Gallipoli (1981) w/ Mel Gibson and Marc Lee: the final and tragic scene
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What makes this scene even more heart breaking is that many witnesses would say that at the Attack at Nek, nearly 90% of all the Australian casualties didn’t even reach a third into No Mans Land. The First wave of 150 was nearly completely mowed down in less than a few minutes. Many not even getting more than 10 yards into No Mans Land. It was the very definition of a slaughter. Even Ottoman Turks who repelled the attack would later recount that they didn’t find any sense of victory on that day. Just complete remorse for their fallen foe.
Y'all got that right
@Kurt Hirschler it just bothers me how arrogant a lot of officers were particularly when it came to "Shellshock"
@Kurt Hirschler same for you
Minutes? 30 seconds in they sustained about 100% casualties. They had 30 mgs setup on that bottleneck.
Lest we forget.
'I can't ask the men to do what I won't do myself'
That quote has stuck with me ever since I saw this film as a kid.
Yes, its a great scene. Powerful and heart breaking. The Battalion commander at the Nek, historically did not die in wave 4. He actually died in wave 1. Not that it matters really, but it hits harder in this way.
The letter: “My darling, when you get this you will know that I have died in service of my country”😢
Yes, I noticed this. Tragic.
in service of the juice
No, in service of the imperial owners.
Awesome ending, not glorified, just a realistic brutal honesty.
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They filmed extra scenes of the aftermath of the stretcher bearers bringing back the wounded but decided it would be more powerful to end like this. This boy, our main character who's pretty much flawless, almost angelic is cut down with his whole life ahead of him.
Like Siskel and Ebert said this was a time when warfare was changing and individual attributes like courage and belief no longer mattered on the battlefield, what difference would it make to a machine gun. The Mel Gibson character is there as a slightly more modern less deferential character, the one more modern Australians might relate to, it was such a young country though back in 1915.
When I first saw this scene I thought "That's it?" After watching it later did I really understand there's no glory in it, any of it. Young boys die, there's your glory.
I am a Turkish! After seeing this scenes, I feel the deepest sadness in my heart. There is explanation or justification for this. I can not blame my ancestors for defending our country. Every sovereign society will do the same. I am glad Australians and Turks are friends today
It was brutal and the ANZACs respected the Turks.
The Turks are our friends. History records that by the third wave at The Nek the Turkish soldiers were pleading from their trenches to please stop: "durun Allah aşkına durun". Yet we continued to go over the top to die :-(
Exactly. We were only against each other because of what governments told us to do. Turkey and Australia will always have a bond and have strength together now.
It’s Okay, we’re all in peace, The fallen soldiers are in the ground resting peacefully, we celebrate ANZAC day for those who sacrificed their lives for ours, many never knew what war was like, we can’t blame them. But we’re all in peace together, Least we forget..
- From an Australian
Reading this thread and comparing it to comments of most videos nowadays is very wholesome. Refreshing to see.
When they hung up their wedding rings and belongings and wrote their letters because they knew they wouldn’t make it 😰😭❤️❤️
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Many people didn't (don't) like or even get the ending (that final frame), but that's the point of the film: it begins with Mark Lee, and it ends with Mark Lee's death = a generation of aussies swept away in the baptism of fire/blood of the Australian nation in the world stage. The 1915 Generation.
Wasn't it ment as an homage to the famous picture from the Spanish civil war showing a soldier being shot while running
Type in, Gallipoli ending reimagined. For an alternate take on movie ending.
they couldn't even leave that trench to desert the army and try to run the other way
This entire film was supposed to be how war actually is, young kids getting mowed down like grass. What do people think they are going to see in a war movie, romance?
No it's based of a first hand account of someone describing a young Australian running across no man's land without a rifle and being hit by machine gun fire making it look like he had crossed the finnish line of a school run.
This has made me cry countless times. Good men dying for nothing.
I saw this movie in 1981 at the cinema with my family when I was 11 years old. It was the first movie I had seen that didn't have a happy ending. It took me a long time to come to grips with that.
Me too. Saw it in Auckland. Was 7 years old. Went home afterwards and asked my grandfather what happened after, after Archie gets shot. He didn't know so I researched everything i could get my hands on about the campaign and The Nek in particular in the vain hope that, in real life, after that last scene, there was a happy ending. Has stuck with me to this day.
First I saw this in my history class in sophmore year of high school in 2010.
When Archy got mowed down at the end I was like "Damn!".
I saw it at about 16 with my ten pound Pom parents and they were ashamed to be English.
"It's always the old who lead us to the war, it's always the young who fall." -- Phil Ochs.
That's speaking the bleeding obvious how could it be different. Try saying something really profound
@@anthonyeaton5153 You first.
@@anthonyeaton5153 "Why don't presidents fight the war? Why do they always send the poor?" -- System of a Down
@@nadapuesnada7716 My last post WAS profound compared to your nonsense.
@@NateCooperino There goes another stood question asking why don’t presidents fight the wars. The mind boggles.
“Those heroes that shed their blood and lost their lives … you are
now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace.
There is no difference between the Johnnies and the Mehmets to us where
they lie side by side in this country of ours. You, the mothers, who
sent their sons from far away countries, wipe away your tears. Your sons
are now lying in our bosom and are in peace. After having lost their
lives on this land they have become our sons as well.”
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
They were not "heroes", they were _VICTIMS!_
Jamie van Brewen victims of what?
@@dylanleamananderson7811 2:15
There were heroes on both sides.
@@Guitcad1 Atatürk honors by calling them "heroes" even though they lost the war. It is true that they were victims, but you should blame the British for that.
I just watched this in history class today. It made me so sad.
I had the same feeling when seen this film when I was I high school while learning about WWI, with the additional feelings of shock and denial. I never forgot this film.
This is probably the only comment on this video that’s makes 100% sense
hyun ahn yesterday, we watched this in history class.
Kyle Reese same ):
Me too
One of the best (and most tragic) portrayals of war in cinema. He was the most pure-hearted character, but even he didn't die a hero's death. None of them did. Absolutely senseless violence, and the scale of it feels suffocating. The millions who died aren't just numbers, each and every one had such a precious, fragile life. Movies like these make you anti-war forever.
indeed
@@LoneSola you are disgusting. Why don't you go to war yourself?
It made me pro-war actually. War is a necessary evil.
Yes, absolutely senseless violence as you say, when you actually step back from it and look at what happens in a war, soldiers running around firing metal pellets at the 'enemy' and killing everyone, you have to wonder why it ever happens, how many of the killed may have lived on and contributed to humankind if they hadnt been senselessly killed on a foreign battlefield, all for what? .....
woman moment
Mel Gibson's agonised scream when he hears the whistle is heart-rending.
Yes, he screams as though he's been shot which is about what is to happen to the others.
Spot on
It makes you wonder if mel gibsons mate who was a faster runner than him would've made it on time to tell them not to go over.
@@william53519 damn, never even thought about that
I like his yells to oksana better
"There is no enemy!"
"There is no victory!"
"Only boys who lost their lives in the sand..."
- Cliffs of Gallipoli by Sabaton
"Young men are sacrificed, their names are carved in stone and kept alive.."
And forever we will honour the memory of them... And they knew they would dieeaee. GALLIPOLI
"Oh mothers wipe your tears,"
"Your sons will rest a million years,"
"Found their peace at last as foe turned to friend and forgive."
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There is an enemy actually the same men who sent them to die.
So many men wasted for no reason. One of the most emotional endings to a film.
You can thank 0.2 % of the worlds population for the deaths of millions
The music is haunting. It completely adds to the scene.
Adagio For Strings.
Chokes me up every time.
@@iain075 It's Albinoni
I recommended this to a friend. When he finished it, he said to me “What was the fucking point of that?”. I said “exactly.”
I went to a boarding school - we all watched this on our movie night in year 9, 150 girls packed in on the music room floor. We usually got something cheerful, or a horror, but it was ANZAC day, so we got given this. I absolutely remember the silent tension of all of us watching this last scene (it takes a lot to silence teenage girls) and the absolute howls at the final shot. Fantastic, heart wrenching movie - we all walked out quiet.
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I had already seen it when they played it in school. I was breaking down way before anyone and they didn’t understand. That last whistle…
Why are 9th grade boarding school girls watching galipoli ? Lol 😂
@@Basedlocation cause its a good movie and it was anzac day so they watched it to commemorate it
Now I know what movie to put on whenever I need to silence a woman. Thanks!
Being from Western Australia', the last line from the captain 'remember who you are, the tenth Light Horse, men from Western Australia' gets me every time.
I'm not from WA but me too, that line, gets me every time.
They're not going to make us go, are they?
No, there's no point.
They should have gone, Barton. Flags have been seen.
Not by me, sir. I've asked for confirmation-from General Gardner.
Your orders are to attack.
The British must be allowed ashore. Is that clear?
- You are to push on. - It's cold-blooded murder.
I said push on.
Right, sir.
Can't ask the men to do what I wouldn't do myself.
All right, men...
We're going.
I want you all to remember who you are.
You're the Tenth Light Horse! Men from Western Australia.
Don't forget it.
Im from Perth too, I totally forgot about that line....
This scene has haunted me for 40 years. I cannot and will not understand it, ever. It's what made me become a history teacher 30 years ago. I'm so sorry that this happened.😥
I saw this on HBO when I was 5. I never forgot it. "As fast as a leopard."
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If you go to the Nek, you'll realise how small the hill top was that they fought on and could get an understanding of why it was such a slaughter.
We watched this as Kiwis & Aussies in Gallipoli in 1991 on a Contiki tour. Australia & New Zealand were forged as a nation over this war and will be brothers for ever because of it.
Those are beautiful words my friend best wishes from Scotland
The idea that Australian nationhood and national identity were forged at Anzac Cove is nonsense. The real great period of Australian nationalism and sense nationhood was during the late 19th century culminating with the federation of Australia in 1901. If anything the spirit of Australian nationhood and ended on 4 August 1914. The Gallipolli campaign was a disaster. We were dragged into service by the imperial government in an ill-conceived and poorly executed campaign, we were cut to ribbons and dispatched. And none of it in the defence of Australia
It's possible that in the near future Australia and New Zealand will unite to form one country.
@@reynaldoflores4522 given the direction the maniac in charge of NZ is taking that country they’re more likely to end up united with China than their more conservative and powerful neighbour in Australia. It would be an amazing thing if they did unite (Aus and NZ) and it would benefit both parties greatly, but unfortunately I don’t see it happening.
The ANZACS will forever be remembered for their contributions during the Gallipoli campaign and I say that as an American… Churchill had the right idea opening up a new front but it was executed terribly
Respect to all anzacs, from Turkey. this scene and music is perfect, heart touching, maybe those young men are in better world now who died in that war
As a Turk, this scene made me very emotional. In this scene, which is already human, he gets emotional. This war is remembered as the last gentlemen's war. It's always young people dying because of old politicians. But the letter that Mustafa Kemal Atatürk wrote to the Anzac soldiers made me very emotional and proud. The words of the letter are: ' Heroes who shed their blood on the land of this country. Here you are on the soil of a friendly homeland. Sleep in peace and tranquility '
What beautiful and meaningful words. From an Australian.
Three things always strike me about this film. One, first film I cried about. Second, the scene where the Aussie play football infront of the pyramids, & three, that the Turks, the enemy, are never seen.
Why did you do it to us?
This is such a good thing to say. Much respect.
@@Sean-me4fv bruh
I just finished the whole movie and this scene hits hard. You really are rooting for this boy the whole movie. He's so innocent and kind and a great friend to Mel Gibson's character from start to finish. It's gut wrenching to think about.
I watched this when I was a little kid and it absolutely scarred me. I had no idea war was that horrible until then.
My great great grandfather died here,I would like to visit his grave to pay my respects. All soldiers no Maggie what side deserve respect, may they all Rest In Peace
According to a ancient military law; soldiers who gave their life for a same piece of land are brothers. Because their blood is mixed together in that same piece of land. Respect to my ANZAC brothers.
Literally rips the tears right out of you. By far the most powerful and effective anti-war movie ever made. Pure concentrated tragedy
“Ah yes let me send another volley of troops at the enemies in a very loud and obvious way even though I’ve done this 20 times already and it hasn’t worked at all”
This is on my list of favourite anti-war movies, after the og black and white all quiet on the western front.
Maybe if you're a bleeding-heart liberal.
how is this an anti war movie
Such a beautiful film, the music, the imagery all adds up to the massive punch in the guts you get when the whistle blows and Gibson knows times is up....RIP every single one of you
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2:40 "I want you to remember who you are. You are men from Western Australia". Gets me every time, I don't know why.
Neither do I it is simply hyperbole in other words Meaninglessness.
@@anthonyeaton5153 What's your problem, Tony? Other than your sad, miserable life, I mean.
The ending is a homage to Robert Capa's classic picture "Falling Soldier"
photo was found to be a fraud a few years ago. Look it up
@@anvilinparachuteproduction2027 Really?! Man, the truth sucks sometimes.
The scene is actually based on a real report by the Australian C.E.W Bean in his offical history of the battle. He described a young Australian soldier of the 10th Light Horse struck by a burst of machine gun fire who seemed almost to be "breaking the tape at the finish line of a foot race." The screenwriter (the great playwright David Williamson) got the names of the two leads, played by Mel Gibson and Mark Lee when he was in Egypt researching the script. He climbed to the top of the great pyramid - it was still allowed in the 1980s... and at the top found some graffiti dating from 1915. "Frank and Archie, AIF, 1915". We don't know who the real Frank and Archie were, whether they survived the war or not. But their names are forever immortalised in this film. One correction though. Right next to the Aussie position, there were British troops. They could see what was happening and out of sympathy for the Aussies mounted their own futile charge in support of the attack.. and were also cut to pieces. But this film was part of the Australian New Wave cinema and tended to play down the British contribution at Gallipoli, which outnumbered the Australian in casualties by 4 to 1. Lest we forget.
And 300,000 French and German troops were killed at Verdun. That was also downplayed in this movie. Why? Because this movie wasn't about them. Nor was it about the British at Gallipoli. If it were a documentary, then overlooking the British also killed would be wrong. Gallipoli isn't a documentary.
Have you got a reference for that ?
It was a diversionary attack i know that but havnt heard before about a sympathetic british attack or even knew there was such a thing.
You do know that only 1 Australian division fought at Gallipoli ? With the New Zealand contribution 20 battalions. So there were nearly 12,000 killed. So im not sure on 4 to 1.
@@kristopherloviska9042 Chris those figures you write are casualties.
@@anthonyeaton5153 No, those are deaths. I didn't write that France and Germany EACH had 300,000 killed at Verdun. France had @163,000 killed, Germany @ 143,000. That adds up to 306,000. If I were talking about casualties, I would have used the figure 755,000, which is the estimated combined casualties of that battle.
I was first introduced to the film in 1983 on a rainy afternoon at school when sports was cancelled. The teachers wheeled the senior school into the video room and put this on without telling us what it was about. I still remember the silence in the room as it played - quite something for a room full of teenagers - and the older kids crying at the end. These final scenes have stayed embedded in my heart ever since. I still know every word that Mark Lee says before going over and the Adagio still makes me dissolve into floods whenever I hear it. To be sure, this was a powerful film, supremely well directed.
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Me and my family on Anzac Day stood in our drive way at dawn and then watched this movie. Paying respect to the anzacs and how lucky my family was for my great grandad and grand dad to survive
dont worry china will be here very soon, this time we are FUCKED
i was an international student studing in nz, was made to watch this in class, didnt know how significant galipoli was to aus and nz till now.
The ending was pretty realistic tbh i just watched it in history it was quite good
I thought that Archie would survive but get shot in the knee and never run again. But this ending had a bigger and arguably better impact on my mind.
timmy cenoura.Type in, Gallipoli ending reimagined. for a different take on ending.
Such a great last frame, with Archy arched back as he is shot, as though he’s breaking the tape in a 100 yard sprint. Very moving.
I feel so sorry for all those Anzac soldiers. I send my prayers when I visit Gallipoli and see their graveyards.. They're resting in their home, they're not somewhere far away. I listened a Turkish veteran, he was saying that they didn't see Anzacs as the enemy after a while and they even gave gifts to each other.. Greetings to everyone from Turkey.
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Thank you so much for that, love the Turkish people for caring for our ANZACs graves.
this f's me up everytime i watch it
Old generals using outdated tactics.
IronBerserk happens time after time
Sort of. But tactics are limited to options.
Old generals with immense unquestionable power.
@@jfayiii actually it was the junior officers (Major and Colonels) who could have called it off who were on the spot....they stuffed up, not Generals
And orders are orders, LOYALTY is everything
This has stuck with me since I was just a child.
Men from western Australia 🇦🇺 and dont forget it... good luck...
whos here after 1917?
Alex Kim everyone. that was 103 years ago
I am. While watching "1917", the increasing tension got me wondering whether Will would be able to save the day or another tragedy would unfold just like at the end of "Gallipoli."
I recommend anyone about to watch 1917 to watch Gallipoli first. Takes away all reassurance of "the good guy is going to make it and it will be a happy ending".
1917 is very very similar to this film, I think Sam got inspiration from this
This movie does in the last 15 minutes what it takes 1917 nearly two hours to do. Personally I was rather underwhelmed by 1917. It wasn't a bad movie, but doesn't pack the emotional punch that Gallipoli does.
This scene personifies how disgraceful WW1 was. Sending young heroic men into battle with no chance of winning. A whole generation maimed, killed and traumitised is horrible beyond measure and that includes the Turks. RIP
The Germans were defeated haven't you noticed.
@@JB-lp9xr Russians moved their capital to Moscow because Petrograd sounded too German.
They called it the "Lost" generation for a reason
@@boratunastopmotion Ironically anything with "grad" sounds quite Russian
@@boratunastopmotion During WW1 St Petersburg's name was changed to Petrograd (a more Slavic name). Petrograd remained the capital of Russia under the Tsars.
my great great grandfather died at Gallipoli, remembering him today.
I saw this when I was in grade school and it broke my heart.
A classic of WWI. Breasting the tape.
I saw this many years ago and it affected me for days. It is one of the reasons I've became a WWI buff. The Gallipoli campaign was bungled in several ways, and the Anzacs paid the price in blood. The history of the world would be vastly different if Gallipoli worked. It is likely that Russia might not have become Communist, for instance, if the Dardanelles and Bosporous were open to them.
Decades later still makes me cry 😞
Oh grow up.
@@anthonyeaton5153 grow a heart and empathy.
@@gorankatic40000bc Why?
@@anthonyeaton5153 because we are many.
@@marga.9793 I will when you lot stop posting sentimental rubbish
Indian soldiers also fought at Gallipoli , alongside the British and Anzac forces - but have completely been forgotten
No they haven't mate 💯%
Just finished it and all I can say is that, it’s perfect and tragic.
Since the ending is open I’d like to think Frank would often visits his family and hang out with them. Learning to ride a horse , Running as fast as a cheetah and being a joyful man, all these are what Archie was before his tragic ending.
I’m sure Archie will forever be watching Frank and admire him slowly grow to a strong man and hopefully one day meet each other again to sprint away to the skies.
Despite this movie being old, I’m glad my History teacher showed me this film, and now it’s on my top 5 and a spot in my heart.
But I’m not gonna rewatch it since I don’t want to see the ending again 🥲
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"Those heroes who shed their blood and lost their lives! You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace. There is no difference between the Johnnies and Mehmets to us where they lie side by side here in this country to of ours. You, the mothers, who sent their sons from far away countries wipe away your tears; your sons are now lying in our bosom and are in peace. After having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well."
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, 1934
What the criminal erdogan say
The new Sam Mendes “1917” seems like a cross between this 1981 Peter Weir movie and Spielberg’s “Saving Private Ryan” (1998).
I echoed the same thought in a trailer for “1917”
That’s a good movie I love Lawerence of Arabia also it is a great WW1. Not many movies can match that movie it’s timeless.
@@esanch4918 1917 was ridiculous. First the title. In that year there was the Areas offensive Messines, third battle if Ypres and Cambrai. A fictitious take if 2 runners is not 1917. Generals do not give orders to private soldiers or call them gentlemen. Where did that swirling water come from in Arras. Study proper WW1 history don't rely on movies
@@anthonyeaton5153 1917 is a very artsy take on war, and very much a fictional story. I still love the movie for enjoyment though, even if it is not very accurate
@@maxmoloney3105 Well said Max. Enjoy it for what it is and not for history.
One of the best anti war movies and epic final scenes ever. Oxygene is so haunting and an absolutely perfect fit.
A beautiful, pivotal, riveting, and heart-wrenching movie that has stuck with me since the first time I saw it.
The final frame is a masterpiece. I do not think anyone who has seen it can ever unsee it.
I would love to talk to these gents, even for just five minutes.
mark lee's acting in this scene is just outstanding
Some of Mel Gibson's finest acting. Conveying a sea of emotion and conflict with one glance.
👍👏💖Mel Gibson, wonderful actor, incredible director, beautiful man. 🙏 Have always loved Mel.
Great upload, thank you! This is a really under-rated and important film.
This i still remember. Oh and a fact: many years ago when I started at Canning College in Perth we were required to watch this movie.
As a Singaporean who never got to see this it was a huge eye opener.
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Mu Father took me to see this movie in 1981. I was 10. I remember every single moment of the film like it was yesterday. At the end of the movie, I was weeping uncontrollably and my Irish-American Dad stood up at her end, stood at attention and said, "God Save the Queen" in a cynical and sarcastic manner I will never forget. He was all of 38 at the time.....
I lost my Dad on November 13th. He was 79. He fought Cancer for 8 years to make sure my boys knew himband would remember him. H e was the legitimately the best man I have ever known, and my best friend. He was even OK when I went into the Army (We were Navy fanily), and became a Fireman instead of a cop, breaking 4 generations....because he knew I wanted to make my own way, and he respected that. He saw me make Captain and name Officer of the Year 1 months before he passed. I was with him every day for 3 months, and was sitting with him when he passed. I needed to really, really cry tonight after writing his obit and prep my Eulogy for him. So I watxhed Archie Die again in a pointless offensive. And cried like a 10 year-old.
Oddest thing? I married a Turkish girl. We have little Irish Turk kids, and they are literally the best people I know.
Anyway. Thanks for the Video. I needed to cry.
Wow dude your dad was so edgy saying that, what a fuckin hero
Today on things that never happened
Honour and respect from Italy to all the Australians and New Zelanders young men who fought the first and the second world war .
and also for brave Turks who defended their homeland
One of my favourite films of all time.
Turist olarak gelin buyurun baş üstüne..söz konusu Vatansa taş üstünde taş beden üstünde baş kalmaz .
The Fact that you know Dan (Mel Gibson) won't be able to make it in time of the attack, but then realize he's only a few meters short just makes this all the more tragic.
And if the other character 'fast as a leopard' was switched as originally envisioned perhaps he would have made it and the attack called off.
@@sinoxenon1005 nah Archie wanted to fight
@@sinoxenon1005 he was only slightly faster
The only fact in your post was that it is a movie and not history.
@@anthonyeaton5153 when did I say it was about history?
10th line regiment. Men from Western Australia. Nope, you're not forgotten as of 2020, and you did one hell of a service for the free world. Thanks, Aussies!
yeah..they died in vain!!!!
Free World?
@@ersgtr3421 i asked me the same..free world? Hahahshs...such an ignorant
10th Light Horse Regiment - they were a mounted infantry regiment, but were forced to leave their horses in Egypt.
Is there anyone out there in the world aside from these enlightened commenters who appreciates the Aussies' military service?
Covid 19 ( ANZAC DAY) brought me here, wore my slouch hat, faced the rising sun, and played the last post on my phone. All at the end of my driveway.
Get a life Glenn.
One good thing that came of this whole disastrous campaign is that Australian enlistments dried to a trickle as more and more people started to question Australia's involvement. In 1916, Prime Minister Billy Hughes promised the British government 50,000 more Australian troops by introducing conscription. His own Labour Party rebelled and successfully pushed for a conscription referendum. The Yes vote was narrowly defeated, as well as another in 1917 by an even bigger majority.
Whatever your POV on the war, tens of thousands of young Australian men were at least spared from being sent to the killing fields of Europe.
“And let’s face it you’re not all that great! You tossed away lives in Gallipoli like they were scraps off your plate!” Theodore Roosevelt
ERB
“But the military code book says we’re supposed to charge, no matter how pointless it is”
What where they supposed to do
Blind Obedience - Stupid Orders by Prideful, Ignoramous Leaders.
@@harryb8945 Disobey from the Top Down.
@@harryb8945 I don't know, not charge?
@@gabrielegenota1480 so always remain on the defence? Something that would have meant certain defeat.
I get to this scene and every time I turn it off. Can’t watch
we watched this film in primary school. This scene had always stayed with me
The most powerful ending of a movie in film history.
I watched this movie in history classs back in 2003 and it´s still heartbreaking
"There is no enemy,"
"There is no victory,"
*"Only boys who lost their lives in the sand."*
The music makes the final scene more powerful.
The two films I’ve seen about Gallipoli:
1. All the Kings Men
2. Gallipoli
I haven’t forgotten either of these films.
Aloha 🇳🇿🇦🇺🙏🏼
40 years on and still hits like the bullets on the screen.
I have not watched this film since I first saw it in 1981 because of this scene.
I watched this as a kid in a school and paid no attention to it, saw it as a free period as you do when any video comes on in class, now that I’m 28 watching this again does something real to you man, just get teary eyed thinking about it all
Agreed. I cried when I first saw it. Didn’t care no one else with me didn’t.
I can just feel my great great grandpa in this scene
By far, the greatest Australian movie ever made and Mel Gibson's greatest role ever along with Mark Lee.
Now in the same alliance, hope this two sides - three countries never come to oppose each other in such fatal ways. A generation was lost there. I am 22 and when I travelled former battlefields in a rainy September, even spending a day there with wet legs was annoying as hell. Canbot fully imagine hearing shell explosion voices for 20 hours while the fight is in "cool phase".
Such an epic ending.. how he was doing the thing he loves most and crosses into the eternal finish line.
Fills my heart with tears. Lest we forget.
and i a sigh of relief of the women and children who were saved from being murdered in their own homes from this invasion.
Absolutely heartbreaking:(
Bro the fact that he recites the running routine that his uncle would say to him for some reason makes it 2x sadder
Lest we forget 🇦🇺🇳🇿🇬🇧🤍
In the end, these brave soldiers didn’t climb over the trenches for love of God or Country. They climbed over for the love of their fellow brother soldiers. They didn’t want to let them die alone.
They went for many reasons. Orders, friendship, peer pressure, their job, kill enemy to name a few.
Which country? They were 5000 miles away.
😞😞😞 TURKEY 🇹🇷 AUSTRALIA 🇦🇺 MUSIC 🎵 so sadly play they gon they left tear come my eyes scream come my Harth. Feeling so sad 😞 forgive God for ever us
These men were light horse, trained for horse cavalry combat, yet thrown into a situation where they pointlessly run at the enemy.
The Turkish leader Mustafa Kemal Atatürk said for the Anzac soldiers who died in Gelibolu, "Those heroes that shed their blood and lost their lives; you are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace.
There is no difference between the Johnnies and the Mehmets to us where they lie side by side here in this country of ours. You, the mothers, who sent their sons from faraway countries wipe away your tears; your sons are now lying in our bosom and are in peace, after having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well". Gallipoli is a place within the borders of Turkey and Turks have had to fight to protect the boundaries. If Gallipoli had been lost, the Turks would have lost Istanbul after that, so thousands of soldiers gave their lives to protect their country. Turkey was not a strong country in the war years. However, the soldiers did everything under the leadership of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk to protect their country. For this reason, winning this war today makes us proud because we were trying to protect our own borders and we had a successful struggle despite the difficult conditions. Today, the graves of Anzac soldiers in Çanakkale are always decorated with flowers and are visited also by the Turks. Because we know that these soldiers were young people who were sacrificed by the British, and we also know that they are heroes just like our Turkish soldiers.
I have this book that tells the stories of a handful of Underaged Soldiers who fought and died in battle. One of them is a boy who died on the third day of Gallipoli when they attempted to charge. He was shot so quickly that his lifeless body fell back into the ANZAC Trench
¿What is the name of the book?
@@simonguzman4720 the lost boys
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War is senseless.
War is just so disgustingly painful.
Captain Hugo Throssell survived the nek and went on to receive VC:
For most conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty during operations on the Kaiakij Aghala (Hill 60) in the Gallipoli Peninsula on 29th and 30th August 1915.
Although severely wounded in several places during a counter-attack he refused to leave his post or to obtain medical assistance till all danger was passed, when he had his wounds dressed and returned to the firing line until ordered out of action by the Medical Officer.
By his personal courage and example he kept up the spirits of his party and was largely instrumental in saving the situation at a critical period
Tiene casi cuarenta años que vi esta escena y me sigue partiendo el corazón de la misma forma.
Watching on Anzac Day 2020
The musical score is beautiful
Very gut wrenching