Thankfully by 1914 the military had learned some of the lessons of the Crimean War and the U.S. Civil War eg you don't just line up opposite your opponents and fire etc
I'm always amazed by how short generational gaps are. I'm 28, when my dad was a kid he would help his mum on nursing rounds with elderly patients and he remembers speaking to survivors of the Boer war, he's 60 odd. Just to think, the last soldier who served in the American revolutionary war died between 1940-1950. You are never too far away from other generations when you think about it.
Not to mention that if you looked at three other guys around you, at least one of you four would be dead before the war’s end. 25% casualty rate. Just horrible. At the Battle of the Somme, over one million men died. Just in one month.
@@andyblack5687 There wasn't a million dead on the Somme in one month. British and Commonwealth casualties for the entire war were about a million dead. That isn't to say it wasn't absolute carnage.
There's something about the combination of the claustrophobia of trench warfare, the certain death of no mans land and barbed wire, the uncleared corpses, the gas, the shelling and shell shock that combines into something morbidly terrifying. I always found WWI movies far scarier as a child than I did WWII ones. Maybe it was the gas masks.
Andy Black numbers are way off. Verdun was the worst meat grinder in WW1 and the Somme was horrendous. Almost 20,000 British troops died on the first day only with 60,000 casualties. Most of them in the first hour. The worst losses in British military history.
“Politicians who took us to war should have been given the guns and told to settle their differences themselves, instead of organising nothing better than legalised mass murder" - Harry Patch 1898-2009 The last British fighting Tommy
That first clip of the men marching in a huge mass past the camera, I've never seen anything like it. This whole video was haunting, gave me chills, and had my complete attention. It's not often that happens. It's rare to see such quality WW1 footage not created by Hollywood, sure some of it kinda seemed staged but for the most part it looked authentic. Thank you for uploading this, you deserve the like I'm about to bestow upon you.
Over 100 years ago... That's insane. This video gave me chills, just to think everyone in this video has passed away. I really don't know how to explain what I feel watching events of this war with very eery stock footage and music.
Fooman530 Many were poor and young. They didn't think much back then. They didnt have the internet or mass communication. You just worked the fields, in town.
It's interesting but if life was from your nose to your outstretched arm, 4000 billion years ago is your nose, and one millimetre is of your outstretched finger nail is all of human history (5500 years). Life with bones etc only starts to appear near the base of the thumb. And humans like us only appear in the last segment of the index finger. How does that make you feel? Here's one for you relevant to this video. I am 54. Aged 7 I spoked to a man called George Sidwell (my step grandad). He was a Coldstream Guard (professional soldier) prior to WW1 and fought through it with his brother who got killed, and his best friend died of wounds in 1918 (Pvt Little). George would sit as I played with plastic soldiers, by then a very old man, and would repeat in a deep voice over and over again: "War is a terrible thing. A terrible thing." He told my dad, "Never allow the ruling classes to send you or anyone to war. Oppose it. Oppose them. Do not be deceived by them as we were! People are all people! Fight them rather than their enemies."
4:25 I've literally never thought about how well trained war horses must've been. Ive been around alot of horses that get froggy if you snap your fingers too loudly.
The muffled drums sad roll has beat the soldiers last tattoo. No more on life's parade shall meet the brave and fallen few. On fames eternal camping ground their silent tents are spread And glory guards with solemn round the bivouac of the dead. -Theodore O'Hara
Over 100 years ago ! Absolutely crazy I remember it like it was yesterday. The shells humming, the bullets whizzing, the men pissing. Oh the scary times
Both my grandfather's went to France and Belgium, both came home before the end. One minus one eye, completely, the other with a shattered leg, a walking stick and a severe limp. They were two of the lucky ones. Of my grandmother and her three sisters she was the only one to marry.
Honestly, despite what people say about WWII and after having done quite a bit of research on all the variables that went with WWI, it was damn near the deadliest conflict in human history. The sheer number of people that died in so short a time. Absolutely tragic.
Josh WW2 was clearly the deadliest and most horrific war to ever be waged, but WW1, for the soldiers, was the most hellish existence, more so than the frontlines of WW2. Yes, comparatively, much less death than WW2, but for the millions that survived the combat, their time in the trenches was a literal hellscape. We can never forget WW1, which is sadly more common thing to forget today.
Well when you think about the 4 years WWI was and the deaths and then compare the 12 years WWII was its safe to say WWI could've been much worse, thank god it wasn't.
When you watch that horse and rider get hit by the artillery shell you just before the end you see the horse trying to get back up,sad man, respect, never forgotten
@@tillerman7272 If some men in suits in government tells you to say goodbye to your family, go and 'fight' and die for what we say are valid reasons and you say 'sure, sounds good to me' then I have no problem at all in calling that person a fool. There would be no wars without the brainwashed fools of this world. And as for WW1 and 2 are you sure the good guys won? Of course you are you've read it in the history books written by the victors.
My grandmother's eldest was KIA in France 24 OCT 1918. Just days before the cease fire. Initially buried in France, his remains were repatriated to the USA in 1921. He now rests in Arlington alongside his Brothers-in-arms.
Absolutely fascinating, I do not think people realize how devastating this war was because it gets overshadowed a lot by world war 2. This was the first true mechanized war with so much death and destruction, horrific.
I think it is the perfect atmospheric music. It fits the air and the ground around the soldiers. It was the twilight for them, live here die there and everywhere. There was no escaping this music
What never changes is death itself. Fast forward or rewind, death always looks the same, no matter how the method of killing may change. It's still death, death is timeless
I think the saddest part of all is to this day farmers plow up remains of these young men in the Europe killing fields...respect and Rest In Peace warriors
There is no such thing, everything is an arrangement of what each person can or will tolerate from others, people are naturally insane, no other way to justify or explain our historical/present actions/ events. Nobody could ever convince me to go to war like these people did, yet if I didn't fight I'd be considered a coward as if there is anything wrong with not wanting to participate in killing and dying until a time of my own free choice.
Those guys in the obsevations balloons during WW1!! I have always been fascinated by the nature of human being to volunteer for doing the most suicidal things....
My grand father was in that hell hole. Fields of mud, full of decomposing corpes, stench, bones, fragments & unexploded munitions. Even today, farmer's find so much stuff left from those times. One of many sad chapters in human history. 🖐 🇦🇺 .
Teutonicus Furor Excuse me?The two world wars, spainish flu, rise of nazism and communism, great depression , concentration camps, gulags? In fact, I think the generation born between 1893-1901 has to pass as the most unlucky generation to EVER exist in history , WORLDWIDE , but especially in Europe, just think about it, you are born in any year between 1893-1901, in 1914, World War 1 breaks out , if you were born in 1894-1896, you would have just came of age in 1914, which makes you just the perfect age for getting conscripted in the army of whatever country you are from, so it's more than sure that you will get conscripted for fighting in the war at any time between 1914-1918/19 in the army of the country you are from, the war ends in 1918-1919, at the same time when the spainish flu hits, so if you didn't die in the war, you might probably die because of spainish flu(because by the way most of the infected ones where young men with ages between 18-25 years old, so EXACTLY the soldiers that had just returned from the front) , so if you didn't die neither at the front, neither from the spainish flu, you would have a time of relative peace and prosperity in the 20's( in the case of the winning nations only)....before the 1929 great depression hit , when you might not die, but you will surely lose your job , your house,remain homeless and starving. If you were from the former Russian Empire, you also caught the 1917 revolution, the rise of communism, and the purges and gulags of lenin and stalin,if you where from Germany, you caught the rise of hitler ,if you where a jew , homosexual , gypsy or a person with a handicap,you got put into a ghetto , if you where from Italy or Japan, you caught the rise of fascism in those countries, then world war 2 breaks out , and you might be consripted AGAIN in your country's army, so if you didn't die in the other war you 'll probably die in this one,if you are jewish, gypsy , homosexual, polish or a person with a handicap from nazi Germany or nazi -controlled territory you got moved from the ghetto to a concentration camp where you'll most likely die. If you where a german/axis soldier on the eastern front you might have fallen prisoner and be sent to a gulag where you'll most likely die.Don't forget the bombings , air raids and street battles, if you survive the war and you are from Eastern or Central Europe, you'll see the installing of the communist dictatorial regime in your country, and you might end up in a communust gulag , where you'll most likely die(of course if you survived all the events listed above) and even if you are not from Eastern or Central Europe , you still spend the last years of your life in a continent in ruins, ravaged by war and rampant poverty, probably suffering from PTSD and each and every single possible disease in the world, you probably lack at least a foot or an arm, all of your friends and big parts of your family are dead etc. Those people did absolutely NOTHING wrong excepting for being born at the wrong place at the wrong time. So, yea , you sure seen some shit if you lived in that era, it would have been very scary indeed, it seems like if there was some kind of curse on that entire generation...
Costin Pitulice the reason why the spanish flu seemed to affect young men is because young men lived very close to each other in the absolutely horrendous and unsanitary trenches. And the spanish flu would probably not have been as devastating if not for the war
It was only observers in balloons who were allowed to have parachutes. It is tragic that so many young pilots needlessly died because they were forbidden to wear parachutes on the pretext that they would facilitate cowardice.
Truly grateful with the constant advent of technology, more of these films are being found, preserved and put out there.this conflict never received its due here since the US came in at the tail end, and was completely foreshadowed by the second war and the fact photographic and cinematic battle techniques and equipment had evolved insanely just in a 25 yr span.
They did it for us, we're told. My Grandfather had a different opinion. However, he started me on the road to being anti war, as did my father, who partook in the second WW!
@@blessedwithchallenges9917 Yes, I do believe that. Patton himself said 'we fought the wrong enemy'. May I suggest that you watch Europa: The Last Battle. You'll find it on bit'shute. It offers the non-mainstream version of history as written by the victors.
@@matoko123 I lived in Communist countries and watched people tortured and hacked up with machetes. I was personally imprisoned and, although they never physically beat me, they threatened it the whole time. Stalin, Lenin, Kim Ill Sung, (et al) are never going to be on my good side. I've known Jews from Holland who were in the concentration camps. You'll always find alt history; but finding good for society in authoritarian or communist dictatorships is not the way it works.
My grandad was a medic in The Great War. Mustard gas got him as he was pulling wounded off the battlefield. He was proud of his service and the friends he made in France. But….he did confide to me, a young lad, “Cannon fodder.”
That's odd. The beginning of the video showed a huge force of US troops, the end of the video showed a magnificent US war office seal. But all the action footage seems to be of the British, French, Germans or Italians. Did I miss the US action sequences?
John X we were only involved in the Meuse-Argon offensive in the last months of the war. The US did practically nothing of military value except join the winning team shortly before it was over. Pershing knew he didn't have well trained troops, so he kept us out of battle until he felt they could handle it so combat footage of US troops is rare
Ben Shanklin Hey Ben, that was the most refreshinly honest response to my comment. But don't discount the huge ammount of positive psychology the US troops bought to the fray. The effect of that was the real game-changer. (In my modestly-informed opinion.)
You do realise that Britain had to pay the US back don't you? Same for WW2. Final payment was in the 1990's I believe. US combat involvement would have shortened the war and prevented many additional and therefore unneccessary allied deaths. When our allies were in trouble, we responded on day one with no expectation of a refund.
WW1 was the worst war in recorded history, mainly due to how far weapon technology had progressed compared to medical technology. WW2 medical support was leaps and bounds better, with a much more efficient system for casualties. Also the act of trench warfare made most men go mad over time if they werent killed or maimed by the INSANE amount of artillery used.
Absolutely surreal! Even the ones who did survive, lived with hell in their minds. And even now, they are all past away. I do pray that they all found peace!
My grandfather was a Sargent in Company M of the 32nd Inf Brigade/Division. He was wounded at the battle of Chateau Thierry and a second time in the Argonne forest. He died of a seizure in 1921 as a result of the "shell shock." The repeated artillery explosions caused traumatic encephalopathy in the brain. Fortunately my grandmother was 5 months pregnant with my mother.
American troops were not well trained in 1917, We mostly fought directed by other allied troops. Eventually we were shipping 10,000 men a day into France, and our own Commander Pershing led us to several great victories, including Meuse Argonne.
Lets also not forget that the fastest international transportation was still by ship, so the fact that the US was able to grow so powerful so quickly proved them to be a World Power which altered history forever
@@anonymousnameless1835 You're joking by 1918 when the Americans started fighting British, French German troops etc were as good if not better than any rifle men ever. In fact in 1914 the British were considered the most devastatingly accurate marksmen in the world. The Germans at Mons thought the British were using machine guns because of the amount of fire coming from the British line. 30+ aimed rounds a minute from a bolt action 303 SMLE was some going.
I remember my late grandfather speaking highly of U.S. General "Black Jack Pershing" 7:16 back in the 1960s! As an ambulance driver he had seen some of the effects of the war close up. I still have some of the mementos he brought back from France, including some Kaiser Deutsch Marks.
I think the worst thing I remember isnt the death, or the gas, or the pictures of trenches that makes WW1, but those massive amounts of artilery. The huge railway guns and cannons with different breach loading mechanisms and designs. They were massive, and there were so many. Then in WW2, you hardly see any railway guns unless it was when germany was fighting france, sometime in russia or during the retreat in 1944.
Never seen footage like this from such a long time ago. Seems allies cooperated very closely for the signal corps to such incredible shots of allies. Brits and French look very professional.
Brits and Australians were very professional......they were, after all, fighting this war for the best part of three years before the US finally came to help.
Scott Seymour it would have been the height of arrogance for us to get involved in a war that had nothing to do with us. When Germany was stupid enough to pick a fight, we accepted. And you should be glad we did. Just like you should be glad we risked our pacific fleet at the Coral Sea to save Australia from invasion. If it had gone bad we opened up California and Hawaii to attack
RicTic66 well this is a US Army Signal Corps film, they may have received footage from allies. Allies US Army and Marines saved from certain defeat in 1918.
@@jwf1964 Certain defeat? The war was practically over before America started fighting. Yes the threat of a million or more troops from America swayed the Germans hand, but hardly any of them fought re to the amount of British, French, Canadians, Aussie's, Italians, Serbians etc. By 1918 the British had practically starved Germany into surrender on the home front and yes the German army may have fought on for another 6 months or so, but they were beat and the fact Pershing took so long to get fighting showed America was much more effective as an army on paper than they were in the field.
In no shape or form is any sort of war easy but these poor souls I think had it the worst. The film adds such an eerie effect to what is already hell on earth. Thank you for sharing this
War can be really crude, the hell we are able to create on earth itself its incomparable with any scenario we can ever imagine. Good thing we have footage, pictures and numbers to remember what it was, and to never repeat it again. They shall be never forgotten.
My Great Grandfather was German born in 1899 ,moved to the U.S. at 3yrs old only to go back to Germany after 14yrs to fight in WW1. He was a great guy and proud of what he did. Couldn't hear for sh!t. Crazyness.
Some units would leave a single man stationed on a ready to fire gun. If a target was called, the rest of the crew would join as soon as they heard the call/shot. That's why the rest of the crew immediately manned their stations without hesitation.
@@jasonnicholasschwarz7788 Not as many as you would think, the man pulling the ripcord tended to be the only one at risk of injury when the gun was firing. Just based upon where he would be, the man firing the gun should be 100% fine from the recoil if he knows where to position himself, the rest of the crew would have stepped away from the gun while it fired. They were probably more concerned about misfires, premature cook offs., and most importantly, counter fire.
Never forget the cost of not only human lives but the animals...horses I believe at least some 20 million were killed in WW1 if not more! Let alone livestock and farm animals. I don't know which war was worse, 1 or 2...yes, hell on earth!
Phenomenal, endlessly fascinating due to its uniqueness, longest continuous and most intense fighting, most powerful nations across the globe, an age of shivalry mashed in the meat grinder like young chicks to the slaughter house. A generation lost fighting each other
Monte Olsen war in its definition itself would make it the same, but to compare the devastation and death of WW1 to the Iraq or Afghan war is completely on the other side of debate. WW1 as you know was the most horrifying war ever fought. EVER
Mr. Ahmedin, my grandfather fought in WWI, my father fought in WWII, and my brother and I fought in Vietnam. My grandfather was gassed in WWI and suffered permanent damage to some of his internal organs. He was presented with Purple Heart and died at a comparatively young age of his late 40s.My father was shot down twice in WWII. All wars are horrible. But the GIs who serve in these wars, both men and women, come from the same stock and go through the same types trauma. If you doubt me, I suggest you read a book called "Achilles in Vietnam," which was written by a psychologist who treated Vietnam veterans. His contention, which is well supported, is that the effects of war are the same on the soldiers who participate in it. That is what I was trying to say, but perhaps not as well as I could have.
Jeremiah98 Battlefield 1 is a great game and it shows the horror that soldiers faced during the time of hell and blood, but it’s sort of unreal as there are machine guns in everyone’s hands and prototype weapons in others, but other than that, it’s a really great game. I have 2 service stars for my Kolibri and it’s my most used sidearm :D
Comming from a ex militant i must say this is sad and should never have happened..God bless everyone who died in these evil wars..soldiers..woman and children..animals..all because of the choices of a few..peace ✌
Peter , that clip was taken at the very early start of the conflict ( August 1914 ) around the Retreat from Mons , more than likely a German shell. as you can see the signs of trench war fare were still to happen . hope this enlightens you .
This is quit sad......its as good a nearly a century back....and we havent learned anything as human race,just stop thinking in blocks as religion-skin colour-politica favour just make the world a better place for all of the human race....Not many people want to harm others mostly its politics and economics who are are behind wars...So learn from it and prevent this..
Ben Niessen you're wrong. We actually have done much better. If you look at statistics and numbers, last 100 years, even including ww2 , are much more peaceful than any previous century. A lot of it is due to creation of one unified Europe whose economy is global and dependent on each other.
Ben Niessen ur so right, it's scary. There would be no war without racism and hatred of ppl different than others. Not one young person would fight a war if they did what God told us all, "luv the neighbor as thyself" there would be no war if we could learn this...
Stephanie Phelps Your sentiment about racism and hate is good and meant well but the First World War didn't start either due to racism or hatred between different people. In fact the powers in Europe who did most killing of each other were very similar people. Ironically it's this large scale war that actually may have broken some racial barriers because since this was a world war it involved many people who weren't European and who had dark skin and different religions than Christian. For example in the British army many Indian Sikhs served and after which they gained in status and greater acceptance in British society and Europe as a whole. Turks were allies of Germans. Turks were very nationalist, expansionist, and very Muslim. Now as a result that (and ww2) Germany is a society that has a huge number of Turks who immigrated and assimilated. This was the first war in which the United States enlisted a significant number of black people for the first time. (Not suggesting it was done out of good intent. Us gov needed men for war, and still abused blacks in military) but black people joined to what they saw as acceptance to earn by fighting and becoming veterans.
eddt430 I agree with what your dad taught you and what you taught yours but you are wrong in suggesting that the rich and powerful are the exclusive reason we have wars and killing, and the poor folks aren't these innocent Tolkien hobbits from the Shire
Whoever chose the background soundtrack deserved a hearty handshake. That was downright haunting towards the end.
Yeah, i wonder what the soundtrack is called.
I Would like to know as well
!! My 5year old could do better with $10 toy .. It was depressing.
Why so sad?
Oh yeah, I forgot. Drama sells.
@@74sampson Your 5 year old is gifted. I hope you foster & encourage their special talent.
Crazy to think at the start of WW1 these guys were closer to the napleonic wars than we are to them.
thebeezknees I think modern warfare is a mix between napoleonic warfare and modern warfare
Thankfully by 1914 the military had learned some of the lessons of the Crimean War and the U.S. Civil War eg you don't just line up opposite your opponents and fire etc
I'm always amazed by how short generational gaps are. I'm 28, when my dad was a kid he would help his mum on nursing rounds with elderly patients and he remembers speaking to survivors of the Boer war, he's 60 odd. Just to think, the last soldier who served in the American revolutionary war died between 1940-1950. You are never too far away from other generations when you think about it.
Military tactics of WW1 were directly inspired from u.s cesession war , considered as first modern war.
twaldy I think you meant the Civil war of 1861-1865...
There’s something about the ww1 that truly terrifies me. I think it’s the crossroads between old technology and new.
It's the way it Photographed with the Equipment of the Day ...The Creepy soundtrack is Sophmoricly Morbid and Predictable so....
Not to mention that if you looked at three other guys around you, at least one of you four would be dead before the war’s end. 25% casualty rate. Just horrible. At the Battle of the Somme, over one million men died. Just in one month.
@@andyblack5687 There wasn't a million dead on the Somme in one month. British and Commonwealth casualties for the entire war were about a million dead. That isn't to say it wasn't absolute carnage.
There's something about the combination of the claustrophobia of trench warfare, the certain death of no mans land and barbed wire, the uncleared corpses, the gas, the shelling and shell shock that combines into something morbidly terrifying. I always found WWI movies far scarier as a child than I did WWII ones. Maybe it was the gas masks.
Andy Black numbers are way off. Verdun was the worst meat grinder in WW1 and the Somme was horrendous. Almost 20,000 British troops died on the first day only with 60,000 casualties. Most of them in the first hour. The worst losses in British military history.
“Politicians who took us to war should have been given the guns and told to settle their differences themselves, instead of organising nothing better than legalised mass murder" - Harry Patch 1898-2009 The last British fighting Tommy
God bless Harry Patch and may he rest in peace ... greatman ..
True, all wars are mass human sacrifice to create changes afterwards. A society is not the same or as powerful when all the brave men are gone.
Harry Patch was a very cool dude.
One hundred and eleven years old. That must've been one hard yet outstanding life.
Old men start wars… young men fight them.
modern weapons, obsolete tactics, no antibiotics, and as much misery as yould ever want. glad I missed this party
And for what? So your kids could fight another one in '39?
@@jkline999 every war sucks we all know that, but first war was way cruel for soldiers.
Take your pic between WWI Verdun or WWII Stalingrad?
You said a mouthful there
@@datrevmeister Stalingrad please.
Verdun must have been an absolute nightmare
That first clip of the men marching in a huge mass past the camera, I've never seen anything like it. This whole video was haunting, gave me chills, and had my complete attention. It's not often that happens. It's rare to see such quality WW1 footage not created by Hollywood, sure some of it kinda seemed staged but for the most part it looked authentic. Thank you for uploading this, you deserve the like I'm about to bestow upon you.
Check out Apocalypse WWI. All in restored color and A LOT of footage. Chills you to the bone.
I've watched WW2 Apocalypse in full color but haven't heard anything about a WW1 documentary, I'd like to see that.
It's brutal.
America that's not CGI and it's both amazing and scary giave me goosebumps.
We still march like that from time to time, just not in the public eye.
Over 100 years ago... That's insane. This video gave me chills, just to think everyone in this video has passed away. I really don't know how to explain what I feel watching events of this war with very eery stock footage and music.
I thought the same thing... Nobody in any of this footage is alive anymore, like we are watching ghosts on film.
"Ghosts on film"... Exactly, that's a way I could describe how I feel. I couldn't have said it better myself...
Fooman530
Many were poor and young. They didn't think much back then. They didnt have the internet or mass communication.
You just worked the fields, in town.
Passed away? Unfortunately too many of them were blown away.
All over a stupid war they barely understood.
It's interesting but if life was from your nose to your outstretched arm, 4000 billion years ago is your nose, and one millimetre is of your outstretched finger nail is all of human history (5500 years). Life with bones etc only starts to appear near the base of the thumb. And humans like us only appear in the last segment of the index finger. How does that make you feel? Here's one for you relevant to this video. I am 54. Aged 7 I spoked to a man called George Sidwell (my step grandad). He was a Coldstream Guard (professional soldier) prior to WW1 and fought through it with his brother who got killed, and his best friend died of wounds in 1918 (Pvt Little). George would sit as I played with plastic soldiers, by then a very old man, and would repeat in a deep voice over and over again: "War is a terrible thing. A terrible thing." He told my dad, "Never allow the ruling classes to send you or anyone to war. Oppose it. Oppose them. Do not be deceived by them as we were! People are all people! Fight them rather than their enemies."
4:25 I've literally never thought about how well trained war horses must've been. Ive been around alot of horses that get froggy if you snap your fingers too loudly.
exactly what i thought in that moment
The best, and most, real scene in the video.
I thought the same after seeing them firing artillery right over their heads
Feel sorry for the poor horses they didn’t want this war
Ray Mond no one wanted the war you melon
Over 60 million soldiers fought in the "War to End All Wars".
It ended nothing.
Yet it changed the world forever.
Ossionci
*Cough* Battlefield 1 *Cough*
COD rolled the dice, but battlefield 1.
Ossionci What? Yes... we know. I was saying that you just ripped the line straight from the game.
It was a joke.
I actually don't remember posting this.
Only the dead truly know the end of war
Some rest in peace, others still at war
"Only the dead have seen the end of war" ~ Platon
The muffled drums sad roll has beat the soldiers last tattoo.
No more on life's parade shall meet the brave and fallen few.
On fames eternal camping ground their silent tents are spread
And glory guards with solemn round the bivouac of the dead.
-Theodore O'Hara
To sleep, perchance to dream...
They don't know antyhing
It's sad to think that there are no World War 1 veterans around anymore. :'(
Over 100 years ago ! Absolutely crazy I remember it like it was yesterday. The shells humming, the bullets whizzing, the men pissing. Oh the scary times
Just messing around, but thankfully we have some footage to always remember them by
I'm the son of a soldier and I wanted so much to meet and thank one
Both my grandfather's went to France and Belgium, both came home before the end.
One minus one eye, completely, the other with a shattered leg, a walking stick and a severe limp.
They were two of the lucky ones.
Of my grandmother and her three sisters she was the only one to marry.
I met several in the 1980s.. Old Guard...that breed is G o n e ..
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Honestly, despite what people say about WWII and after having done quite a bit of research on all the variables that went with WWI, it was damn near the deadliest conflict in human history. The sheer number of people that died in so short a time. Absolutely tragic.
Josh WW2 was clearly the deadliest and most horrific war to ever be waged, but WW1, for the soldiers, was the most hellish existence, more so than the frontlines of WW2. Yes, comparatively, much less death than WW2, but for the millions that survived the combat, their time in the trenches was a literal hellscape. We can never forget WW1, which is sadly more common thing to forget today.
Well when you think about the 4 years WWI was and the deaths and then compare the 12 years WWII was its safe to say WWI could've been much worse, thank god it wasn't.
Dr. MEME! The WW2 was 6 years not 12
*shush*
Some bloke in your back garden There are some historians that will argue that WW2 began when Japan invaded China in 1933.
When you watch that horse and rider get hit by the artillery shell you just before the end you see the horse trying to get back up,sad man, respect, never forgotten
They shoot their own man as far as I can make out.
John Mason what time stamp?
@@mattwalters6834 6:03
Da Real Printey thanks
@@VileCAESARB Why?
This scares me, just to know, that they faced hell and millions never came back
Earl Yoist The vast majority of combatants survived.
A very small number survived from the start of the war in 1914 through to 1918 despite repeated service in the trenches
It wasnt throughput the whole war that losses were high. Its just that the greatest losses of the war happened within a span of Weeks to Months.
Plus when they come back home they then face the Spanish flu that kill more then the WW1 victim.
@@omen828 the wives put it best, "they returned ghosts of the men they once were" none survived unscathed
Although many were very young, they were real men. Respect
They were fools.
All men are real men and most of them are simple minds like the one who wrote the naive words I'm replying to
@@matoko123 they were forced to fight and carried out the job. How dare you call the men who fought for your freedom fools.
@@tillerman7272 If some men in suits in government tells you to say goodbye to your family, go and 'fight' and die for what we say are valid reasons and you say 'sure, sounds good to me' then I have no problem at all in calling that person a fool. There would be no wars without the brainwashed fools of this world.
And as for WW1 and 2 are you sure the good guys won? Of course you are you've read it in the history books written by the victors.
@@matoko123 you make me sick
My great Uncle fought there, US Marine. Came back a madman.
... a prayer for him and all the other poor souls who were lost in WWI & WWII
My Great Uncle was a Marine in WWI, and died of a heart attack a few years after coming back. All that stress.
@@alicehopkins5567 sorry, so sad. Wish the hate, madness and war could end.......but it never will
And madmen sent him there.
@@backdraft57 There's serious money to be made by wars, they'll never stop.
My grandmother's eldest was KIA in France 24 OCT 1918. Just days before the cease fire. Initially buried in France, his remains were repatriated to the USA in 1921. He now rests in Arlington alongside his Brothers-in-arms.
I’m sorry to hear that. I wish the best to you and your family.
Absolutely fascinating, I do not think people realize how devastating this war was because it gets overshadowed a lot by world war 2. This was the first true mechanized war with so much death and destruction, horrific.
I love it! :-)
Impressive. Real action. I was impressed with that cart drawn by horses that nearly turns upside down.
spooky music
mikhailv67 what’s it called
mikhailv67
Makes me think of Allah.
+Timothy O how does creepy music make you think of the all merciful?
mikhailv67 I think it adds to the “theme” if you will. War always seems eerie and the music definitely has that eerie sound to it?
I think it is the perfect atmospheric music. It fits the air and the ground around the soldiers. It was the twilight for them, live here die there and everywhere. There was no escaping this music
I think that is the best quality WW1 footage I've ever seen.
What never changes is death itself. Fast forward or rewind, death always looks the same, no matter how the method of killing may change. It's still death, death is timeless
Lumi Michael death is universal.
+Gary Daniel temporary
I think the saddest part of all is to this day farmers plow up remains of these young men in the Europe killing fields...respect and Rest In Peace warriors
And so much ammunition is dug up every year .... tons of shells and bombs. They call it the Iron Harvest.
Sad to think everyone in these clips are all dead now.
Andyb2379 it’s also a bit freaky to like were are we going to be in 100 years just like them brother but yes it is most definitely sad
J Thorsson for F sake Google it, this is a comments section not a dang chat room.
J Thorsson so why are you still alive?
There is no such thing, everything is an arrangement of what each person can or will tolerate from others, people are naturally insane, no other way to justify or explain our historical/present actions/ events. Nobody could ever convince me to go to war like these people did, yet if I didn't fight I'd be considered a coward as if there is anything wrong with not wanting to participate in killing and dying until a time of my own free choice.
It's life.
I can't believe I'm watching footage of WW1
... I agree... I had to check the title to see which war it was from
It's very interesting to literally watch in motion 100 years ago.
The image stabilisation and frame rate regulation on this is absolutely incredible, good job guys.
man its been 100 years ago.everyone you see here is long gone.Nobody survives life.
always get caught by bizarre yet realistic thoughts of what you said when watching these old videos..
Kresimir Kolumbic its a sad testament to mans ability to violate themselves out of the basic principles of life and to the lowest means to do it with.
Terry Franks
Terry Franks Touché Sir, Touché
Terry Franks RIP to the men who fought in the war.
Those guys in the obsevations balloons during WW1!! I have always been fascinated by the nature of human being to volunteer for doing the most suicidal things....
Rare footage. I've seen some of this but other stuff is new to me. Do you have more?
I've seen most of this before .. some was filmed after battles for training purposes.
My grand father was in that hell hole. Fields of mud, full of decomposing corpes, stench, bones, fragments & unexploded munitions. Even today, farmer's find so much stuff left from those times. One of many sad chapters in human history. 🖐 🇦🇺 .
Extremely good footage considering how old the film is. Plus much of that I know I've never seen before
War on that scale is simply madness.
the scariest thing is GaS everyone is putting mask on but you didn't find your mask.
James Reidtabo the scariest thing is living during that era
Or it ripped from shrapnel
WalkingOnSunshineMan BF1 reference?
Teutonicus Furor Excuse me?The two world wars, spainish flu, rise of nazism and communism, great depression , concentration camps, gulags? In fact, I think the generation born between 1893-1901 has to pass as the most unlucky generation to EVER exist in history , WORLDWIDE , but especially in Europe, just think about it, you are born in any year between 1893-1901, in 1914, World War 1 breaks out , if you were born in 1894-1896, you would have just came of age in 1914, which makes you just the perfect age for getting conscripted in the army of whatever country you are from, so it's more than sure that you will get conscripted for fighting in the war at any time between 1914-1918/19 in the army of the country you are from, the war ends in 1918-1919, at the same time when the spainish flu hits, so if you didn't die in the war, you might probably die because of spainish flu(because by the way most of the infected ones where young men with ages between 18-25 years old, so EXACTLY the soldiers that had just returned from the front) , so if you didn't die neither at the front, neither from the spainish flu, you would have a time of relative peace and prosperity in the 20's( in the case of the winning nations only)....before the 1929 great depression hit , when you might not die, but you will surely lose your job , your house,remain homeless and starving. If you were from the former Russian Empire, you also caught the 1917 revolution, the rise of communism, and the purges and gulags of lenin and stalin,if you where from Germany, you caught the rise of hitler ,if you where a jew , homosexual , gypsy or a person with a handicap,you got put into a ghetto , if you where from Italy or Japan, you caught the rise of fascism in those countries, then world war 2 breaks out , and you might be consripted AGAIN in your country's army, so if you didn't die in the other war you 'll probably die in this one,if you are jewish, gypsy , homosexual, polish or a person with a handicap from nazi Germany or nazi -controlled territory you got moved from the ghetto to a concentration camp where you'll most likely die. If you where a german/axis soldier on the eastern front you might have fallen prisoner and be sent to a gulag where you'll most likely die.Don't forget the bombings , air raids and street battles, if you survive the war and you are from Eastern or Central Europe, you'll see the installing of the communist dictatorial regime in your country, and you might end up in a communust gulag , where you'll most likely die(of course if you survived all the events listed above) and even if you are not from Eastern or Central Europe , you still spend the last years of your life in a continent in ruins, ravaged by war and rampant poverty, probably suffering from PTSD and each and every single possible disease in the world, you probably lack at least a foot or an arm, all of your friends and big parts of your family are dead etc. Those people did absolutely NOTHING wrong excepting for being born at the wrong place at the wrong time. So, yea , you sure seen some shit if you lived in that era, it would have been very scary indeed, it seems like if there was some kind of curse on that entire generation...
Costin Pitulice the reason why the spanish flu seemed to affect young men is because young men lived very close to each other in the absolutely horrendous and unsanitary trenches. And the spanish flu would probably not have been as devastating if not for the war
Remarkable film. Thanks for posting and stay safe.
It was only observers in balloons who were allowed to have parachutes. It is tragic that so many young pilots needlessly died because they were forbidden to wear parachutes on the pretext that they would facilitate cowardice.
The only cowards were the politicians who send this men to face the bullets and artillery while they remained comfy and safe
Amazing choice of music to couple these scenes with. Well done.
Thank you for your service
Maybe if we fire just ONE MORE shell, that will affect the outcome of this battle/war.
0:41 Sneak sneak sneak "Oye, camera man, we trying to stealth here! Go away with your big ass breadbox camera!"
Thank you for this upload. I so enjoy learning about the Great War.
I always feel so sorry for the horses, millions died, but they were just being faithful to their masters .
when they died they ate them
Truly grateful with the constant advent of technology, more of these films are being found, preserved and put out there.this conflict never received its due here since the US came in at the tail end, and was completely foreshadowed by the second war and the fact photographic and cinematic battle techniques and equipment had evolved insanely just in a 25 yr span.
They did it for us, we're told. My Grandfather had a different opinion. However, he started me on the road to being anti war, as did my father, who partook in the second WW!
Wars are designed only to make very wealthy individuals a lot wealthier. Your ancestors were quite right.
my Scot grandfather was a piper in france. never met him but very proud of him.
If you like this you will love the War of 1812 combat footage.
Yeah! War of 1812!
homebuiltindoorplane I'm going to be uploading some rare footage from the Battle Cannae soon. It's going to be a little grainy.
Haha thanks! Have a great day!
Doc Bailey Seen the go pro footage of Hannibals SS panzer division "das Numidian" at Trebia? or 3rd Balearic slingergrenadiers at Trasimene?
pastor of muppets
I have a little bit of footage of the Crusades, but it was shot on wooden film, and it had seriously degraded from termites.
Nobody in these scenes is alive. They certainly made a difference for us today. Incredible.
Not necessarily for the better.
@@matoko123 you believe Europe and Asia would be better off under Hitler's rule? Wow.
@@blessedwithchallenges9917 Yes, I do believe that. Patton himself said 'we fought the wrong enemy'. May I suggest that you watch Europa: The Last Battle. You'll find it on bit'shute. It offers the non-mainstream version of history as written by the victors.
@@matoko123 I lived in Communist countries and watched people tortured and hacked up with machetes. I was personally imprisoned and, although they never physically beat me, they threatened it the whole time. Stalin, Lenin, Kim Ill Sung, (et al) are never going to be on my good side. I've known Jews from Holland who were in the concentration camps. You'll always find alt history; but finding good for society in authoritarian or communist dictatorships is not the way it works.
@@blessedwithchallenges9917 Agreed, now watch Europa.
My grandad was a medic in The Great War. Mustard gas got him as he was pulling wounded off the battlefield. He was proud of his service and the friends he made in France. But….he did confide to me, a young lad, “Cannon fodder.”
My Grandad was there. Mounted cavalry.
He lived to be 99 yrs old.
My Pa, fought ww2. He lived to be 78.
These were good men.
That's odd. The beginning of the video showed a huge force of US troops, the end of the video showed a magnificent US war office seal.
But all the action footage seems to be of the British, French, Germans or Italians.
Did I miss the US action sequences?
John X we were only involved in the Meuse-Argon offensive in the last months of the war. The US did practically nothing of military value except join the winning team shortly before it was over. Pershing knew he didn't have well trained troops, so he kept us out of battle until he felt they could handle it so combat footage of US troops is rare
Ben Shanklin Hey Ben, that was the most refreshinly honest response to my comment. But don't discount the huge ammount of positive psychology the US troops bought to the fray. The effect of that was the real game-changer. (In my modestly-informed opinion.)
The material contribution from the US was far more important than any actual combat involvement.
You do realise that Britain had to pay the US back don't you?
Same for WW2. Final payment was in the 1990's I believe.
US combat involvement would have shortened the war and prevented many additional and therefore unneccessary allied deaths.
When our allies were in trouble, we responded on day one with no expectation of a refund.
You might be mistaking Americans for British or French seeing as they had to borrow lots of gear from the French and British
Every man in this video has passed and met his creator.many never made it back home to their families
0:16 That scene gives me chills. That America doesn't exist anymore.
That's the only bit that features Americans. A staged flag waving. Most of this was filmed long before America entered the war.
WW1 was the worst war in recorded history, mainly due to how far weapon technology had progressed compared to medical technology. WW2 medical support was leaps and bounds better, with a much more efficient system for casualties. Also the act of trench warfare made most men go mad over time if they werent killed or maimed by the INSANE amount of artillery used.
4:33 imagine the terror not only for the men but for these horses
Amazing footage
Absolutely surreal! Even the ones who did survive, lived with hell in their minds. And even now, they are all past away. I do pray that they all found peace!
My grandfather was a Sargent in Company M of the 32nd Inf Brigade/Division. He was wounded at the battle of Chateau Thierry and a second time in the Argonne forest. He died of a seizure in 1921 as a result of the "shell shock." The repeated artillery explosions caused traumatic encephalopathy in the brain. Fortunately my grandmother was 5 months pregnant with my mother.
I imagine everybody is thinking,thank God we’re alive now and not then🙏
Don't speak so soon
Cool. That's some eerie music. Good video
American troops were not well trained in 1917, We mostly fought directed by other allied troops. Eventually we were shipping 10,000 men a day into France, and our own Commander Pershing led us to several great victories, including Meuse Argonne.
But Americans were better marksmen due to the 2nd Amendment.
Lets also not forget that the fastest international transportation was still by ship, so the fact that the US was able to grow so powerful so quickly proved them to be a World Power which altered history forever
@@anonymousnameless1835 You're joking by 1918 when the Americans started fighting British, French German troops etc were as good if not better than any rifle men ever. In fact in 1914 the British were considered the most devastatingly accurate marksmen in the world. The Germans at Mons thought the British were using machine guns because of the amount of fire coming from the British line. 30+ aimed rounds a minute from a bolt action 303 SMLE was some going.
I remember my late grandfather speaking highly of U.S. General "Black Jack Pershing" 7:16 back in the 1960s! As an ambulance driver he had seen some of the effects of the war close up. I still have some of the mementos he brought back from France, including some Kaiser Deutsch Marks.
I think the worst thing I remember isnt the death, or the gas, or the pictures of trenches that makes WW1, but those massive amounts of artilery. The huge railway guns and cannons with different breach loading mechanisms and designs. They were massive, and there were so many. Then in WW2, you hardly see any railway guns unless it was when germany was fighting france, sometime in russia or during the retreat in 1944.
The absolute madness of mankind on full display here
Not mankind, only the ruling elite.
Isn't it heartbreaking people thought this would be the Last big global conflict?
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Never seen footage like this from such a long time ago. Seems allies cooperated very closely for the signal corps to such incredible shots of allies. Brits and French look very professional.
Brits and Australians were very professional......they were, after all, fighting this war for the best part of three years before the US finally came to help.
Most of this was filmed long before America entered the war.
Scott Seymour it would have been the height of arrogance for us to get involved in a war that had nothing to do with us. When Germany was stupid enough to pick a fight, we accepted. And you should be glad we did. Just like you should be glad we risked our pacific fleet at the Coral Sea to save Australia from invasion. If it had gone bad we opened up California and Hawaii to attack
RicTic66 well this is a US Army Signal Corps film, they may have received footage from allies. Allies US Army and Marines saved from certain defeat in 1918.
@@jwf1964 Certain defeat? The war was practically over before America started fighting. Yes the threat of a million or more troops from America swayed the Germans hand, but hardly any of them fought re to the amount of British, French, Canadians, Aussie's, Italians, Serbians etc. By 1918 the British had practically starved Germany into surrender on the home front and yes the German army may have fought on for another 6 months or so, but they were beat and the fact Pershing took so long to get fighting showed America was much more effective as an army on paper than they were in the field.
Poor horses. Unsung heros. Cool film.
Not that unsung, they made a movie about them, 'Warhorse'.
@@matoko123 good movie
How have we made it this far?
In no shape or form is any sort of war easy but these poor souls I think had it the worst. The film adds such an eerie effect to what is already hell on earth. Thank you for sharing this
Wars should be fought by the politicians who declare the war in the first place
War can be really crude, the hell we are able to create on earth itself its incomparable with any scenario we can ever imagine. Good thing we have footage, pictures and numbers to remember what it was, and to never repeat it again. They shall be never forgotten.
No mans' land...
My Great Grandfather was German born in 1899 ,moved to the U.S. at 3yrs old only to go back to Germany after 14yrs to fight in WW1. He was a great guy and proud of what he did. Couldn't hear for sh!t.
Crazyness.
He fought for the wrong side.
@@matoko123 He fought for his country, which a disgusting worm like you doesn't understand.
Was rad watching the 1 man operating the cannon till they came in
he was prolly mad shitting his pants the entire time. i would not even gonna lie
Some units would leave a single man stationed on a ready to fire gun. If a target was called, the rest of the crew would join as soon as they heard the call/shot. That's why the rest of the crew immediately manned their stations without hesitation.
@@yeahmydudes I always wonder how many got killed by getting in the way of the recoil...instant death Iguess.
@@jasonnicholasschwarz7788 Not as many as you would think, the man pulling the ripcord tended to be the only one at risk of injury when the gun was firing. Just based upon where he would be, the man firing the gun should be 100% fine from the recoil if he knows where to position himself, the rest of the crew would have stepped away from the gun while it fired. They were probably more concerned about misfires, premature cook offs., and most importantly, counter fire.
Rich man's war
Paid by poor man's blood & bone
where can I download this music?
1:18 Bottom left: The people in the car are like, “Ok, they’re shelling the post office now. Time to go!”
My grandfather was wounded from an artillery shell while on horseback, Captain Fred Vassell.
Never forget the cost of not only human lives but the animals...horses I believe at least some 20 million were killed in WW1 if not more! Let alone livestock and farm animals. I don't know which war was worse, 1 or 2...yes, hell on earth!
Firing shells over the top of that horse column. Wow horses were used to the noise I suppose
They were well trained.
How cruel the world it was
Could not believe the number of men in that opening scene. It is insane!
Phenomenal, endlessly fascinating due to its uniqueness, longest continuous and most intense fighting, most powerful nations across the globe, an age of shivalry mashed in the meat grinder like young chicks to the slaughter house. A generation lost fighting each other
The English and German colonels upwards had a lovely war visiting each other for dinner, after all they were related.
Wars don't change, that's for sure. A GI in WWI isn't a lot different than a GI in Iraq or Afghanistan.
Monte Olsen there's a big difference...
And what is that difference, sir?
Monte Olsen war in its definition itself would make it the same, but to compare the devastation and death of WW1 to the Iraq or Afghan war is completely on the other side of debate.
WW1 as you know was the most horrifying war ever fought. EVER
Mr. Ahmedin, my grandfather fought in WWI, my father fought in WWII, and my brother and I fought in Vietnam.
My grandfather was gassed in WWI and suffered permanent damage to some of his internal organs. He was presented with Purple Heart and died at a comparatively young age of his late 40s.My father was shot down twice in WWII.
All wars are horrible. But the GIs who serve in these wars, both men and women, come from the same stock and go through the same types trauma. If you doubt me, I suggest you read a book called "Achilles in Vietnam," which was written by a psychologist who treated Vietnam veterans. His contention, which is well supported, is that the effects of war are the same on the soldiers who participate in it.
That is what I was trying to say, but perhaps not as well as I could have.
Jemil youre a little bitch trying to call someone out. Get over yourself
Music name anyone?
I'm watching this while playin bf1
Jeremiah98 Battlefield 1 is a great game and it shows the horror that soldiers faced during the time of hell and blood, but it’s sort of unreal as there are machine guns in everyone’s hands and prototype weapons in others, but other than that, it’s a really great game. I have 2 service stars for my Kolibri and it’s my most used sidearm :D
Jeremiah98 Verdun now that's a real WW1 game
Good presentation.
Anyone know the music?
ComrADHD no idea Shazam can't detect it
Comming from a ex militant i must say this is sad and should never have happened..God bless everyone who died in these evil wars..soldiers..woman and children..animals..all because of the choices of a few..peace ✌
Dear god I just saw the Earth lifted.
What is this sound file on this clip?
Frikin gnarly !!! Damn !
Great footage...sad..but good
戦争に馬車っていつの時代ですか？
馬は常に人間の仲間であった
Now,these are the one's they should ad colour to!👌
I'm thinking that Fatal Shot at 6:05 was friendly fire
Why no other rounds on target
PETER PIPER both sides would target Lines of communication for random shots. Could have that.
Peter , that clip was taken at the very early start of the conflict ( August 1914 ) around the Retreat from Mons , more than likely a German shell. as you can see the signs of trench war fare were still to happen . hope this enlightens you .
Title of sound track?
Makes one wonder if the three camo snipers were filmed by a camo'd photographer
Furing on a camera operator is considered a war crime. Similar to firing on nurses during the civil war
Omg those horse wagons were FLYING over the hill hahahahaha.
This is quit sad......its as good a nearly a century back....and we havent learned anything as human race,just stop thinking in blocks as religion-skin colour-politica favour just make the world a better place for all of the human race....Not many people want to harm others mostly its politics and economics who are are behind wars...So learn from it and prevent this..
Wow!! They must be REALLY old!!!
Ben Niessen you're wrong. We actually have done much better. If you look at statistics and numbers, last 100 years, even including ww2 , are much more peaceful than any previous century. A lot of it is due to creation of one unified Europe whose economy is global and dependent on each other.
Ben Niessen ur so right, it's scary. There would be no war without racism and hatred of ppl different than others. Not one young person would fight a war if they did what God told us all, "luv the neighbor as thyself" there would be no war if we could learn this...
Stephanie Phelps Your sentiment about racism and hate is good and meant well but the First World War didn't start either due to racism or hatred between different people. In fact the powers in Europe who did most killing of each other were very similar people. Ironically it's this large scale war that actually may have broken some racial barriers because since this was a world war it involved many people who weren't European and who had dark skin and different religions than Christian. For example in the British army many Indian Sikhs served and after which they gained in status and greater acceptance in British society and Europe as a whole. Turks were allies of Germans. Turks were very nationalist, expansionist, and very Muslim. Now as a result that (and ww2) Germany is a society that has a huge number of Turks who immigrated and assimilated. This was the first war in which the United States enlisted a significant number of black people for the first time. (Not suggesting it was done out of good intent. Us gov needed men for war, and still abused blacks in military) but black people joined to what they saw as acceptance to earn by fighting and becoming veterans.
eddt430 I agree with what your dad taught you and what you taught yours but you are wrong in suggesting that the rich and powerful are the exclusive reason we have wars and killing, and the poor folks aren't these innocent Tolkien hobbits from the Shire