CROMWELL Excerpt

[@Limubi1]

Richard Harris acting with a broken voice to hammer home just how sodding tired and fed up Cromwell is by this point: excellent.

[@jdavison8551]

Denise Bond he could spell too.

[@brianfinnegan664]

That day alone he fought 3 battles, deflowered 2 maids and beheaded an antagonist. Harris that is, not Cromwell.

[@remandstimpy]

@@brianfinnegan664 Just a day in the life of a boozy Irishman.

[@agents6629]

@@brianfinnegan664 And had a few pints

[@MZeki-gw2xg]

Richard Harris will always be a special actor, somewhere between Burton and James Mason

[@MrDavey2010]

Harris intentionally cracked his voice for this role. He was the producer and lead actor as he felt so strongly about the role.

[@poppedweasel]

A brave role, for an Irishman.

[@SavoPaddy]

At the risk of what was at that time, a very promising singing career.

[@GJ1607.]

​@@poppedweaselvery true

[@SENEX12]

I don't think his voice ever recovered, as seen in Potter, Gladiator etc.

[@richardscanlan3419]

Everyone should have a copy of this film in their video library.A cinematic masterpiece.

[@Crusader-Ramos45]

I got one before thanksgiving.

[@joellaz9836]

Richard Scanlan Masterpiece? It’s so historically inaccurate it makes me cry.

[@daviddavies3637]

@@joellaz9836 CINEMATIC masterpiece. Not historical masterpiece.

[@psychedelicelvis-777]

@@joellaz9836 There's enough accuracy in it to remind everyone that the "beast system" is run by the "Antichrist" Jesuit Roman Catholic Church, are you paying attention Charly the third, cometh the hour cometh the man !

[@sb12083]

My what?

[@petercampbell8694]

FANTASTIC example of how acting SHOULD be done! - Harris was a POWERHOUSE of talent! - His son has that gene too! 👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@traceycrossman1295]

A wonderful film, with great acting. It is also a time for a true parliament now. Not one that serves itself, not the people.

[@fenixselfhelp7177]

wut

[@Retrostar619]

The little look he gives the camera as he exits is priceless.

[@croweman6515]

Ah Cromwell, yet another man whom is a hero to many, and a villain to others, all I'll say is, for good or ill, Oliver Cromwell was a major player in making England the nation it is today, and for that, Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell always has been, and always will be, one of the world's greatest debates.

[@CradaOC]

Cromwell was a tyrant and how anyone can find him a hero is beyond me.....I know its not good to look at the 17th century through 21st century eyes, but he is what he is

[@ConfessorCromwell101]

​@@CradaOCIn Atom's name, you'll pay for your transgressions!

[@drjamespotter]

​@@CradaOCHe was both. Life is not simple.

[@Sean-p3o]

England and Britain are not the same

[@abehambino]

@@CradaOCyou say it’s not good to view through 21st century eyes and admit to doing it. ALL men in power can be labeled tyrants to some extent. And yes, he did some bad things, but was the alternative better, or did he play a role that moved the nation and perhaps the world into a better direction, be it ever so slightly?

[@Celticcross688]

God he would have a Field Day now!

[@123-NORTH-STREET]

Amen

[@Falcrist]

Imagine how many irish he could genocide with MODERN weapons.

[@Kitiwake]

@@Falcrist it"s ok though, they were English catholics in Ireland.

[@joellaz9836]

Gina Dawn I mean the guy was a Puritan. He would probably freak out about all the atheism and collapse.

[@ProjectEkerTest33]

@@joellaz9836 Yeah this was the guy who banned Xmas if he saw what Britain was like today he'd either kill himself or do to his own people what he did to the Irish

[@davidknight2104]

Watching this in 2019 and totally understanding where Cromwell is coming from, parliament is a disgrace!

[@charlesvincett84]

Cromwell...the puritan?

[@Puzzoozoo]

Parliament has always had a large quota of traitors, quislings and turncoats.

[@khankrum1]

Do not mistake a cinema portrayal with the realities of historical event's.

[@BillSikes.]

@@khankrum1 what you on about, this portrayal is historically accurate

[@starguy321]

The idea that Cromwell is representing the people here is absolute rubbish, Cromwell was willing to use the army to overthrow parliament. Parliaments aren’t perfect, but they’re a damn sight better than authoritarianism

[@utoftb3878]

My dad took me to see this film at the cinema when it was released, i was only young but I took it in and it stayed with me, if only someone in our government could grow a backbone and stick up for the people, instead of looking after their own interests

[@elingles2854]

uto ftb, You words ring true.

[@luislaplume8261]

Same over here in America though I never got to see the movie 52 years ago.

[@Alfred5555]

@@luislaplume8261 Is it not Trump in America?

[@luislaplume8261]

@@Alfred5555 He is. And unlike the Hollywood celebrities he stays and fights back!

[@MMSSLL]

@@luislaplume8261 oh dear sweet godm he is the con man you have all fallen far…

[@sivikasi]

That very subtle little eyebrow lift at the end, great actor!

[@robouteguilliman1020]

We need to get this liked and shared all over again and on a bigger scale.

[@SuperDancingdevil]

For all his faults and he had many, He had courage on his side and a way to deal with Parliament that would be very welcome right now, Peel away his religious extremism and underneath is the type of man that could do well today, He had grit and determination to do what needed to be done and said what needed to be said and had the courage to do the unthinkable to behead a despotic King.

[@richardbracewell3678]

One of the best films ever

[@patriciaoreilly8907]

Absolutely Brilliant Moving.

[@Biggles2498]

Parliament has never changed has it ?

[@WorksopGimp]

No it just passes "LAWs" to suit its self and the member's interest and thier friends

[@Telcontar1962]

Quite right. It has always been the same and anyone who thinks differently doesn't realise what a vicious, authoritarian, criminal regime its been for virtually its entire existence.

[@wildgoose5964]

don't talk bollocks you silly sausage...even women get a vote these days...they're even allowed to be Prime Minister...

[@Telcontar1962]

@@wildgoose5964 Well anyone can get the vote, even illegal immigrants. Its sort of the point, the vote is worthless. These fake MP's are virtually bellowing out that fact through a megaphone. Perhaps you haven't heard them? I did enjoy the "allowed" bit. Its like we're "allowed" to vote. Its so Soviet in outlook. When it comes to talking bollocks you are up there with the best! :)

[@daviddavies3637]

@@Telcontar1962 And yet, everything he said was true. What a snowflake you are to be triggered by factual comments. And what's a "fake MP?" You're not one of these tin-foil hat idiots, are you? An MP is an MP. Now, if you were to suggest that MPs are only in it for themselves, you'd have a point. You enjoyed the "allowed" bit. You clearly didn't understand the "allowed" bit. Back in Cromwell's era, only a small portion of the population was allowed to vote. Despite Americans believing they're the world's oldest democracy, their democracy initially started with the same limited democracy that England had more than 100 years previously. You think it's bad here, perhaps you should move to the US, where bribery of politicians is perfectly legal and they have far fewer rules of conduct for their politicians. You cry about being "allowed" to vote being Soviet in its outlook and yet you sound like someone who would welcome the end of the ability to vote and, by extension, yearn for a Soviet-style dictatorship.

[@saulpaulus]

I wonder what Irishman Harris was feeling doing this role. Cromwell was pretty brutal in Ireland.

[@pato2200]

may the curse of Cromwell be upon hum

[@VCYT]

Only to English catholics.

[@ozwunder69]

He got paid...for a Irishman at the time that was enough recognition plus

[@davidharrison6615]

saulpaulus by the standards of the time he was a fair descent person . Viewing anyone through modern eyes will always bring you to that conclusion about anyone from history .

[@davidharrison6615]

@Repeat After Me: well said

[@valentinamaggie1253]

Grande interpretazione di Richard Harris!! Grandissimo!!!

[@jamesc4198]

NEED THIS TODAY!

[@RobertPinet-y1f]

A dictator? You had one. Name of Trump. Oh, sorry. He was just a wanna-be.

[@edmoundblack3739]

The British people ever needed a man such as this it's NOW.

[@javidell]

Are you hoping to have the Queen killed and a Civil war ?

[@duckworthluas1381]

The Irish people say no!

[@boudicca4841]

We have such a man...but she's a woman. Anne Marie Waters leader of ForBritain.

[@NotQuiteFirst]

@@boudicca4841 They look pretty similar actually

[@petergreen2552]

Cromwell was a war criminal. A dictator and a commiter of regicide. Seriously, would you really want all that in 2019?

[@jorgelopez-pr6dr]

Good movie, but the supposed villain Charles Stuart ends bringing up more sympathy to the audience and Cromwell ends by becoming the villain.In this movie the tables turned. The excellent performance of Alec Guinness made it possible.

[@seantolson6223]

Which is exactly how it was in real life. Cromwell became exactly was he was supposed to destroy

[@Alfred5555]

@@seantolson6223 That's debatable but yes, he was fundamentally a hypocritical man, but he served Britain best.

[@seantolson6223]

@@Alfred5555 Did he really? Or did he just create a theocratic dictatorship that was fundamentally unpopular with the vast majority of Englishmen, most of whom did not possess the same puritan beliefs of himself or the army. His regime did incalculable damage to England's historic landmarks through the slighting of medieval fortifications and the melting down of the crown jewels to prevent the return of the monarchy. He invaded Ireland and Scotland, and committed numerous atrocities there, when they attempted to detach from the Commonwealth, and the Parliament he served became so corrupt and undemocratic he felt the need to dissolve it. What good did he really do, other than creating a constitutional monarchy by accident?

[@timcarpenter2441]

Charles refused to negotiate but pretended to. Cromwell believed his intentions, staked his reputation upon it. Both can be understood as wanting to do right, but the King desires too much power adopting the conceit of divine right from Europe.

[@lastswordfighter]

Cromwell is right and this is exactlywhat America needs. @@seantolson6223

[@hiddenfromhistory100]

Cromwell come back! Away with the monarchy and long live the Republic!

[@krishkrish8213]

Lol nope

[@Wanderer628]

Whatever you think of Cromwell, he was an interesting invdiual indeed.

[@categories5066]

Agreed, he had so much conviction in what he did and did it with a fiery zeal. We need men like him nowadays

[@seanredmond3112]

Harris was more interesting.

[@PawelSorinsky]

@@categories5066 He was an evil zealot.

[@categories5066]

Pablo Nino Nathanael Stoop. No he wasn’t

[@DDDxxxDDDxxxDDD]

@@PawelSorinsky He was corrupted by power, but not really evil.

[@Wessexshire]

Funny how this came up now on my feed, the day after parliamentary power was superseded by the judiciary. Almost like they are trying to, suggest something.

[@wildgoose5964]

@Ted Carruthers moe like you're adding 2 + 2 and gettting 5

[@Perririri]

@@wildgoose5964 the capital of France is Jupiter, one plus one is thirty seven, "Carry on my wayward sooooon!"

[@picardenter]

How true this stands today.

[@LindaMerchant-bq2hp]

Alec Guinness and Richard Harris performances superb greatist since sir laurence olivier in Richard the 3rd and Henry the 5th

[@lawrencelancaster6525]

This is the man!! We the people of Britain need today!!! Parliament, and the so called politicians! We have in there!! If I could I would do the same as Cromwell !! Now!!! Kick them all out!!! Muppets all of them !! It makes me laugh! and in the same breath! SAD!!! The people of this land !! Are been let down!!! By the said Muppets!

[@aledmorgan92]

Yep we need someone who led a genocide. You're a fucking idiot, get the fuck out of here.

[@byteresistor]

You want to replace a "tyranny" with another tyranny? Cromwell was a religious zealot who wanted a puritan theocracy.

[@bobpage6597]

Cromwell was a bastard. Who killed a King, and became himself corrupted by the power he took in becoming Lord Protector. He was also a bastard to the Irish. I'm British, but I'm also a Royalist so hold little truck with Cromwell. We don't need someone like Cromwell. We simply need a leader who will stand up for the wishes of the electorate and give it the respect its due. Parliament today does none of that, which is why its currently prorogued!

[@fabclark123]

@blackzed he sorted out the king, not westminster. we owe him our free parliament.

[@Imsuper656]

Cromwell was a Bastard!

[@georgeemil3618]

Someone left the cake out in the rain. I move that Cromwell should lead to take it or we'll never have the recipe again.

[@Perririri]

MP Julia Child

[@geoffreycarson2311]

A MASTERCLASS in ACTING !!!!SUPERB and CROMMEL Was AN HONEST !!!!MAN g

[@benusmaximus3601]

Who's still watching in 2019?!

[@bfyrth]

2021 using new youtube ultra comments

[@clockworkdave9850]

Me..

[@RampantFury925]

WHO FUCKING CARES JUST WATCH THE DAMN THING

[@sebastianwilson1589]

2024

[@Vomaxx1]

Well, Cromwell was a cavalryman, so maybe that's why here he is a little hoarse?

[@Imsuper656]

Cromwell was a farmer.

[@Vomaxx1]

@@Imsuper656 I was referring to the Civil War period, when he raised a cavalry regiment and eventually became Lt. General of Horse.

[@StudM01]

Lol, I see what you did there.

[@toAdmiller]

A man called Hoarse...*rimshot!*...

[@biblereadingoutreach2284]

Galatians 5:1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

[@Falcrist]

Does this translate into "slaughter Irish because they don't worship your god the right way"?

[@BeniaminZaboj]

@@Falcrist Does your comment is translate into "Don't Remeber Irish murders of protestants in his impact zone"?

[@Imsuper656]

Fuck your non existent 'god'

[@luislaplume8261]

For me this is the best movie he ever was in. A speech like that should be seen by everyone in the Pentagon and we will find out who is a traitor over there by their actions and comments. The same should apply to the Defense Department.

[@7Earthsky]

Someone needs to start a political party called The Cromwell Party.

[@khankrum1]

Be afraid, very afraid, of such a turn of events. Cromwell was s tyrant!

[@7Earthsky]

@@khankrum1 One mans tyrant is another mans freedom fighter.

[@jeperstone]

@@khankrum1 A Parliament such as ours is now creates Cromwells

[@gentlemanfarmer6042]

"The road to hell, is paved with good intentions...." Truer words couldn't be spoken about Cromwell. Someone above me commented something like, one man's hero is another monster or whatever. It's not even that line of thought. It's you either die a hero, often young or you live long enough to see yourself become a villain. I admire earlier Cromwell the farmer, statemens, etc... As he garners more power, he becomes more and more, despot like. And when he ends his career he is a full blown tyrant.

[@markmeade2937]

@@gentlemanfarmer6042 And what do we have now, there are no good intentions, everyone of those 650 So called politicians are there for one reason and one reason alone, to serve themselves and put there hand in the country’s till. All are self serving and have sold us the people down the river. They sold there souls years ago. All of them are one and the same. Cromwell did what he had to do, but who will stand up for us in the current corrupt parliament?

[@deef3430]

Just watched this film again in 1924, great history lesson.

[@LindaMerchant-bq2hp]

In 2024

[@deef3430]

Lol, thanks ​@@LindaMerchant-bq2hp

[@dawn1110uk]

" and then I am going to go totally mad and ban Christmas......"

[@tommycrush2086]

And take my English Republican ideas and make the British revolt against the Crown in North America.

[@souveniehollande979]

@@tommycrush2086 Thomas Payne has entered the chat.

[@TheAndorianWarrior]

Cromwell....what a legend.

[@alexiaNBC]

A legend in England. A nightmare in Ireland.

[@seanmoran2743]

@@alexiaNBC Don’t forget there was strong Royalist resistance in Ireland

[@DC_92]

@@seanmoran2743What’s your point exactly ?

[@pshr2447]

TYRANT

[@ryanrusch3976]

Curse of Cromwell be upon him, but I love how the man insults everyone and then walks out to then be voted commander in chief of the army.

[@lastswordfighter]

Absolutely not. Cromwell is right.

[@ryanrusch3976]

@@lastswordfighter right in hell

[@srinivassc6281]

Short and sweet speech.

[@yorkshirelad3524]

God how we need him back

[@constantinogomez7989]

Would someone place the film in its entirety so we can finally view it ? Thanks

[@godchannelled5990]

Come back Oliver we need you again...

[@chaschk2]

Love Richard Harris!

[@reubensher8144]

Cromwell's legacy...without the monarchy.. should have endured. Britain would have been a different nation today.

[@picard1977]

What a great man…

[@arnoldstollar5375]

Good film and good acting

[@qwertyytrewq71]

I love how he says, "the outrageous incompetence" lol

[@biblereadingoutreach2284]

Jeremiah 48:10 Cursed be he that doeth the work of the LORD deceitfully, and cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood.

[@colinmartin2921]

Has anyone noticed the irony of an Irishman playing Cromwell?

[@yesyoureright]

An irremovable parliament is worse than a irremovable king. How true this is in the uk living under tory tyranny.

[@agentofbadkarma4155]

THANK YOU...NICE ONE !!!

[@reconn9056]

Cromwell, is my hero.....a farmer who read his Bible and lived his life in the light of the Gospel, and tried to free the ordinary man from the oppression of King and State. A reluctant Lord Protector, who's legacy this democracy still enjoys today. He was also a friend to the Jewish community, believing it was a mans right to worship his God, in freedom, without the diktat of court or state. What a man.

[@geoffreycarson2311]

PEOPLE DONT See THAT !!!They See A MONSTER !!! But AS CROMWELL Said YOU CANT Make An OMLETE Without BREAKING Eggs ????And The JEWS HELD ENGLANDS PURSE Strings !!!!And STILL do 😔WELL SAUDIARABIA and THEM ????NOW g

[@jonathansame4132]

My Dad made us which these films Sunday afternoon when we finishing Sunday dinner. But forgot about this one brilliant film and how true for today and I think we should Rise Against the traitors.

[@dorkmax7073]

I never liked how heroic this movie protrayed Oliver Cromwell. He didn't do what he did for the sake of liberty and Parliament. He did it to crown himself. That's why he made Lord Protector an absolute monarch and a hereditary office.

[@Oprey22]

He wanted Britain to be justly governed. He was offered the crown but refused it.

[@grahamsouthern5583]

Wrong, he turned down the crown when people were begging him to accept it. Right or wrong, he did what he did to make England a 'godly' country.

[@BeggarsNight]

Lol….oh yea, because he used a title that wasn’t “King”, he wasn’t an absolute ruler! Are you people for real? Can’t believe how many are practically begging to have a boot on their neck.

[@aarondingain9006]

We need to bring back the lord protector

[@MrFerrell55]

Killed a king to become a king in all but name. Poetic.

[@Quincy_Morris]

Just watched this for the first time. Seems to be the only work that portrays Cromwell mostly in a positive light. Which loses some of its luster for not mentioning his atrocities in Ireland.

[@geoffreycarson2311]

HE WAS NOT there !!!WHEN His Later COMMANDER Did SLAY the IRISH Women And Children ????AS He HAD Washed His Hands of It In 1649 and Only Went To War Against Them as They Had RISEN up For the CATHOLIC Faith And Sided With The Last Factions Of The ROYALISTS g

[@ishmaelforester9825]

Cromwell... crazy bastard, but still an English legend and true hero in the classical sense of the word.

[@pato2200]

made the trains run on time? he was the most fanatical and cruel dictator England ever had. he bankrupted England with his wars and policies and he turned England into a totalitarian intolerant state. he betrayed his own allies and then persecuted them. his rule was characterised by genocide in Ireland, betrayal of the Scots, persecution of religious minorities and repression of liberty. he said he was for parliament and democracy but entered parliament with troops to dissolve it and rule as an autocrat with a hereditary succession. Cromwell legacy is still with us. unfortunately.

[@pato2200]

+Floyd1504 deaths in Ireland during the cromellian invasion are generally accepted to amount to about a third to half the population. . that passes all the internationally recognised definitions of genocide. the Irish famine of the mid nineteenth century led to 1.5 to 2 million deaths and a similar number emigrating. no country in Europe suffered famine at that time on this scale. in every year of the famine Ireland exported food under the auspices of British administration back by miltary power as there was no shortage of food. the potato blight hit the catholic Irish hard as they were banished to the west where only the potato grew. this banishment happened as a result of Cromwell as to go east of the Shannon after 1652 for a catholic meant death or transportation to the Americas as a slave. there has never been ethnic cleansing of protetants in Ireland. on the other hand Ireland suffered two major genocides at the hands of england/Britain one in the mid seventeenth century, one in the mid nineteenth century. I give the facts and invite anyone to check them.

[@DC_92]

🥔

[@brianfinnegan664]

I would love to hear a direct transcript from the time, if one exists

[@rpm1796]

Wrap your head around this one.....ready?.....It's called a book...a history book.

[@brianfinnegan664]

@@rpm1796 why iu have to be so rude? History is written by people with different interpretations and different agendas, I was taking about a transcript verbatum

[@rpm1796]

@@brianfinnegan664 You will find good hunting at www.loc.gov Cromwell's Letters and Speeches with Eludications by Thomas Carlyle Sla'inte.🍻

[@brianfinnegan664]

Thank u

[@rpm1796]

@@brianfinnegan664 Rabbit Hole No.1 hansard.parliament.uk....If you could see the original transcripts on line..that would be more than cool. And...Only in England could you find a group of people who will go to any length to have a drink...celebrating the life of the islands most brutal, bluudy dictator. ' The Cromwell Society...and the museum located in ''Olie's old grammar school at Huntingdon

[@fazbell]

What a hero....and what a villain.

[@Treblaine]

"the bowels of Christ" oh my.

[@stevenhedley9617]

Your country needs you now more than ever !!! Oh for another Oliver Cromwell !!!!

[@petergreen2552]

Fair enough. You want to go without an elected Parliament for eleven years and no monarchy? You voted leave to get powers back to Westminster and now you want a dictatorship? No pleasing some people 🤔

[@AD-cc7bj]

@@petergreen2552 😂😂

[@plantagenant]

I still find it astonishing an Irishman should play Cromwell with such conviction.

[@Jackcantsleepful]

Is it known as to how Richard Harris felt about Cromwell?

[@baxterenrife]

Jack Faulkner Yes, Harris felt Cromwell was the victim of a great many myths. Particularly for supposed atrocities he is blamed for in Ireland.

[@marks_sparks1]

James Lee that is correct, the vast majority of atrocities committed in Ireland were by Henry Ireton when Cromwell returned to England after the Siege of Clonmel. that doesn't excuse his conduct at Drogheda and Wexford however.

[@baxterenrife]

What of "his conduct at Drogheda and Wexford"?

[@marks_sparks1]

his conduct was 'the massacre of 3000 soldiers and civilians in Drogheda and another 2000 plus in Wexford. All documented and even admitted by himself in his correspondence to Parliament

[@baxterenrife]

Nonsense, the massacres at Drogheda and Wexford was of enemy combatants. Lives he was entitled to take, according to the laws of 17th cen' warfare. There's no evidence of a civilian massacres at either location.

[@amjadkhan-jv6xj]

Cromwell a true revolutionary and an icon in British history

[@brandonhernandez371]

Amjad Khan a traitor you mean

[@readsomebooks666]

Did you even watch the movie?

[@jaybatsford]

Cromwell was nothing more then a tyrant, his actions after the Civil War showed him to be nothing more then that.

[@mauzki-]

>secularism >>burned pagans @@cristianwaters2190

[@mauzki-]

@@cristianwaters2190 Yeah and I'm saying that secularism was hardly destroyed by cromwell as the thing was hardly around before, pagans got burnt to death constantly.

[@TellyWatcher1997]

Sadly, Cromwell went bonkers and treated the Irish and Scots with disdain and brutality. The window of opportunity was lost (for real reform) prior to Cromwell's deterioration into extremism. He was made "Lord Protector" as people couldn't get their heads 'round being ruled by a commoner and his tomb featured an effigy of him wearing a small coronet. I doubt that the populous were ready for the kind of reforms that occurred in France and America over a century later, albeit very bloody ones. It is best to look at this as an artistic representation of the history of the time. Warlords were cruel and Cromwell probably wasn't much more cruel than his contemporaries. He had three Levellers hanged, which is the most shocking part for me. I doubt that Cromwell would have described himself as egalitarian. He was very much an individualist and a soldier. I suspect that he thought that he needed to take charge (and dictate) in the vacuum of leadership around him. A disaster was inevitable - checks and balances are always wise. A great performance by Harris and a thoughtful and expert one from Guinness.

[@TeamLNE]

Nice to see how things have changed at Westminster 😏

[@shoutinghorse]

From 1:03 to 1:30 I doubt anyone at the back heard a word he was saying.

[@colinfaragher5373]

Can anyone spot David Starkey making a cameo appearance?

[@Dogboy73]

How bloody good was Richard Harris. Probably skulled more liquor than most of us could imagine the night before this was shot (you can hear it in his voice). Amazing performance all the same.

[@skilledeye1675]

Cromwell, a great nationalist leader.

[@joethekinghawk7514]

Is that Marcus Aurelius 2000 movie gladiator?

[@alexthelizardking]

I'm a hard line Cromwellian but even I believe this film romanticizes him too much.

[@Falcrist]

Really? You THINK?! lol

[@wildgoose5964]

it does tend to omit the old genocide a bit...

[@PointyTailofSatan]

Cromwell was like Churchill; flawed, and a man who made many serious mistakes. But still overall, a titan of English history, and one of the greatest Britons.

[@96oscarC]

How British it is to acknowledge someone as a monster while saying they're a fantastic Briton, in the same sentance. Shameless

[@johnpro2847]

lets hope Charles III has better luck...

[@BenStevenson-c4z]

❤ Cromwell

[@Jess-wx3ji]

Does anyone know if there are any things in this film that happened that aren't true to what really happened? Or if there is anything that has been missed out which really happened ? For homework and I don't know the answers.

[@tikletik]

Charles II, in his pettiness, ordered the dead body of his fathers' just executioner to be hanged, drawn and quartered. The actions of a tyrant, son of a tyrant. And then in an act of total spite, skewered the noble head of his better on a spike at Wetminster. The self entitled cowards tried to reverse the actions of those brave patriots, but they, like all the criminals of Satans minions, failed. And so, despite all the worst efforts of those miserable brigands, the people of England to this day have a say in the governance of their nation and liberty.

[@franzmittner6395]

Please tell me history never repeats .

[@stephenetridge2584]

Just cake across this film for my first time…excellent film and what cast too, epic

[@evannesbitt7852]

After the decisive victory of Naseby, it makes little sense that any of the Parliamentarians were entertaining any kind of conditional or "base" treaty with Charles

[@bluepeter3470]

God please give us a Cromwell. We need him or her more today than then. But perhaps it's to late for Britain.

[@souveniehollande979]

You mean a 'him'. If we want a 'her', then we're seeking a Boudicca.

[@nocturnalrecluse1216]

@@souveniehollande979 terror of the roman's.

[@BeggarsNight]

“God please give us a dictator because working with others is too hard and I want a boot on my neck while all is decided for me.”

[@oneproblemcanttrustanyone.9489]

Were their cameras during this period ?

[@saucersource]

The King's fate was sealed in the movie after Cromwell gave an execution order killing one of his army based on good faith of the King not fighting on. Looking for the ending clip of all the intended changes under the Protectorship

[@markrichards636]

Drain the swamp

[@petergreen2552]

What does that even mean? I really do wish people here would desist from talking like one of those trucker hat trailerparkers that carp on about Trump. .

[@henriquebraga5266]

The irony of an Irishman playing the role of Cromwell

[@elizabethevelyn9761]

Understanding history is like a key to your car.. it will take you to your next destination..

[@VolumedMusicMan]

elizabeth evelyn your reply is fantastic bravo👏

[@GraemeWight-wx3xz]

WHO WILL BE OUR CROMWELL NOW !

[@RonGerstein-tf5tp]

Charles III

[@ConfessorCromwell101]

I'm Confessor Cromwell, prophet of Atom and the Father of the Undying Glow!

[@trevorwoolson3860]

Its funny watching this and seeing how Cromwell became the monster he always said the king was.

[@neverbaguette9-122]

Royalist dog

[@timmccaffrey1326]

Richard Harris was going through what he latter called his 'drugs and booze' period when he made this great movie and in fact he had a nervous breakdown during filming. Harris always regarded himself as something of an Irish republican and he was savaged from all directions in Ireland when he portrayed Cromwell in a sympathetic fashion. Cromwell is probably the greatest hate figure in the whole brutal history of Ireland. The facts are well known and are there to be discovered by anyone who wishes to know the truth. He was responsible for the massacres of several thousand civilians and he even slaughtered a group of messengers who were trying to broker a ceasefire between him and the Irish...he recorded all of these activities himself. While he was passing through a particularly barren part of Ireland he was wondering how to execute his prisoners who were mainly local peasants he had rounded up. he was heard to utter the following words which have gone down in Irish history 'What hellish place is this'?..'There is not a three to hang a man, water to drown him, or earth in which to bury him'..One mans hero is another mans villain!

[@Brickcellent]

To Hell or to Connacht.

[@2166G]

It’s not even nuanced. It’s just slavish in its praise.

[@geoffreycarson2311]

JOIN THE ENEMY !!!😂😂😂😂😂😂😂and WE CAN WIN !!!BRILLIANT SLUR !!!g

[@rodrigoagostini8238]

muito bom , só poderia ter um video com legenda :)

[@cassifer129]

If Cromwell wasn't so colorless and Puritan, he would've been a great guy.

[@russianbot1420]

The irony,an Irish man playing Cromwell.

[@CharlesJenkins-be2cv]

He’s an actor, how is it ironic?

[@OrangeZXr10R]

Use your wand against him instead Dumbledore !!!!!

[@violator7964]

At this time in history, the Commons was made up of MPs representing burroughs and shires, and shires in England could elect two representatives, regardless of population size - although five could only elect one. This had no rhyme or reason to it - it was simply a result of the haphazard nature of how parliament had evolved and thanks to the ‘Forty shillings law’, only 1 in 5 men could vote. Most of the people who lived in the country still rented lands and worked for powerful magnates and so could hardly be said to be ‘free’.

[@littleme-dt8ij]

Whatever you think of Cromwell he was sigma..

[@richardsuggs8108]

Cromwell was a tyrant. His troops burned my family house. I’m glad he has no grave.

[@diesel92kj1]

This isn't realistic, everyone isn't shouting like children while he is trying to speak.

[@craigdavidson2278]

So Cromwell would be on the side of Brexit or Remainers?

[@stream2watch]

ITT: 100 people that slept through history class.