Somebody REALLY wanted to show those gas-masked Uhlan horses. And sappers. I like the educational details in this series, e.g. the delousing station, anti-Trench Foot powder, etc. The German machinegun and trenches looked really good, too.
My grandfather was born in 1887, he was on italian front with the Alpini before and then with the Alpini Fiamme Verdi. He have crossed many battlefields from Caporetto to Vidor (a unknown terrible battle). He was a survivor. He have spoken one time only of WW1, with his son, my father, at the end of his life. RIP. MV
This is the first cinematic depiction of WW1 I ever watched as a kid, and as far I know, there weren’t many movies or shows depicting WW1 until the last decade or so. I will never forget it.
Gene Kranz says something like it in Apollo 13!!! Don’t tell me what the space craft was designed to do, I want to know what it can do” after the news of the catastrophic failure of the space craft!!
My great great grandfather was born in 1899. He was an indigenous Canadian who enlisted into the Canadian army on the battlefield of World War 1 in 1915 when he was only 15 years old. Luckily he survived and lived a long time, until he tragically passed away in 1968 at age 68. R.I.P
stfu be honest asf what would you do and it's world war 1 not a battle or world war 2 it's world war 1 it's the early 1900s they dident no it was a flame thrower they were confuesed
+Razzy1312 But in all honesty, if I was on a battlefield and a shadowy figure spitting fire like a demon and slowly coming towards me through the haze, throwing a rifle round at it would probably be my first instinct. Especially if I had never seen anything like it before.
Admiral Naehum Barko Ng Reublika Ng Pilipinas Not saying I could take them on, just that I wouldn't sit there while they approached without either firing or running. I've never seen a dragon, but you had better believe if I was out on a trail on a foggy morning, and a saw a cloud of flame slowly approaching me from a distance.... I wouldn't just stand there watching it approach. I've never seen Bigfoot before, but if I was out in the woods and saw a silhoutte 10 foot tall in the tree line getting closer, I wouldn't stand there watching it approach.
Razzy1312 well it depends really... your mind messes up your shit always... flight or fight responses are the ones who will decide the situational outcome... but sometimes you get confused and just stand there. Belive me I have been confused waaaaay too many times.
@False Feathers Excuse my intrusion, but you are...Stupid. First thing first : "World's biggest loser of EU countries" that doesn't make much sense but anyway, France has the World's best ratio of military victories during battles, way above USA and slighty above UK, respectively 3rd and 2nd. You might argue with the fact that Germany defeated France in a matter of weeks during WW2 but France did the same in a matter of days earlier.
This TV series as I remember was great and very entertaining. Over all, I thought the series was well done. Thanks for posting this... now I want to watch the series again.
The cavalry in WW1 was used in attacks but with very limited or no success (on the western front germany abondoned cavalry attacks during the early stages of the war so did the allies). However cavalry units like dragoons were still used for their ability to travel fast and support weakened spots in the front line. Dragoons used the horses only for traveling, when they reached their destination, they dismounted and they fought as light infantry. Massive cavalry attacks were still used in the Eastern front by Russians and by Ottomans.
I had read in "Now It Can Be Told" that the first flamethrower attack by the Germans was conducted in April 1915 at the battle of Hooge. Again at Verdun it appeared, as French fighters could see strange bursts of flames coming from behind a barn, where Germans we're practicing how to use it. later that day after the twelve hours bombardment by the Germans on the French, the flamethrower appeared again and took an entire french division out, the 51st infantry division in their trenches.
@@morfarviksturmm2652 The same way when Tanks were first introduce it creates mass panic amongst the defending troops on only thier mechanical unreliability prevented a major breakthrough. Fear is a powerful weapon.
@@initiate7029 That was German propaganda. The polish charged a German infantry battalion and won so the Germans sent in panzers to kill the cavalry afterwards and used photographs of the dead horses next to tanks to portray them as under equipped idiots
@Shut up Turkish Neo Fascist There were cavalry used on many occasions on the Western Front. Generally not on a large scale from the Race to the Sea until the Hundred Days offensives, with them generally maintained as a reserve to either exploit a breakthrough or rapidly move and respond to the enemy before deploying on foot. But smaller cavalry attacks did occur, Moreuil Wood, for example where a cavalry charge drove back a German attack.
I don't know why the Belgian troops didn't just shoot at the Germans as they were walking slowly, perfect targets. The rifles had much greater range than the flamethrowers.
WHAT!!!! The military rounds of WW1 were BY FAR more powerful than the standard issue infantry ammunition of today. The German (and French) 8mm, the British .303, and the American 30-06 truly outclass the 5.56mm American or the .30 (AK47) of the Soviet Union in widespread use today.
I think Lucky may be thinking about the M2 .50 cal - which outputs a lot more energy than the Vickers and its contemporaries. But quite correct in that the full size rifle rounds of those days are much more powerful than the 5.56mm and even the short 7.62. The 7.62x51 (FN FAL/SLR) may have been a different matter - don't know enough to comment on that.
I still can’t understand how any flamethrower operators could live with themselves after seeing the effects of their work and I think everyone can agree war is hell
Can't help to mention this guy's hair is great loads of Volume a lot of Soldiers tend to have had cut's like this back in WW1, it kept them nice an cool and also long on top for the winter but now you see the Trend coming back in 2016.
what a fantastic WWI film, how have i never heard of it before, such a visceral depiction of trench warfare. and those flamethrowers, they were bloody terrifying, nobody would would stand up to that, even the hardest most seasoned soldier who feels no fear would flee from that
That is actually pretty scary to think about, because anyone can be caught up in fighting and when there's a call of a gas attack you can find out that your gas mask dropped somewhere and you only have so much time to figure out what to do. Just imagine if that were you.
The horrors of war. If it wasnt this it would be something else that would get you. Pretty scary to think about. Its unfortunate that most people havent learned history or know the true horror of warfare. I fear another mass conflict is on the horizon. Its so bad right now. Our food is poisonous and yet we cant even afford it. Our government is corrupt. Our healthcare is so messed up CEOs are being shot in the streets. God help us all.
The Belgians could have stopped the German attack by throwing cream-topped waffles at them. Being so delicious the Germans would have stopped the attack as they gorged on them. It's no secret that the Allied soldiers ate way better than the Central Powers.
Image the hell in WWI with all those accents Belgium: sounds like there speaking in a Scottish accent Brittain: speaks fancy and shit France: VIVA LE FRANCE! Germany: Ve Vill Vin Da Var
The gas attacks and how it was deployed was very realistic. WW-I was a horrific conflict. They fought with 19th Century tactics against 20th Century weaponry.
Truly man's cruelest war. Yes WW-2 has great horrors but much of it was inflicted by machinery. This was men against men. In some instances the Belgians threw cream topped waffles at the Germans that were so delicious that the German infantryman would stop fighting and gorge on them until their insides ruptured. Truly barbaric.
Well I'd say no most of the deaths were caused by atillary and machine guns. Yes fired by men but not so much face to face. You never really knew who you killed damn noise was insane
9:37 A german world war I flamethrower needed zwo man. One to carry and one to "throw". And tow extra man to protect the other ones. Looks more like WWII model.
Imagine it was the first time they used those weapons. Every person that has never seen a flametrower would run away from it. + The smoke made a nice shield for a suprice attack. even when they had not that much of a subtle aproach
Totally Hokey! Front line trenches were rarely taken by frontal assault. Notice the Germans retreat before the French even arrive at the trench. Even had this happened, the Germans would have retreated through communication trenches, not in the open. Gas was used in prepared attacks, rarely for defensive operations, unimaginable to retake a trench, like the operation depicted. The German support trench is too close for gas, anyway. The gasses themselves were colorless, except for chlorine, which was delivered by cylinders, not artillery. The gasses were also much slower to act than depicted. A 4 four latency was the rule of thumb. Flame throwers were a storm troop weapon, more often found in attacks on fortresses than this sort of thing. The range and fuel supply were both too limited and the fire prevented support which was necessary to capture a trench. Kind of wonder just who the French are stringing communication wire to. In this sort of operation, runners were used for communication.
The German doctrine was to immediately launch a counter attack. You know what is missing. The German trench shovel. I have one that has a hold drill through it, to show it’s no longer a weapon of war. The trench shovel more likely that not would be use as a repelling weapon, not the overly long bayonet as it was to cumbersome in the trenches. But then again, this is Hollywood.
War is hell , the greatest understatement of all time . In the War museum in London . There are a pair of French Officers leather gloves that are shrunk to a quarter of their size by the affects of gas . Imagine what that would do to a mans lungs !
all ww2 gas masks lol, and the flamethrowers, believe it or not, were way more powerful than depicted here. They didn't shoot out a flame like they do in this, what they did was actually kind of spew out this lava-like substance that had a range of 50 yards. It wouldn't burn them alive as much, but it would kinda melt them where they stood. Not a pretty death, but it was efficient. The horses were scarcely used on the western front but I appreciate that they included them. 3 million horses and 2 million mules died during WW1. Mostly during artillery bombardments on supply transports but a lot of horses did see action on the Eastern Front because the terrain wasn't as muddy and hellistic as on the western front. Eastern front was still rolling hills/mud and forests. I do appreciate that they included the gas attack on the newly secured german trench, but this was a tactic that saw use on the western front by the german army. They would shell/gas their own positions after it was taken. Gas mortars were used to do what they show here, but they mostly had gas shells that were deployed by artillery. All of their uniforms are too clean for having been in the dirt and mud tho, but i appreciate the scene as a whole.
Machine guns are defensive weapons, and could definitely stop an assault. What I don't get is why well-entrenched Germans with rifles would run from a few exposed Belgians.
And surely the Germans would have had another machine gun setup to create a mutually supporting pair covering the ground diagonally from left and right.
Uriah Verne they did fight well in WW2 in some battles for instance Dunkirk where the French fought hard against the Germans and suffered heavy casualties.
If i am not mistaken, i do not think that is how the gas shells used at the time worked. I am pretty sure they would hit, and the explosion would cause the gas to spread. It was reported that the only good thing about the use of gas was the fact it killed the rats.
No they were, he is right. Cavalry was used right up to the end of the war by the allies. The film war horse is a good example of how cavalry was used in surprise attacks and flanking movements
If I had been a young guy in the US in 1916, I'd have moved to Canada for a few years. Nobody is going to know what you did or didn't do. Why guys let this happen to them is beyond my ability to comprehend anything. Jesus, what fools, enabling assholes to ruin billions of lives over this past century. Why not just stay out of it? It's not your fight, man.
I completely agree with the point you're making, but for your information, Canada declared war (or Britain declared war for them because Canada was a British Dominion) on Germany in 1914, the US didn't join the war until 1917. So, in 1916, if you want to avoid being drafted, stay in the US.
shuser oui c’est vrai mais je m’excuse car je viens de remarquer que le commentaire que j’ai mis était d’y l’ya 1an et moi j’étais en rééducation dû à mon opération et bref je mettais n’importe quoi et sinon il est vrai sur ton commentaire !
10:05 Why are all the Germans on horseback with lances, crossing the trenches? Lol, I know they used cavalry during WW1, but this seems a little far fetched. It's too Medieval themed for World War 1.
This never happened. Cavalry could not be used in trench warfare. All the armies had large Cavalry units Stationed to back any infantry breakthrough but reality made them obsolete.
really there were flamethrowers way before ww1, i am sure the byzantines had them, and chinese too i hink (but i might be wrong) so it sould be called "reinvented" or "revisited" or "improved" surely not invented.
It was the first time man portable flamethrowers had been used in this type of combat. Chinese and Turkish fire pots and dragon heads were used in naval combat or defensively
For many of these soldiers they never seen a flame thrower. They mightve thought something caught on fire and would just stay there and burn but they didnt knew it was coming nor do they knew how to respond. They dont know if it will do somethung if you shot or not.
Don't know Details.... When i remember me right the Flamethrowers at this time had a effective Range of 35m ... and very mostly used out of the Trenches because of the dangers that one being hit and get blown up.... and also were 3 guys needed to use one of this things... well thats all i found of the use of flamethrowers in WW1.
those flamethrowers, well heck why didn't ya shoot them for peets sake, shoot the dang flamethrower, yes retreat, once you have shot it. also, its trench warfare, where dose horse come in
This just makes no sense. Why would u not FUC*EN shot your gun when your trying to torch u. there is like only 5 of them with flame throwers against like 60 and they start running...
This really happened, after enduring hordes of enemies, shells and gas they were attacked with flame throwers, i think a whole regiment panicked and fled, only the defensive mindset that prevailed in that war stopped the germans from taking advantage of this.
A good way of beating gas was to fart on your fingers and breath that in during an attack. The fart once breathable from the fingers would form a protective layer in your nose. My grandmother told me that story about her father. He died in WW1 during a Gas Attack
This is true. To protect yourself you could also throw your coat over your head, sit in place, and give yourself a dutch oven. The particulate matter of your fart will filter out the poison gas like a screen.
1. That is in no way a trench as it would have looked, certainly no german trench. 2. The gasmasks they're wearing are german models not belgian or french. 3. No one would use cavalry on a battlefield with trenches and barbed wire. 4. The flamethrowers of WW1 and in part of WW2 were machines that sprayed burning oil/petrol in a balistic trajectory, not ones using gas.
Yes Tokisaki is right! But did the French realy used Stick Grenades? Oh yes the Stick Grenades had a shockwave that just killd you, not such a huge explosion.
Oh and the German Masks themselves were not in use until WW2. The closest thing to it back then was the GM17, which was far more primitive. Oh and the Germans were wearing early British Gas masks. Wat.
The hindinberg line first off layered defenses to better counter attack while enemy is out of atillary range and or reinforcements. That's exactly what made the war last 4 years and what kept the west at Bay to defeat the Russians in the east.
Its not a Maxim, its czechoslovakian ZB 37 with a fake water jacket, from Barrandov studios. Same as in All quiet on the western front (1979), both films are shooted in Czech republic.
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Somebody REALLY wanted to show those gas-masked Uhlan horses. And sappers. I like the educational details in this series, e.g. the delousing station, anti-Trench Foot powder, etc. The German machinegun and trenches looked really good, too.
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My grandfather was born in 1887, he was on italian front with the Alpini before and then with the Alpini Fiamme Verdi. He have crossed many battlefields from Caporetto to Vidor (a unknown terrible battle). He was a survivor. He have spoken one time only of WW1, with his son, my father, at the end of his life. RIP. MV
So you mean at least your great grandfather...
There's a book "A soldier of the Great War" by Mark Helprin. Italian perspective. Awesome book.
The scene with the gas and the flamethrowers really pictures the devastating and scary technology of warfare
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Dam, this film made those flamethrower men terrifying
That’s what they were for
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It is quite true that the Germans were the first to use them and that was in the First world war !
Yeah they were really more of a psychological weapon
his gas mask made him terrible
This is the first cinematic depiction of WW1 I ever watched as a kid, and as far I know, there weren’t many movies or shows depicting WW1 until the last decade or so. I will never forget it.
check out All Quiet... new recent version!
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"Dont tell me what i cant do, tell me what i can do!"
Best god damn quote ive heard in a while
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Gene Kranz says something like it in Apollo 13!!! Don’t tell me what the space craft was designed to do, I want to know what it can do” after the news of the catastrophic failure of the space craft!!
Soldiers with flamethrowers !
officer : Hold your Fire !
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The best moment was when Jar Jar Binks got torn to shreds by a mortar round.
Oh, how we laughed!
what moment was that?
paul Friedrich the best one.
It's like poetry, it rhymes.
Did you see the tusken raider at 9:21 XD
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When the german flamethrowers and cavalry advances it has vibes like post apocalyptic / medieval war .....Scary as hell
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what the fook is your problem, dude?@@ajaybhagwani8155
I really love how they cut to actual war footage. Makes it so much better
if i saw those flamethrowers i would shit my pants so hard i would die
Mirk Yomo Those are flammenwerfers. They werf flammen
MOTHER OF GOD....
Or you could just, you know, shoot at them. Flamethrowers and bullets don't tend to mix.
cynderfan2233 yes one shot to the gas r
tank and it will explode burning the user
My great great grandfather was born in 1899. He was an indigenous Canadian who enlisted into the Canadian army on the battlefield of World War 1 in 1915 when he was only 15 years old. Luckily he survived and lived a long time, until he tragically passed away in 1968 at age 68. R.I.P
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"My god, what is that thing out there spewing fire and slowly getting closer to us?"
"I don't know, but we certainly shouldn't shoot at it."
stfu be honest asf what would you do and it's world war 1 not a battle or world war 2 it's world war 1 it's the early 1900s they dident no it was a flame thrower they were confuesed
+ghost noob It's called a joke.
+Razzy1312 But in all honesty, if I was on a battlefield and a shadowy figure spitting fire like a demon and slowly coming towards me through the haze, throwing a rifle round at it would probably be my first instinct. Especially if I had never seen anything like it before.
Admiral Naehum Barko Ng Reublika Ng Pilipinas Not saying I could take them on, just that I wouldn't sit there while they approached without either firing or running. I've never seen a dragon, but you had better believe if I was out on a trail on a foggy morning, and a saw a cloud of flame slowly approaching me from a distance.... I wouldn't just stand there watching it approach. I've never seen Bigfoot before, but if I was out in the woods and saw a silhoutte 10 foot tall in the tree line getting closer, I wouldn't stand there watching it approach.
Razzy1312 well it depends really... your mind messes up your shit always... flight or fight responses are the ones who will decide the situational outcome... but sometimes you get confused and just stand there.
Belive me I have been confused waaaaay too many times.
"The French Army does not allow fighting against itself"
Lol, wait until 1917
What happen in 1917 ?
@@Juzgames Mutinies
Archiworks 992 mutinies and almost resulted in the front collapsing because of this the British had to take the slack
@False Feathers Excuse my intrusion, but you are...Stupid. First thing first : "World's biggest loser of EU countries" that doesn't make much sense but anyway, France has the World's best ratio of military victories during battles, way above USA and slighty above UK, respectively 3rd and 2nd.
You might argue with the fact that Germany defeated France in a matter of weeks during WW2 but France did the same in a matter of days earlier.
??? France : WW1 1.697.000 soldiers dead / US = 117.000 / GB = 994.138,,,
Again...You people never miss a trick. Yes it was a TV show. Thanks for watching.
By thunder...**HE'S RIGHT!!**
This TV series as I remember was great and very entertaining. Over all, I thought the series was well done. Thanks for posting this... now I want to watch the series again.
@@razor6888 name of the show?
WasaTVshowThanksforwatching
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I love the star wars sounds in this WW1 flick XD
They both came out roughly at the same time
This is my favorite series ever.! A great prequel for Indiana Jones i love it so thanks for the vid.! :)
forthevid!,:)
The cavalry in WW1 was used in attacks but with very limited or no success (on the western front germany abondoned cavalry attacks during the early stages of the war so did the allies).
However cavalry units like dragoons were still used for their ability to travel fast and support weakened spots in the front line.
Dragoons used the horses only for traveling, when they reached their destination, they dismounted and they fought as light infantry.
Massive cavalry attacks were still used in the Eastern front by Russians and by Ottomans.
But it looked so bad ass.
I had read in "Now It Can Be Told" that the first flamethrower attack by the Germans was conducted in April 1915 at the battle of Hooge.
Again at Verdun it appeared, as French fighters could see strange bursts of flames coming from behind a barn, where Germans we're practicing how to use it. later that day after the twelve hours bombardment by the Germans on the French, the flamethrower appeared again and took an entire french division out, the 51st infantry division in their trenches.
A division is 50,000 soldiers you know.How could Flame throwers do that ?
@@morfarviksturmm2652 The same way when Tanks were first introduce it creates mass panic amongst the defending troops on only thier mechanical unreliability prevented a major breakthrough. Fear is a powerful weapon.
@@morfarviksturmm2652 thats either the strength of an army or a corps at the time. A division was roughly 18000 men strong.
During WW1, before tanks, many armies still fought mounted on horses.
The polish still used cavalry even against tanks in WW2
@@initiate7029 That was German propaganda. The polish charged a German infantry battalion and won so the Germans sent in panzers to kill the cavalry afterwards and used photographs of the dead horses next to tanks to portray them as under equipped idiots
@Shut up Turkish Neo Fascist Hes half right, 1915 I think saw the last en mass cavalry charge and it was British iirc
@Shut up Turkish Neo Fascist There were cavalry used on many occasions on the Western Front. Generally not on a large scale from the Race to the Sea until the Hundred Days offensives, with them generally maintained as a reserve to either exploit a breakthrough or rapidly move and respond to the enemy before deploying on foot. But smaller cavalry attacks did occur, Moreuil Wood, for example where a cavalry charge drove back a German attack.
@@88porpoise I think the first and last British soldiers to die in the Great War were cavalrymen.
I don't know why the Belgian troops didn't just shoot at the Germans as they were walking slowly, perfect targets. The rifles had much greater range than the flamethrowers.
It most likely the first time they saw them, they were too stunned to move, fear can do that to you.
imagine if you saw like a crazy lazer weapon or some shit, you would be like "sheeeiiiitt"
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The same reason why you would have shit your pants
That why I'm asking?
Such a tree is a perfect cover against a mashine gun.
Machine guns back then didn't have good enough fire power or bullets to go through a thick tree
Haha yeah right, give it a hundred rounds and any of the rifle calibers would've chopped a tree down.
WHAT!!!! The military rounds of WW1 were BY FAR more powerful than the standard issue infantry ammunition of today. The German (and French) 8mm, the British .303, and the American 30-06 truly outclass the 5.56mm American or the .30 (AK47) of the Soviet Union in widespread use today.
I think Lucky may be thinking about the M2 .50 cal - which outputs a lot more energy than the Vickers and its contemporaries. But quite correct in that the full size rifle rounds of those days are much more powerful than the 5.56mm and even the short 7.62. The 7.62x51 (FN FAL/SLR) may have been a different matter - don't know enough to comment on that.
Oh yes it would , and I have seen a 303 bullet from a British Lee Enfield rifle go right through a tree too !
I feel fortunate not to have been in a Hell such as this.
I still can’t understand how any flamethrower operators could live with themselves after seeing the effects of their work and I think everyone can agree war is hell
hate on it all you want. This premiered as a television show. I mean c'mon A TELEVISION SHOW. Give it some credit
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It's one of my fav movies I watch weekly with my son
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Back when TV productions aren't being cheap.
For a TV production it was good.
Can't help to mention this guy's hair is great loads of Volume a lot of Soldiers tend to have had cut's like this back in WW1, it kept them nice an cool and also long on top for the winter but now you see the Trend coming back in 2016.
God, this war was just a devastating flame to the whole earth
Libright gang for the win! Also, you’re right. WW1 changed everything.
Flamethrowers, what a nasty weapon, would scare the shit out of me if i would've seen one irl in a trench
what a fantastic WWI film, how have i never heard of it before, such a visceral depiction of trench warfare. and those flamethrowers, they were bloody terrifying, nobody would would stand up to that, even the hardest most seasoned soldier who feels no fear would flee from that
except actual battles looked nothing like it
@@zmajodnocaja5088 how so?
@@slimyish in real life everything was in black and white because color wasn't invented yet.
Mon Dieu!, all those Poilus are nicely shaved!
That is actually pretty scary to think about, because anyone can be caught up in fighting and when there's a call of a gas attack you can find out that your gas mask dropped somewhere and you only have so much time to figure out what to do. Just imagine if that were you.
The horrors of war. If it wasnt this it would be something else that would get you. Pretty scary to think about. Its unfortunate that most people havent learned history or know the true horror of warfare. I fear another mass conflict is on the horizon. Its so bad right now. Our food is poisonous and yet we cant even afford it. Our government is corrupt. Our healthcare is so messed up CEOs are being shot in the streets. God help us all.
Soldiers were instructed to urinate on a rag or strip of cloth and tie it around their face. Crude, but it supposedly worked well enough in a pinch.
That red glow just before the flamethrowers are revealed is ominous
This is way better than I first thought it would be
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I remember watching this as a kid great show!
Show!
The Belgians could have stopped the German attack by throwing cream-topped waffles at them. Being so delicious the Germans would have stopped the attack as they gorged on them. It's no secret that the Allied soldiers ate way better than the Central Powers.
The Belgians waffled?
i guess you've never heard of the POTATO???
The Germans still had decent rations, they were just few and far between
Good thing flame throwers aren't used in war today. They'd be walking fire bombs.
"i dont see how"
"thats because your not looking"
lol
Image the hell in WWI with all those accents
Belgium: sounds like there speaking in a Scottish accent
Brittain: speaks fancy and shit
France: VIVA LE FRANCE!
Germany: Ve Vill Vin Da Var
Someone saw a picture of a WW1 horse gasmask before writing this scene and thought "That...just that"
The gas attacks and how it was deployed was very realistic. WW-I was a horrific conflict. They fought with 19th Century tactics against 20th Century weaponry.
Truly man's cruelest war. Yes WW-2 has great horrors but much of it was inflicted by machinery. This was men against men. In some instances the Belgians threw cream topped waffles at the Germans that were so delicious that the German infantryman would stop fighting and gorge on them until their insides ruptured. Truly barbaric.
Is there a source for that fact?
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Well I'd say no most of the deaths were caused by atillary and machine guns. Yes fired by men but not so much face to face. You never really knew who you killed damn noise was insane
The Belgians waffled?
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I love how in movies they treat grenades like they're packed full of thermite and TNT
battlefield 1 in nutshell
no battlefield 1 is all run and gun
More like Verdun
No this is more like Verdun.
N8Gamer_ FX thats true
You really dont know anything huh?
I would've been running back for a spare mask among the dead.
great idea if your not panicking
9:37 A german world war I flamethrower needed zwo man. One to carry and one to "throw". And tow extra man to protect the other ones.
Looks more like WWII model.
that was for the heavy flamethrowers. I believe there were more mobile versions manned by 1 man, as such
Its post ww2, looks like a prop honestly..
This is an excerpt of a movie called “Trenches”? If so, I’ve got to find it & watch! 👏🏼😎
So that's where they got all those storm trooper helmets for star wars...
German infantry units where actually called stormtroops because, like a storm, they could almost never be stopped. 👍
Most of the Stosstruppen soldiers were killed
Sigurd Mjelve Yeah, I didn't imply that they where invincible, but they where largely under-supplied.
A unit of flame throwers in a open field is like holding a big sign that says shoot me I'm sniper bait.
Imagine it was the first time they used those weapons. Every person that has never seen a flametrower would run away from it. + The smoke made a nice shield for a suprice attack. even when they had not that much of a subtle aproach
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Totally Hokey! Front line trenches were rarely taken by frontal assault. Notice the Germans retreat before the French even arrive at the trench. Even had this happened, the Germans would have retreated through communication trenches, not in the open. Gas was used in prepared attacks, rarely for defensive operations, unimaginable to retake a trench, like the operation depicted. The German support trench is too close for gas, anyway. The gasses themselves were colorless, except for chlorine, which was delivered by cylinders, not artillery. The gasses were also much slower to act than depicted. A 4 four latency was the rule of thumb. Flame throwers were a storm troop weapon, more often found in attacks on fortresses than this sort of thing. The range and fuel supply were both too limited and the fire prevented support which was necessary to capture a trench. Kind of wonder just who the French are stringing communication wire to. In this sort of operation, runners were used for communication.
The German doctrine was to immediately launch a counter attack. You know what is missing. The German trench shovel. I have one that has a hold drill through it, to show it’s no longer a weapon of war. The trench shovel more likely that not would be use as a repelling weapon, not the overly long bayonet as it was to cumbersome in the trenches. But then again, this is Hollywood.
the film probably tried to show to show way to much overall ww1 fighting ( not accurate as you stated in your comment )
French vs German ... guess the outcome xD bro germans aint fuckin around
@@Guvo0 Verdun. QED
Sorry I hadn't realised you thought you were watching a historical reinactment rather than a TV drama.
Interesting mix of film. Some shots are from the 1969 film FRÄULEIN DOKTOR.
9:21 Looks like a Tusken Raider took a wrong turn in the filming studio XD
War is hell , the greatest understatement of all time . In the War museum in London . There are a pair of French Officers leather gloves that are shrunk to a quarter of their size by the affects of gas . Imagine what that would do to a mans lungs !
Flamenwerfer terror weapon.War is not hell.Hell is for the guilty.War is for the innocent and the guilty.Hawkeye Pierce Mash 1974
all ww2 gas masks lol, and the flamethrowers, believe it or not, were way more powerful than depicted here. They didn't shoot out a flame like they do in this, what they did was actually kind of spew out this lava-like substance that had a range of 50 yards. It wouldn't burn them alive as much, but it would kinda melt them where they stood. Not a pretty death, but it was efficient. The horses were scarcely used on the western front but I appreciate that they included them. 3 million horses and 2 million mules died during WW1. Mostly during artillery bombardments on supply transports but a lot of horses did see action on the Eastern Front because the terrain wasn't as muddy and hellistic as on the western front. Eastern front was still rolling hills/mud and forests. I do appreciate that they included the gas attack on the newly secured german trench, but this was a tactic that saw use on the western front by the german army. They would shell/gas their own positions after it was taken. Gas mortars were used to do what they show here, but they mostly had gas shells that were deployed by artillery. All of their uniforms are too clean for having been in the dirt and mud tho, but i appreciate the scene as a whole.
Most insane WWI clip I've ever seen. Jesus, what hell.
french being brave and all .....has to be a work of fiction !!!
French are brave at any war.
Against germans russians or english.
Stop saying insults
One machine crew was holding up the assault?
+Powderfinger One machine gun could do a lot of damage to men running across open field.
Machine guns are defensive weapons, and could definitely stop an assault.
What I don't get is why well-entrenched Germans with rifles would run from a few exposed Belgians.
Three men held up the whole attack allowing them to me to counter attack.
And surely the Germans would have had another machine gun setup to create a mutually supporting pair covering the ground diagonally from left and right.
I didn't know the French has German grenades too? C'MON MAN!
Brave french and belgian soldiers !
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french fought good in ww1 but in ww2, idk what was going on in the ´40s with the french army.
William short Film they aren’t French they are british
ImNewGoEz These are French and Belgian soldiers depicted in this episode.
Uriah Verne they did fight well in WW2 in some battles for instance Dunkirk where the French fought hard against the Germans and suffered heavy casualties.
I see that the God Emperor's Death Korps of Krieg got reassigned to a new front 😎
do you what will be more scarier than a man with a flammenwerfer
man on a horse with two flammenwerfer
If i am not mistaken, i do not think that is how the gas shells used at the time worked. I am pretty sure they would hit, and the explosion would cause the gas to spread. It was reported that the only good thing about the use of gas was the fact it killed the rats.
1:20 lightsaber sound effects
George Lucas
No they were, he is right. Cavalry was used right up to the end of the war by the allies. The film war horse is a good example of how cavalry was used in surprise attacks and flanking movements
09:35
Bf1 historical accuracy confirmed.
If I had been a young guy in the US in 1916, I'd have moved to Canada for a few years. Nobody is going to know what you did or didn't do. Why guys let this happen to them is beyond my ability to comprehend anything. Jesus, what fools, enabling assholes to ruin billions of lives over this past century. Why not just stay out of it? It's not your fight, man.
I completely agree with the point you're making, but for your information, Canada declared war (or Britain declared war for them because Canada was a British Dominion) on Germany in 1914, the US didn't join the war until 1917. So, in 1916, if you want to avoid being drafted, stay in the US.
9:30 Death Korps of Krieg ready to charge en mass
yes Sir
For the Gott Kaiser?
Happy gasmask noises
it's bad that I was specifically looking for this type of comment lol, but yes my mind instantly thought "ah, another day in the Death korps of Krieg"
"We have these rifols! Can we not just shoot at the German Flamethrowers??" "No, Fix bajonets, we are French and supposed to lose"
I like that the French are so good at British English, waaaaaiiittt
What are you talking about? Everyone was speaking French in this video.
@@bakersmileyfaceVery bad French.
How is a show about Indiana Jones one of the best Great War depictions I've ever seen, and the only one about the Belgians as far as I know
Has anybody mentioned how weird it is for these Belgian and French soldiers to be speaking English?
Desi G non speak french parce que nous les soldats français nous parlons français mais pas anglais à l’époque 🇫🇷
Desi G it’s for exportation, to educate those illiterate Americans who believe anything!
@@maxencecottais4528 mais c'est des soldats belge et pas français. Le film montre la stopper allemande par les belges.
shuser oui c’est vrai mais je m’excuse car je viens de remarquer que le commentaire que j’ai mis était d’y l’ya 1an et moi j’étais en rééducation dû à mon opération et bref je mettais n’importe quoi et sinon il est vrai sur ton commentaire !
@@nyrox6774 sous commandement français avec des soldats français. Mdr d'où un contingent belges va stopper les allemands tous seule
Maybe it’s just me but there seems to be ray guns noises in the background
10:05 Why are all the Germans on horseback with lances, crossing the trenches? Lol, I know they used cavalry during WW1, but this seems a little far fetched. It's too Medieval themed for World War 1.
jk22222sd people used medevil things in ww1 like the trench club the helmets are medevil aswell
This In 1914?
This never happened. Cavalry could not be used in trench warfare. All the armies had large Cavalry units Stationed to back any infantry breakthrough but reality made them obsolete.
I was expecting to see German soldiers armed with maces crushing skulls like in the Italian-Austrian front.
What is the name of this film please ?
really there were flamethrowers way before ww1, i am sure the byzantines had them, and chinese too i hink (but i might be wrong) so it sould be called "reinvented" or "revisited" or "improved" surely not invented.
It was the first time man portable flamethrowers had been used in this type of combat. Chinese and Turkish fire pots and dragon heads were used in naval combat or defensively
Not bad, but why the French and Belgian soldiers all wear WW2 helmets ?
I don't understand why they didn't shoot the flamethrowers. One little bullet would've done the trick.
Joe Smith they weren’t trained to do anything with flamethrowers
Well it was later in 1917 when the wex was made in 1915 it was a hose with a man carrying fuel box and another supporting the hose and shooter.
For many of these soldiers they never seen a flame thrower. They mightve thought something caught on fire and would just stay there and burn but they didnt knew it was coming nor do they knew how to respond. They dont know if it will do somethung if you shot or not.
after the first few times, that's just what they tried to do.
@@Si-sg7vc or thought it was a Demon from hell
Got to love those 70 Belgians in the company, with seemingly regenerating numbers =D
Yeah I thought they had 70 and when they went over the top they had like hundreds
Is that Sean Patrick Flanery?
Greggets Sure is.
***** LOL That's funny. He's still pretty good in this movie but he's better in Boondock Saints
He's good there too. Mind you this show was made in the early 90s though =P
Don't know Details.... When i remember me right the Flamethrowers at this time had a effective Range of 35m ... and very mostly used out of the Trenches because of the dangers that one being hit and get blown up.... and also were 3 guys needed to use one of this things... well thats all i found of the use of flamethrowers in WW1.
Why the hell didn't anyone shoot the flamethrower guys???
Would you stand to shoot knowing that there are flamethrowers behind you? the flamethrower was a psychological weapon during the 1WW
I had an uncle who got a touch of mustard gas but lived until 1977.
Some French fries.
I think there’s enough footage of real artillery and grenades exploding to realize neither makes a fireball.
those flamethrowers, well heck why didn't ya shoot them for peets sake, shoot the dang flamethrower, yes retreat, once you have shot it. also, its trench warfare, where dose horse come in
Jack Blackwood Yeah, cavalry had some minor roles in the middle east even in WWII
Who else thinks the French had nice uniforms . A very nice shade off blue i must say . 😍
At thé beggining it was blue vest with red trousers. ..
Very Nice. ..targets for germans machine gun.
3:20 Like they can assault that without artillery
This show is the Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, if anyone was wondering
1:43 Lasers confirmed
Muito bom mas queria dublado em português
This just makes no sense. Why would u not FUC*EN shot your gun when your trying to torch u. there is like only 5 of them with flame throwers against like 60 and they start running...
Fear of being burnt alive, It just takes one to panic and the rest will go
They have also never seen a flamethrower before.
+ryan jansen ya flame throwers weren't brought in until world war 1 and this movie is taking place in world war 1
Allen Lin because they're scared? Oh this is a very late response
This really happened, after enduring hordes of enemies, shells and gas they were attacked with flame throwers, i think a whole regiment panicked and fled, only the defensive mindset that prevailed in that war stopped the germans from taking advantage of this.
its probably an idea to pull the pin before you throw a bag packed with nades
09:35 - WTF a Horse?!
Pew Pew Pew, The machineguns sound like laserrifles.
A good way of beating gas was to fart on your fingers and breath that in during an attack. The fart once breathable from the fingers would form a protective layer in your nose. My grandmother told me that story about her father. He died in WW1 during a Gas Attack
Seems legit
This is true. To protect yourself you could also throw your coat over your head, sit in place, and give yourself a dutch oven. The particulate matter of your fart will filter out the poison gas like a screen.
This is a movie about war and all you do is making fart jokes?
+Hashtag Down Yeah
I guess that tips didn't work for him.
They just gassed them, I wasn't expecting flamethrowers!
1. That is in no way a trench as it would have looked, certainly no german trench.
2. The gasmasks they're wearing are german models not belgian or french.
3. No one would use cavalry on a battlefield with trenches and barbed wire.
4. The flamethrowers of WW1 and in part of WW2 were machines that sprayed burning oil/petrol in a balistic trajectory, not ones using gas.
Dr. Death I'm just pointing out facts before anyone believes this bullshit. I've seen that often enough.
actually cavalry was used on the western front in ww1 they were used in early battles but it was soon learnt they were ineffective
Yes Tokisaki is right!
But did the French realy used Stick Grenades? Oh yes the Stick Grenades had a shockwave that just killd you, not such a huge explosion.
Cavalry was actually more effective in WWII than in WWI, because warfare was more mobile.
Oh and the German Masks themselves were not in use until WW2. The closest thing to it back then was the GM17, which was far more primitive.
Oh and the Germans were wearing early British Gas masks. Wat.
This is one of the Young Indiana Jones movies
Poorly made - if the Germans ran away from their trenches that quickly, how did the war last 4 years ??
amblincork That's the ebb and flow of war. Small local battles. Sometimes you succeed sometimes you fail.
The hindinberg line first off layered defenses to better counter attack while enemy is out of atillary range and or reinforcements. That's exactly what made the war last 4 years and what kept the west at Bay to defeat the Russians in the east.
@@plumbherhub1664 The Hindenburg line wouldn't exist until 1917.
Its not a Maxim, its czechoslovakian ZB 37 with a fake water jacket, from Barrandov studios. Same as in All quiet on the western front (1979), both films are shooted in Czech republic.