A Bridge Too Far - Operation Market Garden - Troop Carrier Pilots

Troop Carrier Pilots Flying scenes only Three Minutes Really great camera and cinematography for 1976 when the movie was shot. Re-digitized in HD.

[@brettlloyd4446]

A bridge too far was one of the best ww2 movies ever. Filmed on grand scale and nice collection of real vehicles and aircraft in battle scenes. Movies don't get filmed like this anymore

[@itsandy88]

Brett Lloyd agreed I think the only other director that's got as close to realism is Spielberg with Saving Private Ryan & Band of Brothers

[@herongonzalez2121]

this is the greatest cinematography of a jump. gives you all the angles & specially the camera on paratrooper. i felt like i was in the chalk of paratroopers going out the door. way before gopro & still couldn't touch this

[@kyle47922]

Being a Veteran of 618th Engineer Support Unit Airborne and the 82nd Airborne Division. I love this scene.

[@TheTibmeister]

I did a 3 year study of the British at Arnhem. Yes, it was a fuck up of our own making. I have been to Arnhem and stood under the bridge many times. It is not the original bridge but the stanchions are still there. It feels- strange knowing in detail how those men died in desperate situation. There was a raid on Arnhem the night before, many Dutch civilians died. And During the battle too. After the battle the German evacuated Arnhem and made the civilians do a forced march in a heavy rainstorm. Many died. We destroyed half of their town - for nothing - and still welcome us back as heroes. If you get a chance to go go to the cemetery at Oosterbeek. It is where the British paratroopers first landed about a 15 minute bus ride from the town centre and a ten minute walk from the village. It is in the most beautiful peaceful countryside and kept immaculately by the War Graves Commission It contains just over a thousand men and is very moving. There is also a visitors book when i came to write i noticed the comment above made by a German. It simply said ‘Sorry’ and it bought tears to my eyes. May we all live together in peace.

[@lukewaterman3808]

Great footage, filmed in 'real life' by my father David Waterman - who was an ex para himslef serving in Suez and Cyprus in the 50's. Alas he past away yesterday. Good to see his work is imortilised for all to see. RIP dad.

[@noraedwards3419]

So sorry for your loss. Your dad's work is fantastic. And many thanks for his service.

[@michaelbolton7790]

Yes, Luke, I knew your Dad too. Sorry for your loss. Brilliant camerawork. If I remember correctly he said that he also had a 'speaking part' in the film. When he jumped as an 'extra' in the film, as he hit the ground, he went 'Ahh' from the impact & they retained it. RIP Dave.

[@dc3jock]

It is hard to think how many went over, and how many did not come back. This truly was The Greatest Generation. Sherm

[@RosieLee777]

This bit always make me cry. My father was a para and this was his favourite film. G He died 18 years ago yesterday.

[@fredbazoo]

Airborne!! :)

[@Winterstick549]

Rhona Connor Thank him for his service in our prayers and thoughts.

[@jamesscott7944]

Thank you for his service and currahee

[@sargintrock2538]

De Oppresso Liber!

[@183bristol]

My father-in-law was was one of the Market Garden pilots. His aircraft was number 42-93096. They were all very brave souls.

[@kcphillips1000]

Best war film ever made along with the best musical score ...Plenty of first rate actors too !

[@Bruce-1956]

No CGI.

[@TheCafjboy]

love this film cant wait for wait for the airbourne march this year!!

[@Bruce-1956]

Paid my respects last Friday at Oostetbeek.

[@gbrpompeyrespekt6]

An excellent film & one of its finest scenes....WITH Real Dakota's, unarguably the Best General Transport plane ever built.

[@sargintrock2538]

Still flying with Air America Affiliates!

[@Bruce-1956]

Still flying in S. Africa.

[@daniko4447]

Texans as thunderbolts, leopard 1 as pzer IV, still very cool movie

[@niklasmolen4753]

@@daniko4447 Runnable PZ4s were unfortunately very hard to come by in 76. But I'm happy with the result.

[@daniko4447]

@@niklasmolen4753 Yes, also there were some M4 Shermans mock-ups

[@johndates9827]

My father jumped with the 82nd and imagine your fathers or grandfathers doing the same on that day or at Normandy, Salerno or Sicily; give pause and thank them for doing what seemed impossible.

[@samsonboeve7478]

my dad's grandfather was a paratrooper too

[@skorpio5743]

Great movie

[@Andrew-pu8ly]

Great theme music : Rollicking , gay (old term ), inspiring , before soldiers plunge to their deaths in a botched operation....So British !!!

[@BlindWillieJackson]

Probably the last war film to use real planes. It is all CGI now and not only defies the laws of physics it also looks sadly cartoonish. Love this film. Richard Attenborough was an incredible actor & director.

[@rogerlynch5279]

+Tim Parker I believe that had been Memphis Belle.

[@ptsdpamphletcompany5890]

+Tim Parker You're not alone in that thought, don't worry, someday we'll get what we want, and one of us may be directing it.

[@asheer9114]

+Tim Parker To be fair, today it's literally impossible to shoot WW II movie without CG effect, because there are far too few REAL planes from that period left...

[@ptsdpamphletcompany5890]

Przemyslaw Kuszynski "Make WWII planes great again"?

[@CorsetGrace]

+Tim Parker So amazing that this was done without CGI....like the Battle of Britain, both movies had large air forces in their own right.

[@MarkMahoney]

Goosebumps!

[@nilssundblad1637]

2:35, looks like the controller is a time traveller from 1976.

[@tank-lovingguru4880]

great scene from a fantastic film

[@billace90]

What an epic music for such a scene. That drop brought memories from Bragg in 68, but then, we were young.....and not afraid. My utmost respect to those paratroopers of the Greatest Generation. We will always remember them, they were an inspiration.

[@johndates9827]

I made an earlier post here 2 years ago where I noted that my father was a member of the 82nd ABN and he jumped in to Holland that day. He was with the 504 PIR 2nd Bat.and their target was the Grave bridge. Dad told me that it was a bright sunny day and they jumped at 800 feet. He said that the Germans near the bridge were so stunned that many took off. He was also involved in the assault on the Nijmegan bridge. Dad said he saw the river crossing by the 1st Bat. and thanked the Lord he was not part of it. My father remained in the army. Fought in Korea with the 3rd Div and finally retired in 68 at Ft. Bragg. At that time he was a member of the 7th SFG. Just had to mention this. Hope you have a good Fourth of July. We remember all who served and thank you for yours.

[@mattkaustickomments]

The music composer was actually a member of XXX Corps tanks that was involved in the operation!

[@sirxavior1583]

Great camera angles and creativity, They did it with 11 flyable DC-3s and before CGI. @0:46 You can tell which DC-3s are real and are just mock ups. They did the same thing with XXX corps. The fake tanks were mock-ups placed on top of VW Beatles. Still Great work.

[@Grobbekee]

It looks like a background painting.

[@mattkaustickomments]

Actually the mock-up Shermans were built over Land Rovers. They were used in long shots and the Bailey bridge crossing scenes because the movie bridge could not support real tanks.

[@latiat1234]

Love the movie, I just --king love it.

[@Filscout]

They used the wrong color paint scheme on the Dakotas. Desert Tan instead of OD for England. Biggest screw up in war film production!

[@thitran1362]

at least they atually use shermans in their films now instead of chaffees or m41s as stand in. The German tanks on the other hand....

[@ikethefrontliner5899]

@@thitran1362 they lack panther aren't they back then

[@schizoidboy]

Amazing cinematography, I see comments on CGI and I agree. This scene is amazing though I imagine some of it was a matte painting in the background, all the same it is breath taking to see those planes taking off and the troops getting on and jumping off.

[@jilldecker6257]

fantastic movie, wonderful music... one of my favorite movies...

[@2009bokke]

my old father flew as co-pilot on the Danish DC 3 contributions to the film and today we are going to see the tuchdown that Roenne airport denmark here, 37 years after

[@nigelbranthwaite8471]

Which one of the three C-47 did your father fly.

[@revol148]

as with so many films from the 1970's - money seemed not to be an issue hence the great attention to detail....nowadays it would all be CGI of course

[@leonardflamm5294]

masterpiece.

[@frantzsupervielle5899]

la plus grande opération aéroportée de tous les temps !! 30 000 paras largués....bravo à nos anciens !!

[@theblokevlog352]

Great war film but the actual operation was doomed to failure. This was the very last time that airborne troops were parachuted into a 'hot' war zone. In all the years since WW2 the dismal failure of airborne troops to land accurately where they're meant to go has never been repeated.

[@Justmynewaccount]

Market Garden: 90% successful, 100% failure.

[@rogerlynch5279]

+Tristan van Oosten Ryan had quoted a Dutch officer in his book saying the take of Ahrenheim had been a no win situation in the Dutch Officer´s exam before the war.

[@Justmynewaccount]

Roger Lynch The Arnhem area was always a bit difficult because of the hilly, forested terrain around the city that could be relatively easily fortified.

[@sillyone52062]

Just a bridge too far.

[@phild8095]

It is amazing those planes could get off the ground considering the massive balls of airborne infantry.

[@schizoidboy]

The parts where they show the Dakotas should have at least gotten a nomination for cinematography. Imagine the amount of work that just went into those shots even the special visual effects.

[@ehought]

It would have sounded better without the music. (like in Catch-22)

[@ICEBLOODPOOTIS]

foward to freedom

[@Winterstick549]

So nice too see war films made without computer graphics.

[@thedwightguy]

I have the planes hat!! "D - Day Doll", Normandy, 1944. Based in Riverside, CA and made the El Monte air/car show in 2019. Dogtags, too. (their Fund Raiser).

[@tobiconmaximus6350]

This is my love song and the best movie for the time.

[@kcphillips1000]

What a wonderful aircraft the Dakota was....still earning its keep 70 years later.....a friend of my father who was also a pilot in the RAF was shot down flying a Dakota at Arnhem and for a short time became a POW

[@williampaz2092]

I submit that Operation Market Garden WOULD have worked with a more complete Communication Plan and the full and complete understanding that regardless of circumstances ground troops MUST be in Arnhem in 72 hour or less.

[@JasonPerryman]

What do you think are visual effects here and are not real genuine planes? It all looks 100% real on first watch but if I look a bit more closely I wonder how much was paintings/ fx or even models. Anyone?

[@steploch]

JasonPerryman These scenes are all real, no special effects. When this movies was made they used only 11 DC-3's. That's all they had. So the producer just re-ran the flight scenes to make it look like there were more planes.

[@JasonPerryman]

steploch Nice one! I certainly hoped that all this is real. That shot at 0.47 though, I wonder if that was all planes, as there's more than 11. Could be real. The shots looking up into the air of planes in the far distance don't look like it was conceived by VFX for that time period when this film was made too.

[@MegaSalainen]

JasonPerryman Four Finnish Air Force C-47s, DO-4, DO-7, DO-10 and DO-12, were loaned for the duration of the parachute filming. They had pilots who knew how to fly in drop formation and planes were used to training until 1979.

[@ICEBLOODPOOTIS]

hurrah

[@fmfetish]

This is what fantastic movie-making is all about. Not the crap CGI we get nowadays.

[@nickmitsialis]

Let's be honest now--there is no way there are enough period aircraft to do these missions (nor insurance premiums to make up for any 'accidents') so we're left with CGI to keep things safer. In spite of their best efforts, the film producers were only able to come up with 11 C47s/Dakotas--but DAMN, that actual parachute drop looked incredible.

[@FriedShrimpey]

Beautiful

[@YourUncleScroatie]

1,438 Dakotas...

[@RosieLee777]

This bit always make me cry. My father was a para and this was his favourite film. G He died 18 years ago yesterday.

[@irish89055]

Of course they did use special effects with Matt's ect and those aerial shots there must be some there too.

[@andersonestevez9056]

Awesome!

[@davidgray2653]

Rest in peace ron. Brown towed a glider

[@smurra3]

Missed the best part when they were gunning the engines and lifting off.

[@charms71]

These were real men being portrayed!

[@kopone17]

Finnish air force ❤️🇫🇮

[@rogerlynch5279]

Fun Fact: Past the war, many of the Polish Parashooters stayed in Belgium and settled down there.

[@t.mijnnaam9916]

Same in Breda, the Netherlands.

[@johnwilkinson9089]

Too much music, not enough engine.

[@daf62757]

One thing they missed was the lack of glider planes that the C-47s towed. One of two regiments were glider regiments. I think I only saw one plane with a tow rope.

[@RAU9231]

Watch the movie There is a great scene as the tow ropes for the gliders slowly unwind

[@asheer9114]

+David Franklin The scenes with gliders were cut off from this video, but they are there.

[@kopone17]

Finnish air force ;)

[@Trust-me-I-am-a-dentist]

Sell your soul to the devil and give your life for the elite... And that with a nice catchy song. May the men who died during this mission rest in peace.

[@nilssundblad1637]

I love paratroopers.

[@mannhaftigkeit]

Why always some stupid music !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@TheBignell1]

mannhaftigkeit I know i`m 10 months late, but it is the music from the film......

[@ColonThreehehe]

As a Plane lover, this is my Fav scene in childhood.