted the building of the bridge as much as he could - but more importantly, in answer to your 'pedantic freak' nonsense, he saved the life of the camp commander (a sergeant) at the end of the war. Now why would he do that for a 'fckin jap'?

[ianuus]

No, I was saying the guy who was correcting the person saying "those fcking japs" was a pedantic freak.

[ludocrat]

And rightly so.

My sincere apologies. It's a very emotional subject. Quite a few in my family (because they were lunatic RAF fighters), got shot down.

Where did you lose yours, moron Housers? Basically nowhere.

[DavidMed58]

dude ur family helped save britain :D my greatgrandfather fought with the inf :)

[DavidMJordan]

Britain saved the US' ass by fighting against Hitler when no-one else did. If Britain had fasllen, the USSR would have fallen and then the japs and the new German empire would have smashed the US.

[mp97k]

Dear David! I appreciate britain's great afforts and real help in WW2, I do aknowledge their huge losses and human victims, but the only Country defeated Hitler - is USSR.

1942 - under Stalingran, thereafter in 1943 near Kursk (the greatest tank battle ever).

[DavidMJordan]

UssR started WW2 with Germany by invading eastern Poland in 1939, after the Stalin/Hitler pact of August of that year. The USSR was Germany's allie for those two years which rather detracts from the idea that they won the war single-handed.

[DavidMJordan]

The USSR only fought against Hitler after it had been invaded in 1941 (TWO years later) Britain helped Russia by sending supplies, when Britain could ill afford them, at great risk and loss via Murmansk, Archangel and Persia. in doing so they defeated the Germans, single-handed, in the sea war . The Russians fought on land.

The western allies pulverised Germany from the air and then invaded Italy and, Germany's other great ally, France.

[KVblowYouDown]

what are you talking about? France was not an ally of germany! if you're young to say things, say the truth! France's underground helped the allies get vital information against the Germans.

[DavidMJordan]

France supplied a large number of troops to the the Nazi cause on the Eastern Front including the SS division 'Legion Charlemagne'. This meant that the Germans could place more troops in France to oppose the Allied invasion. Vichy France was also nominally at war with the allies and collaborated with the Nazis disgracefully.

[flossy100]

dear mp87k It's naive to believe such propaganda. You should research original sources and educate yourself. Britain's 'efforts' weakened Germany's men, faith and ammunition, taking huge pressure off ussr - Battle of Britain is just one example.

[mp97k]

If we didn't - UK would have helped Germans agains "Kommunist Threat"; they simply expected who will beat whom. Whether you like it or not, whether you'll acknowledge it - this is truth. It is not about britains, but their government of those days and of UK's external policy.

Buth this movie is really great. About great people

[DavidMJordan]

Hitler and Stalin were tyrants of equal proportion and megalomania. Your accusation is totally unjustified. Britain never considered allying with gERMANY. When Britain and US invaded European countries it restored democratic governments. countries

[02Tony]

Dam right and america will have to keep two navies, a masive army and a airforce around the entire country without affecting the so called american rights.

[DavidMed58]

The British rule! :D Are they prisoners from The bAttle of Singuapore or Hong Kong, if H.K Canadians would be there too.

[redtiger111]

That is the BRITS! THEY KICK ASS (I am American and proud to say that).

[ludocrat]

Yeah, we're good at bridge-building.

[davidmetal4ever]

thanks man so do you americans :) im british but yeh my whole family hates the japs, family member got captured and starved to death

[redtiger111]

Thanks alot for the love to America. Back ato Brittania.

[DavidMed58]

japs were a million times worse than germans germanbs treated pows 'ok' not the best but ok the japs hid their red cross packages and they have worst war tactics...

JAP:'BANZAI IM GONNA RUSH UR ASS AND GET SHOT!'

[omtat2]

Saito seems like a reasonable fellow... I've heard him called alot of things but Reasonable, that's a new one..... Classic

English prisoners, Note. I say prisoners! It was your disloyal officers to brought you here,,,, Classic!

[neobully14]

Very good movie but they've edit the story insted the bridge was destroy by American bomber plane.

[khtervola]

I think that the European way of organising things is the best: all people extremely well motivated toward the same goals, using all their understanding (also philosophy of life) to advance them, communicating with each other objectively as well as socially and so learning from each other as much as possible. That brings the wisest, mightiest and maybe also the most peaceful arrangement that one can produce with such people as they happen to be...

[acerb45666555]

brilliant acting!!

[tmduffy]

Alec Guinness - a magnificent actor in his greatest role.

[freddage91]

I may be nursing a semi just watching this brilliant clip

[r08r09]

never ever forgot this clip,great many thanks

[dday0606]

Although it was fiction, it depicts the suffering of so many in WWII. We who were born after, have NO idea of what they all did for us.

[hawkforce]

They surrendered to enemy, what did they do for us?

[dday0606]

One has to be WILLING fight for or against something in order to be faced with surrender. If so many had not been willing to fight, die, and surrender ultimate victory over both Japan and Nazi Germany may not have been possible. You might be speaking Japanese. Perhaps you do not consider the burden that POWs place on a captive force to hold and maintain ENEMY troops BEHIND their own lines. It is why the Imperial Japanese and Nazis were particularly brutal-they did not want to deal with it.

[hawkforce]

No, i don't speak japanese becoz i'm a Chinese, and i look at this matter in allies point of view coz i'm against Nazi as well... But these soldiers failed to protect singapore and malaya, as the result many people were living in the region (mostly Chinese)were killed brutally by japanese... and i personally think that surrender should never be an option for a soldier...

[dday0606]

Respectfully, I know you are Chinese, that is why I said you MIGHT be speaking Japanese if Imperial Japan had won. The Chinese were brutalized by Imperial Japan! The Allies were unprepared for Axis war technology initially. Why charge an overwhelming force now if victory may be achieved later? Remember that the world had just emerged from WWI and did not want to face the growing potential of another World War with Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany. Surrender was after horrific loss, not cowardice.

[hawkforce]

that was war, there's no guarantee that Allies would win for sure, If Germany did not attack Soviet uinon creating another battlefield, if japan didn't attack Pearl harbour or else if Hitler made the A-bomb before US, and there are many unknown possibilities, Allies victory has nothing to do with their surrender... anyway nice music...

[hawkforce]

There's no guarantee Allies would win for sure, what if Germany did not attack soviet uinon creating another battlefield? or what if japan didn't attack pearl harbour or Hitler made A-bomb before US. there are many other possibilities, we couldn't tell who would win the war, of course the propanda always say Axis will lose eventually. and what im trying to say is that the victory has nothing to do with these people who surrendered to their enemy, but those soldiers who died before enemy fire..

[kcfckiller]

The war in Europe and the Pacific War need to seen differently. The Pacific War was merely of Japan's expansionist polices since the beginning of the century. And just to correct the record, the Japanese long before pearl harbor knew that a war with the US would be a war of attrition that they would lose. That was the whole point in bombing Pearl Harbor.

[dethklok99]

Hawkforce just has no idea.

I should ask him where was the China Army?

The Allies were there to protect China and their civilians. Anyway God bless those whom serve and have served. Also, Sun Tzu the great china military strategist also said...Better to retreat, and fight another day. To know when to fight and when not too.

I love this movie!!!

[dday0606]

It is a great film but we must also allow other nationalities their view. I love my country, yet it is important to remember that the rest of world was fighting, dying, and submitting to the Axis since the late 1930s. The USA entered into the war mainly due to Pearl Harbor. We faced a foe already stressed from years of fighting and aggression. What the USA did in WWII was simply the right things to do. Those who fought will tell you humbly the world owes us nothing they were just doing their job