A BRIDGE TOO FAR (1977) | The Parachute Drop | MGM

[@valhallaproject9560]

Best airborne operation ever on film. Sound of the jump was perfect.

[@geodes4762]

The jump scenes were very good. Overall the movie told the story pretty much the way Ryan wrote it. There were some scenes though that I found a little hokey. The scenes with Elliott Gould made that Colonel look like a real clown. I’m sure it was done that way because Gould was more of a comedian than a serious actor. Robert Redford did Major Julian Cook no favors in the way he portrayed him. Cook was a genuine hero for the leading that bloody river crossing. Again though the producers ruined the portrayal of Cook by trying to inject some inappropriate humor. Ryan O’Neil was not a believable player of Gavin. Understand the makers of the film were trying to draw an audience by including a lot of “in vogue” actors but the American “actors” I found all fell flat! On the other hand, the actors selected ti play both the Germans and the British were excellent

[@lyndoncmp5751]

Geo Des It was very inaccurate when they showed the 82nd taking the Nijmegen bridge, and in broad daylight. In reality it was the Grenadier Guards tankers who raced across the bridge and took it. The 82nd hadn't yet reached it after their river crossing. They were at Lent by the railway viaduct, about one kilometre from the bridge when the Grenadiers tanks were taking the bridge.

[@lyndoncmp5751]

It was also around dusk when the bridge was taken, and there were still Germans around even afterwards. The tankers weren't sitting there doing nothing except drink tea. Only five tanks got across that evening and two were damaged. Their mission was to take the bridge and stop the Germans from taking it back that night.

[@geodes4762]

@@lyndoncmp5751 That whole scene with Redford waving the tanks across the bridge was done solely for theatrics. It has been called out by a number of viewers in the past as just inaccurate historically. The producers of the movie evidently felt Redford needed to have a more standout role. Julian Cook’s real life heroics in leading that death defying river crossing were evidently not enough for a “star” like Redford.

[@2259r3z]

@@geodes4762 I agree that overall it's a great movie, but certain subplots are a little distracting and unnecessary. My least favorite is the James Caan subplot. It has nothing to do with the rest of the movie and seems out of place. The relationship between him and the officer he saved and the officer character himself just don't seem very believable. The makers of the movie got some criticism at the time for casting Ryan O'Neil as James Gavin, with some people saying O'Neil was too young to play a general, but in reality he was almost exactly the same age as General Gavin at the time of Market Garden. Gavin was 37 in 1944, and O'Neil was 35 or 36 when the movie was filmed.

[@stevethomas2559]

My Uncle was a Para at Arnhem. He was machine gunned in the leg as dropped and taken prisoner. He had a blood transfusion in a German field hospital and always maintained he was lucky to have been caught. He said had it been a British field hospital they would have taken his leg off.

[@shaunoakman5609]

Hi Steve, my grandfather dropped in with 1 para, he was a brew gunner, lost his left leg & his best mate in a grenade blast fighting at oosterbeek, till he passed, he had nothing but praise for the German medics. That's all he really said about his time at arnhem

[@einfachignorieren6156]

@@shaunoakman5609 what a waste of german supply, for fool like him

[@bobmetcalfe9640]

He was probably wrong. The Germans performed far more amputations than either the Brits or Americans. Not sure about the Russians.

[@arefkr]

@@shaunoakman5609Credit when it's due

[@JJvideoman]

​@@bobmetcalfe9640imagine the audacity to tell two people with first hand accounts from direct family that they're probably wrong 😂

[@TonyLovell]

This is an adacious, expensive and risky shot. I like how they have enough C-47s to make it seem huge.

[@2259r3z]

They had only a few flyable Dakotas, eleven I believe (?), that they had scrounged up from several sources, but they made it look like more by the way they filmed and edited it. Notice that in most shots there are never more than six to ten in the shot at any one time. They just kept showing the same aircraft over and over but from different angles to make it look like a long, continuous stream of planes. In the few shots that show more than a half dozen or so in the frame, they did a trick in editing where they were able to double and tripled up the same group of aircraft into one shot.

[@CherryCokeNixon]

Before they could fake it like Band of Brothers

[@mardiffv.8775]

The movie crew received C-47's from all over the world: Israel and Finland, it remember correctly.

[@ae4164]

Audacious. But I agree with you.

[@hrafnofthule5962]

@@mardiffv.8775also Denmark, I knew a girl her father flew one of the planes in this sequence, he was from the Danish airforce.

[@Geronimo_Jehoshaphat]

Epic. So glad Attenborough did the sequence without music too.

[@robertcottam8824]

Yes, you’re right: The absence of music makes it feel absolutely authentic.

[@gooser__43]

Yes, excellent soundtrack 👌 👏

[@garyK.45ACP]

Hard to believe this move is 46 years old...and it was only 33 years after the actual event.😲

[@drxym]

The studio got the British army parachute corps to jump for this sequence. There is obviously a lot of different camera angles and superimposing footage on top of itself to make it look like a huge spectacle but it's still impressive. My dad was one of the parachutists in the jump though I can't see his face anywhere.

[@geofftodd3979]

Done by 3 Para!

[@davidsinclair7439]

You can see your dad at 2:42, 23rd paratrooper from the left

[@Jaysol24]

Honor and Gratitude to Your Dad for OpMG @drxym, my Dad may have been there too; was C-47 co-pilot stationed in England first, then in Orleans after that if I heard it right. Didn't talk much and didn't say much twice. Was fantastic, did everything well, was not his equal but am still a candidate..Regards.

[@anglerfish1001]

My dad was in a TA unit, 289 Para Bty, when they filmed this. They were going to be part of the jump as seen in the film but apparently, because they were civilians, they were not insured, so didn’t get to do it.

[@mindslaw4961]

My high school history teacher was one of the jumpers too. Man had some great stories.

[@mollyfilms]

Just witnessed probably the best directed parachute drop in history.

[@fair2guy]

dude that pov shot at 2:12 in 1977?? way ahead of its time!

[@91Redmist]

Epic scenes.

[@Frankie2012channel]

Several camera operators jumped along with the others. This was REAL FILMMAKING!

[@fredericdubuffet5517]

En français s v p

[@alejandrogreco2594]

there is an actual scene of a camera men during exercises of paratrupers before normandy, may be is for this.

[@CatchDude]

I love how the heath is in bloom where they land, all nice and purple, in this movie. The landing happened in september, when it blooms in real life (half august till halfway through september, roughly). So they even got that detail down, since the landing happened on great fields of heath in september, just west of Arnhem.

[@twobyfour]

My thought too. I visited for the commemorations in September 2014, The DZs and LZs were in full bloom and watched modern British paras jump on to those historic grounds, that was quite something.

[@HappySpanker2016]

I grew up in Ede, very close to drop zone Y. My grandmother told me of the impossible noises she heard those days and that the people of Ede scavenged the parachutes to make wedding dresses.

[@oilersridersbluejays]

Heath? Heath Ledger?

[@ConsciousAtoms]

Except that the first day para drop was not on heath but on pastures. The second day para drop was on Ginkel heath.

[@AngloSaxonWheatFarmer]

I love these old movies, I wish they still made them like this with all the practical effects and the equipment

[@damselnoir5905]

I don't think they know how anymore; they're so addicted to green screens and computer-generated characters and props that everything looks phony and like a Marvel movie.

[@lgjm5562]

Hollywood can't afford practical effects like this anymore. And in other ways I'm glad they won't try to make it today.

[@fisk0]

Gee, you mean you wouldn't want this to be depicted as a rollercoaster ride with a cut every second, no wide/establishing shots and just a spinning camera and non-stop screaming for the entire duration of the scene?

[@arefkr]

@@damselnoir5905They know, but now CGI is cheap and cheap is what every producer is aiming at

[@hastekulvaati9681]

Watch Tora Tora Tora. The amount of real life WW2 hardware they trashed in that film is heartbreaking… but it looks great.

[@garyK.45ACP]

One of the top WW2 movies ever.

[@pikiwiki]

So interesting to watch this knowing there was no CGI back then

[@danielplainview2360]

"A BRIDGE TOO FAR" released in 1977 was a follow-up to the original "A BRIDGE TOO CLOSE" released in 1975, and was eventually concluded with the release of "A BRIDGE JUST RIGHT" in 1980.

[@johnclay7644]

Great cinematography from 77

[@stevemance2812]

The most realistic airborne landings recreated for the movies ever.

[@daviddouglas6610]

Yes apart from our lads jumping with a reserve

[@billace90]

Even the cameraman jumped. It doesn’t get any more realistic than that.

[@SaltimusMaximus]

I have a relic british para helmet that came from a house in Oosterbeek, I got it off a guy who was involved in the making of this film, always loved this film and to get it was utterly fantastic

[@pschroeter1]

Wow. I think that was almost more impressive than Band of Brothers because it was real and not CGI.

[@Klassiker-]

Much better than Band of Brothers. Shame though, that the planes are in the wrong color here, and the C47s didn't fly in finger-five formation during parachute-drops.

[@jamesdiaz793]

@@Klassiker- It's a movie, not a documentary.

[@Dave-hu5hr]

Almost.. ? 🥔

[@AustinCDennis]

​@@Klassiker- it's not much better because Band of Brothers had planes getting shot at. Recreating what Band of Brothers did without CGI is impossible.

[@Senzotan]

​@@jamesdiaz793Says the Braveheart fan. Why not just paint them pink.

[@Nperez1986]

NO CGI = AMAZING!

[@KuijperRob]

i walked there along the field as a 10year old kid..imagioning the whole thing happened here..the Ginkelse Heide..then visited the Airborne Museum in Oisterwijk....impressive..it was a long desired dream to visit the place in my holidays with my parents..

[@MaoTseTong]

50 years old and 1000 times better than nowadays CGI 💩

[@hiramabiff2017]

I never knew this was a re-make of a 1946 film " Theirs Is the Glory ". I watched it on tv the other day and it was quite well put together for a movie that old.

[@sugarkane4830]

And many of the men in “ Theirs is the glory” where actual vets.

[@Darth-Nihilus1]

I love these older movies because they use real people with real equipment. Truly a masterpiece of a movie

[@sixbells99]

Incredible footage before the days of CGI where you could just paint in multiple parachutes. Most of the jumpers if not all were British paratroopers, many of which would face real combat in the Falklands a few years later and performed just as well as their counterparts in WWII against a larger enemy and missing kit after most of their equipment and helicopters sat at the bottom of the sea after their cargo ship was sunk. Despite the odds being against them, they still won out!! "They are in fact - men apart - every man an emperor."

[@jamiejudd8018]

Well said sir🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧

[@Mrz-sb1hw]

British sir, man for man the greatest army in the world especially the great SAS unequal in combat.

[@davidmurray5399]

The Drop of the 1st Parachute Brigade was nearly perfect, it was described by some of the men as a "canteen drop", a practice drop with a NAAFI wagon waiting to dish out tea and buns. What got things off to a bad start was Lathbury's insistence on all the battalions waiting on the drop zone until order groups were done, wasting valuable time. Frost had his men assembled and ready to move within a half an hour, and was first off the mark toward the river road. Lathbury's plan had all three battalions marching on divergent routes that made it nearly impossible for the battalions to support on another if problems arose, which they certainly did.

[@derek-press]

I can imagine the frustration of the men must have been hitting the roof

[@IndieVolken]

and the fact the drop zone was so far from the target

[@mickywanderer8276]

@@IndieVolken The division wanted to put gliders right down on the bridge to secure it immediately. They talked with 6th Airborne that had done it on D-Day and the glider pilots said that they can do it. They also suggested dropping a brigade just south of the bridge. It wasn't the greatest landing zone but they were willing to risk it. High command, wasn't.

[@Hey_MikeZeroEcho22P]

GAWD!!!!! I Just LOVE that 'fox hound ( Rally-around ) horn'!!!!!

[@GP-fw8hn]

fantastic movie. very realistic and well done

[@erikmann3640]

One of the best films ever made. I wish they still made pictures like this. I would love to see the assault on Pegasus bridge and the fight until they were relieved. Amazing story.

[@redgeneral5792]

1:47 Dude in the middle is having a bad day.

[@eoghannolan741]

My god spinning out

[@sillyone52062]

​@@eoghannolan741"If I my chute don't open wide, I've got a reserve by my side"

[@Mikey-pq4zf]

"Roman Candle"

[@shaidorsai4834]

As a Former Paratrooper I've often wondered what it would have been like to The Very Last Jumper out of The Very Last C-47.

[@2259r3z]

You likely would have had a long walk back to the assembly area 😄

[@subaruadventures]

You are never a FORMER Paratrooper, you always will be but i see your point and wondered the same, even the first. And yes i am a Paratrooper from Australia (not serving anymore).

[@jamesross1799]

Couldn't agree more with the comment bellow. Used to watch this with my grandad a lot (he wasn't airborne he had been R.M but he seemed to have a massive respect for op market)

[@blackbird5634]

For two solid hours EVERY single time I watch this, ALL I want in life is to wear a red beret and jump into Arnhem with the 1st Parachute Battalion. It's been that way since I first watched this as a boy in 77'.

[@patrickcannady2066]

Anthony Hopkins as Colonel Frost with the fox horn.

[@hupra72]

The 1st Battalion, The Parachute Regiment, did this drop in Deventer, Holland. This place is about 30-35km from Arnhem. They didn't use the original drop zone, Ginkel Heath, in the film for some reason. It is still in the same state as it was back then too. Having made this parachute descent twice (once in Normandy, too), I can tell you that it is an absolute honour to commemorate what they did and who they are and say thanks to the citizens of Holland and a huge thank you to the Dutch Government and Military for allowing the Brits, Americans and Polish to join them. To see the children in the cemetery is very moving as they lay the flowers on the graves.

[@roelkerkhoff578]

They used the bridge in Deventer as “Arnhem bridge” for the film, but they jumped on the heath near the village Speuld (some 20km north of Ginkel Heath). Ginkel was not used because of the A12 highway and its traffic could no be stopped for the jump. Furthermore Ginkel Heath could be reached via many roads, making crowd control difficult. That’s why they used Speuld Heath.

[@SanDeezyBreezy61986]

Probably as close to what a mass airborne drop actually looked like and sounded like in WWII.

[@johnrife7134]

They dropped too high but other than that you're probably right.

[@esajuhanirintamaki965]

There was some Finnish Air Force C-47:s too. The Finnish pilots were enough young, and they were able to fly their planes in reguired formations. The other countries had difficulties to find experienced and still young pilots.

[@hrafnofthule5962]

You mean for the movie or the real event? I knew a Danish girl, her father was a Danish airforce pilot that flew a plane for this scene in the movie.

[@Okiedog1]

That POV drop at 2:15 is really thrilling

[@xenomorph6961]

Yes, listening to the trooper forcing his breathing and an almost "phew" when then canopy deploys really made these scene. No CGI back then!

[@Ragingmaja]

I was really impressed by that, very cool seeing the parachutist perspective.

[@jhnshep]

as an ex para one thing I can say is the silence after the canope opens is deafening, wonderful experience

[@Orignal_Français]

There is another one, quite sad, later in the movie, from a Paratrooper that injured by the germans who had captured hours ago the landing field. He is crying, helpless...

[@modellbaugoaly9293]

if posible visit the museum in Ahrheim. There they have a kind of simulation path. Okay not for the jumo, but for landing with the glider and the fight. It is in the original building, where the german gernarl of the beginning of the clip is. (later it became the headquater of the landing troops)

[@Mobius118F]

I love the *spring-e* noise when they jump weirdly calming to me.

[@altonbunnjr]

And no CGI, all real aircraft and men.

[@glenchapman3899]

well eleven aircraft, and if you watch closely a fair number of dummies jump out of those craft lol

[@UKVeteran2024]

I met one of the guys that jumped at Arnhem on Airbourne Forces Day, and MP. Such a privilege.

[@hannahw90hw]

My grandad was here. he was a British paratrooper. He got shot and taken prisoner where he got gangrene ad had his arm amputated. He didn't talk about it much, but he was a very brave man, that's for sure. And very lucky to have lived.

[@UKVeteran2024]

@@hannahw90hw they were incredibly brave, you must have been really proud of him.

[@christopherjcarson]

Remarkably the hotel turned field hospital at Arnhem is still visited by Veterans and their families. Some life long friendships have continued as a result!

[@richardwilliams5312]

Wont get a classic like this anymore 😪

[@KENKENNIFF]

I like the contrast between the gruff military voices of the soldiers and the gentle dream-like vision of men floating through the sky.

[@davidwagner9644]

My Grandfather was there in 1944 and 1976 when filming took place. We came all the way from North West Ohio to Holland. I was 7.

[@Play2Win1958]

Incredible

[@christopherparrisjr.3146]

Superbly filmed!

[@sayjack1328]

Yea, there is no CGI in that one.

[@marcwilliams2504]

my favourite movie of all time.

[@Markus_Andrew]

They don't make them like this anymore! They must have rounded up every airworthy C-47 Skytrain in the world for this movie.

[@2259r3z]

@The Richest Man In Babylon I've read that they had eleven. "Air filming was done in the first weeks of September 1976, culminating in a series of air drops of a total of 1,000 men.[citation needed][17] Supplies were dropped from a number of Dakota aircraft. The Dakotas were gathered by the film company Joseph E. Levine Presents Incorporated. All aircraft were required to be CAA (Civil Aviation Authority) or FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) registered and licensed to carry passengers. An original deal for the purchase of 10 fell through when two airframes were rejected as passenger configured without the necessary jump doors. Eleven Dakotas were procured. Two ex-Portuguese Air Force, 6153 and 6171 (N9984Q and N9983Q), and two from Air Djibouti, operating from Djibouti in French Somaliland, F-OCKU and F-OCKX (N9985Q and N9986Q) were purchased by Joseph E. Levine. Three Danish Air Force K-685, K-687, and K-688, and four Finnish Air Force C-47s, DO-4, DO-7, DO-10 and DO-12, were loaned for the duration of the parachute filming."

[@dondraper3871]

My son: "But dad, without CGI no film could faithfully depict grandiose and large scale battle scenes" Me: "Oh my sweet summer child..."

[@gabrieldjatienza6971]

Unbroken record of 35,000 men !!!

[@peterdebrie]

Visited the airborne monument today on Ginkelse Heide and walked one of the airborne routes.

[@jonathanakehurst4489]

Incredible drop scene! 😮❤

[@brunoalsantos]

Fantastic footage!!

[@jamesross1799]

They actually had Johnny frost as an advisor for the film

[@justonecornetto80]

It had General Sir Brian Horrocks, Roy Urquhart, James Gavin and J.O.E Vandeleur as advisors as well.

[@wadesuen778]

Jesus, this was filmed during the time without any CGI!

[@mikewinston8709]

My cousin was one of the jumpers for the film; serving in 1 Para. They were paid £75.

[@jussim.konttinen4981]

Four Finnish Air Force C-47s, DO-4, DO-7, DO-10 and DO-12, were loaned for the duration of the parachute filming, by the so-called People's Front government.

[@BobbyD262]

Love Unsworth's fog filters. Looks like there's a WW II flashback scene from Superman the movie for some reason, haha.

[@tuffsheddweller]

One of the few WWII films that nailed the hard, rough landing of the paratroopers.

[@hardihard1610]

they don`t make movies like this anymore.

[@joseph291]

The micro to macro details of that plan. Fantastic.

[@miller84631]

Ex 82nd airborne here; we used c130's and c17's

[@rubedogg6969]

C123, C130 and C141’s great times!

[@dr.jones.3832]

Amazing👍

[@robertmunoz7543]

Never snows in septembre!🤔 Jman

[@RangaTurk]

Forest on the side of roads provides plenty of camouflage as only a few leaves start to turn yellow around this time so I believe this operation wasn't thought through as much as it could have been if a Kettenkrad motorcycle could tow a 20mm flak gun. A fleet of them can be concealed in woods with netting and could be traversed on swampy ground towards the flanks of formations landing on or near main roadways. The area around Wyler isn't wooded and just as well. Some forests are so thick you could almost get away with concealing a whole regiment in them.

[@BattleAxe1345]

That trooper in 1:48 at right was twirling around like crazy! That looked scary.

[@Ჽum]

Yeah, that's really bad.

[@BattleAxe1345]

@@Ჽum Could have gone VERY wrong, lol.

[@AllanGildea]

Absolutely gobsmacking.

[@zaid9161]

Very nice

[@АндрейЮ-м2э]

No CGI Good real scene 👏

[@brianibbetson9686]

Currently reading Al Murray book, Black Tuesday. Brilliant read.

[@IndieVolken]

sound good - listened to him on history hit podcast recently

[@artin80]

The dropping was on the Ginkelse heath, between Arnhem and Ede. There is a monument and a memorial plaque concerning this action at the time.

[@Nperez1986]

They mitigated risk by jumping higher in the film. That's too high for a real combat jump. Helps lower insurance premiums

[@sillyone52062]

No AA fire in the movie.

[@yatsumleung8618]

82nd Airborne jumps: 504th PIR: Husky, Avalanche, Market Garden 505th PIR: Husky, Avalanche, Overlord, Market Garden 507th PIR: Overlord, Varsity (as part of 17th Airborne Div) 508th PIR: Overlord, Market Garden 325th GIR: Avalanche, Overlord, Market Garden 101st Airborne jumps: 501st PIR, 502nd PIR, 506th PIR, 327th GIR: Overlord, Market Garden 1st Airborne jumps: 1st Para Brigade: Husky, Market Garden 1st Airlanding Brigade: Husky, Market Garden 4th Para Brigade: Slapstick (not a jump, just amphibious landing), Market Garden 6th Airborne jumps: 3rd Para Brigade, 5th Para Brigade, 6th Airlanding Brigade: Overlord, Varsity

[@Razziazor]

This was only battalion sized, looking at the number of planes. Can you imagine what it must have looked like when they dropped a whole division?

[@ryszakowy]

most likely exactly the same because it would be impossible to see it all at once but i know what you want to say

[@canerguener8664]

Search for pictures in b/w. Amazing

[@熊五郎-v1g]

🌀😱👀♥️ ノルマンディー上陸作戦の いいところ、落下傘部隊 カッコいい‼️

[@carlmarston1687]

Market Garden seemed like such a good idea

[@threeone6012]

Little known fact, some of the most amazing CGI came out of the 1970s.

[@F14DSUPERTOMCAT]

Huh??

[@lyndoncmp5751]

Yeah, Jaws was CGI too 😂.

[@tactiguay7154]

"Camera Generated Image"

[@anibalcesarnishizk2205]

At that time WWII was still fresh.

[@sillyone52062]

​@@anibalcesarnishizk2205Many of the surviving participants of Market Garden were advisers to the film.

[@TwitchPluslleGaming-ky3hw]

Okay 👍

[@wolfgangi]

just realizing how influential this scene was to a lot of more modern WW II movies

[@col4574]

That lion always gets me

[@ianwyj1]

An actual parachute jump too, nothing CGI about it

[@robertlehnert4148]

"Gory, gory what a hellva way to die..."

[@DerekHoscorner]

Awesomeness job

[@Plumbump]

Thousands of hard men jumping out of a perfectly good airplane with the express purpose of meeting you.

[@jilldecker6257]

The sound track makes the movie..

[@kurtthewicked9009]

In the beginning, Gen. Bittrich says, roughly, "But one time to command so much power". If someone's German is better than mine, please correct me.

[@kayschmitz1155]

hard 2 believe that this was the last german victory in the west, no matter how much yarn is spun by the losers afterwards

[@glenchapman3899]

Yeah and even if the radios had worked they might have still pulled it off. Or the Germans didn't get a complete set of the operational plans. Germans really rolled a triple 6 on the luck roll with this one lol

[@kayschmitz1155]

@@glenchapman3899 lost is lost

[@Grayman58]

I had this movie poster on my bedroom wall when I was a teenager . I stole it from the cinema lobby during the movie when things were quiet in those days the poster was pinned to a A frame stand . WHO. DARES WINS . 🇬🇧👍

[@Markus_Andrew]

I love it 👍😁

[@AllanKlo63]

Great stuff this. Now I just have to watch this movie.

[@TheGrenadier97]

Back when CGI wasn't a (every) thing.

[@johnrife7134]

The only reason CGI is so overused is cost.

[@joseph291]

THE ORGANISATION PROCEDURES ARE GREAT.

[@tomevans4402]

Great movie

[@frankvandergoes298]

Even though they were heavily outnumbered ad hoc German Kampfgruppe such as training battalion Kraft soon rallied and attacked the landing grounds, causing delays to the time table.

[@artin80]

De dropping was op de Ginkelse hei, tussen Arnhem en Ede. Er staat een monument en een gedenkplaat inzake deze actie destijds.

[@Knochensack74]

Dieser Film hat mich als Kind so begeistert, daß ich Jahre später selbst am Schirm hing...😅 Glück ab!👍

[@chucklubchenko4661]

Epic

[@geofftodd3979]

The drop was performed br the Third Parachute Bn, British army

[@sirloin8745]

‘Ahh, it must just be a training exercise’.

[@がっちゃんM]

これDVD持っているんですが、何回観てもすごいですね。CGじゃなくて、本物の兵隊さんが降下してるんですもの。 昔の映画って、スケールが違いすぎる('◇')ゞ

[@robertnymand9889]

The germans had alot of fight left in them yet in fall of 1944.

[@geofftodd3979]

2 para found themselves against an armored Div

[@gris186]

Never watched this scene before but it's easy to see where Band of Brothers got their inspiration from

[@OneofInfinity.]

Yes from the real drops in Normandy just like this one from the ones at Arnhem 🤦‍♂