A BRIDGE TOO FAR Clip - "They Know Something" (1977) Sean Connery - WWII Movie

[@davehossack7191]

The greatest ever film depiction of an artillery barrage...with no CGI. The 25 pounders were firing live rounds when filmed. A remarkable film!

[@taffy4442]

I remember seeing it. Watching that walking barrage plodding methodically towards you, the German recovery from the horrific shelling to crawl out of their holes and get back in the fight, the intelligent use of smoke...Could have done with a little less showboating from the fighter bombers. This scene is right up there with the Normandy landing in Private Ryan.

[@haydengoodall6767]

Walking barrage as devised by General Monash - Australian army, WW1 and then deployed to effective use by the 2nd NZ expeditionary force, 8th army, Nth Africa WW2. ( The Kiwis had concentrated all of their artillery into 1 effective division, this became the inspirational model to the English to rejig their units ). Lest we forget - Gt grandad Geddes - NZ Army, Grandad Geddes RNZNavy.

[@ChaadFairservice20022]

Lest you forget. Judea declares war on germany 1934. Because germamy ended capitol interest and nationalized the central bank. You idolize brother wars so Js could pull off seizing palestine starting with the balfour declaration in ww1 and the havaara agreement in ww2. They gonna try and bring back the draft to feed the last good whitemen into the meat grinder.. for international marxism. 🙄

[@jabthejedi]

Also the best film depiction of an airborne parachute drop.

[@doug6500]

@@haydengoodall6767It is much too simplistic for the 'walking' or creeping barrage to be assigned to Monash alone (he gets a ton of credit to fulfil certain national myths). There were several enterprising British officers that had been perfecting the use of the creeping barrage as early as 1916. Furthermore, your assertion that it was the New Zealanders alone that were instrumental in developing a creeping barrage during Alamein is dubious. The entire front was one long creeping barrage and attached to 2nd NZ Division and the ones carrying out the main attack and breakthroutgh in that sector was the 151st (Durham) Brigade, 152nd (Seaforth and Camerons) Brigade and crucially, the 9th Armoured Brigade. All Brit formations. You can bet your bottom dollar that a sizeable proportion of the 192 guns were also British just as it was along the entire front.

[@sanghoonlee5171]

A truly great WWII movie. If you haven't seen it, you are in for a treat. Great visuals and an unbelievable cast. Sean Connery, Robert Redford, Michael Caine, James Caan, Anthony Hopkins, Lawrence Olivier, Gene Hackman... This movie has enough leading men for seven blockbusters.

[@piranhaattack4836]

Definitely a visually spectacular film

[@davidbagley1783]

Yes

[@IrishCarney]

Great cast but as with most war movies, too old. War, especially in the field, is a young man's game, often shockingly so.

[@dimwitsixtytwelve]

@@IrishCarney how is it too old?

[@IrishCarney]

@@dimwitsixtytwelve The cast was too old, not the movie.

[@m140i_james]

That 25 pounder barrage with the sound of the shell cases being ejected is magic. Love this scene!

[@randmayfield5695]

Like in Saving Private Ryan when the M-1 Garand magazine clips would fly out with a BING. You can hear them throughout the movie.

[@MasterCheeks-2552]

The British 25 pdr machine gun. That artillery gun had an amazing rate of fire.

[@Puzzoozoo]

@@MasterCheeks-2552 That's the result of well trained crews who all know what to do in there respective rolls.

[@stevestruthers6180]

@@MasterCheeks-2552 And despite having a calibre of only 77mm, was incredibly effective. Most modern conventional light artillery guns have a calibre of at least 105mm.

[@wayneemery5709]

@@Puzzoozoothat’s because the crews were all servicing RA Gunners at the time. the director Richard Attenborough was a perfectionist and liked it as real as possible.

[@GK1976A]

You missed off the best bit of dialogue at the end of this clip - "Joe, how the hell do they expect us to keep schedule on a road like this? You don't know the worst. This bit we're on now? Yes? It's the wide part."

[@highend79]

Somewhere in Ukraine. "Ivan, how the hell do they expect us to keep schedule on a road like this? You don't know the worst. This bit we're on now? Yes? It's the wide and hard part."

[@Swarm509]

@@highend79 History, it rhymes.

[@veramae4098]

This was "Monty's" plan.

[@henkmeerdink936]

@@veramae4098 one of his more fancyfull attempts to make him look special. The big problem was that at that time , he believed the hype of his own special spacialness... He trully believed that the sun shown out of his own fundament.. and that he alone, could win the war.. T

[@briantheminer]

Back in the 70s, chatting with an old fella, blind too whilst “watching” the film. He commented “he didn’t really say that”, dad asked why, he simply said “because on that real day, I was standing right next to him” Respect ✊

[@flybeep1661]

Didn't really say what? Your comment makes little sense.

[@briantheminer]

@@flybeep1661 just a comment that Sean Connery made in the film,,,,,, a shame 122 folks made sense of it, but you couldn’t 😂

[@nobutternotes]

@@briantheminer Shame you don't understand basic grammar 😂 Most of the likes are usually from bots anyway.

[@christiangamingchannel6284]

@@briantheminer but how did this blind fella know that Sean Connery was portraying Urquhart? surely Sean Connery wasn't a British officer during Market Garden.

[@briantheminer]

@@christiangamingchannel6284 names my dear Christian, names. Although being blind, it doesn’t stop him hearing what went on in the film, and no doubt many times knowing he had been there 🙄

[@markh9875]

I attended the 50th anniversary commemoration of the battle in Holland and saw veterans jump out of C-130s and march through a Dutch village. Very cool. I spoke to one American veteran and asked him about this movie. He said it was hard to watch because it is so much like what it was really like.

[@LPJack02]

RIP Sir Sean Connery (August 25, 1930 - October 31, 2020), age 90 You will be remembered as a legend.

[@logon235]

To the shtarsh, Bowen, to the shtarsh.

[@jeroenwubbels7824]

The fight for Nijmegen alone deserves a movie. The co-op between 82nd (Gavin) and Irish Guards (Vandeleur), fighting in the streets toward the big bridges was special Para's running on the rooftops, shooting into the german foxholes and the heavy armor of the guards, down on street level, blasting away. 504th river crossing was the cherry on top

[@SylviaZA]

My dad was in Nijmegen.

[@michael1714]

@@SylviaZAgod bless him

[@oddballsok]

@@michael1714he was a Nazi though…

[@michael1714]

@@oddballsok oh never mind, bless him anyway!😜

[@geordiejones5618]

The operation failed at Nijmegen too. Gavin's coordination with his subordinates were not efficient and it allowed the Germans just enough time to set up just enough lines of defense to stall the operation long enough. But even when they could have bum rushed the bridge, Browning interfered and pulled rank on Gavin to take an area that was to be used as a fucking HQ (for Browning of course). It was most likely gonna fall short at Arnhem anyways because of the unexpected trio of bad comms, weather and a surprise panzer division wiping out the 1st Airborne, but it could have been much closer if Gavin had either been more decisive or had a bit more luck with command.

[@JoeL-ji7uw]

The way the fired the artillery is a tactic called a "rolling barrage" basically they start firing at a certain distance and gradually increase the range. This should ensure that the enemy is hit. It allows friendly units to move up behind the barrage keeping it in front of them. Leaving little time for the enemy to recover before they are attacked.

[@DustyVisorMotorcycles]

Actually "creeping"....... 😎

[@MarkzOng]

Play COH , you can do that .

[@Joe-rx7ht]

It’s a force field.

[@1337penguinman]

Developed in WW1 as a way to theoretically cross no man's land without taking fire the entire time.

[@tombowers6713]

They did that in WW1 however it took them awhile to perfect it. 😬

[@YARROWS9]

Sean Connery and Michael Cain have served in HM Armed forces. That just makes it even better. Plus Gene Hackman was in the US Marines.

[@Tourist1967]

Sir Sean served for three years in the post-war Royal Navy as a gunnery rating. Sir Michael served as a National Serviceman in the Royal Fusiliers between 1952-54 and spent a year on active service in the Korean War.

[@TOFKAS01]

As far as I know, the only actor in this movie with experience as a soldier in WWII was Hardy Krüger. 38th SS-Grenadier-Division "Nibelungen" during the last few month of the war.

[@anthonyoleary224]

@@TOFKAS01 actually Brian Horrocks has a cameo role. He’s in the seated gathering when Edward Fox - playing Horrocks - outlines the plan.

[@dt4816hyg]

Dirk Bogarde actually was at Market Garden....I think he served in intelligence.

[@Johnny-rj6ou]

Dirk Bogarde was in Normandy and in the advance into Belgium and Germany.

[@English.Andy1]

To think my Grandfather was on the left flank of 30th corps advance in WW2. Sends a chill down my spine.

[@friktionrc]

You’re Grandfather and all those who served along side him are quite literally a different breed. Much thanks and respect to him for what he went through 🙏

[@English.Andy1]

@@friktionrc Thank you. He survived the war & never mentioned his experiences until a couple of years before he passed away. What he spoke about was brutal but heroic. He certainly was a different breed.

[@petergreen9322]

No CGI , and authentic vehicles . This is how you do a battle scene

[@theofarmmanager267]

That’s just impractical. How many authentic vehicles are there left to use in battle scenes? Are the owners going to be happy seeing them blown up or set on fire? A competent blend of real vehicles and expert CGI is the only way now to portray a battle scene realistically.

[@jimbo6413]

@@theofarmmanager267 Actually, many of the supposed Shermans used in this movie were mockups. If you look closely enough in a few scenes you'll faintly notice wheels underneath the hulls. Of course there were a few genuine Shermans in the movie as well. There was an understandable paucity of Tiger, Panther, Pz.Kpfw. IV and StuG III hulls for the movie, so the producers opted to use the Leopard 1 as kind of a Tiger/Panther substitute.

[@freakyflow]

Well aside from the fact The American Harvard IIB was a trainer aircraft that was never fitted And sent into Germany I feel sorry for the guy that had to carry a Lewis gun into battle And i remember my grandfather saying Why is the infantry riding along with tanks? Why is there sextons And priest in the line?.. We never done this in my Regiment This would of been a horrific to say the least. The battle of Britian I find is the most authentic in means that the Me109 was infact 108's from spain But have the same shape And colors And had the 2 wing commanders from bothsides (Both friends) to advise the movie And how it happen Even words spoken back then ( Adolf Galland and Herman goring) Yes give me a squadron of spitfires! Goring heard this from Galland And was mad as hell

[@timothyirwin8974]

​@@freakyflow I always believed that the Bf 109Es in the Battle of Britain movie were the Spanish built version of the 109 the Hispano Aviacion HA-1112 Buchon alongside the Spanish version of the He111, the CASA 2. 111.

[@mrquirky3626]

You must have hated Band of Brothers then because of its use of CGI.

[@Mr4eversge]

I'm 48 years now. i watched this as a kid on tv. At that time it was an outstanding brilliant movie i was thrilled about the action effects etc.

[@OnochieAfigbo]

Great movie! This movie taught me how important it is to give authority figures your honest advice without fear. It also taught me what happens when team members pay so much attention to their individual assignments without considering the team's objectives.

[@brainflash1]

Shame they teach you to do the exact opposite in the ROTC.

[@IanPayne-z5l]

My father fought WW2 with the 6th Airborne Div but his first unit was 156 Bn. He must have volunteered to serve for Market garden because he was isolated just before the air assault as troops had been briefed. His records say he was hospitalized a couple of days before the jump. His younger brother told me dad broke a leg in a training jump. Mum said only a few of his company made it back to allied lines. Dad never spoke about his combat experiences so what I know came from mums eavesdropping when he was with the young soldiers in his platoon or at the Legion. This film came out at the end of his army career when we were in Germany and he was with the Canadian Forces, 3 Mech Cmdo. One thing he did say was the actors who portrayed the Paras officers did a good job, in particular the intelligence officer. I can still see dad slowly walking through the Commonwealth cemetery in Arnhem occasionally stopping and lingering in front of a headstone deep in thought.

[@crushedrgb]

Sean Connery will always be one of my all time actors to watch. Almost everything he was in was great.

[@randmayfield5695]

One of my favorite movies. Have seen it a dozen or more times and it never gets old. Talk about a star-studded cast!

[@busterzigler7530]

Yeah, watched it for the 1st time in 1985, and am still watching.

[@gw62112009]

as others have said, one of the best depictions of war, amazing for 1977

[@lawrencedockery9032]

Fun fact...at the 0:38 mark one of the people in the woods (guy with dark hair, dark beard, and glasses) is actually the film's director Richard Attenborough, who was in another WWII classic, The Great Escape, as Rodger aka Big X. He also played Mr. Hammond in the first Jurassic Park movie.

[@brainflash1]

Ha, he expected us to believe an escaped lunatic would have a beard THAT finely trimmed?

[@roelmd8907]

Well, he truly spared no expenses for this film..

[@calanon534]

@@brainflash1 Well, when he founded InGen years later, he may well not have been declared sane...

[@jakehands]

lucky he escaped the loony asylum to make this film.

[@busterzigler7530]

😂😂😂😂 for real?

[@HO-bndk]

Sean Connery's beret is sculpted perfection. 😊

[@SirDigbyMinge-or8md]

So is Sean.

[@SaltimusMaximus]

I have a british relic para helmet I acquired from a guy involved in the making of the film, it was found in a cellar in Oosterbeek, it's a prize item.

[@andrewparkinson9667]

Apparently one of the exams in the pre war Dutch army academy was a thesis on how to take the Arnhem bridge, anyone who proposed advancing up the single road as per Market Garden failed as it was viewed to be nigh on impossible against an entrenched opponent.

[@tomservo5347]

Also the fact the highway was elevated in most parts. (Holland after all.) I remember reading the namesake book that Vandeleur could envision 'the bastards (German gunners) rubbing their hands together with glee' upon seeing his tanks advancing in single file silhouetted against the sky with marshy ground on either side. Everyone had simply written off the German Army's miraculous ability to recover from grievous wounds.

[@kaletovhangar]

@@tomservo5347 Do people know about Zinoviy Kolobanov,Soviet tank commander and his platoon of 5 heavy KV-1 tanks which blasted about 40 German vehicles and tanks in an engagement on the outskirts of Leningrad in August 1941 precisely because they have set up an ambush for them in area where German tanks and vehicles couldn't get of the road due to marshlands on either side?

[@bart625]

Could you send me the source for that? It sounds extremely interesting but cant find anything about it

[@andrewparkinson9667]

@@bart625 It's referred to in Anthony Beevors book Arnhem:The Battle for the Bridges.

[@andrewparkinson9667]

@@bart625 P66 of Beevors book: At the XXX Corps briefing were several Dutch officers quote " The terrain & its difficulties were well known to them, as this very route constituted one of the key questions in their staff college exams. Any candidate who planned to advance from Nijmegan straight up the main road to Arnhem was failed on the spot".

[@ataxpayer723]

Nothing beats a creeping artillery barrage in the morning.

[@xeno2683]

I love how the Royal Artillery Barrage doing salvo its pretty badass 0:50

[@louisburke8927]

It's cool how they got the arty pieces to recoil, actually have the British using authentic weaponry, and make a good effort to dress up the German equipment to look authentic. Underrated movie.

[@Foldy435]

That incoming artillery fire must have been horrific for the Germans, seeing that wall of death slowly moving towards you.

[@FrontSideBus]

I think that's the whole point of a creeping barrage.

[@Foldy435]

@@FrontSideBus no shit

[@FrontSideBus]

@@Foldy435 Why so salty?

[@Foldy435]

@@FrontSideBus ??

[@GK1976A]

I never understood why they didn't just fire into the treeline from the very first salvo. Seems like a waste of munitions to me.

[@Jazzman874]

Probably the best war film I've seen.

[@Hey_MikeZeroEcho22P]

THAT .... beginning clip, and then Much Later in the movie hearing that laughter after losing more than 2/3 of General Urquhart's division......STILL sends chills up my arm!! THEN ..... seeing the rest of This clip, changed my mind in joining the NAVY, served for 20+ years and I Want to say.....Thanks you Army guys/gals....Brave Troops ALL!!!

[@TheAvargas687]

What a great movie ,a bridge to far ,all star cast , a great war movie ,seen it at least 15 times ,it never gets old

[@DrumsTheWord]

This scene shows the terror an artillery barrage would really cause. Watching the explosions get closer and closer!

[@scottsummers6357]

One of my absolute all time favs!!!

[@KASHIFKHAN-bj1yd]

Even by 1977 standards it was extraordinary scene

[@adammac4960]

Remember I used to go to my grandads and he used to have all these films on video. Bridge too far, Zulu, Longest day, Battle of the bulge, Waterloo, the jungle Book etc

[@williamschlenger1518]

Best& most accurate war movie ever made.

[@prasadiyer3271]

Not very accurate - the names of many personalities have been changed. For example, there was no German General named just Ludwig (played by Hardy Kruger). The real person was SS Oberfuehrer Walter Harzer. Another example, Major Fuller, who shows the photographs to General Browning was actually named Brian Urquhart.

[@tomservo5347]

My Dad recorded this off of a local channel back in the 80's. On Sundays we'd watch this together or 'The World At War' he'd also recorded. Seeing these as a kid created a serious mindset and love of history. Even my German born mom (I'm a GI baby) would sit and watch sometimes It had Germans speaking actual German, showed that the Germans indeed had combat medics, were ferocious fighters, and that even a Waffen-SS officer could be honorable when Bittrich allowed a one hour cease fire and evacuated British wounded into German hospitals.

[@Orignal_Français]

it was a very fair movie, one of it's only kind

[@thelastjohnwayne]

Great film. One of the best WW2 films made

[@mgtowsoldier8673]

In the late 80s we did the nimeggen march...we then did a battlefield guided tour oosterbeck museum etc with an old para ......in the original cut of the movie there is a scene where the jeep squadron are ambushed just prior the driver swaps places with a trooper whose hurt his back in the jump....minutes later the driver was sniped....our guide was the original driver.....

[@lavern007]

This was the last of the great war epics....until Saving Private Ryan. A cast of thousands, real equipment, multitude of stars even in minor roles.

[@superbananas7792]

Ey band of Brothers was pretty good

[@Joe-rx7ht]

Memphis Belle

[@vladdrakul7851]

Love this film agreed but the best and most underrated WW II film IMHO being Sam Peckinpah's 5 star *'Cross of Iron'* ; James Coburn, James Mason, Maximilian Schell, David Warner. Absolutely brilliant acting, direction and for the first time only using actual WW II equipment including T 34/85's!

[@lavern007]

@@gregory6401 a real veteran, Lee Marvin, and a bunch of Hollywood snot noses.

[@Solitude47152]

Patton and Bridge on the River Kui

[@Brix_H]

They don’t make war movies like they used to. The 25pr rolling barrage still gives me goosebumps no matter how many times I watch

[@Lord.Kiltridge]

Director's cameo. Richard Attenborough 0:38 Black beard and glasses.

[@bacilluscereus1299]

'Do you think they know something we don't?' Oh that is savage.

[@antispindr8613]

Or brutality honest?

[@ricardotella1864]

Pure dedication from the extras playing as Germans, dying from the real artillery. Respect.

[@GamingTohru698]

RIP legend Sean Connery (1930-2020), you will be missed.

[@kenc9236]

Best war movie ever. Sean's looking good in his smock.

[@morpheusspirit6609]

This is what you call a real war film!! No CGI. Those 25 pounders were firing real shells.

[@rickden8362]

I doubt it, you never know where a live round will go.

[@alekm.5377]

The Lunatics being "Liberated" were grateful in their own way...

[@MrChocolateRabbit1]

Still stands as one of the best war films ever. As an American kid seeing so much of the British forces was very interesting to me....and well they had James Bond with them...LOL.

[@davemac1197]

James Bond's creator was Ian Fleming, who worked in Naval Intelligence during the war dreaming up elaborate special operations. One of them was Operation Mincemeat, which has now been made into a film released in 2021 starring Colin Firth, with a small part played by actor Johnny Flynn as Ian Fleming. A Bridge Too Far, on the other hand, is only 50% historically accurate. Many changes were made to accommodate the British director's own anti-establishment politics, the script portrays the Americans as heroically trying to save a great British disaster, but Richard Attenborough chose Irish newspaper journalist Cornelius Ryan's book to adapt as a film because it already had an anti-British bias and omitted the mistakes made by American officers who took over control of the air planning for the operation - they are not cast as characters in the film, so theatre audiences cannot blame people they have no idea even existed, which just leaves Browning and Montgomery. Cornelius Ryan's research is held in the Cornelius Ryan Collection at Ohio State University and can be accessed online. If you hunt for the two folders that contain information provided by James Gavin (commander of the US 82nd Airborne), you will find much of the missing story that compromised the operation at Nijmegen on the first day.

[@patrickmackey8633]

I knew a partipant in this operation who was commanded by character played by Michael Caine. He told me that, physically, Caine was nothing like him, but that his portrayal was spot on.

[@kenprier7413]

I remember watching this movie during my first off-post pass from Basic Training at Ft. Jackson, S. C. I was supposed to attend Airborne Training right after Basic, but after watching this I chickened out. It would be later on in my career as an E6 before I finally worked up the courage to go. But after going I wish I'd have done it sooner!

[@jamesbutler8821]

Did you just go to jump school or did you get in an airborne unit? If anything, this movie made me WANT to be in the Airborne, and after 4 years in the 82nd and hearing of how it was in leg units I was glad of being there. I did wish I had made it to Germany though, that did sound like a good tour.

[@kenprier7413]

@@jamesbutler8821 I had about 8 other guys in Basic with me who had also signed up for Jump School and everyone of us did the math - 30k jumped in, less than 2k made it out. We all said "uh uh", lol. But 18 year olds know everything, right? But to answer your question, I went on to serve with the 507th at Benning as an Airborne and Pathfinder instructor, the 509th, and in Special Operations for awhile. Fun times! And finally going was one of the best things I ever did.

[@kenprier7413]

@@jamesbutler8821 I had about 8 other guys in Basic with me who had also signed up for Jump School and everyone of us did the math - 30k jumped in, less than 2k made it out. We all said "uh uh", lol. But 18 year olds know everything, right? But to answer your question, I went on to serve with the 507th at Benning as an Airborne and Pathfinder instructor, the 509th, and in Special Operations for awhile. Fun times! And finally going was one of the best things I ever did.

[@jamesbutler8821]

@@kenprier7413 Yeah, my time was a lot of fun too. As for the not coming out part, around Memorial day every year we had a division review. One year, a vet of our battalion from WW2 spoke to us. He told us to look to our left and right and said if he did that with the guys he started with, the guy in the middle was the only one to come home. Sobering stat...

[@chrisholland7367]

I've watched this many a war film on a truly epic scale with a great cast .The film also includes all allies that took part and the impact it had on Dutch civilians.

[@marcwilliams2504]

my favourite movie of all time.

[@charlessaint7926]

The film's director, Richard Attenborough, has a cameo in this scene as one of the lunatics. He's the bearded man with glasses standing still in the back @00:38.

[@4catsnow]

The best way to tell the lunatics in this was to look for the uniformed British high command..

[@johnclay7644]

Grand cinematography.

[@P2501-y6u]

That walking barrage is still one of the scariest scenes I've watched in a movie

[@peterquinn7878]

Gorgeously lensed by the great Geoffrey Unsworth (2001:A Space Odyssey, Superman The Movie). It looks fantastic.

[@jakehands]

i bought this on Blu-ray recently along with some other classic war films like Battle of Britain, Guns of Navarone, Kelly's heroes,...

[@vikingraider1961]

0:38 Richard Attenborough's cameo as one of the mental patients.

[@tomawen5916]

I remember reading the book authored by Cornelius Ryan as well as the background history. No suitable landing grounds near Arnhem center, fear of transports getting shot down prevented a swift capture of the bridge, in force (not discounting the valour of the 2nd Paras). Then add in the stiff resistance of the mixed battlegroups drawn from First Parachute Army, assorted army and Waffen SS units all slowing down XXX Corp's advance. No wonder Operation Market-Garden failed so spectacularly. All the bridges captured were nullified by the failure to hold Arnhem bridge once the 2nd SS Panzer Corps recaptured the bridge. Spectacular movie!!

[@piotrmalewski8178]

There was a great a game 'A Bridge Too Far' in the 90s. It very well captured specifics of fighting in WWII in that operation, and the AI was extraordinaly good. Playing this game you could feel yourself what was describe in the history books; landing site terrible to defend, and you kept waiting for the XXX corps, and it wouldn't and wouldn't and wouldn't come, while your position was getting more and more desperate.

[@hiwayman981]

I purchased a copy on DVD a few years ago from a garage sale; every now and again, I'll have it playing in the background on a Saturday afternoon-great film. As for "Market Garden", and watching the early scenes in the film with the generals planning, arguing, circumventing, et. al., I get the feeling that the Allied commanders were at once looking for a way to kind of punch straight through into Germany, while at the same time trying to find something to do with their Airborne divisions, which hadn't jumped into action since D-Day. Parachuting into enemy territory has its own problems, and some of those that should have been learned from "Overlord" (vast scattering of jump sticks, missed drop zones, etc, were ignored or forgotten given the relative success of the Normandy invasion, at least by September of that year. The hasty and unwise use of the airborne units was one more reason why the operation failed as it did, at least how I see it.

[@Xyzabc998]

Operation Market-Garden failed so spectacularly - and yet none of the ground was lost and it provided a launch point for the push into Germany. Battle....War. Casualties too high though. You forget to mention taking the bridge at Nijmegen quickly. This was a central issue. Arguably Gavin's fault but also not allocating him enough troops for his objectives. So they had to do it the really hard way the next afternoon creating more than a 24 hour delay. Although planned in short time, it was based on two earlier plans but with increased troops to counter the reistance known to be in the area. One lift, working radios, coup de main in Arnhem, Nijmegen Bridge. Cannot see why they did not occupy the airfields at Deelen (back fill to Arnhem) and Volkel, for close air support for the entire operation. Both abandoned before the operation started. 20:20 hindsight.

[@Julius_Hardware]

The trouble with Cornelius Ryan's book is he wrote it with Gavin, who had a vested interest in covering up (IMO) his and Browning's disastrous decision to secure the Nijmegen heights against a mythical German panzer force in the Reichswald that didn't exist (and so Browning could set up his Airborne Army HQ, which in the event was useless). So the 82nd Airborne didn't immediately go for the Nijmegen bridge - if they had captured it on day one then the 504th wouldn't have had to do their river assault (over 200 killed) and 30 Corps would have got to Arnhem on day 3 - or close enough to it to force the SS to reduce the pressure on 1st Airborne.

[@zen4men]

Imagine taking Deelen airfield, and flying in reinforcements. ...... It was no further from Arnhem than the actual landing grounds.

[@robertspence831]

I need to watch this one again........

[@LaPtiteAnglaise]

Don’t know if it’s true. Heard a story about a young soldier bragging about the number of parachute jumps he’d done (in company). Member of the room turned to an elderly relative and commented that he was a paratrooper years before. Young soldier dismissively asked how many jumps he’d done. The old man answered, ‘one. Arnhem.’ - the young soldier didn’t say very much after that. Could be an urban myth. Sounds like a good story.

[@adriang6259]

A few of my favourite war movie lines occur in the movie. “Hancock, I’ve got lunatics laughing at me from the woods….. do you really believe….. cup of tea?” “Start the bubble. Start the Bubble.”

[@mprmpr7698]

2:20 I swear that became a Panzer General sound effect for artillery

[@busterzigler7530]

Game over as soon as the fly boys showed up.

[@la535lhx]

Do you think they know something we don’t 😂😎

[@davidmurray5399]

Given how beaten up the Irish Guards Battle group was at the beginning of Market-Garden, it's somewhat surprising that Adair and Horrocks picked them to lead the breakout. The Grenadier Guards and the Coldstream Guards were in much better shape.

[@frankvandergoes298]

The opposition was even more beaten up. 9th SS division had no tanks and about 3500 men, mostly logistics personell, 10th SS had only 16 tanks and 4500 men, yet they achieved the impossible.

[@earlmcpherson9820]

Absolutely bloody great!

[@davidgray3321]

Success has many fathers failure is an orphan.

[@MB-fo2sk]

Just give it to him Sunshine!

[@daviddirom7429]

Nice to see 3 Guards Armoured patch on Michael Caine Dingo

[@tamferguson3891]

That constant artillery barrage... Just Sayin! .. Hot Dang!

[@murasame5071]

Regarding the warmovies, this is one of THE BEST there is.

[@williampennjr.4448]

I saw this when in the theatre when I was 10. I was in shock. My father said it was mild in comparison to the real thing.

[@vladdimpalerputin987]

i really admire those extras and stunt men. after all those live ammo being fired at them they get to earn an oscar nomination if they live, of course.

[@ColonelPeppers]

2:22 That one German is like "Umm, are we going to move? Those explosions are getting pretty close."

[@Zakalwe-01]

Love a bit of close air support 😄👌

[@momotheelder7124]

The way the Germans soldiers hug the ground while observing the Shermans looks very real- Like they really are being cautious and trying to survive as opposed to gesturing it in a thespian kind of way

[@bobbobertbobberton1073]

Its a shame Americans shit on this operation so much because it was lead by the Brits, it was 'planned' as an extremely high risk mission and what the Para's did was insane, they held out for so long against countless tanks and artillery and the Para's had fuck all other than RPG's. 9 days they held out, which is unthinkable against the odds they faced.

[@Profes79]

This part of the road we are on now...is the wide part...

[@reallyhappenings5597]

Movie looks amazing, great production

[@faeiqkarar7085]

هذا الفلم وفلم زولو اعظم ما انتجته السينما لحد الان

[@tobylane4935]

I just heard where the sample 'Order Commence firing' came from used in the Amiga 500 game Tanks came from👍

[@draganostojic6297]

Close air support makes a whole difference

[@KONDIST]

Splendid! My new favourite word!

[@xcalabur18]

Man, that sarcastic 'splendid' is me everyday at work when some BS happens

[@alexbowman7582]

If those resources would have been given to Patten he probably would have crossed the Rhine.

[@GK1976A]

You can tell a decent war film with an epic budget from a crap one, when the field guns and cannons actually show how recoil systems work. Not sure how they did it without firing live rounds. Perhaps they did? But it looks bloody brilliant!

[@kylemackenzie3381]

pretty sure it was a real battery of 25 pounders from the Dutch army

[@GK1976A]

@@kylemackenzie3381 👌 nice!

[@wbertie2604]

They fired live rounds.

[@Celtchief]

@@wbertie2604 Makes sense. They would have just done massive B footage of the artillery totally separate of the battle footage and edited it as the needed.

[@givenfirstnamefamilyfirstn3935]

The 25 pdrs were from the Irish Army, it is fairly well known. They still have 6 for ceremonial firing.

[@andreasschmidt2739]

This is pretty meta. One major factor of the whole operation was logistics. And making a war movie in such a scale without any CGI tooks also much logistics.

[@michaelriddick7116]

What a nightmare ...

[@asphaltdoctorhrm6409]

Connery was born a fully grown man I think

[@buster5803]

Beautiful

[@metalmadness5851]

This road was in my opinion, the worst part of the plan. Everything has to travel, on a single road to narrow to pass obstacles, and surrounded by soft lowlands. All the Germans had to do was knock out the leading tank and run off, having cost the Allies up to an hour to move the wreck.

[@Parker18294]

there is no computer graphics and senseless action, but everything is logical and understandable from a military point of view

[@sixbells99]

Last of the old style epic war films, we would need to wait 20 years before we get a new wave of revisionist WWII films, far more focused of visceral kinetic violence of combat, starting with Private Ryan and then band of brothers, the pacific and now master of the air. Films like a Bridge to far implied the shocking injuries and death where as the new generations of films showed and focused on it. I Still think Omaha beach scene in Ryan is the most shocking and memorial vision of combat in the history of cinema.

[@marcelobancpblanco3430]

Muy buena película que ví en el año 1977 cuando era cadete de 2do año del CMN. Después analizamos el hecho histórico de la Operación Marketgarden , se puede ver como el uso de una fracción antitanque queda aferrada por el fuego de cobertura de la artillería aliada y la maniobra que realiza la infantería. Todo eso, con el apoyo de la aviación táctica.

[@peterguns]

best barrage scene ever made, real shells used ... they say

[@thebcexperiment9099]

I wonder how many actors get shell shock from stuff like this

[@ablethreefourbravo]

It's nice to see ACTUAL SHERMANS in a movie.

[@alanconway94]

If they do a 50th anniversary showing of this, on the big screen; they'll make a fkn fortune! 🙂

[@TomSmith-ls5rn]

One of the greatest movies ever made.

[@kylemackenzie3381]

This scene is a great demonstration of allied combined arms warfare. creeping artillery barrage, advance to contact, dismount infantry and return fire. lay smoke and call in for tactical air support, neutralise strong point and move on. Pretty much how they did it. Im sure Wehraboos will say that's cheating.

[@gunnar6674]

The Germans fancied themselves somewhat of a combined arms force themselves. At least in theory they were supposed to use their air force like that.

[@frankvandergoes298]

Yet the Wheraboos stopped them at Elst, with inferior numbers and equipment.

[@julianmarsh1378]

That is who they learned it from.

[@mrblack888]

The general view at the time was that the Germans were by far the best at combined arms warfare and it was the allies who always struggled to make it work. They tended to just throw in more shells and bombs and tanks to overwhelm their opponents.

[@davidgray3321]

Amazing to think we had the engineering skills to produce a lot of that gear then!

[@tonyclifton265]

director richard attenborough had a cameo in that scene as the "lunatic wearing glasses" ( at 0:38)