For the longest time I thought the opening tune was an actual German military march. Goodwin really nailed the style.
@DieFlabbergast4 жыл бұрын
For "the longest time," eh? That would be about 13.8 billion years - since the Big Bang, when time began. Were you really around then? Are you God?
@athenacalathea44354 жыл бұрын
@@DieFlabbergast Its called exaggeration and it is a speech style dingus
@williamrowell49424 жыл бұрын
@@DieFlabbergast why are you like this
@dankwartdenkhardt57144 жыл бұрын
It combines english elegance with german jaggedness...
@undeadnightorc4 жыл бұрын
@@DieFlabbergast I think I finally found Dwight Schrute's alternate youtube account.
@jeffsmith20226 жыл бұрын
Real cars, real airplanes , real actors ,what the hell more could you ask for?...
@jojomarujo87045 жыл бұрын
Wait, those were real He 111s?
@kittyhawk97075 жыл бұрын
Yes.. but Spanish build versions .. Same airframes but different engines . same with the ME109's used in the film
@THE-HammerMan5 жыл бұрын
Ian Johnson SO??? At least they're not American trainers painted grey with a swastika! I think you are a big whiner!
@jojomarujo87045 жыл бұрын
Ian Johnson woah, i just knew of that. Thought that the heinkels were just mock-ups. 😅😅😅
@THE-HammerMan5 жыл бұрын
s g It's a MOVIE. Does it matter one iota if Spanish planes with a different engine were used? NO! I'm so sick and tired of all these people nit-picking about miniscule things in movies. HEY! Did you know that the chariots used in Ben-Hur were not the real ones used during Roman times? You're as big an idiot as that guy is a whiner! Comprehend THAT, mo-fo!
@n3307v5 жыл бұрын
One of the best movie scores ever. I'll put this movie on sometimes just to watch the beginning.
@brucemaclennan98795 жыл бұрын
I do the same-and I turn the volume up!
@duckman564212 күн бұрын
1000%
@KomradeSeals4 жыл бұрын
This opening was an experience in itself. Seeing all of the real planes, real actors was a treat, as was reading the names in the credits- I got quite a surprise seeing Adolf Galland’s name there.
@williambradley94193 жыл бұрын
Lots of genuine veterans were advising on the film both British and German. Sadly almost all no longer with us.
@mikebennet769711 ай бұрын
I met him twice in the early 1990s. He traveled air shows in the US and EU giving talks
@grahampalmer93372 ай бұрын
Galland was a very highly respected fighter pilot & was engaged as an expert advisor on everything from equipment to protocol - & combat tactics for both sides. He was one of the very few who saw it all from start to finish. Saw everything - Flew everything - Survived everything.
@dickyt1318Ай бұрын
as a child I was brought up near RAF Manston & remember seeing several of the aircraft they were using for the filming
@alejandrovidal6441Ай бұрын
@@grahampalmer9337 After the War he was released and hired by the Argentine Government to act as an Technical Advisor for our Air Force...he helped to organise the Fighter force which had been reequipped with 100 Gloster Meteors F.4
@michaelhart895Ай бұрын
Remember seeing it at the flicks as a boy , I would be about 8 , I guess around 1970 . On Holiday in Southsea with mum dad my sister and two brothers . We thought it was great , I even remember us talking about how good it was in the interval , we had the little tubs of ice cream and tiny spoons . We lost one of my brothers only 14 years later in a car crash . This film brings back happy memories of him , ironically he had his accident in a Spitfire , a triumph spitfire though . I miss him every day, as all my family do .
@arslongavitabrevis5136Күн бұрын
I have just read your comment. I am very sorry for your loss. We are about the same age. I was born in 1959 and my dad took me to the cinema in Buenos Aires in 1969. Later on, my dad bought me little "Airfix" models of "Spitfire" and Me-109" to assemble. My dad passed away in 2016 aged 96. A real gentleman. Regards.
@PointyTailofSatan Жыл бұрын
Easily the greatest opening ever for a war movie.
@trapezemusic6 ай бұрын
I love this opening (actually 8 minutes into the film) but don't forget the opening to the Bridge on the River Kwai when the British POW's enter the Japanese work camp.
@chrismiller5198Ай бұрын
If only those proud Nazi officers could have known.
@Andy-ub3ubАй бұрын
Private ryan enters the room.....
@phattylivaАй бұрын
Patton looks over
@MarkHarrison733Ай бұрын
@@chrismiller5198 They were not Nazis.
@charlessawyer69533 жыл бұрын
Sir David: "It's two lumps you take, isn't it?" It couldn't have been better said.
@GilbertdeClare0704Ай бұрын
"Don't dictate to US, until you are marching down WhiteHALL !............and even then we won't listen !" always brings tears to my eyes, for a dear, late friend of mine who had been in charge of an Auxiliary Unit Patrol in 1940 told me that was EXACTLY their attitude ! ! and then, "Its unforgiveable !.......I lost my temper !"🥲🥲...WONDERFUL people !
@lordeden2732Ай бұрын
But Herr Hitler only had one lump
@GilbertdeClare0704Ай бұрын
@@lordeden2732 Like you only having a mono neuronal cerebral set up ?
@murrayaronson3753Ай бұрын
Sir David was Sir David Kelly, a Catholic Irishman from Dublin who was loyal to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, not a Sinn Feinet.
@conorgribbin392828 күн бұрын
@@murrayaronson3753a freestater then..... sure they've always been loyal
@michaelwain73058 жыл бұрын
brilliant score Goodwin did his homework , best bit of German music ever written by an Englishman
@alexanderrobinbaker7 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately this was not written by Goodwin but rather was already a German march. The Luftwaffe March.
@wigster6007 жыл бұрын
It wasn't a German march, it was written for the film in a German style with a emphasis on tubas, horns and glockenspiels. It was originally called "Luftwaffe March" but later renamed "Aces high march"
@thomas550066 жыл бұрын
michael wain i
@JonathanH6586 жыл бұрын
Alexander Baker original composition by Goodwin
@dankwartdenkhardt57146 жыл бұрын
I think Goodwin refines German jaggedness with some sort of British elegance and easygoing, but as a march it is a real masterpiece.
@MrGymm565 жыл бұрын
The German planes in this film I recall were sourced from Spain as they were part of their current airforce. I bought the musical score as I was so impressed by it. I was in my early teens then. Just now I’m in Normandy and close to to invasion beaches. I’d recommend anyone to visit the area. Now in my 60s and my interest hasn’t changed.
@delavalmilker5 жыл бұрын
"The last little corporal who tried [to cross the Channel] came a cropper!" Such a very-British retort!
@Setebos4 жыл бұрын
Love that line.
@WaltonSauce4 жыл бұрын
Apparently it refers to Napoleon
@Setebos4 жыл бұрын
@@WaltonSauce Which is why I love it.
@jamesbussey29113 жыл бұрын
Thanks to the Russians both times. Napoleon started his career as a lieutenant in the artillery, tho'.
@olivernorth74182 жыл бұрын
@@jamesbussey2911 Napoleon couldn't cross the Channel because of Trafalgar, not because of the Russians.
@brucemaclennan98799 жыл бұрын
For me this is the best WW2 film ever made - no individual hero's, just told like it was. Ron Goodwin's opening musical composition is a masterpiece!
@HaloFTW558 жыл бұрын
It also show the contributions of Polish pilots, and focusing on not one group of people but many. After all, the *Allies* won WWII together.
@davidshepherd3977 жыл бұрын
I also love the fact that they used the correct aircraft, and that it was filmed partly from a Vickers Wellington
@Wombat19167 жыл бұрын
+David Shepherd Sorry, but the camera plane was a B-25. The last Wellington to fly was apparently in 1953.
@davidshepherd3977 жыл бұрын
I stand corrected, but in my defense I was thinking of a black and white photo in the book of the movie, which I read many years ago.......so much for memory
@Wombat19167 жыл бұрын
++David Shepherd No probs. I'd love to see a real Wellington flying. The Ju52 in the film is still flying AFAIK. It also appeared in the film "Where Eagles Dare", though how a Ju52 was going to fly through Europe in daylight was rather glossed over. In the book it was a Mosquito, which created its own problems.! I saw that Ju52 at Blackbushe Airport with one of the He111s from the film plus a Sea Fury and once flying over London.
@captsiva7581Ай бұрын
Fifteen years old the first time I watched it …..mesmerised, leading to a life time aloft, counting tens of thousands of flying hours from ultralights to Jets, no doubt inspired by ‘The Few’. Watched it a zillion times since, then again another zillion times with my eight year old son, who began to pretend to be a German pilot ! Another zillion times with my grandson, who was just as mesmerised as I had been, at a mere five years of age…..no kidding. He knew all the lines….’Booms a daisy, enough to make you weep’….’and.. you can make monkeys fly better than that ‘ ! We came off a rocky tour boat once with the family, when little Rohan rather relieved from the experience, piped up…..’well done chaps home and tea for us’ …….!! What a lifetime treat this wonderful Movie has been. As real as it had played been out.. In my seventies now, Sadly watching them leave us one by one. We’ll watch them for another Lifetime. They shall not be forgotten.❤
@MarkHarrison733Ай бұрын
This racist film was a huge flop.
@DelogrosАй бұрын
@@MarkHarrison733 To be expected with historical films not licking America hole, Dunkirk only made money because of Harry styles - still better films and more accurate then anything the yanks produce.
@MarkHarrison733Ай бұрын
@@Delogros This racist film flopped because it was boring garbage with an overage cast.
@logibear64446 жыл бұрын
A very underappreciated film. I saw this as a kid on TV as a kid in 1972 on CBS and thought it was the greatest war movie of all time. It is still amongst the greatest IMHO.
@Andy-ub3ubАй бұрын
Yes yes, very underappreciated
@Andy-ub3ubАй бұрын
Underappreciated id say
@Andy-ub3ubАй бұрын
Was always underappreciated, id say
@Andy-ub3ubАй бұрын
Id say it was underappreciated
@Andy-ub3ubАй бұрын
Underapreciayed, thats what this film is
@thehoodedman29175 жыл бұрын
Must be one of the best opening film credits ever produced. Saw this in the cinema on release and this intro really wet your appetite for the coming film. Brilliant.
@talboters447 жыл бұрын
Im old enough to remember all this going on , what memories !!
@davidthomas91905 жыл бұрын
When it was ok to be white, British and proud.
@antonyd66495 жыл бұрын
David Thomas Tf you talking about? Just enjoy the video and don’t bring that shit here.
@scum55 жыл бұрын
@@davidthomas9190 Please just fuck off
@michaelmeier72246 жыл бұрын
I guess some thing why those british war movies from the 60ies appear so authentic was, that all warfaring nations' staff was played by actors from those nation whose most had served in their respective armies during the real war. That enables them to naturally display the typical styles of their very individual military behaviour, in words, body language and all that. Films made today never reach that standard again.
@dambuster63876 жыл бұрын
I would say that the war was not to long ago at that time and still fresh in in their memory what they had been trough.
@2view236 жыл бұрын
you are correct in ever aspect Meier.
@plymouth57146 жыл бұрын
That's quite true Michael. One of the most authentic war films is called "Their's is the Glory" which was made soon after the war. It is the same story as "A Bridge Too Far" and was actually filmed in the ruins of Arnhem before reconstruction began post-war. There are no actors in it - all the parts are played by the survivors of the actual battle. As one film critic later commented, at times you can see the fear in their eyes, they weren't acting the roles, they were re-living them!
@markbriten6999Ай бұрын
Best comment ever on authenticity was by Richard Todd in the longest day. So called advisor said why did you do that it's wrong. What do you know? Todd replied I was with lovatts commandos
@joelonzello418923 күн бұрын
Watch the Unknown Soldier from Finland on KZfaq. Battle Scenes stand alone. At 68 years old I wanted to fight with them !
@rattywoof52595 жыл бұрын
I was once in a hotel room in Vienna, doing a bit of channel hopping on the TV. I came across the film 'Battle of Britain' dubbed into German. It was a very bizarre experience!
@andrewpestotnik54954 жыл бұрын
Did the Germans win in it 🤣
@DieFlabbergast4 жыл бұрын
@@andrewpestotnik5495 "dubbed" -- not "re-edited" :)
@andrewpestotnik54954 жыл бұрын
@@DieFlabbergast good point
@borninjordan7448Ай бұрын
@@andrewpestotnik5495 No, thank god!
@user-gt2jh1eb4lАй бұрын
Who won then the germans
@Justmynewaccount9 жыл бұрын
In writing this march Ron Goodwin really outkrauted the Krauts. Magnifient piece of work. If I hadn't known any better I'd have thought it was a genuine German march dating back to WWII.
@matthewgutierrez21426 жыл бұрын
Herr AKA German Army (Absent in the first film)
@TheDolphinator84 жыл бұрын
My dad thought it was from WW2
@Woodworker1947 Жыл бұрын
You're not alone in thinking that! - should have got an award for this alone, never mind all his other music. Brilliant composer.
@Comissar_Carolus Жыл бұрын
I know it's an eight years old comment but when you listen to a lot of german military march, you can definitively hear than this one doesn't match a german military march, I don't know how to say it but the feeling isn't there. On the contrary it looks more of a british march.
@wayneparker93314 жыл бұрын
Saw this movie literally dozens of times as a kid growing up in the 1970s and 80s. Never tired of watching it and it still kicks butt to this day. Especially considering the terrible quality of even the so-called "best" war movies made in the last 25 years (and yes, that includes "Saving Private Ryan"). Hundreds of extras, uniforms/costumes that are period correct in every detail, and a whole lot small things that make the movies feel far more real.
@davidmarshall12596 жыл бұрын
THE best film. EVER. Music, scenes, aerial filming, props, actors, locations, the list goes on. Only the English can make films like this.
@spinawayАй бұрын
@@nicknack4365 It was made in the 60s ya plank
@paulkirkland32636 жыл бұрын
A great sequence - from Dunkirk, to the Luftwaffe bomber airfield, then to Berlin and the British embassy in Switzerland, and finally the RAF fighter command station. In those few minutes, the whole story of the lead up to the Battle of Britain, and what the battle would mean, is summed up. And that music - perfect. :O)
@elskernorge0517Ай бұрын
I saw this at The Dominion, Tottenham Court Road. All up the front of the cinema was the film title. I was so excited and only 15. That was in 1969. In the film The Black Windmill, Michael Caine is on a bus going past that cinema, with the film emblazoned across the front of it.A film he starred in.
@FRANKTHRING16 жыл бұрын
It is the expertise on display here that is breathtaking by modern film-making standards - no bloody blue screen, no whizz kid Korean geniuses faking it all with CGI, just real equipment and men. Yes, some of the cast had served in the war, but the movie also was able to use a plethora of experts led by Adolf Galland, the Luftwaffe air ace, while the British pilots included Wing-Comm Stanford Tuck and, with respect, Air Chief Marshal Harris`s deputy, Wing Commander Robert Wright. And then Ron Goodwin produces the best German march ever written by a non-German. Thanks to all involved.
@d53101Ай бұрын
Well in 1969 there were lots of vintage second world war two aircraft left for movie making. But today 55 years later that’s no longer the case. Today it’s either use CGI and green screens or no movie.
@ChristianRG20007 жыл бұрын
Much much better than today's war films.
@markharrison25445 жыл бұрын
Yeah - that's why it lost $10 million worldwide.
@wd-type96435 жыл бұрын
Mark Harrison So you think that just because a movie doesn’t make that much money, this means by default it is shit? Remember Tora Tora Tora? It was a box office FLOP, BUT IT IS STILL REGARDED AS ONE OF THE MOST ACCURATE MOVIES RELATING TO THE SECOND WORLD WAR. So what is your point? Matter over mind????
@geoffhalsey21845 жыл бұрын
@@wd-type9643 Tora, Tora, Tora! One of my all time favourite war movies. So is the Battle of Britain come to that.
@geoffhalsey21845 жыл бұрын
Three of my modern WWII favourites. One movie, two TV series. Saving private Ryan. HBOs, Band of Brothers and The Pacific.
@1chish4 жыл бұрын
@James Henderson You seem to be keen to get into every thread and repeatedly peddle your liberal leftie 'racist' comments. It was not racist and whether it made money of not has the square root of fuck all to do with the quality of the musical score, the accuracy, and the attention to detail. Kindly fuck off.
@42lookc8 жыл бұрын
I have always loved those lines: "It's unforgivable. I lost my temper". Just verbally standing your ground is not losing your temper!
@grahamhearn197 жыл бұрын
Lossiemouth Beach and to lose the argument
@genericfakename81976 жыл бұрын
He's a diplomat, his job was to smooth talk Germany unil Britain could adequately defend itself. Britain needed time, it was his job to buy Britain that time but instead he challenged a superior foe to q fight. The German knew his weak spots, hit them all, and made him forget what his country needed from him. A really powerful scene.
@timorvet16 жыл бұрын
"A gentleman never raises his voice" !
@timorvet16 жыл бұрын
I remember an episode of the classic TV series "Family Affair" in which Sebastian Cabot's character, a gentleman valet to Brian Keith...said something similar after an argument he had with a difficult person, "a gentleman never loses his temper".
@jacktattis11905 жыл бұрын
@@genericfakename8197 No he told the Nazi just what he wanted to tell him. the OLD proverb" Don't count your chickens before they hatch' Just what the US did in Vietbnam
@rexfrommn33166 жыл бұрын
The British were in a bit of a tight spot after Dunkirk but this movie overlooks Britain's many strengths. The British had an excellent radar network, observer corps, antiaircraft artillery, and an information processing system for RAF Fighter command to help guide their fighters to the incoming warplanes of the German Luftwaffe. The Fighter Command sector control could guide their fighters eliminating the need for endless patroling. This RAF air defense system allowed RAF pilots early warning without getting caught on the ground during airfield attacks. RAF Fighter Command Air Chief Hugh Dowding was a brilliant officer. He made this complex air defense system and sector command system work almost flawlessly. The Luftwaffe wasn't just fighting Hurricanes and Spitfires. The Luftwaffe was fighting a brilliantly coordinated and carefully managed air defense system. The RAF had shortages of fighter pilots but the Commonwealth countries made up the differences in pilots and kept the British RAF Fighter command in the fight. The main point forgotten here is the British had been rehearsing their air defense system since the middle 1930's, for a Battle of Britian type scenario. The German Kriegsmarine lacked many important destroyers, cruisers, and landing craft for any amphibious invasion of Britain. The Germans had suffered heavy naval losses during the Norwegian campaign in early 1940. Plus, RAF and French resistance over France during the Battle of Dunkirk caused further considerable Luftwaffe aircraft losses. The whole British Empire of Canada, Australia, India, South Africa, Rhodesia, and New Zealand were at war with Germany. Many occupied European Allied nations, with troops on British soil, offered these soldiers and trained pilots to help Britain. These countries included Poland, France, Czechoslavakia and various Scandinavian countries. The British had comparable fighter planes with the Hawker Hurricane and probably superior fighter planes in the Supermarine Spitfire. The British enjoyed naval superiority, which as long as the RAF challenged the skies over Britain, meant German naval forces would be blasted out of the water making any amphibious invasion extremely costly for Germany. So Operation Sea Lion was really a fictional German plan without the naval and logistical means to carry it forward. British resistance in Norway and Dunkirk had an accumulative effect with beneficial results in the summer of 1940. The United States started aiding the British soon after the fall of France. Lend Lease aid came later on after the Battle of Britain but lots of other aid went to the British during the Battle of Britain. FDR realized at somepoint, the United States would be forced to enter the war. So he understood, that helping the United Kingdom stay in the fight was actually furthering American interests. Many American manufacturers started switching over to Lend Lease military aid. The American industrialist base lacked many of the important machine tools and industrial components to convert a civilian economy to a wartime economy overnight. These conversions took time but were rapidly accomplished as was the military draft and calling up Guard and Reserve divisions for federal service. Many First World War artillery and infantry small arms were dragged out mothballs in depots and converted to modern weapons. The Americans did a few things right from the beginning to get ready for war despite strong isolationist sentiment. The most important aspect of the American Lend Lease program was to build the necessary QUANTITY of adequate military weapons through mass production. The Curtiss P-40 fighter was built in huge numbers with a majority going to the British Commonwealth, including the Soviet Union and Nationalist China.The M-3 tank was a Lend Lease tank built by Mr. Knudson, President of Chrysler in a new plant in Detroit exclusively for tanks. The M-3 tank had a 75mm gun in sponson with a 37mm gun in a turret. This awkard looking but still effective medium tank helped keep the British going in North Africa until the M-4 Sherman arrived during the Battle of El Alamein. The M-3 Grant tank went to the Soviet Union with about 1,000 seeing combat at Leningrad, Stalingrad, Kursk, and Petsamo. The British sent their old P-40's and all their old M-3 Grant tanks to Burma using them until the end of the war against the Japanese. The British Army used refurbished First World War artillery from Lend Lease from the United States in North Africa, Sicily, and Italy including the M-3 halftracks with 75mm guns for mobile artillery. The Americans provided enormous amounts of canned food stuffs, infantry small arms, vehicles and trucks, telephone wire and equipment, boots and uniforms, even locomotives and ships for the British Commonwealth and later the Soviet Union. None of America's weapons under Lend Lease were necessarily the best weapons of WW 2. But much of U.S. Lend Lease aid kept the British and the Soviet Union in the war. Much of the Lend Lease aid and weapons went to secondary theaters or theaters that were less critical to the war effort. But this is extremely important because it allowed the British and the Soviets to concentrate their best units and equipment in the main combat areas. So the legacy of the Battle of Britain is that of American Lend Lease aid to the British. British aid to the Soviet Union helped stabilize the front and win the Battle of Moscow. British aid to the Soviet Union mattered greatly in 1941. But no British aid could have made it to the Soviet Union until American Leand Lease aid came after the Battle of Britian.
@Alex-lf8bd5 жыл бұрын
Actually most important role which lend-lease played is not the weapons and trucks which they supplied to UK and USSR, but their aids on UK and USSR's industry. For example, official website of "Central Archives of the Russian Ministry of Defense", there were only about 1/5 of the materials which USSR received from Lend-lease were directly related to the military use, the rest 4/5 of the materials were related to the USSR's military industrial production, that's why Lend-Lease is Very crucial for USSR to survive and keep the war. That's also a reason why the importance of lend-lease is often understated by people and even some historians. Soviet production of tanks, guns and aircrafts were largely relying on the industrial raw materials (e.g. nonferrous metal, rubber, armor steel, and chemical raw materials) and machine tools provided by the Lend-Lease cuz they lost too many industries and equipments at the beginning of the war. For example, the construction of "Stalingrad Tractor Plant" (one of the major tank factories of USSR during WW2) was carried out with the assistance of the United States, and most of its equipments are made in USA. Therefore, Lend Lease improved the efficiency of USSR military industry and improved the productivity of weapons and ordnance goods dramatically (e.g. Lend-lease provided ordnance goods (like ammunition, artillery shells, mines, and assorted explosives) amounted to 53 percent of total USSR domestic production). Without lend-lease, USSR couldn't produce so many aircrafts, tanks, shells, bombs, and guns during the war, and so as UK
@terryharris12915 жыл бұрын
One of Britain's main strength,was the fighting power of the Commonwealth and the food and supplies we sent as well.We sent our blood in WW1 and went again in WW2 .The ANZAC's,Canada,India,South Africa,Rhodesia and many of the African Nations too.New Zealand was only a small country,but we fought every where on all fronts.In the air,at sea and on land.
@grocperez60126 жыл бұрын
Immaculate tailoring, concise to the last detail. No high water hems, no tight waists or short backs, the shirt and coat sleeve lengths are precise, and the cuffs do not cinch the wrists. Those were the days when men knew how to dress, they wore subdued colors that by themselves would not even warrant a glimpse, but in combination with other hues of the same nature caused a contrast that pleased the eye, and gave the wearer a sense of dereguerre and civility.
@Achilles22Ай бұрын
It’s a war film not a tailoring exercise! Jesus! 😢
@williamrance50866 жыл бұрын
This tune is, possibly, the greatest gift from Britain to the German people. It glows with Germanic inspiration, from musical note to musical note.
@kayharker7126 жыл бұрын
Britain's greatest musical gift is "Living Next Door to Alice" by Smokie We need a remix - perhaps performed by Harry Styles and One Direction.
@garyneedham30766 жыл бұрын
I agree. It has some overtones of 'Prussian Glory' which I marched to on parade in the British Army (ironically) !
@MaximKretsch6 жыл бұрын
This honour is awarded to Henry Hugh Pearson's "O Deutschland hoch in Ehren" (Oh Germany in high esteem), a song with a meaning comparable to "Rule Britannia" as an inofficial German national anthem. Even the nazis used it as background music for a newsreel showing the capture of Athens: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ecuHhpxppr-4eGg.html
@williamrance50865 жыл бұрын
Well! Well!. Some people on here are rather touchy to say the least! I was merely commenting about the beauty of the tune - nothing else.
@keithbawden79405 жыл бұрын
'Flight of Two Heroes' - a German March!
@billace905 жыл бұрын
And all the German warbirds provided courtesy of Spain’s Ejército del Aire. Glad they were still available during the days of filming!
@None-zc5vg4 жыл бұрын
A group of rich American aircraft-preservationists restored a CASA 2.111 into flying condition and then managed to crash it. Something similar happened more recently with a veteran B-17.
@arnimfriess3246Ай бұрын
They were available as Spain at this point was still ruled by the fascist dictator and personal friend of Hitler, Franco. Not sure I would be glad about this.
@ChrisCooper3125 жыл бұрын
"We're not ready. We're on our own. We've been playing for time. And it's running out." Sounds familiar.
@ChaoticModelmakerАй бұрын
And that time Britain wasn't on its own; it could call the resources of Empire, ironically.
@rogueriderhood1862Ай бұрын
@@ChaoticModelmaker Not to mention the Royal Navy, which outnumbered the Kreigsmarine 10 to 1 in destroyers alone, plus cruisers, battlecruisers, battleships and aircraft carriers. The RAF didn't stop the invasion, the RN did, just by being there and not making a big song and dance about it. Mind you, I think the RN would have loved the Germans to have tried to invade, it would have been a slaughter.
@ChaoticModelmakerАй бұрын
@@rogueriderhood1862 And the coal and steel and food and ammunition for the navy was supplied or financed by the largest empire in the world. Britain was not alone in WWII, even before the USA joined the war.
@WielkaStopa-qh1rrАй бұрын
@@rogueriderhood1862 No, no, no. Navy would not stop Luftwaffe and good luck with keeping them on a Chanel or in ports. There was a reason why RAF was defending Britain instead evacuating everything but leaving Navy.
@rogueriderhood1862Ай бұрын
@WielkaStopa-qh1rr That is not the case, the Luftwaffe could not have done anything to stop the RN. Ships are very difficult to bomb, particularly if they are manoeuvring at speed as destroyers would have been. Additionally, the plan for Sealion called for a night crossing of the Channel, which would certainly have taken the Luftwaffe out of the picture. Can you imagine an invasion fleet of barges being toed at 4 knots being confronted by a force of destroyers at 30 knots? The destroyers wouldn't even have to fire their guns, manoeuvring at high speed through the fleet would have swamped and sunk the barges and drowned the soldiers. You might be interested to read 'Invasion 1940' by Derek Robinson, which goes into this at some length.
@plunder195628 күн бұрын
I first saw this in the cinema as a teenager, like Grand Prix and 2001. I love the bit where the general says "If I have to look at another bomber, I won't recommend you for a promotion." I don't know if it's true, but it feels real.
@yogistanu552 жыл бұрын
Goodwin at his very best sets the tone for the German air assault on a crippled England. What a jaunty march full of confidence and arrogance....because they had it. What an exceptional film that stands the test of time!
@7belowzero6 жыл бұрын
"Europe is ours. We can walk into Britain whenever we like... Now that didn't quite work, now did it...
@rontait2735Ай бұрын
N,,BUT WE WISH THEY DID
@BrianFoster-ji9fp27 күн бұрын
@@rontait2735we...
@oldgitsknowstuff5 жыл бұрын
Vee are going to march into London whenever vee vish ! 'Its 2 lumps you take isn't it'.
@waistgunner39302 жыл бұрын
This movie ranks among THE very best of war action/drama films. While set in WW2, it had an "ahead of its time" feel to it, largely due to the style & skills of Harry Saltzman who, along with Albert Broccoli, co-produced the James Bond films (all of which had the same "ahead of time" effect); Sir Guy Hamilton, who directed this and the 007 films as well, and- last, but not least & more like most of all- Ron Goodwin with the musical part of it. A definite winning combination !!!
@Vikingr4Jesus59197 жыл бұрын
"The battle for France is over; the Battle of Britain is about to begin." Peter Jackson used that as inspiration for a quote from Gandalf in The Two Towers! "The battle for Helm's Deep is over; the Battle for Middle-Earth is about to begin."
@davidedwards90976 жыл бұрын
Film quote.
@countOfHenneberg5 жыл бұрын
@@davidedwards9097 Damn right Sir, well said!
@SantomPh5 жыл бұрын
There was no such quote in the book. You've been found out.
@briancooper49595 жыл бұрын
It's actually from the movie, not the book.
@pachma4057 жыл бұрын
"it's two lumps you take isn't it"
@wcstevens76 жыл бұрын
pachma ...He also said. " The British do not frighten easily " ....BLOODY RIGHT....THEY DON'T. !!!!!
@Jagdtoq4 жыл бұрын
Max never did finish his tea, in fact he didn't appear to touch it at all.
@HappisakVideos8 жыл бұрын
I love this piece of music. typically German. They are at that moment in time, riding high, the world at their feet they must think of themselves as nigh on invincible. Little did they realize the rug was going to be torn out from under them.
@hansgerards22948 жыл бұрын
Typically German, but ... composed by Ron Goodwin, an English composer and conductor known for his film music.
@jigglediggle297 жыл бұрын
The German version opens with the "Badenweiler Marsch", not with this piece of music.
@brucesharpe10797 жыл бұрын
I have always like this peace of music since I first heard it by Ron Goodwin a good start to the film
@dunruden97205 жыл бұрын
War, not peace!
@j.43322 ай бұрын
As a plane model making 12 year old,it was as if Santa had made a movie just for me!
@adamwright95174 жыл бұрын
My Father took me to see this in the cinema 6 times. I love this film.
@wilfbm90675 жыл бұрын
The amount of time I have seen my little 6 year old brother march up and down the living room saluting the TV to this is uncountable 😂. One of the greatest war films made ever.
@robtatum3835 жыл бұрын
Great film My grandad liked the way the germans were portrayed ,not all monsters there were in fact like us
@alansbinnie14465 жыл бұрын
The Luftwaffe fighter pilots fought as gentlemen and very few were Nazis.
@wcstevens75 жыл бұрын
The Brits, and the Germans are similar in every respect.
@None-zc5vg5 жыл бұрын
@@alansbinnie1446 ...when they weren't strafing civilian refugees (and both sides enjoyed doing it when they had the chance).
@WielkaStopa-qh1rrАй бұрын
@@alansbinnie1446 ha ha ha do you realize they started war from killing 100.000 of civilian Poles in one month?
@Comissar_Carolus4 жыл бұрын
One of the best opening for a movie, all my childhood !
@davidcoleman24634 жыл бұрын
My dad took me to see it when it came out . I was a little boy . Amazing. It started my love of history.
@trapezemusic Жыл бұрын
Just for the record, there are eight minutes of film before we see the start of this fine video.
@asicdathens3 жыл бұрын
The Spanish copies of the HE111's (used in the film) CASA 2.111 from what I read had RR Merlin engines. The irony of the ironies.
@notsureyouАй бұрын
The BIIGER Irony is that both the first and last Bf109's were powered by RR engines. The British lent the Germans some RR engines in exchange for 1 He 70
@ron-davidborsting2944 жыл бұрын
If you have ever wondered why the vehicle is exchanged at minute 03:10: Usually, the squadron leader of the unit drives behind the generals in the car to answer possible questions about the condition of the squadron. If the flight squad to be inspected changes, so does the squadron leader and thus the car. This procedure remains in the german Luftwaffe until today. Greetings from a fellow air force member GAF OF-D.
@stevetaylor86984 жыл бұрын
Now I always wondered why they did that swap. Thank you.
@ron-davidborsting2944 жыл бұрын
@@stevetaylor8698 You are very welcome!
@billhuber29644 жыл бұрын
Very interesting air force protocol. Thanks for the skinny. From an old navyman.
@Pleiades1432 Жыл бұрын
Nice detail :D Thx for sharing!
@PointyTailofSatan6 жыл бұрын
One of the great realistic great war movies, along with Tora Tora Tora.
@geoffwilliams44785 жыл бұрын
My favorite is Midway
@YDDES5 жыл бұрын
”Midway” was a hilarious assembling av scenens, cut from other movies. Just think of Charlton Heston: He jumped into a Dauntless, took off in an Avenger, fler in a Vindicator and crashed in a Panther (a jet!). All during the same flight...
@geoffwilliams44785 жыл бұрын
@@YDDES actually they used actual footage of plane flights during the air battlescenes and Charleton Heston was not flying until the like the last 30 minutes into the movie. They also used Hellcats during that battle
@anthonydelossantos92704 жыл бұрын
Never had so many,owed so much to so few.. One of the greatest speeches of WWII ever...
@dagalfheim70564 жыл бұрын
First time watching this movie as a kid was a trip and half. Right up there with Jaws, my first Bond film and Battle of the Buldge.
@fredrickdouglassmccoy26084 жыл бұрын
same here
@EASYTIGER105 жыл бұрын
4:52 Love how the music goes "Meanwhile, away from Germany..." :)
@divisioneight8 жыл бұрын
Imagine with all we face today, to think back on that Summer of 1940 and what Britain was staring at across the English Channel. It was a honestly frightening and defining time for England. You were either frightened to tears or energized by the challenge. And an immense challenge they did face as bombs rained down on London later on. Imagine being there in 1940.
@42lookc8 жыл бұрын
+divisioneight I sure wish they'd stand up to the muslim menace that is threatening to overwhelm their wonderful country today.
@threepot58747 жыл бұрын
divisioneight ..yes,it was the 'English'..on their own.
@lorddaver19357 жыл бұрын
divisioneight A "defining time for England" you say. You do know, I take it, that the rest of Britain was under threat as well? Hitler had intended, had "Operation Sealion" been a success, to make Edinburgh Castle a regional HQ for the Gestapo, and to have Holyrood Palace as his official residence on visits to that part of Britain. I also can't help but notice that you refer only to bombs raining down on London. Firstly, in RAF Fighter Command (aside from the over 500 volunteer pilots from the Commonwealth and elsewhere) there were pilots from Wales, Scotland and Ulster that were in the Squadrons in Number 11 Group area (the south-east of England), which bore the brunt of the Battle. In fact, from my own home city, 603 Squadron (City of Edinburgh) were moved down from RAF Turnhouse to RAF Hornchurch - in 11 Group's area in August 1940. It became the highest scoring squadron in Fighter Command during the Battle. Secondly, although London was the primary target for the Luftwaffe, many other towns and cities around Britain were bombed during the Blitz as well - Bristol, Birmingham, Portsmouth, Dover, Coventry, Newcastle, Swansea, Cardiff, Manchester, Glasgow (Clydebank), Belfast, etc. It is wearisome for those of us in the rest of the UK to always be told that this was "England's" victory, and that "the Blitz" was only confined to London. It wasn't.
@lorddaver19357 жыл бұрын
Downfall Dolfy And do you know WHY the RAF bombed Berlin initially? No? I thought not. German bombers, albeit accidentally it later turned out, ditched their bombs over residential areas of London during an abortive raid early in the period of The Battle of Britain. And if you are going to point an accusing finger over the bombing of non-military targets, how about starting with the shelling of coastal towns in England - Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby - by the German Navy (December 1914), as well as German Zeppelin and Bombers bombing London during World War 1. And what about the Luftwaffe's bombing of the Spanish town of Guernica in 1937, during the Spanish Civil War (forgotten about that, had we?). Or their bombing of Warsaw (flattening would be a more accurate description) in 1939, or the bombing of Rotterdam in 1940? Oh, and had you also forgotten that it wasn't only London that was bombed during 1940/41 but most of the major cities of the UK (yes, not just in England, but Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland). So you point is what, exactly?
@lorddaver19357 жыл бұрын
Downfall Dolfy The point is you are saying that the Germans were justified in bombing London because we bombed Berlin. But you don't seem to grasp that the reason we did so was because the Germans bombed London first. Understand? And my my point about bombings "in completely different wars (how were the bombings of Warsaw and Rotterdam "completely different wars? They both happened in WW2. ) And there is also the moral issue, which is why I pointed out that Germany had bombed and shelled civilian targets (ie., non-military targets) long before the British, or anyone else, did. Yes, that IS relevant because it means you can't simply suggest that in bombing London the Germans were somehow only getting their own back because the beastly British did it first. (And, as I pointed out, but you have forgotten, or didn't even know, they also bombed EVERY major population centre in Britain. Are you seriously telling me you knew nothing of the devastating bombing of Coventry, which destroyed the entire centre of the city?) The Germans were perfectly prepared to bomb innocent civilians when it suited them, both during WW2 and in earlier conflicts, so lets have no more of the "poor Germans, they only did it because we did it to them" attitude. There are plenty of videos on youtube about poor innocent German civilians killed by the RAF - and the USAAF. But nobody seems to think that the 60,000 innocent British civilians killed by the Luftwaffe in 1940/41 - before the RAF raids on Germany began in earnest in 1942 - are worthy of mention. Why is that? Don't they matter? Is it only German civilians we should grieve over? And as for "You don't have to act like I should know everything about the war you know." - well if you are going to argue about which side did what to the other, you damned-well SHOULD know. Its called "research".
@envitech0229 күн бұрын
With this iconic theme music, Ron Goodwin outgermaned the Germans.
@envitech023 жыл бұрын
Superb score from Ron Goodwin! First time I heard it I thought it was an authentic German march. Till now I cannot get it out of my head!
@pst7028 жыл бұрын
I saw the movie in its entirety...pretty accurate description of the conflict that arose after France fell in the spring of 1940...most historians agree that this chapter in Great Britain's history is their finest hour....imagine being outnumbered and with limited resources. The United States was remaining neutral and won't be involved until December, 1941...a little island stood up against Hitler and won....if Hitler had beaten England,. ..the U.S. was next on his radar...this and the prevention of Germany developing "heavy water" for the Atomic bomb were some of the few key moments that helped win the war...if you read more about this historical time in Wikipedia and other sources, you'll realize how great a victory this was for England.
@theholmes83087 жыл бұрын
pst702 we had already defeated axis forces in the Middle East and east Africa and ultimately won the North Africa and Indian Ocean campaigns; as well as the battle of the Atlantic
@Davionious7 жыл бұрын
The Australians had the first major WWII victories. Germany at Tobruk and Japan on the Kokoda track. Although prior to that the British did clean up the Italians in Africa.
@RailfanDownunder7 жыл бұрын
To be honest, the 9th Division 2nd AIF was assisted in Tobruk with British artillery, armour and Indian troops - the first land victory against the Japanese was actually at Milne Bay (PNG) and not Kokoda
@2view4286 жыл бұрын
use of radar by RAF made a difference. civilian coast watchers and the resolve of the English.
@theholmes83085 жыл бұрын
@18tangles Middle east and east Africa were done by 41 and as I said ultimately the other campaigns where won; North Africa was sped up by US forces and the US shipping industry helped with the merchant Navy losses
@billace906 жыл бұрын
What a great movie. Just to see all those Spanish Heinkel 111’s, (no CGI there) and Spanish built Buchón’s its an amazing sight to see. They were “loaned” (for a price) by Franco’s Ejército del Aire. He may have been a dictator, but his government contributed in the making of one of the best WW2 movies ever.
@user-gt2jh1eb4lАй бұрын
Seen on over my school
@user-wz2qe2pv6rАй бұрын
Best airwar film ever. It has a naturalness and organic feel that you can forget with CGI and lots of fancy camera angles. The score too is sublime. They got it dead right with this film.
@MarkHarrison733Ай бұрын
This film was a huge flop.
@kmandafirst787410 жыл бұрын
two lumps XD that response is magnificent
@dachtorstrange48636 жыл бұрын
It is hugely ironic that Ron Goodwin, an Englishman, composed the Aces High March (the music that companies this video), which is quite possibly the finest German march ever, as part of a movie depicting the defeat of the German Luftwaffe by the British Royal Air Force during the Battle of Britain, the event that was the beginning of the end for Nazi Germany.
@psk1w15 жыл бұрын
As Churchill memorably said, it was not the beginning of the end, but the end of the beginning
@andrew097Ай бұрын
This and Grand Prix were two great films I loved as a kid😅
@Grayfox9882 ай бұрын
The movie opens with the German's theme instead of the now famous theme, because at this point the movie is still about their triumphant march to victory. But they'll figure it out soon enough.
@justinneill50039 ай бұрын
I like how they capture the sense of euphoria amongst the German high command and officers, having overrun mainland Europe and expecting to vanquish Britain in short order. They must have felt that they were standing on top of the world at that point. The young Luftwaffe pilots billeted in the French chateau, banqueting with fine wines after returning from each sortie, summed it up.
@tomc81654 жыл бұрын
its said that this film is the most accurate war film ever made
@neil53074 жыл бұрын
It is peppered with true vignettes... 'Don't you tell at me, Mr. Warwick' for example...
@trapezemusic7 жыл бұрын
Excellent musical opening to a war film, rivaled only by The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957).
@kayharker7126 жыл бұрын
They should have a remake of "Living Next Door to Alice" by Smokie as the theme song - perhaps performed by Harry Styles and One Direction.
@Craig27606 жыл бұрын
Elmer Bernstein’s score to The Bridge at Remagen is excellent as well.
@odysseusrex59085 жыл бұрын
"The last little corporal who tried it came a cropper." One of the greatest lines ever. I don't know if it is historically accurate, but it oughtta be!
@SantomPh5 жыл бұрын
No one probably said that, it was reference to Napoleon, who was an artillery corporal before his rise to power
@None-zc5vg4 жыл бұрын
Napoleon's forces landed in Wales, I think.
@HampsteadOwl Жыл бұрын
@@None-zc5vg No wonder he came a cropper
@odysseusrex5908Ай бұрын
@@None-zc5vg You think inaccurately.
@odysseusrex5908Ай бұрын
@@SantomPh Yes, that was obvious.
@andrewmorris95864 жыл бұрын
the start of a film is so important,this is well done
@Damppaz4 жыл бұрын
childhood movie. good memories. also these opening scenes are my favourite. Nostalgia!
@fosterhellendoorn46564 жыл бұрын
Gave me goosebumps. The courage to stand up for what is right
@Damar1589 жыл бұрын
So don't dictate or threaten us until you are marching up Whitehall. And even then we won't listen!
@lomax3438 жыл бұрын
+Damar158 Of course we've been letting them dictate to us via the EU for the last forty years...
@Karpuffelstein8 жыл бұрын
+Damar158 Britain would rather consider why it is ranked the third on the list of so called "Nanny states" in Europe, and why it has laws and practices of internet censorship comparable to Russia, Turkey, China and Saudi Arabia. That does not come from the EU, that is something the UK government created itself. While the UK patronizes its own population, the London Financial District holds the largest laundry engine of the world's crime, drug and terrorism finance.. The City stands above all law and is protected by the government. These finance people are already in Whitehall now, and the UK government actually listens to them! Kick them out in stead of Brexiting!
@TheBozwalox7 жыл бұрын
rubbish.
@Xyzabc9987 жыл бұрын
Nothing like a good ol fact based piece of rubbish,
@BradBrassman7 жыл бұрын
Yes, The City of Westminister, seperate from London, and has its own Police Force.
@6158555 жыл бұрын
Has to be one the best introduction scenes of any war movie and made all the more so with the brilliant music.
@markharrison25445 жыл бұрын
No.
@chapsnaps1 Жыл бұрын
The opening titles must have had the same budget as some 'B' pictures. Ron Goodwin's theme is spot-on! Many 1960s movies have amazing opening sequences and/or extraordinarily high production values. Lawrence of Arabia, Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines, The Bond Films and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, to name a few. So much talent. the Actors would probably claim that their fees were sacrificed on the production value altar. The work is of such quality that it must be preserved forever. Thank goodness that the Film Industry had such amazing talent at that time.
@benburton27014 жыл бұрын
We can walk into Britain whenever we like. Britain: ARE YOU SURE ABOUT THAT
@makara805 жыл бұрын
The sheer, historically-accurate visual minutiae lavished upon this film is surely peerless and perhaps best exemplified at approx 2:30 mark of which briefly shows labourers repairing war-damaged infrastructure. Naturally most films would've simply requisitioned a few extras portraying German soldiers to strip to their vests to perform such a function. Here though they correctly depict the khaki-clad German Labour corp, 'Organisation Todt' instead! Inevitably 'Todt is _very_ rarely (if ever) represented in WW2-themed films for it's recreation requires distinctive/bespoke uniforms.... and here they're only on screen for a paltry couple or so seconds! As I say, an incredible, if not unsurpassed attention to detail.
@ajb78764 жыл бұрын
Labourers? you mean Combat Engineers ,a vital arm of the military that never get the recognition they deserve for the hugely important work they do and before you ask,yes I`m a retired Combat Engineer so I might be a bit biased,so sorry not sorry.
@trapezemusic4 жыл бұрын
Would you know if there is something special about the laborers shown at the 3:15 mark? They appear to be poorly dressed and digging a large ditch of sorts. Are they being disciplined?.
@roysmith4716Ай бұрын
Probably one of the best WW2 movies for realism and acting.
@MarkHarrison733Ай бұрын
Good joke!
@ronniehanna88005 жыл бұрын
Superb opening sequence and music. Shows what we were up against - and we still won.
@brucemaclennan98798 жыл бұрын
I read somewhere many years ago that all those Heinkel 111's were loaned from the Spanish air force for the making of this film. It is noticeable that they are all fitted with Rolls-Royce Merlin engines, I can only surmise that the German industries were so heavily bombed that the original engines could no longer be produced after the war.
@HappisakVideos8 жыл бұрын
+Bruce Maclennan When you see the 111 taxiing to take off the Spanish roundels can just be seen under the Luftwaffe paint job.
@brucemaclennan98798 жыл бұрын
+RustiSwordz - You are very observant, I had not noticed this but will watch for it the next time I view the movie. Many thanks.
@FiveCentsPlease8 жыл бұрын
Spain had a few German engines but the supplies dried up at the end of the war. Rolls Royce had developed universal cowling and engine packages for several aircraft and these were adapted to the CASA aircraft.
@YDDES7 жыл бұрын
Also, rhe "Bf 109" fighters (actually Hispano "Buchons", a license built version of the Bf 109 G) had Merlin engines.
@brucemaclennan98797 жыл бұрын
Interesting - I have just viewed a video of this aircraft and the Merlin engine has rather distorted the sleek shape of the original aircraft. thanks for your comments.
@brettlloyd44465 жыл бұрын
Great classic ww2 movie, the best aviation film ever made, hope the new ridley Scott battle of Britain film gets produced and released in theatres sometime soon
@michaelmazowiecki9195Ай бұрын
Usual Scott historical butchery
@kengurovich4416Ай бұрын
I love this opening so much that I goose - step all over in the house , great opening .
@MarkHarrison733Ай бұрын
Just look at the state of the UK now.
@steviem8466Ай бұрын
I remember when they were filming the movie. Several Spitfires and Hurricances flew over our (Essex) house on a number of occasions. Probably based at Duxford. Ron Godwin wrote some of the best martial music ever to accompany WWII films, the score for 633 Squadron for example was one of the best, and I still hum it today. TBofB film although having many well known actors of the time, wasn't the best received and laboured in parts, but the areal sequences, and the score made up for it.
@jamesharris34814 жыл бұрын
German hubris and British technological superiority contributed to the victory of the RAF over the Luftwaffe.
@phillipdavies10814 жыл бұрын
"I lost my temper".
@shanewaterman41254 жыл бұрын
I'd have smacked him one......
@M1tjakaramazov3 жыл бұрын
That is the attitude many Europeans admire and are still expecting to find when they move to the UK. The reality is quite disappointing...
@cherrypieforbreakfast1499Ай бұрын
Greatest flying movie ever made. And one of the greatest war films ever.
@MarkHarrison733Ай бұрын
Hardly.
@generalpublic37444 жыл бұрын
Great film. I saw it three times in the cinema, once in Hamburg . Kenneth Moore dubbed with a German voice!!! The amazing thing was the audience cheered when the Brits shot a German plane down. Amazing cast, amazing action, and yes, it's a true story!! The music score is one of my favorites too.
@396375aАй бұрын
Just imagine what the world would be like now if the RAF had lost the Battle of Britian. There's a good chance Britian would have turned into another Vichy satellite of Germany, and the million or two German soldiers protecting the west would have joined the invasion of Russia. What ifs in WW2 are too numerous to even dwell on, but losing the Battle of Britian would have changed history.
@MarkHarrison733Ай бұрын
Europe would still be European.
@MarkHarrison733Ай бұрын
The Battle of Britain was irrelevant as Hitler never intended to invade the UK. As soon as Stalin broke the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact on 28 June 1940 the OKW started preparing for Barbarossa.
@northbriton688429 күн бұрын
@@MarkHarrison733 Shut up, you're boring
@roysmith47165 жыл бұрын
One of the best war movies, second only to Bridge on the river Kwai.
@grahampalmer93372 ай бұрын
The wonder of a film as memorable as this is that the attention to correct equipment is almost perfect. One of the highlights for me is seeing more than one, of the now almost 'extinct', Zündapp KS 750's in one place & being used.
@js-wq6zyАй бұрын
Honestly, I could watch this movie every month...
@AndrewAngus-uh8mkАй бұрын
Great film should be shown at all schools as it was in my generation not all this political correct crap!
@antispindr8613Ай бұрын
Take it you voted for the Reactionary/far-right 'Reform' Party?
@nathanielcarreon56345 жыл бұрын
Always underestimating the enemy.
@internetstrangerstrangerofweb3 жыл бұрын
2:25 Upon further inspection I was surprised to see that the RAD (Reichsarbeitsdienst) was portrayed repairing the bridge. Probably the first and only time I’ve seen them in Ww2 movies.
@johngrogan4609Ай бұрын
I have a find memory of my dad taking me to see this movie. I was 11. Same year as the moon landing and of the Amazing Mets World Series victory!
@71superbee396 жыл бұрын
The great gift to Britain came on December 7, 1941 ...
@krashd5 жыл бұрын
That old chestnut, lol. Yeah, we really needed help defending ourselves 14 months after we won the Battle of Britain...
@71superbee395 жыл бұрын
That's right. We were late to the party but it sure made Sir Winston smile..
@georgebuller19145 жыл бұрын
Yes, but when we got the final bill, he wasn't so happy - neither were the rest of us impoverished Brits!
@71superbee395 жыл бұрын
As if the Marshall plan was small potatoes? Take that up with Germany..
@tango6nf4775 жыл бұрын
It wasn't merely a gift to Britain or any single country but the world getting rid of the Nazis was a gift and a service to the whole of mankind.
@gtan4316 ай бұрын
As a proud former Serviceman of 30 year's, I am disgusted at the way successive Government's have degenerated the brave sacrifice our former colleagues made. Immigration alone has destroyed the UK. Vote Reform UK 🇬🇧.
@ClydesirotaАй бұрын
You know course, millions of Indians and Africans who were part of the Commonwealth, fought in the Second War with honor and helped beat back the Japanese. Oh, they also fought in the trenches in World War One. But hey they didn’t earn anything for their descendants. Keep it up sparky it’s this kind of thinking that caused you to lose an empire. Arrogant, racist, uninformed and holding on to white supremacy lies.
@user-oe9fs2fr7hАй бұрын
Get over it
@michaelmazowiecki9195Ай бұрын
Reform is just a bunch of re-packaged nasty British neo-Fascists. Please do not mix 2024 UK politics with 1940 Britain. Back then, the British Union of Fascists and its mouth piece the Daily Mail , were enthusiastic about Hitler.
@billywatts4689Ай бұрын
More fool you for serving them
@garrycaswell6367Ай бұрын
R.J.Mitchell, 11th June 1937, didn't live to see the Spitfire fly in the Battle of Britain, RIP
@MarkHarrison733Ай бұрын
The Battle of Britain was irrelevant as Hitler never intended to invade the UK.
@walterkronkitesleftshoe668428 күн бұрын
Ignore Mark... he's a nazi bell end.
@MarkHarrison73327 күн бұрын
@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 As soon as Stalin broke the pact on 28 June 1940 the OKW started preparing for Barbarossa.
@TomBrown-cq4vuАй бұрын
Toy model planes must have been fun to build.
@Jones-xx2gc5 жыл бұрын
If only we could display that attitude in the current negotiations. Which ever side your on.
@chokesmc5 жыл бұрын
2:54. Now that is a distinguished list of technical advisors!
@SomberYeti5 жыл бұрын
lol the General is Adolph
@hpmaxim5 жыл бұрын
@@SomberYeti Adolph Galland became a general when he was 30, and was one of Germany's most famous pilots. He shot down the most aircraft of anyone during the Battle of Britain who survived the war (beaten only by Werner Moelders), he was also the author of the First and the Last.
@Galland_4 жыл бұрын
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@filtonkingswoodАй бұрын
I have the opening music as my alarm ring tone.
@PercyPruneMHDOIFandBarsАй бұрын
The aircraft gathered for this film created the 33rd biggest airforce in the world at the time! One of the non-flying Spitfires was "gate guardian at my ATC headquarters. They gave us a Meteor NF-14 and a Vampire T-11 in it's place!
@MarkHarrison733Ай бұрын
This racist film was a huge flop.
@PercyPruneMHDOIFandBarsАй бұрын
@MarkHarrison: Racist?? Mind pointing out to we historians where the racism appears? This is European HISTORY you muppet. The Battle of Britain was fought between The UK and Nazi Germany. The population of BOTH countries was overwhelmingly white. Whilst there were volunteers from all over the Commonwealth in the RAF, many of them were still under training. At the end of the film is a tribute to the few, including their countries of origin along with losses. There is also a breakdown of losses of the Luftwaffe too. THERE IS NO RACISM IN THIS FILM! Finally, if it's so problematic, why is it still considered one of the best war films ever made and still played regularly some 55yrs after it was made?!!
@PercyPruneMHDOIFandBarsАй бұрын
@MarkHarrison: By the way, if it wasn't for the "FEW", anyone non-aryan would be a slave or not exist!
@MarkHarrison73329 күн бұрын
@@PercyPruneMHDOIFandBars Britain was occupying half of the world in 1940. It's why this film received such terrible reviews and flopped in every country, losing $10 million worldwide and bankrupting Herschel Saltzman.
@MarkHarrison73329 күн бұрын
@@PercyPruneMHDOIFandBars "The Few" is a myth. Britain caused all of the deaths. The Allies used slave labour.