Ike The War Years | English Full Movie | Biography Drama War

[@stlbusker3025]

A Great Man! A Great Soldier! A Great American! He Stood Up And Answered His Country's Call When We Needed a True Hero And A Leader At Our Lowest Point! They Don't Make Them Like Him Anymore!

[@marksolarz3756]

Day after Pearl Harbor...the White House had a special visitor. It WAS ...retired General Blackjack Pershing. Long retired. He was 84 years old. But now....in full uniform... volunteering for Active Duty. Roosevelt couldn't say NO. Instead he said."You are Magnificent.". Roosevelt was a politician... Pershing was America. He knew the challenges. He lead our troops in WWI. Roosevelt needed him to talk to the people and the General's. Smooth ruffled feather's...they needed to raise an Army. With everything brand new...learning on the go. That meant younger officers. Pershing accepted his role....Got everyone to pull together. Even back then. .there was conspiracy theories and people trying to blame Roosevelt or the War Department for the surprise at Pearl Harbor. Blackjack was simple and tobthe point. You can start by blaming the Japanese...then yourselfs. Pershing was outspoken before the war. But now with Pearl Harbor on the 7th of December and HITLER declaration of war on the 11th of December. America was in a full two front war. There was alot to do. No bickering. MacArthur in the Pacific. Ike in Europe.

[@miguelladinodevera614]

Black Jack Pershing went to Mexico and did work. He went to France and the Europeans knew they were in the field with a warrior. How many other generals could be that badass post-WW2? Pershing and Teddy Roosevelt were dyed in the wool soldiers. May they rest in peace.

[@chestersleezer8821]

Picked by Marshall since Marshall knew that he was very good at planning operations when he was a G-3. He also was only promoted to Brigadier General in October 1941 just a bit over two months from Pearl Harbor. So he was a very junior General but Marshall knew that he was the best individual for the job since he could get the British and French working together instead of fighting each other. Marshall knew that while many thought that he would be the one leading the efforts in Europe but he needed to be back in the states leading the complete effort for both Europe and the Pacific. So he need someone who was a great organizer/planner and Eisenhower fitted that to a "T". So five months later he was a Major General and three and half months later Lt General and then General in February 1943. He also was promoted to Captain and Major three different time due to down sizing.

[@antonietadeoliveira4900]

I loved watching this brilliant series. I learned so much. Thank you for posting it.

[@marksolarz3756]

Early on it was decided who was going to lead the War. General MacArthur was familiar with the Pacific. Eisenhower was his Cheif of Staff. General Marshall decided along with the War Department....they needed younger officers. More importantly...they wanted general's that could work together. MacArthur recommended Ike. Marshall respected it...and his interview was rough. He could hold his own. Patton. Bradley.Clark all knew each other. The Army was quite small. 100,000 by Treaty. Was about to get a whole lot bigger. 6 million by 1945. Less then 10% saw actually action. Logistics.

[@davewitter6565]

First time viewing for me. I enjoyed the 1st Episode. Difficult to fight Hitler when the Allies were fighting each other.

[@brianpearson8782]

Some facts diluted. No mention of the Canadians fighting in Netherlands

[@TedBronson1918]

This is a film about Ike during the war - not the War and Ike. Ike is the story. The war is the background scenery

[@garymorris1856]

A great statesman and the best president in my lifetime, and I am including Truman in this.

[@KatJNW]

Kind of neat yes? GEM: Film Library broke it's fingers again and 4Got that 'Ick War Years' w/Robert Duvall came out in/or about (1979). ThnX 4-Upldng a very great WWII Classic.

[@RockmasterVideos]

Cool!

[@timbuktu8069]

If I say it's safe to surf this beach, it's safe to surf this beach!

[@hanskurtmann6781]

Bradley in this film looks and sounds just like Karl Malden's (sp) Bradley from the film Patton. 😉 And agree romance does not belong in war films as it turns the film into a daytime TV movie like War and Peace etc.

[@TedBronson1918]

It's not exactly a "war film". It's more of a biopic about Ike's life during the war years, which is an entirely different matter. The so called "romance" has to be included as it was part of his story, though nothing was ever proven. It was all just rumor and innuencdo. The movie dialogue is just that - pure invented dialogue. Some people in the press were always willing to think and write the worst about people they nothing about. It's still going on today.

[@PuahalaHawaii]

Try the movie 'Ike: Countdown to D-Day.' Made years later, completely different styles of film.

[@autryld]

That was an excellent program.

[@kaythomas5884]

Macarthur and Eisenhower were both at Westpoint. Macarthur was senior.

[@timbuktu8069]

If I say it's safe to surf this beach, *it's safe to surf this beach*!

[@rmwein1948]

Wow❤

[@ronaldtillberry3253]

What happened to the sound at the two-hour mark?!!

[@timbuktu8069]

Probably some copywrite thing. I found it in the 3-part version of this: "Ike: The War Years" Part Two (1979) General Eisenhower WW2 TV-Movie at the 40:00 mark.

[@kk6aw]

I prefered Tom Sellick as IKE.

[@waynethurman2144]

I think Robert Duvalll is an excellent actor but agree Tom Selleck was a much better Ike and think the Selleck movie was just much better done and had a much better cast on the whole!😢

[@doreekaplan2589]

If the actor you disparage were no longer among us then such an inane comment might be tolerated. As it is, there us no call to put him down with a negative useless comparison.

[@davidparris7167]

Crap picture quality. Can't watch this.

[@sylvester-jb3lj]

absolutely...why bother to upload ?

[@doreekaplan2589]

As much as he achieved militarily, cheating openly for years lessens him considerably as a man. The wife was made to look supremely foolishly , worse so as the world knew and as she did not have the wherewithal innately to divorce the serial cheater.

[@garymorris1856]

Unsubstantiated, you believe it only because you want to.

[@MikeMarley-r9s]

Bradley won that war not Ike or Patton or Monte.Omar and the men who ran the Redball Line won that war supplying our brave warriors.

[@jimlaguardia8185]

Omar was negligently responsible for thousands of American deaths on DDay because of the idiocy of his plan, genius.

[@douggalliart3023]

Those Generals gave the freedom that is not happening with Joe Biden Generals. That’s sad

[@johnvargo5695]

What an a$$.

[@MariaMartinez-researcher]

Well, if Trump gets elected, he'll withdraw the US from NATO. Putin will attack, and likely invade, until most of Europe is in his power; meanwhile, Trump will not intervene - because those countries didn't pay enough - even if NATO is not something countries "pay for." Anyway. After about 4 years, either the US will be attacked directly, or someone else will be elected - and right there, you'll have the situation you want to happen again: the USA forced to fight in a World War that might have been prevented with decisive action in the first invaded country.

[@tcarroll3954]

@@MariaMartinez-researcher Bull crap. This country will be totally wrecked if Biden cheats his way in again.

[@virgil9303]

​@@MariaMartinez-researcher so gay

[@justincooper3075]

​​@@MariaMartinez-researcherYou actually believe such propaganda? Putin has NO designs on conquering Europe - he has never indicated, in speech, articles, or any other correspondence ANY designs on conquering Europe. To even conceive such a notion automatically triggers WW3, and he recognizes that. And as far as NATO goes, it served its primary function - overseeing the end of the Soviet Union (known then as the USSR) which no longer exists, btw. NATO is an albatross around the neck of the United States as far as foreign policy, but the Military Industrial Complex won't hear of it. There's way too much money to be made in ongoing global conflict, and it's way past time someone ended this madness. But if you're truly worried about Trump taking the U.S. out of NATO, you have nothing to fear. Trump won't do it - he listens to his generals far more than he should, and those 3-letter agencies, you know them as the CIA, NSA, and DOD wouldn't dare allow him to even attempt it, for they control everything, even the presidency.

[@MySkyranger]

More anti British tripe.

[@autryld]

If you want to watch a less glorified representation of Eisenhower, try "Ike: Countdown to D-Day". It emphasized the team relationship of the Americans and Brits. de Gaulle, not so much. Too often, drama makes allies appear less important than they actually are.

[@Jose-s1t7l]

The only problem with this miniseries is it was more sexual content it was actually about the goddamn

[@christopherspiteri7740]

This was substantially about the affair. Unfortunately lot of material inKay Summersby's autobiography was cut to make way for the stuff about the war

[@DonWan47]

Propaganda

[@gmonynegro595]

Go back and worship biden.

[@SLjansvrensb.]

Stupid when misuse God's Name I stop watching

[@poundshopcicero3089]

There is no sky daddy. Period !

[@SLjansvrensb.]

@@poundshopcicero3089Many People Wish God Didn't Exist. When Darwin Theory made its appearance, the people who wished all these years to be able to deny God, seized it like a maniac, even though his theory is impossible because in the whole of creation it is impossible to make something out of nothing, and to make life out of dead matter. The people who believe like that should go looking for new life when lightning strikes a cemetery because then all the elements are present for creating life according to their tour. There is a True God, The God of the Bible and, if the world wants to know or not, everyone whom God the Father has not chosen in Jesus Christ will answer for every sin including the guilt that humanity bears from Adam and Eve!

[@scottstewart9584]

Goddammit, why?

[@SLjansvrensb.]

Many People Wish God Didn't Exist. The Darwin Theory made its appearance, the people who wished all these years to be able to deny God, seized it like a maniac, even though his theory is impossible because in the whole of creation it is impossible to make something out of nothing, and to make life out of dead matter. The people who believe like that should go looking for new life when lightning strikes a cemetery because then all the elements are present for creating life according to their theory. There is a True God, The God of the Bible and, if the world wants to know or not, everyone whom God the Father has not chosen in Jesus Christ will answer for every sin including the guilt that humanity bears from Adam and Eve!

[@TedBronson1918]

"God" is a title or status. It is NOT a name ! What/which name was misused ? I missed it. If someone just said "goddamnit" then it doesn't count.

[@irahzi938]

Lousy 🐸

[@virgil9303]

This movie is so gay