Lights! Camera! Panzers! | Tank Replicas in Cinema

Welcome back, tank enthusiasts and cinema aficionados. In the realm of film-making, authenticity is often the holy grail. From the dusty battlefields of World Wars to the futuristic landscapes of science fiction, filmmakers have strived to capture the essence of combat operations with meticulous attention to detail. And what better way to do that than with the awe-inspiring 50-ton armored beast for the protagonists to fear, run away from, and ultimately defeat?
But here's the twist: We're not talking about the authentic machines of war that once rumbled across battlefields. Instead, today, we will be talking about the next best thing: Tank mockups created exclusively for the world of cinema. In their quest for historical authenticity, certain filmmakers went above and beyond just painting their Pattons gray. Instead, armed with an artistic vision and whatever underlying kit they could procure, they embarked on the task of transforming various tracked vehicles into uncanny resemblances of their historical counterparts, achieving... varying degrees of success.
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Narrated by Wood
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Written and Edited by ‪@BattlehammerWoT‬

[@user-cr3ti1vj6f]

"Pattons's Pattons fighting Rommel's Pattons in Patton" - I felt that bro

[@af376w]

The movie is called Patton for a reason

[@BobSmith-dk8nw]

They sometimes used M-41's for American Tanks. Then you have Battle of the Bulge where they have M-47's for German Tanks and Chaffee's for the American Tanks. .

[@dse763]

@@BobSmith-dk8nw Well , at least, the Chaffees aren't totally anachronistic.

[@HellbirdIV]

"We fought the wrong enemy." - Patton, after fighting himself with himself

[@af376w]

@@HellbirdIV “Wait, it’s all Patton?…. Always has been”

[@makenziearender2932]

Yes, continue the series

[@Vextonomy]

I agree

[@thunderK5]

Yes, please continue the series.

[@Aremi_Ariet]

I'd honestly love to play a game with these cursed movie tank creations

[@tiburtinagvng]

it could be a war thunder event

[@donovanchau3483]

Imagine an “Erzatz” Event in a simulator mode where there’s no friendly name tags and you have to discern from a distance if you’re looking at a friendly or a mocked up enemy

[@nathangerardhernandez9576]

Sprocket: tank design

[@Isaac_Inkcubus]

Is it roblox cursed tanks simulator 😭

[@Aremi_Ariet]

I'm aware that those 2 games exist but I mean one that's only movie tanks.

[@DarthEarp]

There's the "Tiger Tank" from Hogan's Heroes, which is clearly a modified M3 Lee

[@kommandantgalileo]

No, it was a M7 Priest, basically unmodified.

[@1994CivicGLi]

@@kommandantgalileoAnd apparently, it was trying to be a tiger II

[@kommandantgalileo]

@@1994CivicGLi Oh lord.

[@DarthEarp]

@@kommandantgalileo sorry it's been years since i've seen the show, i just remember them opening the barn door showing off the mighty tiger they captured, and nearly falling out of my chair laughing at the abomination on screen

[@kommandantgalileo]

@@DarthEarp Yeah, fair enough.

[@thetankcommander3838]

That “Panzer I” that you showed at 5:00 is actually a mockup of a Panzer IC, which was used in the D-Day reenactment at Conneaut, Ohio. I stood in front of this very tank in 2019 at Conneaut, and I never knew it was in a movie. That’s awesome to know I stood in front of a movie tank.

[@joshuabessire9169]

Pattonception was a great movie! I loved the part in the Patton vs Patton battle where Patton yelled at Patton "Patton you magnificent Patton I read your Patton!" Patton, Patton, Pat Patton... Help, I think I had a Patton!

[@Mr_Bunk]

Least tunnel-visioned tank buff in the cinema

[@molanohouse]

​@@Mr_Bunkhes right you know

[@BACConcordeproductions]

very patton indeed

[@kaijudirector5336]

The tanks/SPGs from Yuri Ozerov’s Liberation series deserve a video of their own!

[@avnrulz8587]

Kelly's Heroes.

[@tacomas9602]

The Sherman in KH was an M4A3E4, but the tigers actually look good and obviously T-34s

[@ProfessorSnitch]

Yes please, more of this! Please try to decipher which tank they used in Downfall (2004) to portray what I imagine is a Tiger I, during the scene where Prof. Dr. Ernst-Günther Schenck is warned by the Tank Commander not to go beyond the tank's muzzle. I have looked at it from all angles shown in the film, and I cannot for the life of me figure out which tank they used - if any at all.

[@Ralphieboy]

I appreciate anyone who made the effort to create authentic-looking replicas. Just slapping a Balkendreuz on a surplus US tank and passing it off as a Tiger is like putting a Mercedes star on a Dodge Dart and calling it an SLK roadster. As CGI develops, it will be possible to authenticall recreate historical tank battles down to every rivet, hatch and roadwheel

[@thesketchydude1315]

I'd love to see you do "tank replicas from the east" the Chinese and Japanese had some of the most cursed "Replicas" ever made in my eyes examples being the Shermans and M26s based on...something (I could never Identify it but most claim Type 62 light tank but thats a load of bull based on the suspension and roadwheels) which were featured in a TON of Chinese movies in more recent times (1990s-2000s) a bunch of Japanese tanks also appear in Chinese film, but usually they are based on either entirely or mostly custom hulls, one good example is in the Jackie Chan film "Railway Tigers" which is meant to be a Type 97 chi hai, but uses a soviet style bulldozer chassis and...features a GIGANTIC barrel for some reason another typical replica seen is one that is meant to be a Type 97 chi ha, but its based on a (for some reason) shortened SU-76 hull (probably would have been better to make them as Ha-Gos but thats just my opinion) great vid as always!

[@madkoala2130]

Here is the game: Watch every yugoslav partisan movie and take a shut of your local strong drink every time you see one of those cursed designs

[@misolgit69]

there's been a couple of strange ones one UK TV in a very short scene from The Crown a tank an APC and two lines of Paratroopers are patrolling the streets in the Suez area the APC was correct actually real, a Saracen, the Tank was a convincing fake, it was however approximately 14 years out of date it was a Crusader and in the BBC comedy series 'Allo 'Allo there was a frequently featured mock up armoured car I believe it was meant to be a 232, but the crazy thing was it was always referred to as Lt Gruber's little tank

[@jayaang4176]

I have not seen The Crown, but perhaps they already had the mock-up in storage?

[@ptonpc]

Yes to the series. Scriptwriter, keep sending clues, a search team is on its way!

[@lewycraft]

Polish WW2 series "Four Tankmen and a dog" features at least a few Tiger and Panther tanks, made on T-34-85 and IS-2 chassis. Some are quite nice looking and others are just slightly altered IS-2s.

[@justinreilly6619]

Yes please to a continuation of this series 🙏 the Tiger tank in the film White Tiger in 2013 is my favourite mock up. Kinda looks like the prototype VK 4501 (P) Porshe Tiger.

[@whya2ndaccount]

FYI, "Theirs is the Glory" also has a burnt out King Tiger. I suspect they didn't have the resources to salvage it between the real battle and coming back to film it.

[@ianbadeaux7774]

I think thats the famous Tiger 131.

[@whya2ndaccount]

@@ianbadeaux7774 There is both a burnt out King Tiger and a running Tiger 1.

[@alessiodecarolis]

Now with CGI is more easy, but once they'd to being creative, I remember an old movie with J. Palance, where he had to fight against two....Stuarts, masked as "huge" panzers! I was only a child,and neverthless was capable to impress me.

[@ODST_Parker]

There's only one thing that comes to mind immediately for an obscure movie tank. I'm not sure exactly what it is, in terms of replicating the vehicle for the movie. Haven't looked into it, just recognized it when I saw the scene. In the first Captain America movie, during the "Star Spangled Man" montage, you see him in a black-and-white propaganda film, running past an M3A1 Stuart adorned with German markings. Double dipping with this one, since it's a vehicle replicating a Stuart for the movie, which is representing a German vehicle for the film within the movie. There's also a couple other real tanks in the movie, one I remember being an M10 when Cap is addressing the unit on deployment in Europe.

[@cirian75]

excellent video, just the right amount of saltiness.

[@WPSent]

More please.

[@tommo8993]

Please please make this into a series

[@gopherasoda2492]

Honestly, those Yugo panzer 3's are super cute

[@zali13]

Wait, I'm the fourth armoured car fan! Continue the series please! For me, the award for crappiest panzer goes to the unconverted T-55 in "Sisu". Considering that Finnish Stug-3s were still available and actually used in films up till today, it was a criminal waste. The least they could have done was try to disguise the turret with panels and make it look like a sturmgeschutz...

[@vaskoz3700]

This got me wondering whats the most modern tank that has been dressed up to look like a ww2 german panzer in a movie

[@Jermster_91]

A Dutch Leopard 1 was used to portray a Panther tank in the 1977 film A Bridge Too Far.

[@TankMasterGo]

Also I've seen a T-72 with balkenkreuz larping as Tiger II. But I don't know what the movie is

[@StazherEzhov]

@@TankMasterGo At 9:33 - "T-34", made on the basis of the T-72A, from the series "On a Nameless Height". Moreover, it was not alone there - the authors of the series used the T-72s both in the role of “T-34” and in the role of “Generic cubic German tank”.

[@Jermster_91]

The Russian film Panfilov's 28 used Green Screen Tanks that were later replaced with 1/16th model tanks. The also built at least 1 full scale replica.

[@danielwozniak6929]

That is correct and result was great for both PzII and PzIV, however scale replica was only PzIV - saddly not included in this video.

[@ivanstepanovic1327]

Kelly's heroes... Actual Shermans (from Yugoslav army) and T-34s with added tin plates on them to look like Tiger tanks... Legendary. The first movie that actually tried to be historically accurate

[@leeroyloke8415]

Yes, please continue this as a series.

[@saxon1376]

Love this 👍

[@Pershingtank]

The Soviet "Liberation" films of the 60s had some pretty good T-44s as Tigers (and not-so-good IS-2s as Panthers)

[@Blitz9H]

Your efforts are much appreciated! We can all relate to this. Please continue

[@davidhayes1295]

Bravo!!!! Superb show & humor!

[@pixel22444]

These are great! Please continue the series :D

[@bilalsadiq1450]

I feel like 'Lights, Cameras, Achtung!' would've been a better pun.

[@KenTails]

Thank you for the video, my eyes have been thoroughly defiled from looking at these monstrosities... More of this please!!

[@simonedallachiesa9804]

Great series, please continue it

[@ME262MKI]

12:03 interesting, when I was kid, a clueless kid, I added some iron crosses decals to a scale model of a Centurion that I built, I guess I wasn't wrong after all 😅😅

[@BlubberNotBubble98]

Great video, I would love to see more!

[@TheVargr]

I'm glad I now know why that one 38T looked so off in "The Last Frontier " (named "The Final Stand" in the english subbed version).

[@DaveSCameron]

This is fantastic and cheers 🥂

[@Condottiere1978]

There were several really bad Italian war movies using a M3 Stuart or Bren carrier chassis with a humongous size turret. As depicted in Legion of the Damned,

[@oberleutnanttai4343]

Who ever is making these videos I love you!

[@isuzu6851]

Yes! It was actually very cool to see, Technik Museum sinsheim has a surviving movie prop from "A bridge too far''. It's a Mock up of a Wespe on the chassis of a Hotchkiss Schutzenpanzer. Cool that atleast one survived and can be visited.

[@jackietyree6268]

yes continue. very enjoyable content.

[@jtsg464]

Please due! I love learning about movie tank replicas. I never knew so many Panzer IIIs got made on BMP chassis, so that was cool. Definitely would love to see you guys do more, and cover more modern tank examples as well.

[@karlhastings8342]

Tiger/T-34 from Kelly's Heroes.

[@Graham-ce2yk]

One film you missed is 1944's 'The Rats of Tobruk' by Charles Chauvell, for one key battle scene the film makers borrowed AC-1 'Sentinels' from the Australian Army and vismodded them to look a bit like panzers. I'm not sure if they were trying for Panzer III's or Panzer IV's. The resulting footage is the only time that anyone will see not only more than one AC-1 in a picture, the only time you'll ever see them move and you can have fun spotting all the different way's they tried to hide the bow machine gun...

[@Graham-ce2yk]

Another one you missed is a 'Japanese tankette' built on a Marmon-Herrington tank chassis that appears in the film 'The Fighting Seabees'...

[@AryanKumar-fz2dm]

Can you share a link of the segment which shows these tanks? I have been searching for it for long.

[@M.M.83-U]

3:50 You say it! Now I'm watching you. A full serie sound nice.

[@ajayKumarajayKumar-hr7sj]

Yes, continue the list.

[@UpupaFiorenteSFM]

Another film about WWII with clearly Russian "German" tanks is "Wheels of terror", based on the novels by Sven Hassel.

[@BloodlessJG]

Yes, more videos, white tiger

[@TheSovietman9]

This was great make more!

[@briantoner5247]

0:04 😅Forgot saving Private Ryan’s T34 😂12:36

[@milanmilan2]

For tanks and helis in movies in general, the ones in Red Dawn and Rambo would be great to see in a video in this series.

[@briantoner5247]

Glorious 😮😮😮😮😮

[@midnightteapot5633]

One obscure movie (a very good movie incidentally) called Triple Echo had a scene with a Stuart light tank that for some reason had its normal gun replaces by a gigantic fake gun that was as long as a 17 pounder. There was no reason for it, the tank was only used to introduce Oliver Reeds character into the movie.

[@plasmadrone3123]

We want more!!

[@cristiangarces5832]

I would love to see another chapter with this theme! Personal recommendation: T-34 to M-41 walker bulldog from the movies "il pleut sur santiago" (1975) and the same conversion with different results, from the movie "Kentavry" (1979)

[@jeffreyhansen2806]

the 1945 film A Walk in the Sun features a couple of Panzer I non-running replicas to show knocked out vehicles.

[@trappenweisseguy27]

There was a comically bad “Sherman” tank in an otherwise excellent German movie from sometime around 1950 or even earlier. It mainly revolved around young kids who are brainwashed into fighting against the allies in the last days of the war. I’d like to see it again if anyone can remember the name of the movie.

[@unsuisseegare1291]

The movie is "die brucke"

[@trappenweisseguy27]

Danke.

[@AryanKumar-fz2dm]

That happened as the US garrison commander did not wish to give his Sherman's for a movie which would portray US army in a negative light. The soviet commander was happy to oblige.

[@Jermster_91]

In the TV Series Hogan's Heroes, an M7 Priest is used un a couple of episodes to portray a Tiger tank.

[@mikearmstrong8483]

What about the tank from "Tank Girl", which seems to bounce back and forth between a Sherman and a PT76? Although, a tank that can fire cans of beer out the main gun, and comes when you whistle for it, is absitively radicool.

[@jlorenzo381]

I’m surprised, the mock up Tigers from Kelly’s Hero’s didn’t make the rating list. Although not as well proportioned as the stand in Tiger from Saving Private Ryan, I thought they did a pretty good job at getting the look and feel of the Tiger. Great job on the video, would definitely like to see another like it. I was actually surprised that the Panzer III’s from Enemy at the Gates weren’t the real thing, what a good job they did on those!

[@TanksEncyclopediaYT]

They will make the list in the next episode. In the meantime, we already have a separate video dedicated entirely to them: kzbin.info/www/bejne/kIi6fYBprbScb7M

[@mikearmstrong8483]

9:45 "This thing doesn't resemble anything at all..." Yes it does. It's clearly the upgunned Mk3 Bob Semple tank.

[@West_Coast_Gang]

The director really said “haha fuck you original panzer 4” *blows up ww2 tank with sfx*

[@StazherEzhov]

When the infamous “Burnt by the Sun 2: Imminence” was filmed in 2009, director Mikhalkov borrowed a real Pz.IV from the tank museum in Kubinka. The tank was lent on promise to take good care of the tank and not damage it. As a result, he almost burned it, restorers from the museum had to spend several years restoring the tank, and they swore off dealing with filmmakers once and for all.

[@SuperDarkSamurai1]

Should do one on the attempts at Japanese WWII tanks.

[@StazherEzhov]

Soviet film "Order: Cross the Border" (1982). In the role of “certain Japanese tanks” - Soviet MTLB with some kind of buckets imitating turrets.

[@jokekopter2509]

8:04 what the, anyways there are more tanks from other Partizan movies,and aircraft, especially for Eskadrila.

[@tyx253]

I have watched lately a movie called "La Linea del Fuoco" from 2002 about battle of El Alamein from Italian perspective and everything was perfect untill in one of the last scenes italian lines in africa were stormed by British... M60's... My immersion was completely out of the window

[@csanadpaksa]

When I saw the Bob semple at the intro I knew that I am going to see some even goofier tanks in this video. Turns out I was correct!

[@spicytunaguy1821]

Please continue

[@Skeptic236]

Please continue the series...maybe covering the replica's in "Night of the General". Andrew Mollo was the historical advisor, and it showed.

[@HerbertTwack]

Noice. More please. Also, 'Fury' feratured a CVR-T dressed as a Tiger....as well as the actual Tiger. It was a full sized Tiger upper hull teetering on top of the Scimitar(?) chassis.

[@GaryDeeks]

Yes, please continue the series. BTW, you should include the "Tigers" from the old Polish series "Four Tank Men and a dog"(Czterej Pancerni i Pies) they did a somewhat decent job converting T-34s into them.

[@loganov]

Check out the ersatz PzKpfw IV in "When Trumpets Fade" based on a 2S1 Gvozdika, not a common basis for conversion.

[@Marylandbrony]

I am not sure if this would count as a armor car. But a video on the humvee in film would be interesting.

[@georgecristiancripcia4819]

Yes,i woukd like to continue but a bit longer and each tank segment shoukd be a bit longer.

[@delaneyalusa]

MORE! The Panzerfabric PZ III I have seen up close. They are doing a PVIV (May be the real thing). They also have a Luchs (Real) and a SdKfz 251:17 (Real) and a T3485 (Real)

[@koiyujo1543]

the movie T34 was an amazing movie! a high recommendation

[@tovarischD]

I always wondered if the "Tigers" from Saving private Ryan were the same as the ones in Kelly's Heroes.

[@TanksEncyclopediaYT]

They are not the same tanks, but were made the same way.

[@noneofyourbusiness43]

A follow up with cold war tracks would be good, Red Dawn did theirs mostly well, most other movies not so much

[@watcherzero5256]

Shout out to the live action Patlabor series that featured a real British 1963 Ferret Armoured Car with only 1,100km on the clock to represent the fictional Japanese type 98 Command Car

[@nativoobstinado3525]

For whom bell tolls movie have an interesting assortment of tanks too

[@KatYote]

definitly wanna see more goofy tank prop

[@VivaTrox]

Leopard I tanks dressed as Panthers in the movie “a Bridge too far”

[@AryanKumar-fz2dm]

We didn't actually come to panthers and tigers.

[@N0die]

Ja genau continue bitte

[@cpl.yuminagumo6754]

i would love for the continuation of this, maybe cover other nations tanks and have a video or two covering movies using real tanks

[@ChrisBrown-iu8ii]

Thank you sir may I have another.

[@Thenotsofamousone]

you ended speaking binery code there for a moment xD

[@teslashark]

Yes yes Hammer!

[@sebastianthomsen2225]

more cursed tanks please!🤪👍❤

[@stuew6]

Bridge, toocFar, Kelly's Hero's, Tank Are Coming.

[@user-qk6qn5sk6y]

LOL! Liked the "Blitzkrieg" ratings

[@andrewcoley6029]

Very very funny - I often shouting at the TV when watching a film - Battle of the Bulge drives me to apoplexy. Either version of Sahara its I quite good Tank wise as I remember, certainly a real M3 Medium but I might be wrong - and it been a long time since I watched it so unsure if there are any German vehicles involved! The Chinese film The Eight Hundred has a brief glimpse of what I think are Type 95 Ha Go which are pretty convincing - maybe CGI - but they look real.

[@redactednorseman]

Definitely the original tiger 1 replica for “white tiger”. It was too real so they used that is-3 conversion.

[@paulkelk5142]

the " Tiger " tank from White Tiger which I think was a modified IS series tank

[@henryturnerjr3857]

I was expecting a negative score for the M7 priest with an Iron Cross in "Desert Rats".

[@SawThumbz]

Good series, don't forget "Kelly's heroes" they look like the same Tigers they used in Saving Pvt Ryan. Obvious T34 but at least they tried I suppose.

[@charlesthepaperman]

9:45 Thats a german "Robert Sempel" panzer, no questing .

[@loganblanton843]

Feel like the tanks at 5:50 are just universal carriers with how the turrets are on them. And thanks for explaining the tanks from T-34 just figured the pz.II was a "real" but the pz.III's looked right but wrong and too many to be real