It's been written that Barnes Wallace suffered greatly from grief and guilt over the loss of lives on the raid and was never the same enthusiast man after. Some idiots claim the raid was a failure because Germany re-built the dams, when the disruption to German manufacturing and morale boost to the UK were dramatic. Unfortunately they did not do follow up raids when the dams were being repaired, even high level bombing, it is felt by historians that this would have driven home the initial success of the first raid. It is also worth noting the age of those on the raid. They were all just out of their teens. Brave men every one of them.
Great video. One detail I heard of was the the dog who played Gibson's dog in the film was an Army dog of the same name. Richard Todd, himself a dog-lover, asked his handler to 'borrow' the dog, so he could build a rapport with him - something you can see in the film. He was even allowed to have the dog stay with him at the White Hart hotel in Lincoln, where they stayed during filming. Unheard of in those days, at least one other black labrador has stayed there - my own assistance dog, Lyla.
Not mentioned in the documentary ww2gravestone.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/download-31.jpg?f0589e&f0589e Racist? Who would call their dog after something they hated or despised? Britain had little to no experience of black people then other than men who had come to help our country fight a war. There was often problems with the American's treatment of their black troops off base. Does that sound racist? The bastards at the politically correct end of the MOD and RAF even desecrated a grave. www.thesun.co.uk/news/12143911/guy-gibson-dambusters-dog-name-labrador-grave-changed/ www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-53446494 What do they now say was the codeword for a breaching of a dam?
@@COIcultist This is one of the main reasons why Peter Jackson cancelled the remake of The Dambusters a few years ago! The irony is that the people that would have taken offence by the name are the people who would be less likely to be interested in the movie in the first place!
@@COIcultist What the snowflakes don't understand was that black things were often referred to as nigger. English is a Latin based language, the Latin word for black being nigreos. The Spanish for black is negro. Are you getting the idea? The word nigger comes from the southern U.S.A. pronunciation of negro (referring to a person's race) which was niggra. I'm from western Europe which makes me Caucasian, someone from China is Oriental) Gibson wasn't being racist when he called his black dog nigger, he was just reflecting the dog's colour. As for R.A.F. racism, compare how the R.A.F. pilots from Jamaica and Trinidad were treated compared with U.S.A.A.F. pilots of which the Americans stated that, "The black man will not have the skills to fly airplanes". The U.S. forces came to Britain and bought their racial inequality and apartheid with them.
@@PenzancePete > Thankyou to you sir for having the integrity and the personal honesty in relating history as near as humanly possible to actual names and events. No amount of political correctness, "wokeness" or cancel culture will ever change the name of the black labrador which was named Nigger by its distinguished owner for the simple reason of the colour of it's fur. No racism was implied nor meant by the name; the pretend-to-be-insulted-on-behalf-of-someone-else brigade no doubt would also refuse to wear the Poppy too.
The interesting thing is that this film and the two of the other classics of the genre, The Great Escape and Reach for the Sky that are seen as quintessentially British, were taken from books of the same name by Australian fighter pilot Paul Brickhill.
Should keep the dogs name and the code for destroying the first dam in…..it’s part of history….to hell with political correctness. l watched the film with my parents in 1956 and much later on TV before the it was censored…..we all know the dogs name wasn’t Trigger…..
Urrrgh! Really??? The Dag's name in the flim as you well know was 'Nigger'. He was named that after the colour of his Black coat of fur and there was no awareneness, intention or connection with latent racism. The tomfoolery of 'Woke' pc bullshit came along decades later when society lost it's marbles, list sight if it's priorities and consequently it's direction. But while we are on the subject and not talking about what we really 'should' be talking about, which is the marvellous job the people involved made of creating the 1955 iconic movie in question, I must say that life in the 21st century has become so bonkers especially with respect to terminology that I marvel how we are still able to use the word 'mate' with regard to friends without experiencing resulting complaints from idiots who deem it as a sexual slurr on the person concerned? Gawld 'elp us! 😱 Now folks, back to the serious stuff, the documentary of the movie... 🙏
What a SUPERB ACCURATE documentary - thank you. I first saw this film when I was about 8 years old and THAT made me always want to sign up to the Royal Air Force. Such a dynamic powerful emotional film. I was amazed at the flying sequences and NOW know how it was all done. At 16 I signed up as an apprentice, to serve my Queen and country and joined the RAF as an aircraft engineer. We had a camp cinema and once we had all had our heads clipped and uniforms issued we were marched in the base cinema for a 'special duty'. We were sat down, the murmur died down and the curtains opened across the screen.........We were to watch "THE DAMBUSTERS".........apparently shown to ALL entries as their first movie!! Due to this film and the Battle of Britain I also now fly myself training to be a pilot. The real crews were my heroes and it was an honour to carry on a small part of the RAF's history. We actually lived next door to one of the pilots for several years! RIP to all those who were lost in this and other air missions. High Flight my brothers unto thees is glory given, "I slip the surly bonds of earth and danced the skies on laughter silvered wings"......Per Ardua Ad Astra - Thank you for our freedom today.✝
Seeing this film as a boy had an impact on me as my late father was a friend of the brother of RAF Officer Ottley who was shot down and killed in C for Charlie in the third wave. RIP.
This movie always felt personal to me because Sir Harold 'Mick' Martin, the Australian pilot who was third in command of the raid and flew P For Popsy, was my father's commanding officer when he was based at RAF Nicosia in Cyprus in the 1960s. It was made all the more personal when I chose 617 Squadron as the subject of my extended history essay, which was as long as Paul Brickhill's book, for my History 'O' level in the 1980s and my mother wrote to Mick Martin to tell him about it and he wrote back with his appreciation and a copy of a Dambusters raid print signed with a personal message to me! She was also able to arrange a visit to 617 Squadron for me where I got to have lunch with some of the aircrew and had a personal tour of one of the glorious Vulcans they were flying at the time! God bless 617 Squadron, all who served in it and all who still do!
What a lovely documentary on this iconic film and war time mission. As a young boy, infatuated and obsessed with aviation (I still am!) and having been born only 17 years after the end of the Second World War, I was incredibly fortunate to discover that my older brother was at school with Barnes Wallis's two grandsons. (I think I was just about to leave my primary school at the time and join the same secondary school). He was also in a band with the older of the two. This led to a friendship between my family and theirs. One Sunday lunchtime, having been invited over to their house for the day with my parents while the 'boys' rehearsed their music, I found myself sitting next to the great Barnes Wallis himself, who was then living with his daughter, the mother of the two grandsons. I was completely overawed by the experience and my recollection of the day was of him being very kind to me and although by then an elderly man, he was gentle and calm and rather quiet. I have never forgotten that amazing opportunity. Tragically, a short while later, his younger grandson, Ricky, was killed in a terrible road accident on his way to our home, where he stayed with us once a week, having been to some late evening, extra classes at our school. I can remember that night so clearly and we never got over it. I can only imagine the terrible loss their family felt. The film is still one my favourite films but clearly has all sorts of deeper associations. Thank you to all involved in the making of this great documentary.
Sadly RAF Scampton is now under threat, surely we can’t allow such an important base to become yet another faceless housing estate....history such as this is priceless, otherwise what’s the point in all this sacrifice.......
It was the same with fate of HMS Plymouth the Warship that took the surrender of the Argentine Forces in South Georgia in 82 and turned into a museum ship in Birkenhead until the council wanted the berth it was offered to Plymouth but rejected and ended up being scrapped in Turkey.
Too many people dont care any more. Schools not teaching history and patriotism. No morning prayers, traditions trampled on. Instead of including all religions they have banned ours. Its a Godless society they want.
@@redbird9658 I'm a godless man too - and make no apologies. Which is why I fail to see what religion has to do either with patriotism, the protection of the country, or with remembering those who served - not just in combat, but in every possible sort of way.
Superb film. The books are even better. I have fond memories of my grandad reading me the book as a bedtime story and then seeing the film with him and my dad.
Richard Todd described filming the final scene with Michael Redgrave in an interview. As he walked away from the camera he was quietly weeping. He had his own experience of letter writing. I never watch that scene without shedding a tear for the ordinary people who sacrificed and achieved so much in extraordinary times.
Thank u for posting this. Dambusters is 1 of my favourite films. I can honestly say i enjoyed it immensely. Very Very brave men and may we never forget what the brave crews did. I was once asked if i had chance to sit down with anyone from the past who has died i always reply 1 My mother 2 Barnes wallace I always rember in the film when Mr Wallace is asked How do you suggest i get Bomber command to allow you to use one of there aeroplanes Mr Wallace ? He replys ,perhaps if you tell them i designed it Case Closed
One of the greatest WWII films; I've watched it many times and enjoyed it immensely each time. I'll need to get the remastered version. The skill and heroism of those crews are well portrayed and the sight and sound of those Lancasters is wonderful. The photography, especially the aerial photography, is superb. The special effects in 1954 are nothing compared to today's computer generated effects. Nevertheless, you get the idea of the danger and incredible skill required for this mission.
Hollywood, take note, this is how you make a fine movie, and a brilliant war movie. It is understated, but portrays the reality of air warfare, with emphasis placed on the Characters portrayed, just ordinary men facing the likelihood of death. There are no Hysterics, soap opera performances, or deliberate handwringing emotion to play the audience. Its told with all the realism of a generation now virtually gone, their ideals and attitudes, beliefs and standards which today have little meaning. The film remains a classic that today may hold more relevance as pride in your country and to fight for your beliefs , no matter the sacrifice , appears to be an archaic concept.
@@jimcrawford5039 I liked Dunkirk but also hated it . The aircraft nerd in me counted 42 seconds of gun fire from the spitfire Mki when it only carried enough ammo for 14 seconds of fire . It did stretch things a little far in places but at least it was mostly realistic and used real 109's and spitfires .
hollywood couldnt make a film like the dambusters if they tried, unless it was with americans stealing british achievements .even the russians make better films than hollywood
I love this film not only because I have always adored Richard Todd but the Lancaster's are just wonderful the sound of those engines are magnificent. If I was only allowed to have one film this would be it.
I would love to see this film as it once was! Well done to the people that did this! This film has always touched me as my dad lost his brother who was a navigator back then! My mum was in the WRAF and died in September 2019 aged 95! We used to talk about those days and mum gave me a real flavour, just as my dad did with the work he did back then! Hence me loving this film as it is historical as well as factual! This documentary has been well done too! Thank you for doing this great work to allow us an insight on this wonderful and poignant film! R.I.P all the men in Bomber Command and all of the RAF and ARMY and NAVY in WWII We can never thank you enough!
If only some people could name all the crew that lost their lives. Instead, they obsess about a dog with a rude name. Some people's priorities are funny.
S/L Young's crew received the first hit by the Ack Ack in my home town, the 2nd by the Ack Ack in the town where I went to school, they crashed near the coast of Castricum trying to land on a sandbar. The entire crew was killed on the return flight of the Dam raid. To me this raid has faces and names as well as a story. I make sure that at least that crew is remembered, I tell the story, share the photos of the entire crew when possible and list all of their names on the 17th of May every year.
@@B-A-L That's not the point of my comment. If someone is so obsessed with a dog's name rather than the crew who flew, their priorities are wrong. Dog with amusingly offensive name v crew names. Which one is more important?
@@andrewoliver8930 The name of the dog isn't the issue it's the fact we are having to censor our history to avoid offending a minority that is only here because it has been afforded the freedom to do so due to the brave actions of people such as portrayed in this movie.
@@B-A-L I'm sure Churchill covered up a few things and didn't want the truth out. That sort of censorship is fine. Not giving Bomber Command because he got a bit embarrassed by the deaths in Germany. Never quite gets shown on his films of the great man.
An amazing documentary and tribute to all those involved in Operation Chastise, and to those involved in making a much love classic British World War 2 movie.
What an excellent documentary! I grew up watching great films like this....the highlight of my week would be when my dad would let us stay up late on Saturday night to watch the big war movies !
👍🇬🇧🇦🇺🦘I joined the RAF in July 1956 and was so proud at the time-the film and the music was front and centre during this time. Recreating real events made it so special, even today at age 83, it feels like only last week. Fantastic to view this again to see how it was all done.
Riveting film first shown in the US on broadcast television in the 1960s. Cemented my love of the Avro Lancaster and the bravery of 617 Sqdn. One of two films that had a profound impact on me as a teen. Pestered my parents for the Brickhill book and Enemy Coast Ahead. Years later with the purchase of our first VHS player in the late '70s, went to the store selling VHS tapes to to my amazement found The Dam Busters. Bought that and Star Wars Episode IV ("I'd say there's 10 guns, some in the fields and some in the towers'). Each tape was was over $70US. Please release the restored version in Region One!
One wants to pay fair dues but if films are not available in hard copy try other online sources. Might I recommend OK Russia, I do promise that is not a dodgy site and I have found WWII films I never knew existed. To find a genre of films look up a film that you know then look at what else that poster has uploaded. Might I suggest as a starter "The Foreman Went To France" which I doubt many have seen. A film made during WWII.
The losses suffered during this mission really hit home in the film and the stoic professionalism in the face of it. That's a tribute to the realism striven for by Michael Anderson and his cast and crew.
@John Cornell And yet we aren't even allowed to mention the name of a dog because we don't want to offend a minority that won't stop using the very same word!
@John Cornell I hope you were wearing a mask and didn’t travel out your allowed area. Safe spaces required for people who get hurt feelings, 150,000? waiting for NHS treatment, GP consultations by phone, political correctness gone crazy, a completely dysfunctional education and political system with a 2 trillion plus deficit. A decimated military force and a police force not fit for purpose. Black Lives Matter and extinction rebellion get free passes while old ladies get thrown to the ground then handcuffed and taken away. Thousands of illegal arrivals escorted ashore while we were locked down. Sure everything is superb.
Like the gentleman emphasized at the end, this story is about immortality. The final scene in the Damuster's film when guy Gibson walks off; he does so into eternity, into his own special place in Valhalla. From the epic tales of old, like Xenophon's 10,000, up to the more modern stories of heroism like Scott and Shackleton, all of us have benefited infinitely by these examples of selfless devotion to the most righteous principles of man's existence.
When I was an Air Cadet in the 70s, the annual pre-Christmas screening of 'The Dambusters' was a time-honoured event. Then in 1975, our Annual Camp was to Scampton - where we climbed aboard 617 Sqn Vulcans and visited the Sqn Museum, complete with all the scale models of the dams that had been built for the briefings. The gate guards at the time were Lancaster NX611 and a Grand Slam bomb. (It is a regularly repeated urban myth that the Grand Slam was found later still to have explosive in it..)
S/L Young's crew received the first hit by the Ack Ack in my home town, the 2nd by the Ack Ack in the town where I went to school, they crashed near the coast of Castricum trying to land on a sandbar. The entire crew was killed on the return flight of the Dam raid. To me this raid has faces and names as well as a story.
I was stationed at RAF Hemswell (along with fred trueman) when they were making this film and remember the lancasters taking off/landing - wish i'd had my smartphone in those days!
Did the new restored version of the movie censor the dog"s name? As much as I want to buy this product, I will not do that if the poor dog is now called Trigger or Digger. History should not be changed to suit the whims & manipulations of our political masters.
It depends on the media. Sometimes they show the original uncensored version on tv and other times they either blank out the name or in the most recent viewing on Channel 4 they just called it Old Boy and completely removed any mention of the codeword from the movie. I wrote an email to Channel 4 complaining about this and they were basically unapologetic so I replied telling them to never show the movie again until they show as much respect to the people who the movie was about as the people they were trying not to offend. They never replied!
The dog isn't that important in the telling of the story. Show it to someone who doesn't know the dog's name and they'd learn about the mission just as well.
@@B-A-L I’m sure the hipster (male or female) that you wrote to will never experience 1% of the lives the crew lived. Sadly those hipsters look in a very narrow view point
@@andrewoliver8930 it signifies the era. We can’t be apologistes for every part of our history. Ducking stools, stocks. Name a “difference” and society leaps on it. We may be more encompassing today. But history is history - it signposts our lives
Excellent documentary, a fitting tribute to a wonderful, moving film which itself was a fitting tribute to those who risked their lives and those who made the ultimate sacrifice.
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I loved this film from being a child, I admired the bravery of the airmen, the Lancaster's and the story of inspired Barnes Wallis. The music stills stirs me and makes me tearful with pride. If only war wasn't such a tragic ghastly waste.
I realised some years ago that war films made in the 50s/60s and even 70s were so much better than modern ones because the men who acted in them had usually been in the services, even if not actually during the war. Thus they knew how to stand, walk, react to and give commands. I think the difference for me was highlighted by the differences between the 'Colditz' story TV series in the mid 70s and one made about 20 years ago. Also better scripts, less political correctness etc etc- but I still think it's a significant factor.
In my book The Dam Busters is the best British film ever made. I always get a tear when when Richard Tod says he has letters to write at the end of the film.
This film seems very personal to me I was born on 17 May 1944 12 months after the raid don't know how many times iv'e watched it but the last time wont be the last time
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Robert Shaw also starred in James Bond's "From Russia with Love", and portrayed the fanatical nazi Panzer commander in the "Battle of the Bulge" (his hair being dyed blond for the occasion)
I have watched it a few times. Sadly the low-budget shows, With lighting and some bit glaring poor animations. Such a wonderful historic film. Shame they didn't have the vision to fund it better. The same three Lanc's used all the time too/ Not a film critic. It will never be done again. Sadly.
My late father was an engineering officer with 617 he didn't talk much about what happened but on the rare occasion he did talk some really funny stories were told.
Funny stories are still told in stress situations in many workplaces today as were common in my service career, a human safety valve in fact. Frowned upon by many today. Much better to be sent for expensive counselling by an expert who looks about 12.
Between the age of 5 and 8 I sat on my father's lap and watched this film twice of a Sunday afternoon, my farther cried on both occasions, he died at 52 when I was 10. Watching this documentary at 51 I now am old enough to know why it affected him as it did, not only since it brings back memories of my farther (who served in the army at the end of the war) but as it reminds us of the ultimate sacrifice people made fighting the curse of Nazi Germany and their allies.
Thanks for a very informative documentary, so much background material included. The film its self is a masterpiece, well acted and capturing something of the raid itself. The pressures on the crews to train and carry out that mission is hard to comprehend and all such young men. Then, of course, there's Wallis himself having to pull it all together in such a short time. They truly were 'men of their time'. Documentaries with modern pilots flying so called re-enactments never fail to be astonished at what was achieved in that raid. An indication of their ability was revealed to me some years ago when a documentary featuring Ken Brown, the Canadian pilot, who flew in the back-up wave of planes explained something of his experience that night. Ordered to bomb the Sorpe dam, he relates arriving over it and only seeing the church steeple above the mist. He carried out his attack after having to do a stall turn in his Lancaster. Such a manoeuvre beggars belief with a plane of that size. I wonder if he warned the crew...
My Father in the early fifties was in the RAF for a few years he had never been in a plane in his life and the first time he had to go on recognisance for ten hours in a Lancaster, he said it was great being up at the front in the bomb aimers seat and I said 'Yeah not so great getting shot at at night though' where he said 'Er well no!'
After the war. Most people involved with the operation. Pilots, Wallis suffered a lot of guilt and wondered afterwards the cost of all the lives lost. Not only the pilots lost. But the surviving pilots guilt was about the villages and the people living around the Dams that were all killed. But if these Dams were no destroyed. So many more lives would have been lost in the war.
And those annoying 'pencil 'captions! Why the need to add the little arrows and repeat captioning already printed on screen? Fascinating look at one of my favourite films.
Great documentary. I am a native of Grantham and my grandfather worked at the Ministry of Public Works at St Vincents (which was the HQ of 5 Group, Bomber Command) in the 60's when the caretaker there was the same chap that was there during the war. He gave my grandfather a couple of old postcards of the Mohne Dam that the Air Ministry had asked people to come forward with for info regarding possible targets etc. It seems there were quite a number of postcards of items or interest for possible targets and he was ordered to dispose of these after the war, but he kept these two for posterity. It turned out that one of the civil engineers who worked on the Ladybower Dam in the early 30's had gone over to Germany in the late 20's and early 30's to study the Mohne and on the back of one of the postcards is a load of technical stuff about the dam. I expect these should go to the right museum one day, but I cant make my mind up which?
I wish they'd use a bit of CGI on the film to sort out the bits that were like that for Official Secrets reasons. The shape of the bombs, show them spinning etc. And turn that Mosquito into a Lancaster too.
As a former member of the RAAF; then journalism as a film reviewer and critic. Now a military historian for over 20 years; I really enjoyed this documentary except for one strange visual affectation. The constant 'scribble' of 'Chinagraph' pencil mark effects 'defacing' almost every second scene or sequence. It's pointless, mildly irritating and adds nothing to the information of the script. It smacks of some filmmaker or ‘studio suit’ lacking confidence in the period stills and footage to carry the importance of a truly great story. It's a pity. Apart from that strange fault, I'm grateful to see that the basic, hitherto little known production details, were accurately presented, for instance; down to the need to re-draw each frame of the real 'Chastise' bombs as their design was still classified at the time of filming. With my critic’s hat on; the only shot that detracts from the, otherwise excellent accuracy, is the brief super imposing of real 'airborne' water spouting footage at the point where the biggest dam is breached. Still, this is no one's fault. Apart from the relatively tiny budget, (which blew out) the special effects technology just wasn't up to scratch at that time. Otherwise, the model making creativity was first rate. Another asset is some great 'behind the scenes' information, made even better as it comes from the film's crew members. The production was capped off by a magnificent score that features the now famous 'Dam Busters' March'. This film was, upon reflection, probably one of the several reasons why I chose to join the RAAF. I well recall being on large, O.C.'s parades and public events where one of our RAAF bands, invariably, played the Dam Busters March at some point. Truly, stirring stuff. In the RAAF, during my time in uniform, we were all keenly aware of the horrendous losses on 'Chastise' but also extremely proud of the Australian aircrew members that were involved and, indeed, all of the brave flyers who volunteered for a complex, “dangerous” mission, most of whom would have had that unspoken feeling this could be their last flight. For too many good men; it was. In more recent times, I've been aware of some historians pushing the barrow that 'Chastise' didn't do the lasting damage that was intended and that there was a large loss of life among 'innocent civilians', some even reporting deaths of foreign POW or 'slave' workers. There may be elements of truth in this, however, as we all learn in 'History 101', we should never impose personal or present day values upon historical events. Period records notwithstanding; no modern historian can accurately 'editorialise' on a slice of history unless they were present at the time. Besides, even if 'Chastise' didn't meet all operational expectations; the destruction or damage of these enemy assets was a totally successful morale booster for the British people and their allies. Also, again, sending the enemy the message that nowhere in the occupied countries or Germany was safe from Allied bombing. Finally, although some recent documentaries on 'Chastise' have been made using simple computerised graphics, which is helpful. I genuinely hope that the movie is never remade using full-on CGI technology. I believe that might be visually impressive yet provide a 'shallow' end result. Why? Because who would be available to advise on the accuracy that would be needed to make the CGI historically correct. It’s safe to say all the ‘Chastise’ members are in the big ‘All Ranks Mess’ in the sky. Don't get me started on 'colourising' period footage; that's just beyond the pale. Thank you for this documentary. Perhaps in a re-release the phoney 'Chinagraph pencil' look could be 'erased'. 😉 Cheers, Bill H.
Good doc but a couple of comments. The big secret of the bomb was not its shape but the fact that it was spun backwards. It was originally barrel shaped but kept breaking up when impacting the water. They found that the cylindrical core performed almost as well. Also consider one of the best scenes was where crews waiting to take off. Read somewhere that it was the longest single take at the time. Consider this contender for best war film ever made.
This movie was shown in my country in 1957 & how did I was raring to see it. Then on that Sunday I was coming to the scene of the successful experiment and power failure ! The theater stamped our tickets for watching on Monday. Bad luck I couldn't skip school ! So I had to wait until 2002 to get the DVD. It was worth the wait !
99 of them were on Beaufighter night fighters of 29 Squadron between his first and second bomber tours (tour length was 100 flying hours or 18 months, which ever came first). His first tour with 83 Squadron was based on operational flying hours, not number of sorties (27 or 34 in total dependant on source). His third tour as CO of 106 Squadron was 46 missions which was over double the number he actually had to do to complete that tour (20 maximum at that time). He volunteered to do both the Night Fighter and 2nd Bomber tours to get out of a Training job.
The number of required missions from American airmen increased as the war went on. See The Lucky Bastard Club en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_Bastard_Club. Several Americans may well have done more flights. Look up the war record of Major General James Stewart. Not just a great actor but a true American hero.
@@richardvernon317 The thing that stuck with me from "Enemy Coast ahead" was that Gibson accepted a transfer to Beau fighters after his first tour in bombers was complete because he needed a rest. After a year in Beau fighters he wanted to go back to bombers and seemed to not understand people thinking he needed a rest, he had just had a year off!
@@grogery1570 Gibson was a Career Officer, He wasn't going to turn down an offer that could advance his career. He was somewhat cherry picked for the 29 Sqn post because of his skill as a night flyer and the transfer happened because AOC in C Fighter Command asked his opposite number in Bomber Command to give him some good blokes (at night flying). Gibson was at the top of the tree as this regard at the time. I suspect that his attitude and temperament were not that which makes a good instructor and that he was fully aware of this. Being a Night Fighter pilot wasn't as risky as flying a bomber over Germany, but it was hardly risk free either. He was a very good night fighter pilot but he was never in the right place at the right time to rack up the kills like Cunningham on 604 or Braham , the other flight commander on 29 did.
@@COIcultist They may have done even more if they had bothered to join in right from the start! Actually that's not necessarily true because the war could have been over before the end of 1940.
@@olwens1368 The Dambusters March is a great classic but the incidental music to this documentary sounds cheap and sloppy. Like it was made by one man using an electric keyboard and not much else. Seems a shame to me.
@@B-A-L It is a shame an historic fact, and it is a fact is cancelled because of political changes and views. You can't change history, just learn from it. But you can't change the facts that have already happened.
A fantastic piece of accuracy was filming `Gibson ` ( Todd ) with out a flying jacket he flew in shirt sleeves as he new the flight path would not be at high altitude and so quite warm. For the real techy guys they even found a w.w.2 German Airforce life vest ( noticeable by the small horizontal oxygen bottle at the base ) Gibson actually used one on the raid, oh and next time you watch the film right at the very end when Wallis is taking to Gibson about all the deaths .. look center left of picture you will see a very feint black dog running about ...a ghost ?? well it wasn't there in production ! trust me its there and remember this is the man who said to his co pilot as they made their approach to the dam ' get ready to drag me out of my seat and take over if Im shot '
Mmmm ... a very good Doco ... alas no mention by name of the 'token' Aussie Actor n the movie Bill Kerr even though a still picture of him was used used on 5 or 6 occasions thru the doco ... after this film he would often appear as a comedic actor notably with Tony Hancock and Sid James ... he eventually returned to serious acting in many quality movies in Britain and Australia ....
He played Martin and as mentioned in the documentary was a good physical likeness to the real person. A very good actor too in my opinion. Martin remained in the RAF reaching senior rank and commanding RAF Germany in the cold war. Both the actor and the RAF officer were great men. Thank you Australia.
A wonderful documentary. Films like this should be shown on Rememberance Day to educate our young generations as to how they have the freedom they have today from the heroism and sacrifices of our forefathers.
Great stuff, a most enlightening documentary. First time I'd seen this account about the movie. No mention about the dag of course.. (heh, I mean to say that's pc gone plumb crazy). And Robert Shaw, I had no idea about the part he played at all. That detail had slipped past me throughout all the countless times I'd watched the flim. I had already been aware of Patrick McGoughan's part however. I have a feeling that this is a rare example of a flim without Sam Kydd's name on the credits? How can this be? The most prolific actor of the era and he wasn't included in the cast of the Dam Busters! The orderly who told Gibson about his dag's accident bore a slight resemblance to Kydd but it wasn't he. I agree about the ending being the most poignant moment, when Gibson replies to Barnes-Wallis "No, I'm afraid I have some letters to write first.." I'm so glad I bought the DVD box-set when I did several years ago of a/ The Dam Busters, Ice Cold In Alex and The Cruel Sea. Sam Kydd was in the latter but perhaps not in John Mills' adventure. I may be wrong?
Having read Paul Brickhill's book as a boy, l remember there being some Australian and New Zealand aircrew involved as well. All of whom hate being referred to as 'British'. The UK has been taking credit for the efforts of soldiers of the Commonwealth since the Boer War.
@@B-A-L On the contrary, the aircrews wore RAAF and RNZAF uniforms, the crews were drawn from other squadrons for this raid, with Australian and New Zealand Squadrons both operating in the UK. It was a combined effort. Australian soldiers were also the first to take the Turkish surrender in Damascus, not T.E. Lawrence, first to defeat the German advance - Tobruk, and the Japanese advance - New Guinea. Google British Lieutenant General Percival and his role in WW2. What a shining example of British Command he was.
It was made just before I was born. It's a movie that will always be engrained in my memory. The fact that it' real, a "true story" only made it better.
3 Lancaster's may be a possibility one day. The Panton brothers "Just Jane" (NX611) at East Kirby is being slowly restored to full flying condition, then we have the RAF's BBMF "City of Lincoln" (PA474) and also the Canadian Lancaster. One day hopefully all 3 will fly together during a UK air show season.
@@markanthony4655 Two have flown together in Canada with a mossy & some spits I recently watched a video of the flight shot from the mossy cockpit I'll see if I can post a link
One of my favourite films of all time. I was 10 when it came out. No TV at the time (in our house at least.) No dvds no tapes. You had to go to the cinema. And so I did - every time the film popped up at another cinema for a long time. I knew the script by heart. But the experience now spoiled for me. Shown on TV a couple of weeks ago with the sound track bowdlerised to delete every reference to the name of Guy Gibson's dog. I switched off one of my favourite films in disgust half way through. Some may think the re-editing politically correct. I think it's obscene. I'm trying to avoid the term political correctness gone mad - but that's exactly what it is. Re-editing old films like this doesn't solve social problems either in the past or now. It just covers old ones up, and pretends current ones don't exist. Am I ever going to be able to view that movie again as it was made?
I'm with you. History is history and revisionism is never acceptable. I was 8 when the film came out and living at RAF Hemswell. My father was an 83 Squadron rear gunner on Lincolns. Of course the Astra cinema on the station made a great fuss of showing this film. Good to see reference to Joe Kmiecik at 19'57". My dad used to speak of him with awe. He was not my dad's regular pilot but, as his log book reveals, F/Sgt Kmiecik was his pilot on October 31, 1952 (photographic trials) and March 12, 1954 (Bombing practice, visual & blind).
It depends on the media. Sometimes they show the original uncensored version on tv and other times they either blank out the name or in the most recent viewing on Channel 4 they just called it Old Boy and completely removed any mention of the codeword from the movie. I wrote an email to Channel 4 complaining about this and they were basically unapologetic so I replied telling them to never show the movie again until they show as much respect to the people who the movie was about as the people they were trying not to offend. They never replied!
Some years ago a British newspaper gave away free DVDs of the original uncut version. They turn up on ebay occasionally- just in a small cardboard sleeve if you're looking. Might have been from the Mail, but not sure.
I wish that the world would look at things like the naming of the Lab in context. I have 2 Christian names, one from my paternal grandfather, the other from my maternal, throughout my nearly 70 years I have always tried to live up to the honour my parents bestowed on me by naming me for their Father's. To my mind to be named after someone, be that an individual, or a race by nickname is not an insult, it is an honour to acknowledge the heritage of a people. If the dog were called Blondie, or Whitey, or even Blackie or Brownie, would the politically correct lobby be enraged? The N word is bandied about by Africans all the time without rancour. To name your dog after a friend is not an insult, it is meant as a compliment, my own dog is Monty, who but an imbecile would name their closest companion after someone they are reputed to degrade at every turn! Get real, honour the dog, the man, and the proud race whose name he carried, immortatlised on the silver screen as the glue that welded a group of very fine brave young men into the fighting force known to this day as The Dambusters!
Peter Jackson's Company had already received TEN life size fiberglass mock ups Lancaster from China delivered to his studio in New Zealand. They assembled one to see how it looked . All being put in storage after the project was cancelled.
They would never get it right because of political correctness. There would be people insisting on ethnic minorities being involved, even if there were none in reality. Not to mention guys dogs name being a problem for some. The name has already been wiped from the dogs grave. Historical facts would be ignored and it would never capture the real event.
I suppose that's the case then@@redbird9658 ,the only option would've been watch the original then but I wouldn't mind it was just an idea; still nothing would've beat the originals of back then with CGI.
Hi great documentary really interesting I've read alot about the dambusters and it's just amazing how they pulled the operation off I mean flying at 60ft in the dark the crews had guts to fly so low just amazing!! thank you for sharing. cheers Gary from the 🇬🇧
The constant handwriting and arrows ( because there's no other way I would have determined what you were talking about ), become very tiresome, very quickly. I had to turn it off. Too bad, it's such a great story, and film.
My late uncle used that word a dozen times a day for years and years. He sold gloves. The other choice was tan. And like Gibson's dog, it referred to a colour. Does anyone think race relations are significantly improved because we've introduced NewSpeak? And, no I won't say the word. My cowardice is the price of our new 'freedoms.'
Say the anagram of the dog's name instead because the only people you will risk offending are the ones who are told to stop whingeing and being oversensitive about a genetic trait they are born with!
I used that n name colour shoe polish for years. As a white, or is that a person of on colour, I used to get called the 'h' word in the 60's. All in good fun and banter. Sorry people we have kept our eye off the ball too long. There are much more important things going on in the world to worry about.
This looked like an interesting topic, yet the way it was presented caused me to abandon it after the first 10 minutes. First, the silly "drawings" on the screen with virtual grease pens, placing arrows, comments and other nonsense happening every 5 seconds. Way too much attention on the "effect." Second, the depressing drone of the piano playing what sounds like a funeral dirge, over and over and over. Sorry, this video could have been presented in a manner of professional workmanship. Thumbs down for those reasons.
It's been written that Barnes Wallace suffered greatly from grief and guilt over the loss of lives on the raid and was never the same enthusiast man after. Some idiots claim the raid was a failure because Germany re-built the dams, when the disruption to German manufacturing and morale boost to the UK were dramatic. Unfortunately they did not do follow up raids when the dams were being repaired, even high level bombing, it is felt by historians that this would have driven home the initial success of the first raid. It is also worth noting the age of those on the raid. They were all just out of their teens. Brave men every one of them.
Great video. One detail I heard of was the the dog who played Gibson's dog in the film was an Army dog of the same name. Richard Todd, himself a dog-lover, asked his handler to 'borrow' the dog, so he could build a rapport with him - something you can see in the film. He was even allowed to have the dog stay with him at the White Hart hotel in Lincoln, where they stayed during filming. Unheard of in those days, at least one other black labrador has stayed there - my own assistance dog, Lyla.
Not mentioned in the documentary ww2gravestone.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/download-31.jpg?f0589e&f0589e Racist? Who would call their dog after something they hated or despised? Britain had little to no experience of black people then other than men who had come to help our country fight a war. There was often problems with the American's treatment of their black troops off base. Does that sound racist?
The bastards at the politically correct end of the MOD and RAF even desecrated a grave.
www.thesun.co.uk/news/12143911/guy-gibson-dambusters-dog-name-labrador-grave-changed/
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-53446494
What do they now say was the codeword for a breaching of a dam?
@@COIcultist This is one of the main reasons why Peter Jackson cancelled the remake of The Dambusters a few years ago! The irony is that the people that would have taken offence by the name are the people who would be less likely to be interested in the movie in the first place!
Sadly I found the dog being killed a bit upsetting. The movie is about death and life. I didn't feel it did anything & should have left it out.
@@COIcultist What the snowflakes don't understand was that black things were often referred to as nigger. English is a Latin based language, the Latin word for black being nigreos. The Spanish for black is negro. Are you getting the idea? The word nigger comes from the southern U.S.A. pronunciation of negro (referring to a person's race) which was niggra. I'm from western Europe which makes me Caucasian, someone from China is Oriental)
Gibson wasn't being racist when he called his black dog nigger, he was just reflecting the dog's colour.
As for R.A.F. racism, compare how the R.A.F. pilots from Jamaica and Trinidad were treated compared with U.S.A.A.F. pilots of which the Americans stated that, "The black man will not have the skills to fly airplanes". The U.S. forces came to Britain and bought their racial inequality and apartheid with them.
@@PenzancePete > Thankyou to you sir for having the integrity and the personal honesty in relating history as near as humanly possible to actual names and events. No amount of political correctness, "wokeness" or cancel culture will ever change the name of the black labrador which was named Nigger by its distinguished owner for the simple reason of the colour of it's fur.
No racism was implied nor meant by the name; the pretend-to-be-insulted-on-behalf-of-someone-else
brigade no doubt would also refuse to wear the Poppy too.
Hard to comprehend all Guy Gibsons achievements by the age of 25.
A wonderful documentary when being proud to be British was a good thing
The interesting thing is that this film and the two of the other classics of the genre, The Great Escape and Reach for the Sky that are seen as quintessentially British, were taken from books of the same name by Australian fighter pilot Paul Brickhill.
@@catinthehat906 he also wrote the Dam Busters
@@catinthehat906 Same thing. We are made from the same mold.
It still is something to be proud of!!!
It still is!
Should keep the dogs name and the code for destroying the first dam in…..it’s part of history….to hell with political correctness. l watched the film with my parents in 1956 and much later on TV before the it was censored…..we all know the dogs name wasn’t Trigger…..
Urrrgh!
Really???
The Dag's name in the flim as you well know was 'Nigger'.
He was named that after the colour of his Black coat of fur and there was no awareneness, intention or connection with latent racism.
The tomfoolery of 'Woke' pc bullshit came along decades later when society lost it's marbles, list sight if it's priorities and consequently it's direction.
But while we are on the subject and not talking about what we really 'should' be talking about, which is the marvellous job the people involved made of creating the 1955 iconic movie in question, I must say that life in the 21st century has become so bonkers especially with respect to terminology that I marvel how we are still able to use the word 'mate' with regard to friends without experiencing resulting complaints from idiots who deem it as a sexual slurr on the person concerned?
Gawld 'elp us! 😱
Now folks, back to the serious stuff, the documentary of the movie... 🙏
What a SUPERB ACCURATE documentary - thank you. I first saw this film when I was about 8 years old and THAT made me always want to sign up to the Royal Air Force. Such a dynamic powerful emotional film. I was amazed at the flying sequences and NOW know how it was all done. At 16 I signed up as an apprentice, to serve my Queen and country and joined the RAF as an aircraft engineer. We had a camp cinema and once we had all had our heads clipped and uniforms issued we were marched in the base cinema for a 'special duty'. We were sat down, the murmur died down and the curtains opened across the screen.........We were to watch "THE DAMBUSTERS".........apparently shown to ALL entries as their first movie!! Due to this film and the Battle of Britain I also now fly myself training to be a pilot. The real crews were my heroes and it was an honour to carry on a small part of the RAF's history. We actually lived next door to one of the pilots for several years! RIP to all those who were lost in this and other air missions. High Flight my brothers unto thees is glory given, "I slip the surly bonds of earth and danced the skies on laughter silvered wings"......Per Ardua Ad Astra - Thank you for our freedom today.✝
Seeing this film as a boy had an impact on me as my late father was a friend of the brother of RAF Officer Ottley who was shot down and killed in C for Charlie in the third wave. RIP.
This movie always felt personal to me because Sir Harold 'Mick' Martin, the Australian pilot who was third in command of the raid and flew P For Popsy, was my father's commanding officer when he was based at RAF Nicosia in Cyprus in the 1960s. It was made all the more personal when I chose 617 Squadron as the subject of my extended history essay, which was as long as Paul Brickhill's book, for my History 'O' level in the 1980s and my mother wrote to Mick Martin to tell him about it and he wrote back with his appreciation and a copy of a Dambusters raid print signed with a personal message to me! She was also able to arrange a visit to 617 Squadron for me where I got to have lunch with some of the aircrew and had a personal tour of one of the glorious Vulcans they were flying at the time! God bless 617 Squadron, all who served in it and all who still do!
I met Micky martin at his house in Warwick Gardens and gave him a pewter Lancaster bomber. A really decent guy. Never to be forgotten.
Sir Harold 'Mick' Martin returned to Germany in the early 1970's when he became Commander-in-Chief RAF Germany.
What a lovely documentary on this iconic film and war time mission. As a young boy, infatuated and obsessed with aviation (I still am!) and having been born only 17 years after the end of the Second World War, I was incredibly fortunate to discover that my older brother was at school with Barnes Wallis's two grandsons. (I think I was just about to leave my primary school at the time and join the same secondary school). He was also in a band with the older of the two. This led to a friendship between my family and theirs. One Sunday lunchtime, having been invited over to their house for the day with my parents while the 'boys' rehearsed their music, I found myself sitting next to the great Barnes Wallis himself, who was then living with his daughter, the mother of the two grandsons. I was completely overawed by the experience and my recollection of the day was of him being very kind to me and although by then an elderly man, he was gentle and calm and rather quiet. I have never forgotten that amazing opportunity. Tragically, a short while later, his younger grandson, Ricky, was killed in a terrible road accident on his way to our home, where he stayed with us once a week, having been to some late evening, extra classes at our school. I can remember that night so clearly and we never got over it. I can only imagine the terrible loss their family felt. The film is still one my favourite films but clearly has all sorts of deeper associations. Thank you to all involved in the making of this great documentary.
The Chastise war crime was a complete failure, as Harris and Speer confirmed.
Sadly RAF Scampton is now under threat, surely we can’t allow such an important base to become yet another faceless housing estate....history such as this is priceless, otherwise what’s the point in all this sacrifice.......
It was the same with fate of HMS Plymouth the Warship that took the surrender of the Argentine Forces in South Georgia in 82 and turned into a museum ship in Birkenhead until the council wanted the berth it was offered to Plymouth but rejected and ended up being scrapped in Turkey.
Too many people dont care any more. Schools not teaching history and patriotism.
No morning prayers, traditions trampled on. Instead of including all religions they have banned ours.
Its a Godless society they want.
Red Bird but they all now all the 100 different genders and the names of all the reality stars
It says on the Cenotaph and other monuments "We shall never forget."
Most people forgot years ago, both to remember and to care.
@@redbird9658
I'm a godless man too - and make no apologies.
Which is why I fail to see what religion has to do either with patriotism, the protection of the country, or with remembering those who served - not just in combat, but in every possible sort of way.
THIS is one of my most favorite films....so THIS was a BIG TIME TREAT!
@@Use-or-Lose Love your comment...👍 👊
Really enjoyed the documentary. A film close to our hearts as the film editor was my wife's grandad.
Superb film. The books are even better. I have fond memories of my grandad reading me the book as a bedtime story and then seeing the film with him and my dad.
Richard Todd described filming the final scene with Michael Redgrave in an interview. As he walked away from the camera he was quietly weeping. He had his own experience of letter writing. I never watch that scene without shedding a tear for the ordinary people who sacrificed and achieved so much in extraordinary times.
Amen.
Braver than we. Real courage is knowing you may not survive, but doing it regardless.
Might be mistaken but I don't think noel coward was in the Dambusters.
@MichaelKingsfordGray Spoken by a true hero,your bravery in the face of the enemy has been noted.
@@stevengriffin7873 a put down worthy of a true Englishman. Sir, I salute you
Thank u for posting this. Dambusters is 1 of my favourite films. I can honestly say i enjoyed it immensely. Very Very brave men and may we never forget what the brave crews did. I was once asked if i had chance to sit down with anyone from the past who has died i always reply
1 My mother
2 Barnes wallace
I always rember in the film when Mr Wallace is asked
How do you suggest i get Bomber command to allow you to use one of there aeroplanes Mr Wallace ?
He replys ,perhaps if you tell them i designed it
Case Closed
The bouncing bomb was a failure.
The crew are still heroes to me even after all these years. I pay my respects to them as often as possible. Last week Les Knight. #wewillrememberthem
Yeah bcos MichaelKingsfordGray really is your name.
Signed G
@MichaelKingsfordGray Redundant Person
One of the greatest WWII films; I've watched it many times and enjoyed it immensely each time. I'll need to get the remastered version. The skill and heroism of those crews are well portrayed and the sight and sound of those Lancasters is wonderful. The photography, especially the aerial photography, is superb. The special effects in 1954 are nothing compared to today's computer generated effects. Nevertheless, you get the idea of the danger and incredible skill required for this mission.
Hollywood, take note, this is how you make a fine movie, and a brilliant war movie. It is understated, but portrays the reality of air warfare, with emphasis placed on the Characters portrayed, just ordinary men facing the likelihood of death. There are no Hysterics, soap opera performances, or deliberate handwringing emotion to play the audience. Its told with all the realism of a generation now virtually gone, their ideals and attitudes, beliefs and standards which today have little meaning. The film remains a classic that today may hold more relevance as pride in your country and to fight for your beliefs , no matter the sacrifice , appears to be an archaic concept.
Remake of Midway, Dunkirk & pearl Harbour et all. Rubbish compared to the originals!
@@jimcrawford5039 I liked Dunkirk but also hated it . The aircraft nerd in me counted 42 seconds of gun fire from the spitfire Mki when it only carried enough ammo for 14 seconds of fire .
It did stretch things a little far in places but at least it was mostly realistic and used real 109's and spitfires .
@@jimcrawford5039 The original Battle of Midway isn't that great.
hollywood couldnt make a film like the dambusters if they tried, unless it was with americans stealing british achievements .even the russians make better films than hollywood
Thank you for posting this documentary about the making of a film that I have treasured since I first saw it in childhood.
Quite a good documentary spoiled by the addition of tuneless music and the bizarre overlay of faux pencil "mark-up" graphics.
The volume of the background music is ok with the narration but too loud for the interviews.
I love this film not only because I have always adored Richard Todd but the Lancaster's are just wonderful the sound of those engines are magnificent. If I was only allowed to have one film this would be it.
I would love to see this film as it once was! Well done to the people that did this! This film has always touched me as my dad lost his brother who was a navigator back then! My mum was in the WRAF and died in September 2019 aged 95! We used to talk about those days and mum gave me a real flavour, just as my dad did with the work he did back then! Hence me loving this film as it is historical as well as factual! This documentary has been well done too! Thank you for doing this great work to allow us an insight on this wonderful and poignant film! R.I.P all the men in Bomber Command and all of the RAF and ARMY and NAVY in WWII We can never thank you enough!
Hear Hear!
@@B-A-L Thank you kindly
Thank you. And we should never forget the heroism of the guys who were in this. It's stands for what and who we are. God bless x
If only some people could name all the crew that lost their lives.
Instead, they obsess about a dog with a rude name.
Some people's priorities are funny.
S/L Young's crew received the first hit by the Ack Ack in my home town, the 2nd by the Ack Ack in the town where I went to school, they crashed near the coast of Castricum trying to land on a sandbar.
The entire crew was killed on the return flight of the Dam raid.
To me this raid has faces and names as well as a story.
I make sure that at least that crew is remembered, I tell the story, share the photos of the entire crew when possible and list all of their names on the 17th of May every year.
Haven't seen you naming all the crew that lost their lives yet! Put up or shut up!
@@B-A-L That's not the point of my comment. If someone is so obsessed with a dog's name rather than the crew who flew, their priorities are wrong.
Dog with amusingly offensive name v crew names. Which one is more important?
@@andrewoliver8930 The name of the dog isn't the issue it's the fact we are having to censor our history to avoid offending a minority that is only here because it has been afforded the freedom to do so due to the brave actions of people such as portrayed in this movie.
@@B-A-L I'm sure Churchill covered up a few things and didn't want the truth out.
That sort of censorship is fine.
Not giving Bomber Command because he got a bit embarrassed by the deaths in Germany.
Never quite gets shown on his films of the great man.
An amazing documentary and tribute to all those involved in Operation Chastise, and to those involved in making a much love classic British World War 2 movie.
What an excellent documentary! I grew up watching great films like this....the highlight of my week would be when my dad would let us stay up late on Saturday night to watch the big war movies !
👍🇬🇧🇦🇺🦘I joined the RAF in July 1956 and was so proud at the time-the film and the music was front and centre during this time. Recreating real events made it so special, even today at age 83, it feels like only last week. Fantastic to view this again to see how it was all done.
Riveting film first shown in the US on broadcast television in the 1960s. Cemented my love of the Avro Lancaster and the bravery of 617 Sqdn. One of two films that had a profound impact on me as a teen. Pestered my parents for the Brickhill book and Enemy Coast Ahead. Years later with the purchase of our first VHS player in the late '70s, went to the store selling VHS tapes to to my amazement found The Dam Busters. Bought that and Star Wars Episode IV ("I'd say there's 10 guns, some in the fields and some in the towers'). Each tape was was over $70US. Please release the restored version in Region One!
One wants to pay fair dues but if films are not available in hard copy try other online sources. Might I recommend OK Russia, I do promise that is not a dodgy site and I have found WWII films I never knew existed. To find a genre of films look up a film that you know then look at what else that poster has uploaded. Might I suggest as a starter "The Foreman Went To France" which I doubt many have seen. A film made during WWII.
Excellent documentary of one or the best films ever,the others being The Battle of Britain,The Blue Max,and 633 Squadron.
All great films!
Tbh I wouldn't include The Blue Max or 633 Squadron because neither were based on true stories.
633 squadron:the winners flying over to bomb the losers so they can’t use atomic bombs.CLASSIC🤑🤕
The losses suffered during this mission really hit home in the film and the stoic professionalism in the face of it. That's a tribute to the realism striven for by Michael Anderson and his cast and crew.
What must they think when they look down upon on the Britain of today?
@John Cornell And yet we aren't even allowed to mention the name of a dog because we don't want to offend a minority that won't stop using the very same word!
@John Cornell I hope you were wearing a mask and didn’t travel out your allowed area. Safe spaces required for people who get hurt feelings, 150,000? waiting for NHS treatment, GP consultations by phone, political correctness gone crazy, a completely dysfunctional education and political system with a 2 trillion plus deficit. A decimated military force and a police force not fit for purpose. Black Lives Matter and extinction rebellion get free passes while old ladies get thrown to the ground then handcuffed and taken away. Thousands of illegal arrivals escorted ashore while we were locked down. Sure everything is superb.
Like the gentleman emphasized at the end, this story is about immortality. The final scene in the Damuster's film when guy Gibson walks off; he does so into eternity, into his own special place in Valhalla. From the epic tales of old, like Xenophon's 10,000, up to the more modern stories of heroism like Scott and Shackleton, all of us have benefited infinitely by these examples of selfless devotion to the most righteous principles of man's existence.
Classic movie... so glad I found this documentary !
Brave men,courageous & love of country... thank them one and all from heart !
When I was an Air Cadet in the 70s, the annual pre-Christmas screening of 'The Dambusters' was a time-honoured event. Then in 1975, our Annual Camp was to Scampton - where we climbed aboard 617 Sqn Vulcans and visited the Sqn Museum, complete with all the scale models of the dams that had been built for the briefings. The gate guards at the time were Lancaster NX611 and a Grand Slam bomb. (It is a regularly repeated urban myth that the Grand Slam was found later still to have explosive in it..)
There was a Live bomb next to a Gate Guard at Scampton, but it was found in 1958.
These men were prepared to sacrifice their lives.
S/L Young's crew received the first hit by the Ack Ack in my home town, the 2nd by the Ack Ack in the town where I went to school, they crashed near the coast of Castricum trying to land on a sandbar.
The entire crew was killed on the return flight of the Dam raid.
To me this raid has faces and names as well as a story.
53 of the 133 participants did......
I was stationed at RAF Hemswell (along with fred trueman) when they were making this film and remember the lancasters taking off/landing - wish i'd had my smartphone in those days!
Nice documentary about an amazing film, such a shame it was interrupted every five minutes by adverts.
It's monstrous what is proposed for RAF Scampton today! Desecrating the memory of these brave men! This government should be overthrown!
Well said
Did the new restored version of the movie censor the dog"s name? As much as I want to buy this product, I will not do that if the poor dog is now called Trigger or Digger. History should not be changed to suit the whims & manipulations of our political masters.
It depends on the media. Sometimes they show the original uncensored version on tv and other times they either blank out the name or in the most recent viewing on Channel 4 they just called it Old Boy and completely removed any mention of the codeword from the movie. I wrote an email to Channel 4 complaining about this and they were basically unapologetic so I replied telling them to never show the movie again until they show as much respect to the people who the movie was about as the people they were trying not to offend. They never replied!
But surely you accept that such bowdlerising has completely solved all problems of race or colour?
You don't think so?
Oddly enough, neither do I...
The dog isn't that important in the telling of the story.
Show it to someone who doesn't know the dog's name and they'd learn about the mission just as well.
@@B-A-L I’m sure the hipster (male or female) that you wrote to will never experience 1% of the lives the crew lived.
Sadly those hipsters look in a very narrow view point
@@andrewoliver8930 it signifies the era. We can’t be apologistes for every part of our history. Ducking stools, stocks. Name a “difference” and society leaps on it. We may be more encompassing today. But history is history - it signposts our lives
Excellent documentary and my most loved film. Brave men all of them.
Excellent documentary, a fitting tribute to a wonderful, moving film which itself was a fitting tribute to those who risked their lives and those who made the ultimate sacrifice.
I loved this film from being a child, I admired the bravery of the airmen, the Lancaster's and the story of inspired Barnes Wallis. The music stills stirs me and makes me tearful with pride. If only war wasn't such a tragic ghastly waste.
I was always in awe of Michael Redgraves portrayal of Barnes Wallis. His acting was superb and exactly how I imagined the real Barnes Wallis to be.
Barnes Wallis was not as portrayed. He was sharp and decisive and not the grnteel
I realised some years ago that war films made in the 50s/60s and even 70s were so much better than modern ones because the men who acted in them had usually been in the services, even if not actually during the war. Thus they knew how to stand, walk, react to and give commands. I think the difference for me was highlighted by the differences between the 'Colditz' story TV series in the mid 70s and one made about 20 years ago. Also better scripts, less political correctness etc etc- but I still think it's a significant factor.
In my book The Dam Busters is the best British film ever made. I always get a tear when when Richard Tod says he has letters to write at the end of the film.
The failed Operation Chastise murdered thousands of civilians and Allied POWs.
This film seems very personal to me I was born on 17 May 1944 12 months after the raid don't know how many times iv'e watched it but the last time wont be the last time
Robert Shaw also starred in James Bond's "From Russia with Love", and portrayed the fanatical nazi Panzer commander in the "Battle of the Bulge" (his hair being dyed blond for the occasion)
I have watched it a few times. Sadly the low-budget shows, With lighting and some bit glaring poor animations.
Such a wonderful historic film. Shame they didn't have the vision to fund it better. The same three Lanc's used all the time too/ Not a film critic.
It will never be done again. Sadly.
You have to remember that the film technology of the time, no CGI and even at the time the number of Lancaster's available was very limited.
My late father was an engineering officer with 617 he didn't talk much about what happened but on the rare occasion he did talk some really funny stories were told.
Funny stories are still told in stress situations in many workplaces today as were common in my service career, a human safety valve in fact. Frowned upon by many today. Much better to be sent for expensive counselling by an expert who looks about 12.
Between the age of 5 and 8 I sat on my father's lap and watched this film twice of a Sunday afternoon, my farther cried on both occasions, he died at 52 when I was 10.
Watching this documentary at 51 I now am old enough to know why it affected him as it did, not only since it brings back memories of my farther (who served in the army at the end of the war) but as it reminds us of the ultimate sacrifice people made fighting the curse of Nazi Germany and their allies.
This was a cracking good documentary. I also enjoyed the person practising piano in the background.
A brilliant documentary....well done
Thanks for a very informative documentary, so much background material included. The film its self is a masterpiece, well acted and capturing something of the raid itself. The pressures on the crews to train and carry out that mission is hard to comprehend and all such young men. Then, of course, there's Wallis himself having to pull it all together in such a short time. They truly were 'men of their time'. Documentaries with modern pilots flying so called re-enactments never fail to be astonished at what was achieved in that raid. An indication of their ability was revealed to me some years ago when a documentary featuring Ken Brown, the Canadian pilot, who flew in the back-up wave of planes explained something of his experience that night. Ordered to bomb the Sorpe dam, he relates arriving over it and only seeing the church steeple above the mist. He carried out his attack after having to do a stall turn in his Lancaster. Such a manoeuvre beggars belief with a plane of that size. I wonder if he warned the crew...
My Father in the early fifties was in the RAF for a few years he had never been in a plane in his life and the first time he had to go on recognisance for ten hours in a Lancaster, he said it was great being up at the front in the bomb aimers seat and I said 'Yeah not so great getting shot at at night though' where he said 'Er well no!'
After the war. Most people involved with the operation. Pilots, Wallis suffered a lot of guilt and wondered afterwards the cost of all the lives lost. Not only the pilots lost. But the surviving pilots guilt was about the villages and the people living around the Dams that were all killed. But if these Dams were no destroyed. So many more lives would have been lost in the war.
Great Docco.....apart from little Johnny practicing his scales on the piano in the next room...most irritating.
And those annoying 'pencil 'captions! Why the need to add the little arrows and repeat captioning already printed on screen? Fascinating look at one of my favourite films.
... and the overdone felt tip effects. Such a shame laid over and spoiling excellent material.
DEAR ENGLAND, there are still YANKS that adore you and the R.A.F. All the best.
Cheers Doug! America has plenty of heroes too. We stood as brothers and defeated evil. We may have to do it again.
@@stephenvince9994 Yes, we might.
@@douglasstreet7304 Thank you Doug, if more people thought this way the world would be a better place regards form the UK
@@francislintonellis8402 Most welcome.
@@francislintonellis8402 You are very welcome, my dad flew the B24D and J out of Italy-50 missions. Learned a lot from him.
Got a snicker, I was watching this and checked my computer's clock and it was 6:17.
Great documentary. I am a native of Grantham and my grandfather worked at the Ministry of Public Works at St Vincents (which was the HQ of 5 Group, Bomber Command) in the 60's when the caretaker there was the same chap that was there during the war. He gave my grandfather a couple of old postcards of the Mohne Dam that the Air Ministry had asked people to come forward with for info regarding possible targets etc. It seems there were quite a number of postcards of items or interest for possible targets and he was ordered to dispose of these after the war, but he kept these two for posterity. It turned out that one of the civil engineers who worked on the Ladybower Dam in the early 30's had gone over to Germany in the late 20's and early 30's to study the Mohne and on the back of one of the postcards is a load of technical stuff about the dam. I expect these should go to the right museum one day, but I cant make my mind up which?
I would suggest the RAF Museum 😊
@@Laidback61 ....or the one in the towers at Ladybower?
I wish they'd use a bit of CGI on the film to sort out the bits that were like that for Official Secrets reasons. The shape of the bombs, show them spinning etc. And turn that Mosquito into a Lancaster too.
Excellent documentary of a great film and a piece of British history that must be preserved.
As a former member of the RAAF; then journalism as a film reviewer and critic. Now a military historian for over 20 years; I really enjoyed this documentary except for one strange visual affectation. The constant 'scribble' of 'Chinagraph' pencil mark effects 'defacing' almost every second scene or sequence. It's pointless, mildly irritating and adds nothing to the information of the script. It smacks of some filmmaker or ‘studio suit’ lacking confidence in the period stills and footage to carry the importance of a truly great story. It's a pity.
Apart from that strange fault, I'm grateful to see that the basic, hitherto little known production details, were accurately presented, for instance; down to the need to re-draw each frame of the real 'Chastise' bombs as their design was still classified at the time of filming.
With my critic’s hat on; the only shot that detracts from the, otherwise excellent accuracy, is the brief super imposing of real 'airborne' water spouting footage at the point where the biggest dam is breached. Still, this is no one's fault.
Apart from the relatively tiny budget, (which blew out) the special effects technology just wasn't up to scratch at that time. Otherwise, the model making creativity was first rate.
Another asset is some great 'behind the scenes' information, made even better as it comes from the film's crew members.
The production was capped off by a magnificent score that features the now famous 'Dam Busters' March'.
This film was, upon reflection, probably one of the several reasons why I chose to join the RAAF.
I well recall being on large, O.C.'s parades and public events where one of our RAAF bands, invariably, played the Dam Busters March at some point. Truly, stirring stuff.
In the RAAF, during my time in uniform, we were all keenly aware of the horrendous losses on 'Chastise' but also extremely proud of the Australian aircrew members that were involved and, indeed, all of the brave flyers who volunteered for a complex, “dangerous” mission, most of whom would have had that unspoken feeling this could be their last flight.
For too many good men; it was.
In more recent times, I've been aware of some historians pushing the barrow that 'Chastise' didn't do the lasting damage that was intended and that there was a large loss of life among 'innocent civilians', some even reporting deaths of foreign POW or 'slave' workers.
There may be elements of truth in this, however, as we all learn in 'History 101', we should never impose personal or present day values upon historical events.
Period records notwithstanding; no modern historian can accurately 'editorialise' on a slice of history unless they were present at the time.
Besides, even if 'Chastise' didn't meet all operational expectations; the destruction or damage of these enemy assets was a totally successful morale booster for the British people and their allies. Also, again, sending the enemy the message that nowhere in the occupied countries or Germany was safe from Allied bombing.
Finally, although some recent documentaries on 'Chastise' have been made using simple computerised graphics, which is helpful.
I genuinely hope that the movie is never remade using full-on CGI technology. I believe that might be visually impressive yet provide a 'shallow' end result. Why?
Because who would be available to advise on the accuracy that would be needed to make the CGI historically correct.
It’s safe to say all the ‘Chastise’ members are in the big ‘All Ranks Mess’ in the sky.
Don't get me started on 'colourising' period footage; that's just beyond the pale.
Thank you for this documentary. Perhaps in a re-release the phoney 'Chinagraph pencil' look could be 'erased'. 😉
Cheers, Bill H.
I can't make out the dialogue because of the overpowering piano music. Really we don't need music at the same time as dialogue.
fabulous documentary ruined by that bloody piano. when people talk I want to listen not be reminded of a funeral derth
Good doc but a couple of comments. The big secret of the bomb was not its shape but the fact that it was spun backwards. It was originally barrel shaped but kept breaking up when impacting the water. They found that the cylindrical core performed almost as well.
Also consider one of the best scenes was where crews waiting to take off. Read somewhere that it was the longest single take at the time.
Consider this contender for best war film ever made.
Also Richard Todd and Robert Shaw had been trained to get the Lancaster to the point of take-off.
This movie was shown in my country in 1957 & how did I was raring to see it.
Then on that Sunday I was coming to the scene of the successful experiment and power failure !
The theater stamped our tickets for watching on Monday. Bad luck I couldn't skip school !
So I had to wait until 2002 to get the DVD.
It was worth the wait !
When Gibson toured the usa after the raid the americans were amazed at his number of missions 174
Their airmen only had to do 25
Before going home
99 of them were on Beaufighter night fighters of 29 Squadron between his first and second bomber tours (tour length was 100 flying hours or 18 months, which ever came first). His first tour with 83 Squadron was based on operational flying hours, not number of sorties (27 or 34 in total dependant on source). His third tour as CO of 106 Squadron was 46 missions which was over double the number he actually had to do to complete that tour (20 maximum at that time). He volunteered to do both the Night Fighter and 2nd Bomber tours to get out of a Training job.
The number of required missions from American airmen increased as the war went on. See The Lucky Bastard Club en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_Bastard_Club. Several Americans may well have done more flights. Look up the war record of Major General James Stewart. Not just a great actor but a true American hero.
@@richardvernon317 The thing that stuck with me from "Enemy Coast ahead" was that Gibson accepted a transfer to Beau fighters after his first tour in bombers was complete because he needed a rest. After a year in Beau fighters he wanted to go back to bombers and seemed to not understand people thinking he needed a rest, he had just had a year off!
@@grogery1570 Gibson was a Career Officer, He wasn't going to turn down an offer that could advance his career. He was somewhat cherry picked for the 29 Sqn post because of his skill as a night flyer and the transfer happened because AOC in C Fighter Command asked his opposite number in Bomber Command to give him some good blokes (at night flying). Gibson was at the top of the tree as this regard at the time. I suspect that his attitude and temperament were not that which makes a good instructor and that he was fully aware of this. Being a Night Fighter pilot wasn't as risky as flying a bomber over Germany, but it was hardly risk free either. He was a very good night fighter pilot but he was never in the right place at the right time to rack up the kills like Cunningham on 604 or Braham , the other flight commander on 29 did.
@@COIcultist They may have done even more if they had bothered to join in right from the start! Actually that's not necessarily true because the war could have been over before the end of 1940.
Does anyone else find the music really irritating?
NO
Surely you jest? If not ... yah boo knickers! 🐨🇦🇺
Do you mean the background music to this programme- in which case, not really- or the Dambusters march- in which case the answer is- Are you kidding??
@@olwens1368 The Dambusters March is a great classic but the incidental music to this documentary sounds cheap and sloppy. Like it was made by one man using an electric keyboard and not much else. Seems a shame to me.
It is a shame that a newer film will not be historically correct as I have no doubt, that Guy Gibson's dog will be missed out due to PC.
They will/have given it another name.
@@Bruce-1956 Rumoured to be Digger
Digger the gender neutral pet rabbit.
Peter Jackson cancelled his remake a few years ago because of this.
@@B-A-L It is a shame an historic fact, and it is a fact is cancelled because of political changes and views. You can't change history, just learn from it. But you can't change the facts that have already happened.
Lovely to see the making of one of the true classics.
A fantastic piece of accuracy was filming `Gibson ` ( Todd ) with out a flying jacket he flew in shirt sleeves as he new the flight path would not be at high altitude and so quite warm. For the real techy guys they even found a w.w.2 German Airforce life vest ( noticeable by the small horizontal oxygen bottle at the base ) Gibson actually used one on the raid, oh and next time you watch the film right at the very end when Wallis is taking to Gibson about all the deaths .. look center left of picture you will see a very feint black dog running about ...a ghost ?? well it wasn't there in production ! trust me its there and remember this is the man who said to his co pilot as they made their approach to the dam ' get ready to drag me out of my seat and take over if Im shot '
Mmmm ... a very good Doco ... alas no mention by name of the 'token' Aussie Actor n the movie Bill Kerr even though a still picture of him was used used on 5 or 6 occasions thru the doco ... after this film he would often appear as a comedic actor notably with Tony Hancock and Sid James ... he eventually returned to serious acting in many quality movies in Britain and Australia ....
He's also in the film Appointment in London, which is also about a Lancaster Squadron, and very good, though mostly forgotten today.
Why is he the token Aussie actor when he was portraying the third in command of the mission which was a pretty important position?
He played Martin and as mentioned in the documentary was a good physical likeness to the real person. A very good actor too in my opinion. Martin remained in the RAF reaching senior rank and commanding RAF Germany in the cold war. Both the actor and the RAF officer were great men. Thank you Australia.
👍🏻🇬🇧The Best of British Character that we all tried to live up to. Now, standards , integrity, honour and respect are in the gutter.
Very well done video.
A shame that this film was a victim of Woke culture as the name of Guy Gibson's doge has been edited out of it.
A wonderful documentary. Films like this should be shown on Rememberance Day to educate our young generations as to how they have the freedom they have today from the heroism and sacrifices of our forefathers.
The UK was denying half of the world its freedom in 1943.
Yes... a double bill with The Battle of Britain !
@@Laidback61 That awful flop lost $10 million worldwide.
Brilliant film
Great stuff, a most enlightening documentary.
First time I'd seen this account about the movie.
No mention about the dag of course.. (heh, I mean to say that's pc gone plumb crazy).
And Robert Shaw, I had no idea about the part he played at all. That detail had slipped past me throughout all the countless times I'd watched the flim.
I had already been aware of Patrick McGoughan's part however.
I have a feeling that this is a rare example of a flim without Sam Kydd's name on the credits?
How can this be?
The most prolific actor of the era and he wasn't included in the cast of the Dam Busters!
The orderly who told Gibson about his dag's accident bore a slight resemblance to Kydd but it wasn't he.
I agree about the ending being the most poignant moment, when Gibson replies to Barnes-Wallis "No, I'm afraid I have some letters to write first.."
I'm so glad I bought the DVD box-set when I did several years ago of a/ The Dam Busters, Ice Cold In Alex and The Cruel Sea.
Sam Kydd was in the latter but perhaps not in John Mills' adventure. I may be wrong?
LEST WE FORGET. PROUD TO BE BRITISH FOR EVER. SO SHOULD WE ALL!
It's got squat to do with being british, it's about all the different nationalities who's bravery and sacrifice put a stop to the Nazis.
@@eugenechester8748 An international effort by the combined allied forces.
At great cost.
Having read Paul Brickhill's book as a boy, l remember there being some Australian and New Zealand aircrew involved as well. All of whom hate being referred to as 'British'. The UK has been taking credit for the efforts of soldiers of the Commonwealth since the Boer War.
@@coolhand1964 Using British is just a convenient coverall because all the nations involved flew in the British Royal Air Force.
@@B-A-L On the contrary, the aircrews wore RAAF and RNZAF uniforms, the crews were drawn from other squadrons for this raid, with Australian and New Zealand Squadrons both operating in the UK. It was a combined effort. Australian soldiers were also the first to take the Turkish surrender in Damascus, not T.E. Lawrence, first to defeat the German advance - Tobruk, and the Japanese advance - New Guinea. Google British Lieutenant General Percival and his role in WW2. What a shining example of British Command he was.
enjoyed this doc thanks
It was made just before I was born. It's a movie that will always be engrained in my memory.
The fact that it' real, a "true story" only made it better.
Wish there were still four flying Lancaster’s today.
3 Lancaster's may be a possibility one day. The Panton brothers "Just Jane" (NX611) at East Kirby is being slowly restored to full flying condition, then we have the RAF's BBMF "City of Lincoln" (PA474) and also the Canadian Lancaster. One day hopefully all 3 will fly together during a UK air show season.
@@markanthony4655 FM104 is also under restoration to airworthy in Canada so 4 is not impossible
@@LaserEnginesAGC Excellent stuff, didn't realise their was a possibility of another Lanc in the air too. Fantastic stuff.
@@markanthony4655 Two have flown together in Canada with a mossy & some spits I recently watched a video of the flight shot from the mossy cockpit I'll see if I can post a link
@@markanthony4655 See if this works th-cam.com/video/nM2ZQj6YjiA/w-d-xo.html
One of my favourite films of all time. I was 10 when it came out. No TV at the time (in our house at least.) No dvds no tapes. You had to go to the cinema. And so I did - every time the film popped up at another cinema for a long time. I knew the script by heart.
But the experience now spoiled for me. Shown on TV a couple of weeks ago with the sound track bowdlerised to delete every reference to the name of Guy Gibson's dog. I switched off one of my favourite films in disgust half way through. Some may think the re-editing politically correct. I think it's obscene. I'm trying to avoid the term political correctness gone mad - but that's exactly what it is.
Re-editing old films like this doesn't solve social problems either in the past or now. It just covers old ones up, and pretends current ones don't exist.
Am I ever going to be able to view that movie again as it was made?
I'm with you. History is history and revisionism is never acceptable. I was 8 when the film came out and living at RAF Hemswell. My father was an 83 Squadron rear gunner on Lincolns. Of course the Astra cinema on the station made a great fuss of showing this film. Good to see reference to Joe Kmiecik at 19'57". My dad used to speak of him with awe. He was not my dad's regular pilot but, as his log book reveals, F/Sgt Kmiecik was his pilot on October 31, 1952 (photographic trials) and March 12, 1954 (Bombing practice, visual & blind).
It depends on the media. Sometimes they show the original uncensored version on tv and other times they either blank out the name or in the most recent viewing on Channel 4 they just called it Old Boy and completely removed any mention of the codeword from the movie. I wrote an email to Channel 4 complaining about this and they were basically unapologetic so I replied telling them to never show the movie again until they show as much respect to the people who the movie was about as the people they were trying not to offend. They never replied!
Some years ago a British newspaper gave away free DVDs of the original uncut version. They turn up on ebay occasionally- just in a small cardboard sleeve if you're looking. Might have been from the Mail, but not sure.
I wish that the world would look at things like the naming of the Lab in context. I have 2 Christian names, one from my paternal grandfather, the other from my maternal, throughout my nearly 70 years I have always tried to live up to the honour my parents bestowed on me by naming me for their Father's. To my mind to be named after someone, be that an individual, or a race by nickname is not an insult, it is an honour to acknowledge the heritage of a people. If the dog were called Blondie, or Whitey, or even Blackie or Brownie, would the politically correct lobby be enraged? The N word is bandied about by Africans all the time without rancour. To name your dog after a friend is not an insult, it is meant as a compliment, my own dog is Monty, who but an imbecile would name their closest companion after someone they are reputed to degrade at every turn! Get real, honour the dog, the man, and the proud race whose name he carried, immortatlised on the silver screen as the glue that welded a group of very fine brave young men into the fighting force known to this day as The Dambusters!
Brilliant film
Excellent, a great tribute to a magnificent movie making project.
The first couple of minutes of this are unwatchable, but stick with it and you will be rewarded.
Peter Jackson's Company had already received TEN life size fiberglass mock ups Lancaster from China delivered to his studio in New Zealand. They assembled one to see how it looked . All being put in storage after the project was cancelled.
This was a great video that solved my curiosities about this movie,I wish there was an remake of The dam busters in the 2020s decade.
They would never get it right because of political correctness.
There would be people insisting on ethnic minorities being involved, even if there were none in reality.
Not to mention guys dogs name being a problem for some. The name has already been wiped from the dogs grave.
Historical facts would be ignored and it would never capture the real event.
I suppose that's the case then@@redbird9658 ,the only option would've been watch the original then but I wouldn't mind it was just an idea; still nothing would've beat the originals of back then with CGI.
@@evertonmignac-D7101 yes i know what you mean.
Peter Jackson has the remake rights but I don’t think he willl ever make it.
By remakes made today with their CGI, they just go overboard with it and make crap.
So glad Hollywood didn't spoil the story like so many others.
Excellent video, ruined by the never ending piano music and graphics.
Superb - thanks you
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Hi great documentary really interesting I've read alot about the dambusters and it's just amazing how they pulled the operation off I mean flying at 60ft in the dark the crews had guts to fly so low just amazing!! thank you for sharing. cheers Gary from the 🇬🇧
The constant handwriting and arrows ( because there's no other way I would have determined what you were talking about ), become very tiresome, very quickly. I had to turn it off.
Too bad, it's such a great story, and film.
Say the dog's name!! Say it!! Say it!!!
My late uncle used that word a dozen times a day for years and years. He sold gloves. The other choice was tan.
And like Gibson's dog, it referred to a colour.
Does anyone think race relations are significantly improved because we've introduced NewSpeak?
And, no I won't say the word. My cowardice is the price of our new 'freedoms.'
Say the anagram of the dog's name instead because the only people you will risk offending are the ones who are told to stop whingeing and being oversensitive about a genetic trait they are born with!
Tell me the names of all who died.
Obsessed with a dog.
@@andrewoliver8930 Tell me the names of all who survived!
I used that n name colour shoe polish for years. As a white, or is that a person of on colour, I used to get called the 'h' word in the 60's. All in good fun and banter. Sorry people we have kept our eye off the ball too long. There are much more important things going on in the world to worry about.
Excellent documentary. Shame about that wretched piano in the background.
This looked like an interesting topic, yet the way it was presented caused me to abandon it after the first 10 minutes. First, the silly "drawings" on the screen with virtual grease pens, placing arrows, comments and other nonsense happening every 5 seconds. Way too much attention on the "effect." Second, the depressing drone of the piano playing what sounds like a funeral dirge, over and over and over. Sorry, this video could have been presented in a manner of professional workmanship. Thumbs down for those reasons.
Do you think Hollywood was seriously going to make a film , about Britain being in the second World War ?
Rivetting documentary! Redgrave was cast as Barnes Wallis and Richard Todd as Guy Gibson.
We were on holiday in Margate in 1955 , we went to the pictures to see this film and couldn’t get in it was sold out.