Oh! What a Lovely War ~ end sequence

This is the last four minutes or so of Richard Attenborough's 1968 film Oh! What a lovely War. Arguably one of the most powerful endings in all cinema. Unfortunately the sound went out of sync when I uploaded the clip it's fine on the original but I see that somebody has very kindly uploaded a better version of the same clip here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f95idVQEXI

Category:

Film & Animation

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• World
• War
• One
• First
• anti-war
• soldiers
• tombstones
• poppies
• pacifist
• musical
• cinema

[Proudnewfoundlander1]

Seems like almost something out of a later season of M*A*S*H, especially those "unusual episodes*

[dutchbonnet]

The film pre-dates the first series of MASH by some three years, so it's quite possible that it influenced the writers of that series. I think it also influenced the writers of the famous final episode of the 4th series of Black Adder, which you can find on YouTube.

[knuckey63]

If you see the movie on DVD make sure you watch Attenbourough's comments at the end. 100,00 crosses in the final scene, each one requiring a hole to be dug. Attenbourough was in tears as he said this.

Thank you for putting it up

[uberpedant]

My Dad forced me to watch this when I was about 14..... Wish I'd done the same with my kids. I couldn't even persuade them to wear a poppy when I tried this year. This is a superb film, it's not even an anti-war film...it's really a 'take war seriously' film.

[timothymanzella]

This is a very "cooing" video. =p

[reemanwells37f]

This video went viral on Luanda

[reduolf]

I can't watch this without crying, in fact I'm in tears now...to think of all those young British, French and German men who died in such a dreadful way. It makes me proud to be British though when I think of all of those brave men who died to defend our country.

God bless you all and RIP...

[foxcell]

And when they ask us, how dangerous it was,

Oh, we'll never tell them, no, we'll never tell them:

We spent our pay in some cafe,

And fought wild women night and day,

'Twas the cushiest job we ever had.

And when they ask us, and they're certainly going to ask us,

The reason why we didn't win the Croix de Guerre,

Oh, we'll never tell them, oh, we'll never tell them

There was a front, but damned if we knew where.

Powerfull words still brings a tear to the eyes :-(

[andmaketherain]

@DINKYDALTON2 Wait till humanity reaches the stars, and we start destroying entire worlds and galaxies...

[densaner77]

:(

[striker4242]

It is a film that details how WWI was based on a massive dupe.

[sg1fan93]

@dra6osh buy it from amazon

[dra6osh]

@dutchbonnet Hi there. Can you tell me where can I find this movie? How can I get a copy? I can't find it on torrents.

[227060]

@uberpedant it is also an anti-war film too tho