@@enjibkk6850 Well, if it interests you. There's a polish building block based toy Company called "Cobi", which focuses it's sets more on ww1, ww2, cold war and modern day military. They have almost everything what a military history enthusiast could desire: Tiger Panzer, M4 Sherman, T-34, Yamato etc. All the favourites from the Allied Forces, Wehrmacht, Red Army and Imperial Japan.
The attention to detail is insane, even having the Chauchat jam and the clip thing slide through the Hotchkiss gun. Not to mention the French and the Germans having accurate rifles. Crazy
I was amazed at how Lego bricks and lack of blood and gore better illustrated the brutality of battle better than many movies that had an over abundance of blood and gore.
From what I gather, you go through every conceivable emotion, then just accept you are already dead, and use the anger of that acceptance to take as many enemy with you as you go.
@@MrRedeyedJedi That's horrifying... i can't believe people did that, and in the aftermath, it only brought up another war even worser than the first one...
verdun was more urban and flat land fighting. trench fighting wasn’t till around the end of the battle. germans almost won but their high command decided it was too bloody and ordered a retreat
The way I imagine it is that, in a weird and ironic way, it's probably so overwhelming that you're calm, if you get what I mean. There's just so many things to panic about, so many things to stress over that you can't even organize the thoughts and so you just turn off, you stop thinking about those things because they're so difficult to think about and instead you just get tunnel vision on the fighting.
The duel intensifies and the French solider got the upper hand, but German mange to outsmart him. Before they know it, the German Artillary reached their position, killing them both.
@@lewisandeviesfuntime1931wouldnt affirm that with such certainty, he could be dead or badly injured. Also if the french soldier survived it could be a metaphore for the costly french victory in the battle.
I really appreciate the fact that you put some context after the animation was done. These animations are always so interesting to watch, but understanding the grim and dark history of it can only provide more context to such an important topic.
This is what i wanted to make as a kid. Not only is the lego stop motion impressive but the use of cinematography principles and storytelling is so good.
I just can't imagine the number of hours one would have to work for this brilliant stop motion movie. I just hope you earn some money with it. The amount of detail and little mini movements between shots is unbelievable. Kudos to you and your crew.
For real. Like around the 1:00 mark when two dudes are sitting on the back of a moving truck: you actually see them jostling a little bit as the truck goes over some bumpy terrain. Incredible.
The amount of historical accuracy and attention to detail in this video is very impressive. I can tell the person who made this cared deeply about the subject matter.
That was not only an absolutely outstanding piece of stop motion cinema but also the sound design was exceptionally effective. The way the soldiers just drop suddenly and without screaming was scary as hell. Loved the slide show at the end too. As someone who visited many of the WW1 battlefields as a child, I found this was actually very touching
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@@miriadlamentations Do not try to spread the gospel on random videos on youtube, it only turns people off from it. Spread the gospel somewhere that people listen, so that they actually turn to Jesus. To be fair, it takes almost no time to write a few verses in a comment section. But I would be surprised if it worked for 1/10000 people.
It's because it's based on real history. At least this is how I would explain it. But I find it still impressive from the author to convey those feelings through toys.
As a kid nothing gave me more emotions than playing with my Lego Star Wars Toys. I imagined the biggest galaxy battles with only two Lego Jets in my hand
Damn that French machine gunner going in with a bayonet to cover the retreat of his comrades was both badass and heroic. The expressionless face showing determination to save others was strong enough that being hit with a club and 2 shots merely fazed him.
Im a little late, but the way you ended this was spectacular and hugely symbolic. I absolutely loved the character development of the final 2 soldiers. The way it ended sent an incredibly powerful message about futility and told an incredible story. Well done.
"History comes alive with Lego's" is a sentence I never thought I would utter... but WOW some amazing work depicting just a small portion of the longest battles fought in a war that has shaped the world in which we live, and sadly is often overlooked. Well done!
okay this was legitimately one of the best bits of WW1 era moviemaking i've seen. absolutely impressive that you managed to capture the horror of Verdun using LEGO.
The most insane thing about Verdun, Somme and Passchendaele was that the one of the main objectives was to literally grind German manpower down. French and British forces numbered roughly the same as the German army but the British could count on the arrival of commonwealth forces from their Dominion territories, so there was a near constant stream of soldiers arriving the reinforce the allies but for the Germans they only had the unreliable Austro-Hungarian and ottoman forces which weren't even in the same theater. Somme and Verdun were literal meat grinders
Exactly, that's why WW1 was so horrible, the allied powers said, we think you'll run out of bullets before we run out of men, the Germans thought pretty similarly too
Partially true comment, because in 1914, the German Empire was twice more populated than France or UK. That's the reason why the German have handled war on two fronts (west & russian east front). And could still launch massive offensives in 1918, after Bolchevik revolution.
Don't forget, one of the First Battle of the Somme's main aims was to relieve pressure on the French at Verdun. The single most deadly day in British military history, to relieve pressure elsewhere. I understand the French wer almost at the point of mutiny, which was at least prevented... until 1917.
I do not agree, during the battle of Verdun, the British forces represented only 10% of the forces in combat, it was the French who did all the work, so please respect the French soldiers and I would respect the English soldiers
for a lego animation, that ending was more powerful than speeding shrapnel. truly displayed the horrors of war, and how there is no real winner. superb job.
For the first time in history during this battle the French introduced a mecanized supply line with thousands of trucks. Along the 72 km of the "Voie Sacrée" (Sacred Way), transport vehicles were on the move day and night ferrying troops, armaments, and supplies to the Verdun battlefield. During the initial crisis of 21 February to 22 March, 600 trucks per day had already delivered 48,000 tons of ammunition, 6,400 tons of other material and 263,000 men to the battlefield. Beginning on February 21, all horse drawn traffic and troop movements on foot had been ordered off the road leaving it open for truck and motor car traffic only. After March 1916, one truck passed every 14 seconds, submitting the road to considerable wear and tear. Quarries had to be opened nearby to supply the road with crushed stone. Over the course of ten months, 16 labour battalions worked to keep the road in good shape and order. A special unit responsible for controlling traffic and servicing the vehicles numbered 300 officers and 8,500 men. The rolling stock was made up of 3500 Berliet and Renault trucks plus 800 ambulances, the latter often being Ford Model T's. Thirty breakdown trucks remained on the road at all times with repair crews stationed besides them. Any disabled vehicle was immediately moved to the roadside so as not to interrupt the flow of traffic.
The Germans had the opportunity to bomb the Sacred Way, but Erich von Falkenhayn wanted it open because his objective was to 'bleed the French white'. What a disgusting war, compared to any other I can think of
when the two heroes of each side, the german officer that cut the barbed wire and the french guy with the chauchat were fighting, i saw the greatest duel of all time.
@@kevindowling157 key words are trench warfare, it was a decent gun as long as you could keep it clean, and as you know you can't do that while living in a trench.
I just can't imagine what it must have been like to be one of those infantry men. Those horrific trench conditions were one thing, but knowing when that whistle blows, you may as well be already dead is something else entirely
You really have to question the sanity of the commanders, to think that standing people up in front of automatic weapons like bowling pins would have any other outcome other than annihilation. It enrages me to think that they simply sent young men out there to die.
@@minkorrh Paths of Glory is a great film about the obsolete and borderline inhumane military thinking of the time. It is Kubrick's first big film and has kirk douglas as the leading actor.
This war completely traumatized a whole generation. Had I been born exactly one hundred years earlier, my chances of dying on the battlefield were 25%. And if I was among the survivor then most of my comrades would have been wounded at some point and psychologically scarred for life. Makes me think of those poor Ukrainians living under Russian shelling and assaults
Some of the scenes in this film gave me chills. Even though they are just plastic figures they convey quite a bit of emotion. My thoughts turned to All Quiet on the Western Front, which I recently read. Though war itself is quite depressing, The Great War is unmatched in its ability to instantly cause dejection.
Having the word “great” infront of war is the cringiest thing. I know that’s what it’s called but I feel like we need to not say it lol. Nothing great about war.
@@Dan-Martin "Great" in this context means "large". It refers to the magnitude of the conflict, it does not have a positive moral connotation. "The Great War" is the historical way to refer to it as well, given that it was not "World War 1" until the second one happened. I agree that there is nothing great about war though, only that we must study it.
The odd thing is how many people voluntarily signed up. The documentary "they shall not grow old" tells the Brittish side and even after the war they said they would do it again. It goes beyond understanding how the apetite for destruction lives in us all.
@@amx2311 Yes, good comment. Nationalism is a potent destructive force. Our friend @Daniel Martin here with his Statue of Liberty profile picture would do well to think about this rather than making ill thought-out statements about war while displaying the symbol of a warmongering nation.
That is some of the best stop motion I've ever seen. More than just stop motion, you had the right FOV, camera shake and other elements that gave it a strong feel. I like that your stop motion technique was more incremental than others and had more motion throughout. Jason and the Argonauts, Sinbad and Clash of the Titans have been the benchmark for a long time for me, but this rocks!
@@floorman7076 You know, I'm watching this for a second time and again, this is ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT! I am very curious as to the lenses that were used in this, 100mm Macro, f/1.2 50mm prime, tilt shift lenses, etc.? I would love to know more!
C'est avant 5:35, et il y en a deux c'est des allemands à 4:08 un tireur d'élite (d'ailleurs je m'étonne de son casque différent des autres, car il me semble que ce genre de casque n'arrive qu'en 39-45), et 4:19 un tireur fusil classique de combat voilà.
Me before the video: "Oh cool, a Lego video of WW I!" Me after the video: "Wow." Struck more emotions than I thought it would. Went from watching an epic and action-packed battle, to realizing this was an actual bloody battle where thousands of people died and feeling sorry for all of those people. Amazing job.
Yeah man, I can't imagine what my Great Uncle went through in this battle. He was at Verdun in the French 99th Infantry Regiment. He arrived as part of a reinforcement wave in October 1916 after his unit got nearly wiped out at the Tavannes sector. His regiment spent all 10 months at Verdun along with the 151st Infantry, and they became known as “The Verdun Regiments”.
It’s also very accurate, as the machine gun he is using is known as the chauchat. It was notorious for being having a slow firing rate, high recoil and frequent jams, all of which were depicted in the video.
@brandonzhou2233 True, but the massive jamming was due to how dirty the magazine got in the trenches. Soldiers running on the field with it reported that they had no problems with the Chauchat jamming. Sadly, the American Chauchat was even worse due to the way the magazine was structured.
It's so impressive how far the Lego stop motion scene has come. I remember 10 years ago watching The Battle of Remagne and others with crude stop motion and audio lifted from popular ww2 movies. This is incredible.
This is simply breathtaking. The amount of time, effort, and detail you put into this is unreal. You're going to have a very long career in film and animation!
Incredible quality of animation. The movement of the set as well as the movement of the camera, the nuance of each shot, and the consistency through the whole animation are all fantastic. That last shot with the 2 talented soldiers fighting to the death only to be blown up together by an artillery shell- that is some excruciating genius. Bravo 👏
This is amazing. Really magical storytelling. By about 60 seconds in, the Legos faded into the background and I was no longer watching a Lego reenactment but completely engrossed in the story.
In the beginning I was laughing and thinking how well done this was. When they got to the trenches I realized that this was definitely no joke. The fact that they're little plastic men does nothing to alleviate the sense of horror and sadness that I feel as this ends. I'm 54.
I saw the beginning of the clip as it autoplayed, and thought “eh, looks alright, might as well check it out.” I’m very glad I did. The animation alone is amazing, but the audio pairing, the sound effects, and the fantastic music chosen really brings out the feeling, until at the end, I’m quite invested in these two awesome nameless soldiers fighting, duking it out to the bitter end only to both be wiped by an unlucky artillery shell.
Ah, this reminds me of when I used to play with Legos as a kid... I didn't have as many figures, and I wanted big battles. What I used to do was take the cylindrical pieces and pretend they were soldiers. Sometimes adding a stub on top to pretend it was a helmet, and to help me recognize them... I even used to build tanks, boats or drop ships with 2 or 3 pieces. I don't know if more kids used to do that, but it was great. I ended up with "battles" covering an entire room.
I always used to feel bad having the Legos murder each other so I'd pit them against an army of those clips you use with a cloths line. (With different clipped together vehicles like fighter planes, bombers, tanks, artillery, etc.)
I totally did this, but mainly it was with spaceships. I'd make spaceships that were like two or three pieces big. I actually re-created the final battle of the First Ones from Babylon Five with that style of building. I loved that show so much and I was trying to live it. Lego is great.
The amount of production value that this had and the small attention to detail, then the history and pictures at the end is amazing!! Way to turn a hobby into a history lesson!!!!
small error @JD Brick Productions : By this time all German troops at Verdun wore the Stanhelm. the Pickelhube was alrdy phased out. Still like the effort. But if not at least ½ of ur minifigs should have the Stanhelm
I have tried Lego stop motion, saying it is hard is an understatement. This was so well done. The sound effects were great and the music and cam angles made it super suspencful and gave it a mood. This was super smooth and nice. This was absolutely incredible!
For those who would mock the major defensive line that France built after this war, it actually wasn't an unreasonable idea considering the experiences here. Of course as nobody wanted a repeat of this, tactics completely changed.
Many say the error was to not extend the Maginot line. It relied heavily on the cooperation of Belgium and the fortification of the Germano-Belgian border, but the king of Belgium broke the accord they had with France for a petty reason
The thing is that France if they could have been ready would have been more then able to beat the Nazi attack. They had tanks that where better then the Germans in terms of armor and firepower. I don't think them building the Maginot line was incorrect, just they did not adjust fast enough to the Germans tactics. I have far bigger issues with the claim the French where cowards who ran.
@@rascototalwar8618 1. This is WW1, no nazis. 2. French tanks were NOT better. You're talking about their heavy tanks, which where the only tanks which could do anything against the germans, but were really slow and had very limited fuel. They could more be used as static pillboxes. Let's look at the more numerous tanks of France during WW2. R35... complete joke, even during the interwar period. It had mediocre armor and the shittiest gun, basically steel targets even for the likes of PZ IIs. The Germans were tank wise completely superior. They could out-maneuver and take initiative because all their tanks had radios, they did not put their money on ineffective one-man-turrets and they did not design their tanks to go only 17mph max on the road, they did not equip their tanks with low pressure guns straight out of ww1, they had superior suspensions... French tanks sucked!!! They were not adopted to a second world war.
@@andresvalverde5182 Read the topic before you go into this. Here is a key point in the first post of this thread "For those who would mock the major defensive line that France built after this war". So yea not WW1 but WW2. I specified for tank on tank engagement and specifically said armor and fire power not mobility or reliability. It was not the equipment that let them down but the complete change of tactics the Germans used. Where as the common tactics of the Allies was to spread the tanks out to support the infantry and fight a slow grind. The PZ II had 40mm of penetration at 100m. The R35 had 40mm of armor so no not something that was used as target practice by the German tanks. The R-35 could penetrate the PZ II at 500m. So in terms of firepower and armor the R-35 was better and that was one of the lightest tanks in the French army. The anti tank weapon the Germans used in the Blitz was the Stuka not the PZII.
“Anyone who says he enjoys this kind of thing is either a liar or a Madman” - captain Harry Yoxall “In war there is no place for a god of love, no time for the softer emotions, and no inclination to worry about the future when the present is a hell that the devil himself would be proud to reign over” -Private J. Bowles “One has indeed personally to come under the shadow of war to feel it’s oppression” by 1918 all but one of my close friends were dead” - 2nd luitenant J. r. R Tolken Ww1 was everything but pretty, 9 million soldiers never came home, 15million scarred for life mentally and physically. There are no true words to explain how mad humanity has become. Let us all pay respect to these men.
I am so grateful to live in today's time, when we have the most peaceful world since ww2. But times are changing. I hope humanity can get through these hard times and that love and compassion will prevail.
@@mihapetek3418 The saddest part is we are now so soft due to our grandparents love and courage that we simply have no idea how to defend ourselves, either from external entities or those that are even more powerful...... the ones who reside beside us.
One of the bloodiest battles and 300,000 dead in WW1. Then you have Stalingrad in WW2 and damn it's not even CLOSE. Absolutely phenomenal video btw, very well done.
The scene at the end where the two soilders are fighting is perfect. The shell comes in explodes and proves that war is ultimately futile. Then the slow zoom out shot gave me chills. Excellent work
At the moment of zoom out I also felt something strange, it's as if deep down someone superior to humans was in the distance practically enjoying the show given by humans, I don't know, as if it were some kind of intergalactic show, like what It would be for us humans a reality show on a desert island of people doing even the inhuman to survive waiting to see who "wins" for a prize...
@akextremerikert It wasn't futile! They were defending their country, they were fighting against an invader, they were dying to protect their families, they were...my grand-grand-fathers. War is a horror, but sometimes, there is no other choice. It wasn't futile, they haven't died for nothing.
@@pupaur6936 War is always futile. Hundred of thousands of people are dying and millions of citizens are suffering because of the megalomania of a few men.
@@Ardioss1 okay I'm not very smart. I'm assuming the battle of Verdun was during WW2 if it isn't please forgive and forget. The reason I think world war 2 wasn't futile is because we were actually fighting for something worthwhile. The safety of the Jewish people as well as every other group the nazis targeted.
Oh damn man, im speechless, ive just finished watching it and its so good. I never thought a perfect animator like you could improve, i was wrong, this animation was so much better than your previous one. The music, moc, sfx, smoothness, and minifigs were on point. Good job!
I've seen a 17 second lego stop motion video that took 40 hours, this probably took 15 weeks, or even more! This guy's dedication amazes me. Great job!
No joking, this was a very expensive setup. I was shopping for some of these for my son years ago. That's how we got hooked on Cobi tanks. If you watch enough of these, you might start to lose track of these being just toys. The filmmakers did an excellent job of making me suspend my belief, which is exactly what you aim for. Great work!
Damn, that one French soldier with the Chauchat machine gun that kept on jamming was REALLY brave. He even killed several Germans with one little trench fighting knife.
Bravo. Respectfully recreated. The "trench of the bayonets" is at Verdun. French soldiers waiting in their trench were buried alive, with only their bayonets protruding from the ground. A testament to the death and destruction at Verdun, is the huge ossuary there also, with the skeletal remains of friend and foe alike in eternal rest together in this somber structure.
This was awesome. Honestly spent half the time calculating how expensive each piece was. Custom guns, hell, the man even got the benet mercie correct, fire rate and all. Love the bit with the Chau chat jamming. Great piece of work. Hope there is more.
this is incredibly well done. when shot, soldiers dont go flying feet behind them but rather fall to the ground near where they were standing. Id watch a full 2 hour lego ww1 movie were it like this
I remember watching a scene from a serial where soldiers did backflips when shot. One of them, after being shot, literally threw the gun away, did a backflip, and landed.
When you think about it the Great War could be described like this: “War is nothing more than Old men talking and young men dying” because that’s how it all started one man died and half a million more will die after him makes ya wonder what is so great about war?
Artillery blew so much earth into the air that it buried alive the men in nearby trenches at Verdun. Happened so fast that filled trenches could be seen with bayonets pointing up out of them, held up by the soldiers who were standing ready in the trenches the moment the earth rained down on them. Those trenches became instant graves, May those brave men rest in peace.
@@SupersuMC its a lmg used by the french during ww1. It was one of the worst weapons during the war because of the frequent jamming as seen in the vid.
I love how the french guns are historically accurate like the fire rate of chauchat or the benet-mercie and how benet was reloading, best of all dude. Good job
My older brother would have loved this video. He used to love Legos and getting creative with filmmaking. I wish he were still around so I could send it to him. Thanks for sharing your talents.
@@jonathansteel3324 BF1 Chauchat is close to reality, most jams come from the open mags (design flaw not anticipated by the engineers, as they couldn't know that WW1 would devolve in a mud grinding trench war) not the mechanism. the bad reputation come from "rechambered" weapons tested by the US, they just slapped a custom mag with ammo that wasn"t adapted for the machine gun without the necessary modifications, you got a recipe for disaster.
@@jonathansteel3324 only the mags. Add to that the peculiar conditions of WWI, any gun would fail. Without the excess of mud and kept chambered for the Lebel cartridge, they are quite pleasant to use and reliable.
C'était incroyable, j'ai failli pleurer. Merci pour ce travail de qualité et ce réalisme. Merci pour tous ces pauvres hommes sacrifiés, qu'ils soient Français, Allemand, Anglais etc
the attention to detail is brilliant, the slow rate of fire of the chauchat with jamming and progress of the ammunition tape of the benet-mercié machine gun. really great
As the drum roll started on that day Heard a hundred miles away A million shells were fired And the green fields turned to grey The bombardment lasted all day long Yet the forts were standing strong Heavily defended Now the trap's been sprung and the battle has begun Descend into darkness 303 days below the sun Fields of Verdun, and the battle has begun Nowhere to run, father and son Fall one by one under the gun Thy will be done (thy will be done), and the judgement has begun Nowhere to run, father and son Fall one by one, fields of Verdun Though a million shells have scarred the land No one has the upper hand From the ground above to trenches Where the soldiers make their stand As the trenches slowly turn to mud And then quickly start to flood Death awaits in every corner As they die in the mud, fill the trenches with blood Descend into darkness 303 days below the sun Fields of Verdun, and the battle has begun Nowhere to run, father and son Fall one by one under the gun Thy will be done (thy will be done), and the judgement has begun Nowhere to run, father and son Fall one by one, fields of Verdun Fields of execution turned to wasteland from the grass Thou shalt go no further it was said, "They shall not pass!" The spirit of resistance and the madness of the war So go ahead, face the lead, join the dead Though you die where you lie, never asking why Descend into darkness 303 days below the sun Fields of Verdun, and the battle has begun Nowhere to run, father and son Fall one by one under the gun Thy will be done (thy will be done), and the judgement has begun Nowhere to run, father and son Fall one by one, fields of Verdun
It’s an amazing video, but I wouldn’t go so far as saying that they nailed the atmosphere. The mud. It’s missing the mud. And a sense of the true horror of being shelled. Shelled for day after day after day after day. God it would have been so messed up. And we struggle when the grocery store shelves are missing toilet paper for a few days. Still. 10/10 video.
@@aleksN9 it’s not an animation. It’s stop motion. He has tutorials on his channel. Where did you get it being blender from? That’s such a specific thing to make up
Let's remember that hills in the surrounding area of Verdun and the battle of sommes lost Five to Ten meters of elevation because of the bombardment, some part of the battlefield are still not safe for agriculture or any other kind of use due to the amount of ammunition and bombe still in the ground...
@@texan_nerd8168 I live in a city called brest in Britanny France, and it was (and still is) a big military harbor in a bay, so during WW2 the Germans put a shit tonne load of underwater mine in the bay, one wasfound and set off a few month ago, military officials assume there is still at least a few dozens mine in the least used part of the bay to this day...
I’ve always loved history. Your animation provides a fresh perspective in so many ways. Not the least of which is the fierce interaction between the soldiers and a call to duty.
@@joshelito1460Aber ich denke, dass Kinder viel Sinn machen würden, weil es so viele Soldaten gibt, die sich bewegen müssen, also muss das Kind Freunde haben, um alle Soldaten auf einmal zu treffen, oder?
Just watching this I'm enthralled and fully captivated by the intensity, the fury of it all. Shells going off, bullets flying...to be in a maelstrom such as this, death is coming at you from all directions at all times. To keep once head and focus takes an iron will...or perhaps an acceptance and resignation that you're going to perish there anyway and welcome the moment whenever it comes. During battles like this it's almost as if all rules/laws/standards/morals of humanity are totally suspended and we are not "people" any longer. Only the most primal of savages Then I realize I'm looking at Legos
Let's be honest, this is what we all saw in our minds when we played with Lego as kids.
Uhm...well, depends on what kind of lego set you got from your parents.
If you had a city set you will feel like a mayor
I wish there were ww1 or ww2 sets as a kid (we did have toy soldiers anyway so the moral question was already moot)
@@enjibkk6850 Well, if it interests you. There's a polish building block based toy Company called "Cobi", which focuses it's sets more on ww1, ww2, cold war and modern day military. They have almost everything what a military history enthusiast could desire: Tiger Panzer, M4 Sherman, T-34, Yamato etc.
All the favourites from the Allied Forces, Wehrmacht, Red Army and Imperial Japan.
Hahaha yeah i used to set up lego vs plastic armymen battles. Lego would always win by bias lol
The attention to detail is insane, even having the Chauchat jam and the clip thing slide through the Hotchkiss gun. Not to mention the French and the Germans having accurate rifles. Crazy
The clip for the Hotchkiss is indeed a really nice touch
Some of the figures are from United brick I think
I was creaming the whole time
The German helmets should have brow cloth on them
Also the little bits like the soldiers moving around in the very first clip
Even something as kind and lighthearted as a children's toy can't begin to mask the brutality of this war.
I was amazed at how Lego bricks and lack of blood and gore better illustrated the brutality of battle better than many movies that had an over abundance of blood and gore.
Tbh I found the Lego version more gruesome than the reenactments
Right? That was heart-racing and horrific.
It's funny you think Legos are children's toys.
@@jerryalbus1492 5:40 there’s your violence
This will forever be an important part of Lego WW1 History and will be honored. This will forever be an legendary masterpiece.
id just like to note idk if theres a lego gun that has the ability to bolt but its amazing to see the gun being bolted at 3:43
Another fantastic animation. Great work!
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wow, never expected to see you here!
Hello
That was awesome work
Shut up you guys have zero standards for good builds
I cant even imagine how terrifying it must have been to wait for a signal, then charge the enemy lines. The tension must have been horrific.
From what I gather, you go through every conceivable emotion, then just accept you are already dead, and use the anger of that acceptance to take as many enemy with you as you go.
@@MrRedeyedJedi That's horrifying... i can't believe people did that, and in the aftermath, it only brought up another war even worser than the first one...
verdun was more urban and flat land fighting. trench fighting wasn’t till around the end of the battle.
germans almost won but their high command decided it was too bloody and ordered a retreat
@@draconisthewyvern3664 I wouldn't say it was urban and flat land at all. I have been there and it is lots of hills and forests (not there by then).
The way I imagine it is that, in a weird and ironic way, it's probably so overwhelming that you're calm, if you get what I mean. There's just so many things to panic about, so many things to stress over that you can't even organize the thoughts and so you just turn off, you stop thinking about those things because they're so difficult to think about and instead you just get tunnel vision on the fighting.
This lego clip is more intense than most "action" scenes in cinemas
Micheal Bay movies: *boom boom boom fireball fireball BOOM*
im your 100th like im sorry i just had to say it forgib meh
you might want to watch the movie: 1917
You just be watching rated G movies then
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6:15 when the best German soldier and the best French soldier were fighting the fact that they both died proves that there truly is no winner in war
Very well put message in the video
The duel intensifies and the French solider got the upper hand, but German mange to outsmart him. Before they know it, the German Artillary reached their position, killing them both.
France won
@@lewisandeviesfuntime1931they died from artillery at the end
@@lewisandeviesfuntime1931wouldnt affirm that with such certainty, he could be dead or badly injured.
Also if the french soldier survived it could be a metaphore for the costly french victory in the battle.
That was some of the most convincing melee combat I've ever seen in stop-motion
Its non stop motion
And it's WAY better made than the LEGO movies too. The characters movie weird in those movies! 😜
@@netsider
That's on purpose.
I can tell you haven't seen the last 5 minutes of Jason and the Argonauts.
"And the battle's just begun, nowhere to run, father and son fall one by one..."
..under the gun, thy will be done!
Fields of verdun
(Thy will be done!)
And the judgement has begun, nowhere to run, father and son, fall one by onw, Fields of Verdun!
Thou a million shells have scarred the lane, no one has the upper hand
@@paolomoraschinelli7643 From the ground above the trenches
Where the soldiers make their stand!
I really appreciate the fact that you put some context after the animation was done. These animations are always so interesting to watch, but understanding the grim and dark history of it can only provide more context to such an important topic.
It was great that he did that
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fr it made me emotional asf, cant imagine boys my age were sent into this. horrific
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This is what i wanted to make as a kid. Not only is the lego stop motion impressive but the use of cinematography principles and storytelling is so good.
I just can't imagine the number of hours one would have to work for this brilliant stop motion movie. I just hope you earn some money with it. The amount of detail and little mini movements between shots is unbelievable. Kudos to you and your crew.
For real. Like around the 1:00 mark when two dudes are sitting on the back of a moving truck: you actually see them jostling a little bit as the truck goes over some bumpy terrain. Incredible.
wait how
About an hour and a half, maybe two.
14 million views, they got paid 💰 🤑🤑
@@ZimmZutinZayai an hour and a half? Homie it used to take me and hour to get like 20 seconds of shitty ass stop motion, this had to take weeks.
The amount of historical accuracy and attention to detail in this video is very impressive. I can tell the person who made this cared deeply about the subject matter.
That was not only an absolutely outstanding piece of stop motion cinema but also the sound design was exceptionally effective. The way the soldiers just drop suddenly and without screaming was scary as hell. Loved the slide show at the end too.
As someone who visited many of the WW1 battlefields as a child, I found this was actually very touching
The sounds of the shells klinking in the box was such a nice touch, sound design was on point for sure.
I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. John 10:11 💙✨
But if ye will nоt hear it, my sоul shall weep in secret places fоr your pride; and mine eye shall weep sоre, and run down with tears, because the LORD'S flock is carried away captive. Jeremiah 13:17
Every tree that bringeth nоt fоrth gооd fruit is hewn dоwn, and cast intо the fire. Matthew 7:19
Parable of the Tares (Matthew 13:24-43)
Jesus Christ loves you and all
@@miriadlamentations Do not try to spread the gospel on random videos on youtube, it only turns people off from it. Spread the gospel somewhere that people listen, so that they actually turn to Jesus. To be fair, it takes almost no time to write a few verses in a comment section. But I would be surprised if it worked for 1/10000 people.
@@miriadlamentations
The end where the germen their and the french battle was really good you never let your fans down
Let’s all stop to appreciate how long this would’ve taken him to make these! They’re incredible!
Yeah I agree
I agree
The fact that I'm feeling actual emotions and an arc with freaking legos is amazing
Same for me OO
i was thinking the exact same thing
It's because it's based on real history. At least this is how I would explain it.
But I find it still impressive from the author to convey those feelings through toys.
As a kid nothing gave me more emotions than playing with my Lego Star Wars Toys. I imagined the biggest galaxy battles with only two Lego Jets in my hand
@@demian9715 damn that kinda gave me shivers lol. very relatable though. i personally was a master of sound effects haha
Damn that French machine gunner going in with a bayonet to cover the retreat of his comrades was both badass and heroic. The expressionless face showing determination to save others was strong enough that being hit with a club and 2 shots merely fazed him.
soldier
They shall not pass.....
@@scpfoundation8972 i don't think so
@@darkcreeper1472 what do you mean
a Got Man
Props to the cameraman for turning himself into lego and recording this WITH COLOR
Lol
That cameraman is a legend!
And with more frames that I’d get when playing on my ps4 or xbox
Yes
Potata
Im a little late, but the way you ended this was spectacular and hugely symbolic. I absolutely loved the character development of the final 2 soldiers. The way it ended sent an incredibly powerful message about futility and told an incredible story. Well done.
Reminds me of battle field 1
“little late”
@@kerlds Yeah a wee bit
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"History comes alive with Lego's" is a sentence I never thought I would utter... but WOW some amazing work depicting just a small portion of the longest battles fought in a war that has shaped the world in which we live, and sadly is often overlooked. Well done!
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hey hey i have a question, do u know where did he buy this minifigures? or where i can buy minifigs like this??
@@megagracz3512 he probably made them because lego legally can’t make army soilders anymore
the way they load the artillery is so satisfying
@@maddawg5016 but how? 3D printer? i saw bad opinions about bricks from 3D printers
okay this was legitimately one of the best bits of WW1 era moviemaking i've seen. absolutely impressive that you managed to capture the horror of Verdun using LEGO.
The most insane thing about Verdun, Somme and Passchendaele was that the one of the main objectives was to literally grind German manpower down. French and British forces numbered roughly the same as the German army but the British could count on the arrival of commonwealth forces from their Dominion territories, so there was a near constant stream of soldiers arriving the reinforce the allies but for the Germans they only had the unreliable Austro-Hungarian and ottoman forces which weren't even in the same theater. Somme and Verdun were literal meat grinders
Exactly, that's why WW1 was so horrible, the allied powers said, we think you'll run out of bullets before we run out of men, the Germans thought pretty similarly too
Partially true comment, because in 1914, the German Empire was twice more populated than France or UK. That's the reason why the German have handled war on two fronts (west & russian east front). And could still launch massive offensives in 1918, after Bolchevik revolution.
Don't forget, one of the First Battle of the Somme's main aims was to relieve pressure on the French at Verdun. The single most deadly day in British military history, to relieve pressure elsewhere. I understand the French wer almost at the point of mutiny, which was at least prevented... until 1917.
France bleeded out. It was a nightmare for France.
I do not agree, during the battle of Verdun, the British forces represented only 10% of the forces in combat, it was the French who did all the work, so please respect the French soldiers and I would respect the English soldiers
for a lego animation, that ending was more powerful than speeding shrapnel. truly displayed the horrors of war, and how there is no real winner. superb job.
For the first time in history during this battle the French introduced a mecanized supply line with thousands of trucks.
Along the 72 km of the "Voie Sacrée" (Sacred Way), transport vehicles were on the move day and night ferrying troops, armaments, and supplies to the Verdun battlefield.
During the initial crisis of 21 February to 22 March, 600 trucks per day had already delivered 48,000 tons of ammunition, 6,400 tons of other material and 263,000 men to the battlefield.
Beginning on February 21, all horse drawn traffic and troop movements on foot had been ordered off the road leaving it open for truck and motor car traffic only.
After March 1916, one truck passed every 14 seconds, submitting the road to considerable wear and tear. Quarries had to be opened nearby to supply the road with crushed stone. Over the course of ten months, 16 labour battalions worked to keep the road in good shape and order. A special unit responsible for controlling traffic and servicing the vehicles numbered 300 officers and 8,500 men. The rolling stock was made up of 3500 Berliet and Renault trucks plus 800 ambulances, the latter often being Ford Model T's. Thirty breakdown trucks remained on the road at all times with repair crews stationed besides them. Any disabled vehicle was immediately moved to the roadside so as not to interrupt the flow of traffic.
Incredible! Thanks for the history
The Germans had the opportunity to bomb the Sacred Way, but Erich von Falkenhayn wanted it open because his objective was to 'bleed the French white'.
What a disgusting war, compared to any other I can think of
Nice info!
Strategy wins the battle but logistics win the war.
Im sorry, but…. TL; DR
when the two heroes of each side, the german officer that cut the barbed wire and the french guy with the chauchat were fighting, i saw the greatest duel of all time.
And I loved that neither won, and both were killed by a stray artillery shell.
Because that's just the reality of this terrible war.
True
Yea
I love how the Chauchat jams too because it was badly designed for trench Warfare and he has to smack it.
@@kevindowling157 key words are trench warfare, it was a decent gun as long as you could keep it clean, and as you know you can't do that while living in a trench.
When you get emotional watching a Lego battle it’s a testimony to the skill in this animation. Incredible work!
Ruhe in Frieden, Soldaten.
reposez en paix, soldats
Rest in peace, soldiers
@@ธามไก Truly.
3:15 notice the fallen soldier's feet go up slightly before falling to the ground...amazing detail.
Not only that there is mud on his boots
I just can't imagine what it must have been like to be one of those infantry men. Those horrific trench conditions were one thing, but knowing when that whistle blows, you may as well be already dead is something else entirely
You really have to question the sanity of the commanders, to think that standing people up in front of automatic weapons like bowling pins would have any other outcome other than annihilation. It enrages me to think that they simply sent young men out there to die.
@@minkorrh Not only them. Check what feminist icon Emmeline Pankhurst did.
@@minkorrh Paths of Glory is a great film about the obsolete and borderline inhumane military thinking of the time. It is Kubrick's first big film and has kirk douglas as the leading actor.
This war completely traumatized a whole generation.
Had I been born exactly one hundred years earlier, my chances of dying on the battlefield were 25%.
And if I was among the survivor then most of my comrades would have been wounded at some point and psychologically scarred for life.
Makes me think of those poor Ukrainians living under Russian shelling and assaults
@@huguesjouffrai9618 or people from Syria, yemen, Iran, Afghanistan, Bolivia, other non white folks
Some of the scenes in this film gave me chills. Even though they are just plastic figures they convey quite a bit of emotion. My thoughts turned to All Quiet on the Western Front, which I recently read. Though war itself is quite depressing, The Great War is unmatched in its ability to instantly cause dejection.
Having the word “great” infront of war is the cringiest thing. I know that’s what it’s called but I feel like we need to not say it lol. Nothing great about war.
@@Dan-Martin "Great" in this context means "large". It refers to the magnitude of the conflict, it does not have a positive moral connotation. "The Great War" is the historical way to refer to it as well, given that it was not "World War 1" until the second one happened. I agree that there is nothing great about war though, only that we must study it.
The odd thing is how many people voluntarily signed up. The documentary "they shall not grow old" tells the Brittish side and even after the war they said they would do it again. It goes beyond understanding how the apetite for destruction lives in us all.
@@amx2311 Yes, good comment. Nationalism is a potent destructive force. Our friend @Daniel Martin here with his Statue of Liberty profile picture would do well to think about this rather than making ill thought-out statements about war while displaying the symbol of a warmongering nation.
@@Zogerpogger The time to buy is when there's blood in the streets.
That is some of the best stop motion I've ever seen. More than just stop motion, you had the right FOV, camera shake and other elements that gave it a strong feel. I like that your stop motion technique was more incremental than others and had more motion throughout. Jason and the Argonauts, Sinbad and Clash of the Titans have been the benchmark for a long time for me, but this rocks!
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Don't forget the terrain and people and artillery
@@floorman7076 You know, I'm watching this for a second time and again, this is ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT! I am very curious as to the lenses that were used in this, 100mm Macro, f/1.2 50mm prime, tilt shift lenses, etc.? I would love to know more!
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@@johnathanmphoto I know nothing about how this was made, but there is something we can all agree on: this is magnificent.
5:35, I don't know the medal of honor equivalent for the French Army but it sure seems like this gunner should be awarded it....
The Legion of Honour. My Great Grandfather was awarded it for bravery. I still have it.
its like your the only machine gunner in the game
C'est avant 5:35, et il y en a deux c'est des allemands à 4:08 un tireur d'élite (d'ailleurs je m'étonne de son casque différent des autres, car il me semble que ce genre de casque n'arrive qu'en 39-45), et 4:19 un tireur fusil classique de combat voilà.
This is truly the best lego stop motion video I have EVER SEEN.
The amount of time and effort that went into this... MAGNIFICENT
zabawki dla dzieci pokazują jak zabijać. Naprawdę takie wspaniałe ?
Not stop motion. Animation
@@stangdan405 dude why does it matter to you does this look like anything a little kid would watch?
@@lamCracky ja jestem dzieckiem
@@stangdan405 so am i
Me before the video: "Oh cool, a Lego video of WW I!"
Me after the video: "Wow."
Struck more emotions than I thought it would. Went from watching an epic and action-packed battle, to realizing this was an actual bloody battle where thousands of people died and feeling sorry for all of those people. Amazing job.
Yeah man, I can't imagine what my Great Uncle went through in this battle. He was at Verdun in the French 99th Infantry Regiment. He arrived as part of a reinforcement wave in October 1916 after his unit got nearly wiped out at the Tavannes sector. His regiment spent all 10 months at Verdun along with the 151st Infantry, and they became known as “The Verdun Regiments”.
I like your comment
This is so cool how do they do this
Thousands? Over 300,000. Nearly a million total casualties.
@@ElvishShellfish yea more like hundreds of thousands
Incredible. Well done!
thanks!
Да, реально очень круто получилось! спасибо!
@@VladuhaProE привет ты руский?
@@plast_cars7471 угу
@@VladuhaProE а я нет, я казах
Very beautifully done! And at 3:16 I love how that soldier hit the weapon after it got jammed to get it fire again. Nice detail right there!
It’s also very accurate, as the machine gun he is using is known as the chauchat. It was notorious for being having a slow firing rate, high recoil and frequent jams, all of which were depicted in the video.
@brandonzhou2233 True, but the massive jamming was due to how dirty the magazine got in the trenches. Soldiers running on the field with it reported that they had no problems with the Chauchat jamming. Sadly, the American Chauchat was even worse due to the way the magazine was structured.
it's like the movies are supposed to be. shell rattle in the truck will warm many hearts
Hey, love your videos bro, do you plan to continue the series on the 100 years war ?
Wow,he is still alive, i thought ypuvwere dead
Hey Brick Dictator please come back
"Shell rattle in the truck will warm many harts", lolwut? That makes no darn sense.
what you make / made is / was amazing dude, love your content
It's so impressive how far the Lego stop motion scene has come. I remember 10 years ago watching The Battle of Remagne and others with crude stop motion and audio lifted from popular ww2 movies. This is incredible.
nice pfp
fancy seeing you all here
@@soul0rison536 I second this. If it’s hostile, you kill it.
This is simply breathtaking. The amount of time, effort, and detail you put into this is unreal. You're going to have a very long career in film and animation!
so realistic I had a hard time watching it full :O
I just realized the sniper reticle is in fact historically accurate
Yeah it’s astonishing
or just animate it and no one would notice xd like if you actually did good animation like in the lego movie
@@KaiUndMoritz but u gotta appreciate it anyway cause the sound design really slaps
Incredible quality of animation. The movement of the set as well as the movement of the camera, the nuance of each shot, and the consistency through the whole animation are all fantastic. That last shot with the 2 talented soldiers fighting to the death only to be blown up together by an artillery shell- that is some excruciating genius. Bravo 👏
This is amazing. Really magical storytelling. By about 60 seconds in, the Legos faded into the background and I was no longer watching a Lego reenactment but completely engrossed in the story.
Same here
Same and only the way the rifles have to be held in the minis hands broke the immersion for me
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The fact that this is better action than many movies/shows today really says a lot. Very well done!
Well it's definitely better than the halo show
What a stupid and overused comment
@@garyslayton8340 didn't even know there was a halo show
The number of frames used in the stop motion is incredible.
@@garyslayton8340 I thought the halo show was fire
In the beginning I was laughing and thinking how well done this was. When they got to the trenches I realized that this was definitely no joke. The fact that they're little plastic men does nothing to alleviate the sense of horror and sadness that I feel as this ends. I'm 54.
Cap
@@IAM_is_Deppreseed?
War is an unforgivable and terrible thing to enter
@@Joey-js3oghes saying that minkorrh is lying that hes 54
minkorrh is lying though
I never thought Legos could be made to create something so profound. Thank you for this.
So much story in 9 minutes that most Hollywood films can't do in 2 hours. Well done.
1918 depicted WW1 fantastically
@@Kropolis Wasn't it 1917
@@adn5249 yeah shit it was lmao
True
it was ok but let’s not kid ourselves
I saw the beginning of the clip as it autoplayed, and thought “eh, looks alright, might as well check it out.”
I’m very glad I did.
The animation alone is amazing, but the audio pairing, the sound effects, and the fantastic music chosen really brings out the feeling, until at the end, I’m quite invested in these two awesome nameless soldiers fighting, duking it out to the bitter end only to both be wiped by an unlucky artillery shell.
End up being in the same situation, what a great surprise!
Ah, this reminds me of when I used to play with Legos as a kid...
I didn't have as many figures, and I wanted big battles. What I used to do was take the cylindrical pieces and pretend they were soldiers. Sometimes adding a stub on top to pretend it was a helmet, and to help me recognize them...
I even used to build tanks, boats or drop ships with 2 or 3 pieces. I don't know if more kids used to do that, but it was great. I ended up with "battles" covering an entire room.
i did this
I always used to feel bad having the Legos murder each other so I'd pit them against an army of those clips you use with a cloths line. (With different clipped together vehicles like fighter planes, bombers, tanks, artillery, etc.)
I love designing mini tanks and vehicles with 5 or so pieces
I totally did this, but mainly it was with spaceships. I'd make spaceships that were like two or three pieces big. I actually re-created the final battle of the First Ones from Babylon Five with that style of building. I loved that show so much and I was trying to live it. Lego is great.
Man I did this
3:19 the attention to detail is amazing, great job 👏
Bro that's the Minecraft skin I use... wait a minute have I seen you in another comment section before??
I like how the new French solders jumped at the sound of the artilry guns well the older ones didn't
Yeah the details
@Visna Yerla be gone thot this is a Christin comment
3:24 Animating small movements like the legs bouncing here adds immensely to the realism.
The amount of production value that this had and the small attention to detail, then the history and pictures at the end is amazing!! Way to turn a hobby into a history lesson!!!!
honestly!
the fact that the camera work is so good too is incredible
I finally finished, hope you enjoy it!
IT WAS AMAZING
small error @JD Brick Productions : By this time all German troops at Verdun wore the Stanhelm. the Pickelhube was alrdy phased out. Still like the effort. But if not at least ½ of ur minifigs should have the Stanhelm
Can u make the battle of Yaux?
@TheLucky02 TheLucky02 Cant only the officers just wear Pickelhaubes. Most of the regulars should wear the Stanhelm.
Wow this is amazing
I have tried Lego stop motion, saying it is hard is an understatement. This was so well done. The sound effects were great and the music and cam angles made it super suspencful and gave it a mood. This was super smooth and nice. This was absolutely incredible!
I’ve never been more enthralled by a LEGO knife fight in my life
Well I've never been whatsoever for that matter
Lol ikr I always find these exciting
can we take a moment to appreciate the amount of detail that went into this
The amount of time it had to have taken to do this frame by frame, moving each individual mini-fig’s legs…… mind blowing! This was truly well done.
Not to mention all of the little movements every frame too, that takes time and talent to do
Plus literally painting wounds onto mini figs
@@ShadowSlayer1441 extreme details!
For those who would mock the major defensive line that France built after this war, it actually wasn't an unreasonable idea considering the experiences here. Of course as nobody wanted a repeat of this, tactics completely changed.
Many say the error was to not extend the Maginot line. It relied heavily on the cooperation of Belgium and the fortification of the Germano-Belgian border, but the king of Belgium broke the accord they had with France for a petty reason
The thing is that France if they could have been ready would have been more then able to beat the Nazi attack.
They had tanks that where better then the Germans in terms of armor and firepower.
I don't think them building the Maginot line was incorrect, just they did not adjust fast enough to the Germans tactics. I have far bigger issues with the claim the French where cowards who ran.
@@rascototalwar8618 1. This is WW1, no nazis. 2. French tanks were NOT better. You're talking about their heavy tanks, which where the only tanks which could do anything against the germans, but were really slow and had very limited fuel. They could more be used as static pillboxes. Let's look at the more numerous tanks of France during WW2. R35... complete joke, even during the interwar period. It had mediocre armor and the shittiest gun, basically steel targets even for the likes of PZ IIs. The Germans were tank wise completely superior. They could out-maneuver and take initiative because all their tanks had radios, they did not put their money on ineffective one-man-turrets and they did not design their tanks to go only 17mph max on the road, they did not equip their tanks with low pressure guns straight out of ww1, they had superior suspensions... French tanks sucked!!! They were not adopted to a second world war.
@@andresvalverde5182 Read the topic before you go into this.
Here is a key point in the first post of this thread "For those who would mock the major defensive line that France built after this war". So yea not WW1 but WW2.
I specified for tank on tank engagement and specifically said armor and fire power not mobility or reliability. It was not the equipment that let them down but the complete change of tactics the Germans used. Where as the common tactics of the Allies was to spread the tanks out to support the infantry and fight a slow grind. The PZ II had 40mm of penetration at 100m. The R35 had 40mm of armor so no not something that was used as target practice by the German tanks. The R-35 could penetrate the PZ II at 500m. So in terms of firepower and armor the R-35 was better and that was one of the lightest tanks in the French army.
The anti tank weapon the Germans used in the Blitz was the Stuka not the PZII.
@@bugfighter5949 the fact that the Nazis had to avoid it meant that it technically worked
“Anyone who says he enjoys this kind of thing is either a liar or a Madman” - captain Harry Yoxall
“In war there is no place for a god of love, no time for the softer emotions, and no inclination to worry about the future when the present is a hell that the devil himself would be proud to reign over” -Private J. Bowles
“One has indeed personally to come under the shadow of war to feel it’s oppression” by 1918 all but one of my close friends were dead” - 2nd luitenant J. r. R Tolken
Ww1 was everything but pretty, 9 million soldiers never came home, 15million scarred for life mentally and physically. There are no true words to explain how mad humanity has become. Let us all pay respect to these men.
I am so grateful to live in today's time, when we have the most peaceful world since ww2. But times are changing. I hope humanity can get through these hard times and that love and compassion will prevail.
@@mihapetek3418 The saddest part is we are now so soft due to our grandparents love and courage that we simply have no idea how to defend ourselves, either from external entities or those that are even more powerful...... the ones who reside beside us.
Родной на носу 3мировая так что расслабься
Lol "most peaceful since ww2" yeah sure bud keep living under a rock will ya
"Frankly, I had enjoyed the war. - Adrian Carton de Wart, Boer War, WWI, WWII Veteran, Madman.
One of the bloodiest battles and 300,000 dead in WW1. Then you have Stalingrad in WW2 and damn it's not even CLOSE. Absolutely phenomenal video btw, very well done.
The scene at the end where the two soilders are fighting is perfect. The shell comes in explodes and proves that war is ultimately futile. Then the slow zoom out shot gave me chills. Excellent work
At the moment of zoom out I also felt something strange, it's as if deep down someone superior to humans was in the distance practically enjoying the show given by humans, I don't know, as if it were some kind of intergalactic show, like what It would be for us humans a reality show on a desert island of people doing even the inhuman to survive waiting to see who "wins" for a prize...
@@danielatapiamolina773 Moloch enjoys
@akextremerikert It wasn't futile!
They were defending their country, they were fighting against an invader, they were dying to protect their families, they were...my grand-grand-fathers.
War is a horror, but sometimes, there is no other choice. It wasn't futile, they haven't died for nothing.
@@pupaur6936 War is always futile. Hundred of thousands of people are dying and millions of citizens are suffering because of the megalomania of a few men.
@@Ardioss1 okay I'm not very smart. I'm assuming the battle of Verdun was during WW2 if it isn't please forgive and forget. The reason I think world war 2 wasn't futile is because we were actually fighting for something worthwhile. The safety of the Jewish people as well as every other group the nazis targeted.
“We don’t do any thing based on war”
-Lego
Star wars "hi"
@@Xenomorthian lego castle- Hola
JD brick productions : *fine then I’ll do it for you*
@@AatiNiiranen Indiana Jones has entered the chat
@@Xenomorthian infinity war: bonjour
I'm shocking impressed that the guns were accurate, down to the Chauchat's rate of fire. Crazy!
what?! r u serious dude, grow up
@@rskblyat shut up
@@rskblyat Take your own advice :) shoo, child
@@rskblyat you sound mad, want a cookie?
I like how they showed it jamming, like like reality.
From the Smooth animation to the accuracy of the history, this is both amazing and scary to watch.
Oh damn man, im speechless, ive just finished watching it and its so good. I never thought a perfect animator like you could improve, i was wrong, this animation was so much better than your previous one. The music, moc, sfx, smoothness, and minifigs were on point. Good job!
@Andrew Munera heyo
Hello there
Amazing video
@@ai.dan06 general Kenobi
Quite!
Oh dang, the sets are as impressive as always, you've done an pretty awesome job with this one as well. Well done, man and keep up the good work!
I KNOW and also love your zombie videos
where do you get these sets of legos?
I know I am late but I am pretty sure they are custom Lego sets that you can get off of Amazon idk
ok boomers
@@ep9415 ?
I've seen a 17 second lego stop motion video that took 40 hours, this probably took 15 weeks, or even more! This guy's dedication amazes me. Great job!
@Fancybaguette True
how
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How did I get 163 likes this fast. Thx.
@@vaughanmayer6723 164*
No joking, this was a very expensive setup. I was shopping for some of these for my son years ago. That's how we got hooked on Cobi tanks. If you watch enough of these, you might start to lose track of these being just toys. The filmmakers did an excellent job of making me suspend my belief, which is exactly what you aim for. Great work!
Damn, that one French soldier with the Chauchat machine gun that kept on jamming was REALLY brave. He even killed several Germans with one little trench fighting knife.
some french soldiers really fought like that, it's crazy
World War I was just pure carnage at times.
@@thunderbird1921 yup.
He's the real heroes
Problem is, that hardly happened, the distance between enemies would be 250-350 meters
Finally got a time to watch it... Well, JD is a #1 in lego war films, no doubt! Like a hollywood movie. Great motivation to improve my own skills!
Дмитрий,и вы тут!
@Soviet Memer If you are still interested in history - welcome, just uploaded new Napoleonic history brickfilm
@@LCMhistory big fan
@@sleer6306 seen Waterloo part 1 today?
@@LCMhistory no, I’ll check it out now 👍
Bravo. Respectfully recreated. The "trench of the bayonets" is at Verdun. French soldiers waiting in their trench were buried alive, with only their bayonets protruding from the ground.
A testament to the death and destruction at Verdun, is the huge ossuary there also, with the skeletal remains of friend and foe alike in eternal rest together in this somber structure.
Love the Omar profile picture
This should be up for an Oscar, outstanding piece of film making 😢
You did an amazing job! I also like you added the info at the end!
I did to
i cant believe this is a stop motion its so fluid
IKR!
It's pretty spot on with the details too
It's witchcraft obviousley
Is it actually stop motion? At 4:46 the club clips into that other guys head.
@@constantk8780 It doesn't clip into his head, it's to the the left of that soldier's head.
This was awesome. Honestly spent half the time calculating how expensive each piece was. Custom guns, hell, the man even got the benet mercie correct, fire rate and all. Love the bit with the Chau chat jamming. Great piece of work. Hope there is more.
After watching all is quiet on the western front, I still think this is a masterpiece
yes
this is incredibly well done. when shot, soldiers dont go flying feet behind them but rather fall to the ground near where they were standing.
Id watch a full 2 hour lego ww1 movie were it like this
I remember watching a scene from a serial where soldiers did backflips when shot. One of them, after being shot, literally threw the gun away, did a backflip, and landed.
@@uap24 yeah, I saw a movie once where a guy got shot, fell, got shot again, did a backflip, and landed again…
@@uap24 - Wow, cool!
- Dude...I'm dead.
- Oh, that's unfortunate...*blop* My turn!
So creative pal. I make lego stop motion animation. I know how much difficulties you fa ed while making this amazing stop motion project. Great job
Yoooooo
Hi LEGO land
Hows the weather in Denmark?
Wow lego land
@@pembongtime1124 o
I love how you kinda made a main character on each side and eventually fought each other. Great depiction of the bloody and kinda mindless wars of WW1
When you think about it the Great War could be described like this: “War is nothing more than Old men talking and young men dying” because that’s how it all started one man died and half a million more will die after him makes ya wonder what is so great about war?
@@jonathansteel3324and yet, it continues to this day
@@mazadancoseben4818 not really we no longer fight wars with millions of men we fight them with a push of a button
Ya había visto alguna que otra representación bélica de lego. Todas son magníficas, pero hoy quiero dejar constancia. MAGNIFICA.
It’s incredible that you made the mortar blast hit both soldiers from both sides. It really shows how cruel war was
Так часто и было
As Napoleon said: "To cannon, all men are equal"
@@maritaxi3524 09im
Bbfh
@@maritaxi3524 This artillery is rated E for Everyone
I went to Verdun on a school field trip while living in Germany. There are still areas you are not allowed to walk in because of unexploded ordnance.
Cool
Im pretty sure they are still digging up bones from the verdun and Passchendale battlefields
Also hi from America
Artillery blew so much earth into the air that it buried alive the men in nearby trenches at Verdun. Happened so fast that filled trenches could be seen with bayonets pointing up out of them, held up by the soldiers who were standing ready in the trenches the moment the earth rained down on them. Those trenches became instant graves, May those brave men rest in peace.
That happened in a farm once apparently one almost below up
A lot of the soil there too is poison because of all the lead, poison gases and dead bodies and horses.
The dude with the Chauchat went down like a badass.
Chauchat?
@@SupersuMC its a lmg used by the french during ww1. It was one of the worst weapons during the war because of the frequent jamming as seen in the vid.
@@Jose-kb2yy lol and I've never seen it in bf1 so it must suck in that too
But yeah, he kicked butt
@@Jose-kb2yy actually the French version wasn’t terrible. The .30-06 American version tho...
@@toastpuppy3491 Came here to say that... Fairly sure he just ran out of his 20 rounds in the video too, not jammed.
Arguably the best lego stop motion ever
I love how the french guns are historically accurate like the fire rate of chauchat or the benet-mercie and how benet was reloading, best of all dude. Good job
Yea that’s a better job then the new call of duty lol
Even better he got it accurate with the chauchat with it being prone to jams in the trenches
I have no idea why this isn't a popular comment (Not Being Judgey)
@@javierescuella4084 I chuckled in amazement when I saw it jam. The level of accuracy was phenomenal
This was incredible, I can't imagine how long this took.
atleast one day
@@Chiko942 lmfao
@@Chiko942 one day? more like 1 week
@@Chiko942 xd
@@samuelthygerson6009 one week I’d say it’s be a bit longer that a week
I really wasn't ready for this when I clicked on it, but so glad I did. A breathtaking story of mankind.
Yea, it took a lot of breath all right. The gas was responsible for a lot of it.
My older brother would have loved this video. He used to love Legos and getting creative with filmmaking. I wish he were still around so I could send it to him. Thanks for sharing your talents.
3:18 You even made the Chauchat to jam! Really nice and realistic detail! And of course, *amazing work!*
That machine gun has and will always be a piece of shit
@Galactic Gaming seriously?
@@jonathansteel3324 BF1 Chauchat is close to reality, most jams come from the open mags (design flaw not anticipated by the engineers, as they couldn't know that WW1 would devolve in a mud grinding trench war) not the mechanism. the bad reputation come from "rechambered" weapons tested by the US, they just slapped a custom mag with ammo that wasn"t adapted for the machine gun without the necessary modifications, you got a recipe for disaster.
@@Eytaris so it was a piece of shit from the start
@@jonathansteel3324 only the mags. Add to that the peculiar conditions of WWI, any gun would fail. Without the excess of mud and kept chambered for the Lebel cartridge, they are quite pleasant to use and reliable.
When pieces of plastic make better actors than Hollywood stars:
If you can say Bollywood..that would be really good but not Hollywood
@@pritideepsahoo3255 hollywood
@@pritideepsahoo3255 Hollywood Hollywood Hollywood Hollywood Hollywood Hollywood
@Timothy Nelson lol
@@pritideepsahoo3255 bollywood is lame
C'était incroyable, j'ai failli pleurer. Merci pour ce travail de qualité et ce réalisme. Merci pour tous ces pauvres hommes sacrifiés, qu'ils soient Français, Allemand, Anglais etc
the attention to detail is brilliant, the slow rate of fire of the chauchat with jamming and progress of the ammunition tape of the benet-mercié machine gun.
really great
As the drum roll started on that day
Heard a hundred miles away
A million shells were fired
And the green fields turned to grey
The bombardment lasted all day long
Yet the forts were standing strong
Heavily defended
Now the trap's been sprung and the battle has begun
Descend into darkness
303 days below the sun
Fields of Verdun, and the battle has begun
Nowhere to run, father and son
Fall one by one under the gun
Thy will be done (thy will be done), and the judgement has begun
Nowhere to run, father and son
Fall one by one, fields of Verdun
Though a million shells have scarred the land
No one has the upper hand
From the ground above to trenches
Where the soldiers make their stand
As the trenches slowly turn to mud
And then quickly start to flood
Death awaits in every corner
As they die in the mud, fill the trenches with blood
Descend into darkness
303 days below the sun
Fields of Verdun, and the battle has begun
Nowhere to run, father and son
Fall one by one under the gun
Thy will be done (thy will be done), and the judgement has begun
Nowhere to run, father and son
Fall one by one, fields of Verdun
Fields of execution turned to wasteland from the grass
Thou shalt go no further it was said, "They shall not pass!"
The spirit of resistance and the madness of the war
So go ahead, face the lead, join the dead
Though you die where you lie, never asking why
Descend into darkness
303 days below the sun
Fields of Verdun, and the battle has begun
Nowhere to run, father and son
Fall one by one under the gun
Thy will be done (thy will be done), and the judgement has begun
Nowhere to run, father and son
Fall one by one, fields of Verdun
really nice poem👏👏👏👏👏
That’s a Sabaton song
noice
@@Ransomdud2134 It's the song "Fields of Verdun" by Sabaton lmao
@@treestar22 Sounds more like a poem.
They nailed absolutely everything. From atmosphere down to the weapons, everything is done very well considering the fact all they had was LEGO...
I was going to say this, but you already did.
The Pickelhaube of the artillery crew is wrong.
It’s an amazing video, but I wouldn’t go so far as saying that they nailed the atmosphere. The mud. It’s missing the mud. And a sense of the true horror of being shelled. Shelled for day after day after day after day. God it would have been so messed up. And we struggle when the grocery store shelves are missing toilet paper for a few days.
Still. 10/10 video.
Pretty sure its a blender animation.
@@aleksN9 it’s not an animation. It’s stop motion. He has tutorials on his channel. Where did you get it being blender from? That’s such a specific thing to make up
Let's remember that hills in the surrounding area of Verdun and the battle of sommes lost Five to Ten meters of elevation because of the bombardment, some part of the battlefield are still not safe for agriculture or any other kind of use due to the amount of ammunition and bombe still in the ground...
Dang... We're still cleaning up their mess over a century later.
@@SupersuMC there still some old underwater mines in the baltics from both world wars
Go look at aircraft or satellite images, they’re appalling. This war was such a tragedy.
@@texan_nerd8168 I live in a city called brest in Britanny France, and it was (and still is) a big military harbor in a bay, so during WW2 the Germans put a shit tonne load of underwater mine in the bay, one wasfound and set off a few month ago, military officials assume there is still at least a few dozens mine in the least used part of the bay to this day...
@@michaelkeaton5394 oh I bet
I’ve always loved history. Your animation provides a fresh perspective in so many ways. Not the least of which is the fierce interaction between the soldiers and a call to duty.
Attention to Detail is astonishing.
All the small things. Down to the WW1 German scopes, even Chauchat's rate of fire. Mesmerizing.
Even the dam mud on their boots lmaoo
Lets give props for this guy for making a 9 minute stop-motion with unbelievable builds and graphics
Parents: look at the kids playing with their legos!
The kids:
I think this would make more sense if it was like :
Parents :look at the kid playing with his legos !
What the kid sees
@@joshelito1460 ya
@@joshelito1460Aber ich denke, dass Kinder viel Sinn machen würden, weil es so viele Soldaten gibt, die sich bewegen müssen, also muss das Kind Freunde haben, um alle Soldaten auf einmal zu treffen, oder?
@@joshelito1460 Entschuldigung für die schlechte Rechtschreibung
Parents: Aw! Look at the kids play with their Nerf guns!
What the kids see:
Just watching this I'm enthralled and fully captivated by the intensity, the fury of it all. Shells going off, bullets flying...to be in a maelstrom such as this, death is coming at you from all directions at all times. To keep once head and focus takes an iron will...or perhaps an acceptance and resignation that you're going to perish there anyway and welcome the moment whenever it comes.
During battles like this it's almost as if all rules/laws/standards/morals of humanity are totally suspended and we are not "people" any longer. Only the most primal of savages
Then I realize I'm looking at Legos