Good advice for any time or place. One of my favorite songs from that era. I have great respect for those solders.
@lairddougal38333 күн бұрын
My grandfather died in ‘65, a lingering casualty of multiple gas attacks in WW1. He went through the whole war without a scratch. Gassed, yes, but not shot. He had eight gun carriage horses shot out from under him and lost every single one of his friends. At the end of it all, it was a handshake and ‘best of luck’ as he returned to civvy street a deeply damaged brute who terrorised his children and was always a hair trigger away from serious violence. There was no PTSD treatment, no effort to assist returning soldiers. They and their families suffered unsupported and unremarked, and for what? To lay the foundations for WW2, while the toffs congratulated themselves on how clever they were at ‘biffing the hun’. Then it was my Dad’s turn.
@xr6ladКүн бұрын
And we have such gullible people even today doing and believing exactly what the government tells them. Ukraine is a perfect example with us in the west beating our chests to Russia. I mean why would we want to send a young man from France or the U.K. to die for a fight between Ukraine and Russia yet that’s the way it’s going. And no one dares says ‘no’ and no dares tell the media to stop stirring. It was the same in WW1 - fight for what. Germany never threatened the west and only did so when we threatened it because the elites ego was put out of joint because they thought they should rule the waves.
3 күн бұрын
The Germans get “All Quiet on the Western Front”. We get a brutal musical!
@JelMain7 минут бұрын
No, it started with Charles Chiltern simply taking a note of the songs, the voice of the men. Joan Plowright then used it as a history of the war, which nearly got censored by the Establishment, on a shoestring budget at the Theatre Royal Stratford - she used end-of-the-pier pierrot costumes as they were what she had, rather than uniforms, and that got caught up in the Summer of Love anti-Vietnamse War movement. In the autumn of 69, Dickie Attenborough got the necessary rights together to make the film, and a cast of the whole UK theatre establishment. I'd just joined the CCF battalion at the school which had founded the National Youth Theatre movement fourteen years earlier, and had spent the afternoon sorting the stores in search of a battledress my size - an the bottom of a pile of kit about eight feet high was a box, different cloth and cut, I looked for a label - 1917. I finished off, left the box where it was, and reported back to Admin. The guy was on the phone, retired RSM, "No, Dickie, sorry, I'm pretty sue we don't have any WW1 uniforms. What is it, Rahere? We do? Well, you speak to Mr Attenborough then." That solved the issue of the box - and irritated Mrs Plowright considerably. A couple of months passed, basic training complete, orders from Admin, be on parade in uniform 0630 outside the school gates on Saturday. That meant the milk train. So there I was, feeling a right lemon, when a parp-parp came from down the road, a charabanc rolled into sight with the cast on board. That's how I took my first salute from Olivier and Gielgud, the High Command of the stage, they'd partied the night at Stratford and were now en route to Clapham Common to join the London-Brighton veteran car rally, ahead of filming in and behind the town. A lifetime later, I was a Staff Colonel, beating militarism into Peacemaking, and realised there was a hidden message to the cast. Then as now, it's the teens who die. At least the reintroduction of National Service has faded with the election. It is, certainly, something a citizen must do to defend the Nation, and that requires training. But it's not the right of the feudal rump to demand it, and at long last the end of the Hereditary Peerage is in sight.
@barryheath81235 күн бұрын
Great film.
@johnwilletts39845 күн бұрын
There is a back story to those soldiers that I find incredible. In 1914 my Grandfather joined the 5th Bat (Territorial) York and Lancs at Rotherham. In 1915 they were sent to France. Only a minority survived. Demobbed in 1919 grandad and his friends started families and then rejoined the Territorial Battalion! This to continue their Soldiering Hobby. Our local museum has a collection of photographs showing the Lads out training all with big smiles and with thumbs up! I only discovered this recently whilst researching his service in the town’s archives, he was also awarded the Military Medal. Two things he failed to mention to us before he died.
@woodbinetitties5 күн бұрын
This film whilst entertaining actuallly portrayed the menntality, the horror and sadness of war and class of people. One of the best anti war films.
@user-yp6ev9oi2t5 күн бұрын
The finest weapon the Germans had was the British Officer class.
@mookie26375 күн бұрын
Really? There were some very, very good officers in the Great War. The problem with this film is that it is as much an artefact of the 60s anti-establishment as it is an accurate portrayal of many elements of the War - not least because of the huge inaccuracies of "The Donkeys" - the book that was the spur to this and other protrayals.
@jonathannorris89925 күн бұрын
“We’re here coz we’re here” is the theme song for every British regiment that has ever served right up today. We don’t do heroes in Britain, we do poor bloody infantry.
@jonfallis3055 күн бұрын
shite... just watch "they shall not grow old" for the truth
@BrianHill-ce8rm6 күн бұрын
Who wants to go back dumb sobs
@greybirdo6 күн бұрын
My grandfather was at Mons. Served with the Rifle Brigade from 1909 to 1919, and was gassed somewhere along the way. It breaks my heart to imagine what he went through, almost without pause, for those four terrible years, and to know that the worst my imagination can conjure up can never match his reality.
@aishabintabubakr49444 күн бұрын
What's so terrible about the whole thing was WWI is overshadowed by WWII. Despite more people dying in WWII, I find WWI was much worse since it was literally a meat grinder where people died for nothung
@Stanly-Stud6 күн бұрын
Just Cannon fodder
@mole3898 күн бұрын
Piffle, officers were always ensuring the care of their men
@paddy8646 күн бұрын
Correct, it's a disgraceful lie, there are very good reasons why the British Army, alone of all the major combatants, never mutinied or indeed had any notable disciplinary issues throughout the whole war.
@trevjohns76265 күн бұрын
Yes, that's true. But it's out of the subaltern's hands here. I think what's being shown is how the number of unexpected casualties swamped the home country's resources. The War is already growing into a monster.
@elrjames779910 күн бұрын
Not: "what's the use *of*'". but, rather, 'what's the use *in*'' worrying': in standard English?
@ijm196315 күн бұрын
Great film poor history. If you want history look at the Peter Jackson film.
@robinbeavan515216 күн бұрын
Each man fighting his own battle.
@user-bk3dh8ir2p21 күн бұрын
What a load of bullshit
@philplace272613 күн бұрын
In what way...??? we need some more than a pithy comment! makes you you sound like a d!ck...!
@WiFiWombat10 күн бұрын
You certainly are.
@nigelpower15094 күн бұрын
You obviously know a lot about bullshit - or perhaps you don't, because this isn't.
@markanthony14922 ай бұрын
Cannon fodder for the elites! Fighting their planned wars to make them rich! Wake up to this bs
@hughthomson62012 ай бұрын
What a magnificent generation of men. God bless the British soldier - English, Scot Welsh or Irish.
@Formalec4 ай бұрын
Powerful anti-war satire. The songs in OWALW are very good. Really Upbeat tones about tradgedy
@scottsvxr6 ай бұрын
KRO💙💙💙
@28pbtkh236 ай бұрын
Typical isn’t it: they only had ambulances for the officers, none for the other ranks. Until a corporal found a bunch of lorry drivers who were willing to take the wounded troops to the hospital during their lunch hour.
@paddy8646 күн бұрын
Complete bollocks of course, never happened and more to do with the hard-left, anti-establishment obsessions of the late 1960's. That you're prepared to take this snippet at face value says a lot about it's effectiveness and your own credulity and lack of curiosity. The whole film is full of crap like this.
@johnallen78076 күн бұрын
If you believe that you obviously know nothing about the British Army.
@chrisqquinn52743 күн бұрын
Officer casualties as a proportion were higher than other ranks and I write that as the grandson and great grandson and great great nephew of many who served on the Western Front as rankers in front line infantry units .German soldiers sought out officers as targets to the point where officers went over the top wearing private's tunics and carrying rifles to avoid being targeted .
@X-GamerPro-HD7 ай бұрын
It took me like 12 years to find this until I heard this on the radio for some reason and I unused music search and found it.
@user-re3eq3yr9h8 ай бұрын
Ну всё офигенно,и я не тот, кто достоен обсуждать Мэтра,но почему английский солдат уже протягивает руку с письмом? Извините.
At first I thought the NCO was being callous but really he’s in the same boat as the other men. In many ways, I think his gruff attitude helps to give a business as usual air and prevents self pity or moping
@BarryChapman-wv9fg11 ай бұрын
Great song
@pragerbest784811 ай бұрын
when white people loved their country and were not woke
@themadfarmer5207 Жыл бұрын
The words. The music. Sir Harry Lauder. The heart swells up and the eyes water. Their likes will never happen again
@juanmanuelparadacontreras9565 Жыл бұрын
Una película muy bien hecha en resaltar la estupidez de la guerra en su máxima expresión. Toda una joya en la extensión de la palabra.
@LESLIELINGARD Жыл бұрын
Got to be one of the most iconic and legendary anthems out there, if not the best. Sang this at Stans when I first went with my dad, 6 years old. KRO
@michaellavery4899 Жыл бұрын
Hats off to Harry Lauder!
@suemarshall569 Жыл бұрын
Looking across the ranks, they are all suffering from PTSD. No therapy for them though.,.
@ijm196315 күн бұрын
I surest you spend a bit more time and look at the contemporary film made at Southampton. You can find it if you search shell shock.
@paddy8646 күн бұрын
It's a film mate, not a documentary or a newsreel, they're ACTORS!
@xr6ladКүн бұрын
@@paddy864umm it’s an observation and actually the truth.
@ThePierre58 Жыл бұрын
I watched this scene and thought of my grandfather who, as Royal Engineer, saw action at the Somme and Ypres. Beautiful scene from a memorable film.
@jimborsa22 сағат бұрын
My Great Grandfather was also a Sapper in the Royal Engineers. He was killed at Ypres. RIP.
@vanavaljge1577 Жыл бұрын
Вот сейчас другу с России в Украину хочу позвонить а он трубку не берет это всё вы поданные его величества англичане хреновы
@robertwilson123 Жыл бұрын
Excellent and touching song and footage of British and Australian soldiers from the First World War.
@user-ef6bq6ct4v Жыл бұрын
.................
@haroldwong4815 Жыл бұрын
In the country I am from, they showed this video over and over again in 80s on TV. Sad that the world did not learn to play the "Pipes of Peace", what a difference it would have been then and now.
@deanmaddams4265 Жыл бұрын
Birmingham City....RIP to the fallen
@geminihelen Жыл бұрын
Today, when they are trying to create another world conflict to lead the whole humanity to a digital slavery, this video looks way more profound than it looked years back, I'd say. We people do not need wars, we have to stop 'doing our job' just because we get payed. It's time to open our eyes and realize that the whole situation in the world depends on everyone of us! While we live our lives like blind mindless sheep we'll be treated as such, tortured, killed, fed with whatever shit they like us to feed, etc. It's time to wake up and the video just shows that the history is cyclic, we are in the same point as 100 years ago, just on another level of brutality. I hope it's also another level of our awareness...
@gabrieleragonesi_gsp Жыл бұрын
I was 10 when this song and video came out and and saw it for the first time on tv. My older brother, who used to pull my leg all the time by the way, knew of my love for all things Beatles, saw that I loved the song and the clip, so gifted me with the Pipes Of Peace LP for my birthday. Sweet memories 😊
@yldzoncel5559 Жыл бұрын
Gençlik dönemimim en sevdiğim şarkılarındandı
@MikhailKondratyev1966 Жыл бұрын
UK Singles Chart 2 wks @ #1 (14 Jan 1984) | the Best Music Video!
@MrDaiseymay Жыл бұрын
ONE OF THE MOST IMAGINATIVE INTERPRETATIONS OF A SONG, IN THE WHOLE BRILLIANT FILM.
@sofiamoilina4378 Жыл бұрын
Bellos
@Carroty_Peg Жыл бұрын
Boomer Truth Regime began ...WW1 ended everything and led the way to the Corporate WEF Globalist world we're in now....
@louisebrigden9240 Жыл бұрын
This gives me chills. So beautiful and inspiring, no wonder it endures. Respect to Harry Lauder and all these brave men.
@thevanthatrocked5 ай бұрын
It gives me the chills too. Total stupidity. Sending all our young men to be cannon fodder for the upper classes.
@jamescotter833 Жыл бұрын
Great song i wonder would ukraine and russian troops do this in there war ? I doubt it shame peace everyone
@tiggerwillow6242 Жыл бұрын
Love this song. One thing I'm a bit confused about, does the British soldier have the German soldier's letter at the end? I saw German words on it (I don't speak German, but know a couple of German words)