There is no like old fashioned WW2 war movies where there is no crappy CGI involved. This one; Tora-Tora-Tora and the Battle of England are among my favorites.
A total Military Blunder, so many lives lost due to not enough intell gathering or stupid officers believing what was shown to them!!! Madness I tell you Madness!!
And nowadays they would give us terribly convincing CGI airplanes plus
- some "creative liberties" like replacing the british paratroopers with americans "for making it more success promising in the USA"
- Consequently replacing Dirk Bogarde with Ben Affleck who lands with a knife between his teeth on a stars and stripes parachute, killing a german with a knife throw
- Replacing Maximillian Shell with Peter Stormare who would immidiately order "tuh taak all zee lokal schildren az hoztages"
I think that's a gross exaggeration. Saving Private Ryan, Band of Brothers, and The Pacific, while not really accurate, hardly went to such ridiculous lengths. We Were Soldiers wasn't accurate at all but it played neutrality well. The Flag of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima did a fair job, too.
Of the 10,000 1st Airbourne dropped only 1,860 made the retreat to Elst and Southern Holland, British paratroopers suffered similar loses. My uncle nearly made it but ended up in Oosterbeek cemetary. On the battle anniversary the Dutch people hold a rememberance service at Oosterbeek where local "flower childen" put boquets on the graves of the men who stayed behindm, Its a very moving ceremony which Dutch people still hold close to their hearts (last year 3,000 people attended the service)
Of the 10,000 1st Airbourne dropped only 1,860 made the retreat to Elst and Southern Holland, British paratroopers suffered similar loses. My uncle nearly made it but ended up in Oosterbeek cemetary. On the battle anniversary the Dutch people hold a rememberance service at Oosterbeek where local "flower childen" put boquets on the graves of the men who stayed behindm, Its a very moving ceremony which Dutch people still hold close to their hearts (last year 3,000 people attended the service)
Wow! It really looks like an airborne battalion drop. Can you imagine if they could recreate the entire 1st Airborne's drop? Nearly 7,000 men by parachute and 3,000 by glider over a five mile area. That would be a sight to behold!
@BlackCountryPuddler Did the editors use some kind of complex shot overlay? The planes can hold 28 each and at one point 11 enter the frame. That's a posssibility of nearly 330. Using photoshop I let it count blocks in one shot and it counted nearly 200 chutes. Then again they could have dropped dummies in the sweeping shots.
@SurfingTX I have no idea how they did it my friend but rest assured that is A Company I Para only. I would imagine they used a ton of cameras from 360 degrees and all angles and then somehow dubbed it all together. Great film though eh?
I used to live next to an old lady whose husband took part in the real thing and I believe was one of the people who helped to deliver a local woman's baby at some point of the battle!
So tragic they were not successful. I visited Arnhem and Oosterbeek last April to see where the battle happened. I spoke to the guy who runs the museum by the bridge, and said it was sad how many soldiers died, and were unable to capture the town.
He said he was glad that they had tried to liberate it, and that the local school children always put flowers on the graves on the anniversary. They are all very grateful to what the British tried to do.
Colonel Dan... appreciate you posting this..... I'm a second Generation Master Parachutist..."Like Father Like Son" Father 82nd ABN DIV.........Son 173rd ABN BDE
@coffeebrown10 Plz dont forget about Canadians, we were with the british, quite a few of us infact. We just had the same equipment! I DO AGREE WITH YOU THOUGH! Airborne all the way
@8010cookie I'm a Brit, but I get pissed off on behalf of Canadians (and other Commonwealth allies) when people or commentaries say that in the early years WW2, "Britain stood alone against Germany".
And the forgotten Africans, West Indians, Indians , Asians, Muslims , Jewish, European mainland exiles, and S.Americans who all FOUGHT against the Axis too -who hardly get mentioned in the standard WW2 television documentaries
"umm we are talking about countries that fought, race has nothing to do with it"
Actually YOU joined in the conversation after me. I never replied to you- check the dates of the comment replies. I was here a month ago with my reply- you joined in a few weeks after me.
Furthermore- in your reply to me you forget I only mentioned 'Asians' as a race..... the Chinese are forgotten as Allies. Every other group/ nation I mentioned were not 'races'.
@NORSEMAN1967 ..and the brave german soldiers who fought against this massive overwhelming force. they had nothing but their manhood and fought against the big machine, called capitalism and US Empire. They lost, but we should always remember, there were MEN before we all turned into sheeps...
I haven't the proper facilities to round up every Uber-Troll, but I will add it to my list of things to do. God Bless the RAF and the 82nd Airborne! Huzzah huzzah huzzah!
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my grandfarther was in this battle he made it out but he died in 1945 2 months away from the end of the war when he was killed by a drunk yank he stabbed him and he blead to death sad story.
I want real guys jump down with parachute! Massive like the audience in Ben-Hur! No more CG! I want real fighters and planes! I want modified real guns! I want a real city, not a fake one for the movie!
My Dad's cousin Delford died in this battle. He was in the 401st Glider Infantry, 101st Airborne Division. 19 years old. His body wasn't recovered until 1977. The offical Report of Death states that he was digging in position near Middelaar, Holland, when enemy machine gun fire shot him through the neck. Just wanted a real name with a real battle.
You are looking at about one hundred men from the Ist Battalion The Parachute Regiment who were based on Queens Avenue Aldershot at this time. Thats all Richard Attenborough used was one Company. The mass drop effect was done with clever camera work. I believe it was A Coy but I may be wrong. Getting old LOL
1:53 to 2:19 brings back a lot of memories! Such good men; such close friends! And 3:01 to 3:12 is about the only parachute landing scene I've ever seen in entertainment films that depicts the actual crash-and-burn landing of a fully combat loaded paratrooper. As my years in the airborne went by, the ground kept getting harder and harder. Must have been plate tectonics. Couldn't have been age. :o)
@BlackCountryPuddler You've got that right! However, the softest landings I ever had were at Hakely Heath or some such name in the UK. While in 5th Special Forces Group, I was going through Depot at Aldershot to get my Brit wings, and knocked out 5 jumps one day from a balloon. Not only was I not ready for that loooong wait for opening, but I was not ready for the cushy landing....and the cups of tea on the drop zone. "To the Queen!" I must admit, sir, the Brits do it with CLASS!! :o)
I was in this movie,(god knows where though) when I was serving, it was the only chance we ever had of jumping from a Dak, most jumpps were ever done from a Herc, we had to dress up as yanks and poles, to get the numbers up
The Para's dont do any jumps at all now, but still do 'P' Company, dunno why they wear the wings though
they dont make em like this anymore because it isn't violent enough for most people who watch movies, unfortunately the good movies like these are no longer of interest to many moviegoers because there is not enough action, personally i love this movie and all those like it, but a movie such as this would make very little in todays theatres
@tigerbait134 for sure, i love these movies, the guns of navarone is awesome, im 16 and i love the movies made from 47 to now about world war 2, but one thing i really love is the movies about the beach landings and such with the actual veterans, like to hell and back, it has the person who it is about, audie murphy as the leading role, also, the movie big red one was great, but you have to see the directors cut to get the whole thing, otherwise certain things seem random
@tigerbait134 also there was a movie i watched, it was about the airborne when they dropped into arnhem i think, but a guy gets caught on a church and watches his comrades die and plays dead to stay alive, i forgot the name but its a great movie
@severedarterie Thats "The Longest Day" the 1962 classic with John Wayne and Robert Mitchum. That scene was the drop into Ste. Mere Eglise in Normandy by the 82nd Airborne.
@BloodyFury555 Dont remember that scene, the guy hanging from the church watching everyone else get shot up sounds alot like the one in The Longest Day.
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Check out Band Of Brothers, right now theres a mini series called "The Pacific" which focuses on the Pacific Theatre, both of them are very very good war series.
These actual shots were shot using serving British paras, they used parachutes that they were not used to,and jumped from aircraft they were not used to. Just shows what pride and dicipline can do !
@4mrtd This was actually quoted by Kurt Student the commander of the German Falschimjaeger (Paratroop) Forces and pioneer of Airborne warfare. This was another unforseen problem for the Allied Airborne forces as the last thing you want oppossing you is the guy who wrote the book on Airborne OPs just accidentally being in the same area. Student knew exactly what problems the Allied Para's would be facing and his advise was invaluable in aiding the German victory.
yeah this is a classice... great story.. i love the part where the british commander strolls along the bridge with his umbrella.. jejeje great stuff..
10,000 men went into the Arnhem area, less than 2,000 came out. 80% casualties! The 740 men that held the north end of the arnhem bridge must be put up alongside the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae for their stand. Truly an epic, phyrric tale. Yet the Allies somehow won the war.
Canada didn't take part of this operation but they was the first country to liberate Netherlands in opposite to the total fail operation "market garden" with U.K and United States.
Yep. The Canadians are still loved in Netherlands. Even on 5 may when they celebrate their freedom from the war. you see Canadian flags hanging everywhere together with the Dutch ones. If you ever have seen the movie Black Book. You will also see Canadian soldiers and officers. They are a importend role in it
The Canadians did end up taking part. The Royal Canadian Engineers were involved in the withdrawal of 1 Br Abn Div (Br) back across the Rhine. It certainly wasn't in the plan, but no plan ever survives... ;)
The evacuation task was incidental. The RCE Field Companies were grouped with the RE and tasked to conduct bridge/raft ops in the event that any of the bridges were blown. The lineage of these Field Companies is carried by 2 CER.
This is great. I saw this a few months after graduating from jump school. They almost tossed us out of the theatre for all our hooting and cheering. :) And... a friend of mine at the time was in europe and took part in the jump for the movie.
Sounds cool to jump in Holland, on film. I always loved the Tally-ho jumper coming out the door with his legs apart. If my 1st Sgt. saw that i'd owe about 1000 sit-ups.
Does anyone know where this was filmed ? I remember being blown away as a kidas to the scale of this film, the logistics must have been huge, not to mention the budget !
all of the outside shots were on location in holland where it all happened. except the bridge at arnhem it was all the real thing. the surroundings of arnhem bridge were too built up so they found an extremely similar bridge at deventer.
Search: 'ginkel n224 holland' in google maps and you will see the field where the drop in the film and the drop in real life took place. I am almost certain this is where it took place. I have been there but from sattelite imagery it is not always possible to tell.
Its the big field with all the tracks running through it.
My uncle with 2nd Parachute Battalion Co. Johnny Frost. Always said that & only that was a memory worth keeping, but the rest of campaign he could not forget.
Isnt that just amazing, all those men doing something so special, im guessing this would never be repeated in the future on such a scale of a fight for freedom
Those Dakotas we re good,remember that stupid German one with the three props wouldnt get me in that.Looked like it was made of corregated iron JU52 thats it.
Because it has three props its considered stupid? despite increasing its performance for its time and saw its own paratroopers through their drops with success.
it's true. well done. you can see it to the left of the airplane. but the parachute didn't fail, then he was scared. that hapen all the time, i am a paratrooper from Honduras and that hapen all the time.
Many reasons for the reserve deploying being scared with british airborne forces is not one of them. The motto of the No1 Parachute Training school is. Knowledge dispels fear!!
Knowing the paras what better way to tell the folks back home which is me. I am the one who pulled his reserve chute!!
It actually makes a sham of the movie with British Airborne forces not issued a reserve in WW2.
In WW2 the chutes where made of silk and at times did not deploy fully. The famous Roman Candle
Hi i send a video here that shows what i telled you 4 months ago, please excuse mi english i write what i can but there is the video, i was in this jump in agost/2007. the paratrooper was scared and deployed the reserve.
Referencing diseth2's comment: I'm an american and I'm thankful too. A lot of men far better than myself died to preserve freedom otherwise I would not be sitting here watching this.
Its so funny when people talk like that. You think you'd be living under a nazi regime or something? Please specify with historical grounding what you mean by such a statement.
There is no like old fashioned WW2 war movies where there is no crappy CGI involved. This one; Tora-Tora-Tora and the Battle of England are among my favorites.
3dfreak2000 2 weeks ago
these were niggers jumping for a bananna
MrMilfhunter2003 2 months ago
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PanakaStigLitz 2 months ago 2
There is nothing crazier nor cooler than an airborne drop.
WhiteCamry92 2 months ago
Fucking brave men.
arsenaljsutliffuk 2 months ago
Jumping from a perfectly good plane is very unnatural thing. The Paras are not for me.
WALTERBROADDUS 3 months ago
A total Military Blunder, so many lives lost due to not enough intell gathering or stupid officers believing what was shown to them!!! Madness I tell you Madness!!
TiggerKat 4 months ago
Fantastisch! Einmal solches Material zu meiner Verfügung...
hstf 7 months ago
And nowadays they would give us terribly convincing CGI airplanes plus
- some "creative liberties" like replacing the british paratroopers with americans "for making it more success promising in the USA"
- Consequently replacing Dirk Bogarde with Ben Affleck who lands with a knife between his teeth on a stars and stripes parachute, killing a german with a knife throw
- Replacing Maximillian Shell with Peter Stormare who would immidiately order "tuh taak all zee lokal schildren az hoztages"
Celeon999A 8 months ago 13
@Celeon999A
I think that's a gross exaggeration. Saving Private Ryan, Band of Brothers, and The Pacific, while not really accurate, hardly went to such ridiculous lengths. We Were Soldiers wasn't accurate at all but it played neutrality well. The Flag of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima did a fair job, too.
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Of the 10,000 1st Airbourne dropped only 1,860 made the retreat to Elst and Southern Holland, British paratroopers suffered similar loses. My uncle nearly made it but ended up in Oosterbeek cemetary. On the battle anniversary the Dutch people hold a rememberance service at Oosterbeek where local "flower childen" put boquets on the graves of the men who stayed behindm, Its a very moving ceremony which Dutch people still hold close to their hearts (last year 3,000 people attended the service)
trevorbarnes23 8 months ago
Of the 10,000 1st Airbourne dropped only 1,860 made the retreat to Elst and Southern Holland, British paratroopers suffered similar loses. My uncle nearly made it but ended up in Oosterbeek cemetary. On the battle anniversary the Dutch people hold a rememberance service at Oosterbeek where local "flower childen" put boquets on the graves of the men who stayed behindm, Its a very moving ceremony which Dutch people still hold close to their hearts (last year 3,000 people attended the service)
trevorbarnes23 8 months ago 2
@trevorbarnes23
thanks
PanakaStigLitz 2 months ago
Thats allot of paratroopers
ShadowDeathBl1tz 9 months ago
@ShadowDeathBl1tz .........100 men plus or minus of A Company I Para is all they used to shoot this Airborne assault.
BlackCountryPuddler 6 months ago
Wow! It really looks like an airborne battalion drop. Can you imagine if they could recreate the entire 1st Airborne's drop? Nearly 7,000 men by parachute and 3,000 by glider over a five mile area. That would be a sight to behold!
SurfingTX 9 months ago
@SurfingTX ............... 100 only
BlackCountryPuddler 6 months ago
@BlackCountryPuddler Did the editors use some kind of complex shot overlay? The planes can hold 28 each and at one point 11 enter the frame. That's a posssibility of nearly 330. Using photoshop I let it count blocks in one shot and it counted nearly 200 chutes. Then again they could have dropped dummies in the sweeping shots.
SurfingTX 6 months ago
@SurfingTX I have no idea how they did it my friend but rest assured that is A Company I Para only. I would imagine they used a ton of cameras from 360 degrees and all angles and then somehow dubbed it all together. Great film though eh?
BlackCountryPuddler 6 months ago
@SurfingTX Definitely dummies. Those things don't look alive much less human.
Trashcansam123 5 months ago
"Embarassing" ? Hey, talk to your Defense Minister at the time about UFOs and Alien technology...
That's plausible, but "hey, wtf thats MY intellectual property" wasn't?
The31415927 9 months ago
EGGS with PARACHUTES!
The31415927 9 months ago
I used to live next to an old lady whose husband took part in the real thing and I believe was one of the people who helped to deliver a local woman's baby at some point of the battle!
spyderz1303 10 months ago
This is what Hannibal Lechter did before he started eating people.
sportyguyusa 11 months ago
Why this movie never got nominated for cinematography I'll never know.
schizoidboy 11 months ago 3
just ordinary Joe's doing exceptional things
malcolmry 11 months ago 2
So tragic they were not successful. I visited Arnhem and Oosterbeek last April to see where the battle happened. I spoke to the guy who runs the museum by the bridge, and said it was sad how many soldiers died, and were unable to capture the town.
He said he was glad that they had tried to liberate it, and that the local school children always put flowers on the graves on the anniversary. They are all very grateful to what the British tried to do.
Braveheart1984 1 year ago 2
Colonel Dan... appreciate you posting this..... I'm a second Generation Master Parachutist..."Like Father Like Son" Father 82nd ABN DIV.........Son 173rd ABN BDE
"All the Way"
coffeebrown10 1 year ago
Utrinque Paratus.... Never forget you brave men of the British and Polish Paras. Lest we forget.
BlackCountryPuddler 1 year ago 5
Praise all British, American, and Polish Airborne Unites from WW 2.... " All the Way"
coffeebrown10 1 year ago 25
@coffeebrown10 and irish
JordoF6 11 months ago
@coffeebrown10 Plz dont forget about Canadians, we were with the british, quite a few of us infact. We just had the same equipment! I DO AGREE WITH YOU THOUGH! Airborne all the way
8010cookie 5 months ago 4
@8010cookie I'm a Brit, but I get pissed off on behalf of Canadians (and other Commonwealth allies) when people or commentaries say that in the early years WW2, "Britain stood alone against Germany".
crapatev 5 months ago 5
@crapatev Yes! We will always have your guys' back and im very proud to be commonwealth!
Cheers!
8010cookie 5 months ago
@coffeebrown10
And the forgotten Africans, West Indians, Indians , Asians, Muslims , Jewish, European mainland exiles, and S.Americans who all FOUGHT against the Axis too -who hardly get mentioned in the standard WW2 television documentaries
PanakaStigLitz 2 months ago
@PanakaStigLitz umm we are talking about countries that fought, race has nothing to do with it
NORSEMAN1967 3 weeks ago
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"umm we are talking about countries that fought, race has nothing to do with it"
Actually YOU joined in the conversation after me. I never replied to you- check the dates of the comment replies. I was here a month ago with my reply- you joined in a few weeks after me.
PanakaStigLitz 3 weeks ago
@NORSEMAN1967
Furthermore- in your reply to me you forget I only mentioned 'Asians' as a race..... the Chinese are forgotten as Allies. Every other group/ nation I mentioned were not 'races'.
PanakaStigLitz 3 weeks ago
@coffeebrown10 and Canadian!
NORSEMAN1967 1 month ago
@NORSEMAN1967 ..and the brave german soldiers who fought against this massive overwhelming force. they had nothing but their manhood and fought against the big machine, called capitalism and US Empire. They lost, but we should always remember, there were MEN before we all turned into sheeps...
dasheiligeheerlager 3 weeks ago
I haven't the proper facilities to round up every Uber-Troll, but I will add it to my list of things to do. God Bless the RAF and the 82nd Airborne! Huzzah huzzah huzzah!
TheEleventhIndian 1 year ago
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fuckystoat 1 year ago
my grandfarther was in this battle he made it out but he died in 1945 2 months away from the end of the war when he was killed by a drunk yank he stabbed him and he blead to death sad story.
TheLloydA1 1 year ago
@TheLloydA1 Sorry to hear that happened to one of the brave 1st Airborne hero's, from a retired American paratrooper
filmputzer 1 year ago
I agree CGI sucks,consider a film like The Blue Max where replica aircraft were used
and has more realistic flying sequences than say Fly Boys were every plane is moving as fast as a P-51 !
Jman
Kabul81 1 year ago
On 1:21 you'll see an accidental reserve canopy opening. Historical this is not right, as the British jumped at Arnhem without reserve parachutes.
MarsAssessor 1 year ago 3
There's nothing more beautiful than seeing hundreds of chutes in the sky.
jporcel100 1 year ago
GOD SAVE THE HEROES OF ARNHEM AND OOSTERBEEK
WHOA MOHAMMED!!!!!!!!! FOR EVER
GenGeogeSPatton 1 year ago
I want real guys jump down with parachute! Massive like the audience in Ben-Hur! No more CG! I want real fighters and planes! I want modified real guns! I want a real city, not a fake one for the movie!
All of these can't be done in the movies today.
s020015 1 year ago 2
its like a video game when he jumps outadat planed
JordoF6 1 year ago
My Dad's cousin Delford died in this battle. He was in the 401st Glider Infantry, 101st Airborne Division. 19 years old. His body wasn't recovered until 1977. The offical Report of Death states that he was digging in position near Middelaar, Holland, when enemy machine gun fire shot him through the neck. Just wanted a real name with a real battle.
Amyisalover 1 year ago 7
You are looking at about one hundred men from the Ist Battalion The Parachute Regiment who were based on Queens Avenue Aldershot at this time. Thats all Richard Attenborough used was one Company. The mass drop effect was done with clever camera work. I believe it was A Coy but I may be wrong. Getting old LOL
BlackCountryPuddler 1 year ago 5
1:53 to 2:19 brings back a lot of memories! Such good men; such close friends! And 3:01 to 3:12 is about the only parachute landing scene I've ever seen in entertainment films that depicts the actual crash-and-burn landing of a fully combat loaded paratrooper. As my years in the airborne went by, the ground kept getting harder and harder. Must have been plate tectonics. Couldn't have been age. :o)
4325air 1 year ago 4
@4325air.....Hey Yank If you got to your feet and walked away..... it was a good jump eh ?
BlackCountryPuddler 6 months ago
@BlackCountryPuddler You've got that right! However, the softest landings I ever had were at Hakely Heath or some such name in the UK. While in 5th Special Forces Group, I was going through Depot at Aldershot to get my Brit wings, and knocked out 5 jumps one day from a balloon. Not only was I not ready for that loooong wait for opening, but I was not ready for the cushy landing....and the cups of tea on the drop zone. "To the Queen!" I must admit, sir, the Brits do it with CLASS!! :o)
4325air 6 months ago
Cheers to the men of the 1/505th PIR -- their courage and their balls! Airborne!
jporcel100 1 year ago 3
0:30...no CG here my friends, those are real paratroopers, amazing scene.
mitrooper 1 year ago 2
For all the Canadian and American soldiers fighting right now may god bless all of them
REYES1228 1 year ago
@REYES1228 Yea jsut fuck all the British soldiers fighting right now..
MerciaSunshine 1 year ago
germans must be like
''oh shit they arent attacking the rhine''
NoobSnoopy 1 year ago
I was in this movie,(god knows where though) when I was serving, it was the only chance we ever had of jumping from a Dak, most jumpps were ever done from a Herc, we had to dress up as yanks and poles, to get the numbers up
The Para's dont do any jumps at all now, but still do 'P' Company, dunno why they wear the wings though
pepsi666 1 year ago
@pepsi666 You are full of shit . What was your Platoon number Para Depot. ? ....and who was the RSM
BlackCountryPuddler 1 year ago
@BlackCountryPuddler WTF are you,? I joined as an RE, then went on to 9 Para RE
WTF have you ever done ?
pepsi666 1 year ago
@pepsi666 I was Jnr ACC third class. No 9 Squadron were on that film, NONE. All I Para.
BlackCountryPuddler 1 year ago
they dont make em like this anymore because it isn't violent enough for most people who watch movies, unfortunately the good movies like these are no longer of interest to many moviegoers because there is not enough action, personally i love this movie and all those like it, but a movie such as this would make very little in todays theatres
severedarterie 1 year ago
@severedarterie trust me im 17 and i would prefer watching these movies than todays
tigerbait134 1 year ago
@tigerbait134 for sure, i love these movies, the guns of navarone is awesome, im 16 and i love the movies made from 47 to now about world war 2, but one thing i really love is the movies about the beach landings and such with the actual veterans, like to hell and back, it has the person who it is about, audie murphy as the leading role, also, the movie big red one was great, but you have to see the directors cut to get the whole thing, otherwise certain things seem random
severedarterie 1 year ago
@tigerbait134 also there was a movie i watched, it was about the airborne when they dropped into arnhem i think, but a guy gets caught on a church and watches his comrades die and plays dead to stay alive, i forgot the name but its a great movie
severedarterie 1 year ago
@severedarterie Thats "The Longest Day" the 1962 classic with John Wayne and Robert Mitchum. That scene was the drop into Ste. Mere Eglise in Normandy by the 82nd Airborne.
LoneWolf051 1 year ago
@LoneWolf051 no idiot that scene is the operation market-garden in holland while the objective was to cross the rhin
BloodyFury555 1 year ago
@BloodyFury555 Dont remember that scene, the guy hanging from the church watching everyone else get shot up sounds alot like the one in The Longest Day.
LoneWolf051 1 year ago
As they come returning from cargo flights from the islands. Amazing considering the last one was built over 60 years ago, and still going strong.
billace90 1 year ago
Those DC-3's or C-47 's are super reliable. Every afternoon around 6 pm I hear them over my house as they come
billace90 1 year ago
god i have the horn
bluffer7451 1 year ago
Super filmik :)
Szadi1944 1 year ago
A excelent scene and very very good filmed !
nightravenonline 1 year ago
Dakota DC 3. a brillant maschine !
nightravenonline 1 year ago
There using C 47 in this movie. ;-)
Yellow13NL 1 year ago
in the real operation market the drop continued for more than 15 minutes.
yusukegarners 2 years ago 2
why is it most the movies before were very good unlike now?? we dont have movies like this anymore....
SuperWeng10 2 years ago 4
because
1) they have run out of ideas
2) there is not so much money in it
3) our enemies are out friends (by another 30 years after this film, anyway).
pix042 2 years ago
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piacentini 2 years ago
Saving Private Ryan was pretty darn good and realistic. The Tiger 1's looked pretty authentic ?
zxhamstring 1 year ago
@SuperWeng10
Check out Band Of Brothers, right now theres a mini series called "The Pacific" which focuses on the Pacific Theatre, both of them are very very good war series.
liamuk08 1 year ago
Maximillian Schell, the actor playing SS General Bittrich says : 'Incredible. If only I could have so much material at my disposal .. just once.'
kealyc 2 years ago
AIRBORNE!!!
mastermike95 2 years ago
ALL THE WAY, SIR!!
SgtGross 2 years ago 2
So near, yet so far. RIP the brave veterans on all sides who fought. Rest ye well.
cannonski 2 years ago 47
@cannonski thanks!, My grandpa was a general during world war 2 in Finland. He fought the winter war. He died by a grenade :(
crippinchipz 1 year ago
@cannonski without nazi germans
rysio92 1 year ago
Douglas C 47 "Dakota". Most elegant aircraft ao WWII.
TwojaStaraStraszy 2 years ago 5
this was filmed only a couple of miles from here.
Saartje05 2 years ago
1Para...A Coy I think. Alley bastards.
BlackCountryPuddler 2 years ago
Great movie!
ThePunisher1978 2 years ago 2
These actual shots were shot using serving British paras, they used parachutes that they were not used to,and jumped from aircraft they were not used to. Just shows what pride and dicipline can do !
23929500 2 years ago 3
My dad did the funeral for the last guy who survived the real attacks this film is based on. RIP all those who gave heir lives for this.
urbannibja123 2 years ago 2
Thanks.
AltarOfTriumph 2 years ago
at 00:22
AltarOfTriumph 2 years ago
Can someone interpret what that officer says at the start?
AltarOfTriumph 2 years ago
"Yes, I am over here Matthew."
matthewjdenn 2 years ago 2
Yes, I am over here Matthias. Fantastic, if only I could be in charge of such power..............
4mrtd 2 years ago
@4mrtd This was actually quoted by Kurt Student the commander of the German Falschimjaeger (Paratroop) Forces and pioneer of Airborne warfare. This was another unforseen problem for the Allied Airborne forces as the last thing you want oppossing you is the guy who wrote the book on Airborne OPs just accidentally being in the same area. Student knew exactly what problems the Allied Para's would be facing and his advise was invaluable in aiding the German victory.
Flashaman1845 3 months ago
Maximilian Shell alias Generalfeldmarschall Walter Model
CassiusCh 2 years ago
@CassiusCh ..........Maximillian Schell played general Bittrich.
BlackCountryPuddler 6 months ago
he says:Fantastic,someday he can have so much troops
ThePunisher1978 2 years ago
No... "Fantastic isn't it... If only I had such power"
AltarOfTriumph 2 years ago
yeah sounds better....
Fantastic,one time such supplies to my hands....
ThePunisher1978 2 years ago
I would have hoped that they lost against the germans ; but sadly , they did not . deutsland Über alles heil hitler
hessaad 2 years ago
For the people interested: I got this piece of the movie a little extended and in a bigger screen uploaded in my page. HQ as well. ;-)
Yellow13NL 2 years ago
nuo on muuten suomalaisia pilotteja nuo.
leffaan värvättyjä.
Koneetki on Suomesta.
aitto 2 years ago
yeah this is a classice... great story.. i love the part where the british commander strolls along the bridge with his umbrella.. jejeje great stuff..
right where here .. and jerrys there..
iskrajohn 2 years ago
Old Masterpiece......man I was 18 when I saw this the year it came....damn.....
Nightsurf59 2 years ago
They just dont make them like this anymore, CGI just wont ever come close to the epic scale of these old masterpieces.
Mo0nBugGy1 2 years ago 52
@Mo0nBugGy1 Amen to that. All Hollywood makes now is crap in comparison to these classic films.
edavismookie25 1 year ago 2
@Mo0nBugGy1 CGI, more expensive and less quality!
gjohnsoningary 1 year ago
@Mo0nBugGy1 amen to that
beer694 1 year ago
@Mo0nBugGy1 and historicaly acurate
SergioWW1WW2 8 months ago
at 2:10 that's my dad you can hear breathing. he had the camera on his chest
ollie241189 2 years ago 5
What a film.
HelmutVillam 2 years ago
10,000 men went into the Arnhem area, less than 2,000 came out. 80% casualties! The 740 men that held the north end of the arnhem bridge must be put up alongside the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae for their stand. Truly an epic, phyrric tale. Yet the Allies somehow won the war.
killingamps 2 years ago 2
I thought exactly the same about Frost and his very brave soldiers! A film should be about their fight to keep the north of Arnhem brigde!
Fontanes74 2 years ago
Canada
Ricardothe1337 2 years ago
Canada didn't take part of this operation but they was the first country to liberate Netherlands in opposite to the total fail operation "market garden" with U.K and United States.
Jimderkaisser 2 years ago
Yep. The Canadians are still loved in Netherlands. Even on 5 may when they celebrate their freedom from the war. you see Canadian flags hanging everywhere together with the Dutch ones. If you ever have seen the movie Black Book. You will also see Canadian soldiers and officers. They are a importend role in it
Ricardothe1337 2 years ago 2
The Canadians did end up taking part. The Royal Canadian Engineers were involved in the withdrawal of 1 Br Abn Div (Br) back across the Rhine. It certainly wasn't in the plan, but no plan ever survives... ;)
Daddiode 2 years ago
Well the role was only for evacuation ,but we didn't take part of the airborne operation.
Jimderkaisser 2 years ago
The evacuation task was incidental. The RCE Field Companies were grouped with the RE and tasked to conduct bridge/raft ops in the event that any of the bridges were blown. The lineage of these Field Companies is carried by 2 CER.
Daddiode 2 years ago
yeah and in march 1945 the Canucks took Arnhem in less than 12 hours
artifexnex 2 years ago
there is a military saying i beleive " if a plan is going well , its an ambush " or something like that
Ultramarine998 2 years ago
Arnham or Years present the Parachute Regiment are the best.
wolfmans46 2 years ago
arnhem my uncle was there great uncle shot in the legs coming out of the skies bless him :)
Fo3rest 2 years ago 2
They do this again every 5 years with some veterans if they want to, but the most of them are to old now to jump. but they are always there to watch
Choefoe 2 years ago
They do it every year! At ginkel heath, Dropzone Y in '44. Since a year or 2 the veterans stopped with the jumpings, for good!
joeypegasus 2 years ago
general bittrich would have loved such power in his possesion!!
goldyn12345 3 years ago
wow
darsus19 3 years ago
jumpstyle
videomanager88 3 years ago
alot of men:o
darsus19 3 years ago
Darsus....A Company 1 Para. About 100 men.
maggiethefox 3 years ago
british lost the netherlands as fast they captured.
Rum048 3 years ago
Really? I don't think so..
m52spy 3 years ago
This is great. I saw this a few months after graduating from jump school. They almost tossed us out of the theatre for all our hooting and cheering. :) And... a friend of mine at the time was in europe and took part in the jump for the movie.
chichimus 3 years ago
Sounds cool to jump in Holland, on film. I always loved the Tally-ho jumper coming out the door with his legs apart. If my 1st Sgt. saw that i'd owe about 1000 sit-ups.
tbmore59 3 years ago 2
Awesome movie. Thanks for posting.
anilomd 3 years ago
today is the anniversary of the market garden drop(1st)!
ABridgeTooFar101st 3 years ago
Does anyone know where this was filmed ? I remember being blown away as a kidas to the scale of this film, the logistics must have been huge, not to mention the budget !
bmgm3 3 years ago
all of the outside shots were on location in holland where it all happened. except the bridge at arnhem it was all the real thing. the surroundings of arnhem bridge were too built up so they found an extremely similar bridge at deventer.
ABridgeTooFar101st 3 years ago
Cheers !
bmgm3 3 years ago
I agree, this film is amamzing, no computer gen images here
Andyb2379 3 years ago 3
Search: 'ginkel n224 holland' in google maps and you will see the field where the drop in the film and the drop in real life took place. I am almost certain this is where it took place. I have been there but from sattelite imagery it is not always possible to tell.
Its the big field with all the tracks running through it.
willchmbt 3 years ago 2
cheers. will have a look
bmgm3 3 years ago
My uncle with 2nd Parachute Battalion Co. Johnny Frost. Always said that & only that was a memory worth keeping, but the rest of campaign he could not forget.
rezcrash88 3 years ago
Isnt that just amazing, all those men doing something so special, im guessing this would never be repeated in the future on such a scale of a fight for freedom
Andyb2379 3 years ago
weather or not the plan was great, the troops certanly were exelent soldiers
rapidfireonthetarget 3 years ago
airbornehonduras181
Thanks for the insights from the pros.
hawkblack707 3 years ago
"There's really was The Glory"
Chauffeur1 3 years ago 2
"Einmal solches Material zu meiner Verfügung"..
ykyr 3 years ago
Those Dakotas we re good,remember that stupid German one with the three props wouldnt get me in that.Looked like it was made of corregated iron JU52 thats it.
seangrie8 3 years ago
Because it has three props its considered stupid? despite increasing its performance for its time and saw its own paratroopers through their drops with success.
randomusernamemygod 3 years ago
A Bridge Too Far is by far the best British war film ever made.
JaccaQ 3 years ago 5
At 1:20 you can see a guy w/ a deployed reserve.
williammccormack 3 years ago
Oh yeah i never noticed that before. seen this like a million times to well spotted
Andyb2379 3 years ago
i do not c it
duhimblake 3 years ago
must have gone off accidently?
twinravens2000 3 years ago
Probably, but it could have been a slight case of panic. "When in doubt, whip it out!"
williammccormack 3 years ago
it's true. well done. you can see it to the left of the airplane. but the parachute didn't fail, then he was scared. that hapen all the time, i am a paratrooper from Honduras and that hapen all the time.
airbornehonduras181 3 years ago
Many reasons for the reserve deploying being scared with british airborne forces is not one of them. The motto of the No1 Parachute Training school is. Knowledge dispels fear!!
Knowing the paras what better way to tell the folks back home which is me. I am the one who pulled his reserve chute!!
It actually makes a sham of the movie with British Airborne forces not issued a reserve in WW2.
In WW2 the chutes where made of silk and at times did not deploy fully. The famous Roman Candle
Backpacker1uk 3 years ago
Hi i send a video here that shows what i telled you 4 months ago, please excuse mi english i write what i can but there is the video, i was in this jump in agost/2007. the paratrooper was scared and deployed the reserve.
airbornehonduras181 3 years ago
Operation Market Garden. Montgomery's greatest blunder.
EXPL721 3 years ago
EXPL721
Montgomery had jack shit to do with the final go-ahead,
True, this was very big Fuck-up.
But look at how the guys on the ground worked around it...
Music man, do not even think you are in a position to comment on this stuff.
hoadmaback 3 years ago 2
Referencing diseth2's comment: I'm an american and I'm thankful too. A lot of men far better than myself died to preserve freedom otherwise I would not be sitting here watching this.
cws31ao 4 years ago 2
Its so funny when people talk like that. You think you'd be living under a nazi regime or something? Please specify with historical grounding what you mean by such a statement.
stperkin 4 years ago
yes best part. "Was there anything else." lol
GDHouston 4 years ago
operation market garden, a great idea but everything that could go wrong, went wrong from the very start, shame.
the best second world war ive seen in my books A1.
seanowain 4 years ago
I like the little horn thing
wolfeye7 4 years ago 2
I loved the defiance showed by frost and his 1st Airborne Division against the 11.SS-Panzerkorps at first.
"SURRENDER"
"RIDE IT OUT YOUR ARSE" Typical true grit brits.
WillBeringer 4 years ago 2
In the close up scene here, my uncle is one of the jumpers, knows exactly which one he is too.
They didn't have enough planes to film all the close up shots, so they had to keep taking one plane up over and over again. Fact
lukeitfc11 4 years ago
Or take loads of shots of 50 or so planes from loads of different angles. I think they got the C-47s on loan from the Swedish airforce didn't they?
CrazyJoeShirley 4 years ago