Moments from WW1: A Montage (1914-1918)

[@kellybryson7754]

It is sad and remarkable to remember that this is real footage of war and not a movie.

[@garrybaldy327]

😂😂😂 You are so gullible. What, Pathe News had a camera mounted on a tripod in a German trench just as the British stormed it and took everyone prisoner? 😂😂😂

[@kh_167]

They shall grow not old, As we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary them, Nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun, And in the morning, We will remember them

[@59patrickw]

When you go home Tell them of us and say For your tomorrow We gave our today

[@mamascarlatti]

Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs, And towards our distant rest began to trudge. Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots, But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind; Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots Of gas-shells dropping softly behind. Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!-An ecstasy of fumbling Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time, But someone still was yelling out and stumbling And flound’ring like a man in fire or lime.- Dim through the misty panes and thick green light, As under a green sea, I saw him drowning. In all my dreams before my helpless sight, He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning. If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace Behind the wagon that we flung him in, And watch the white eyes writhing in his face, His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin; If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,- My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori. (Wilfred Owen)

[@TheDoorMan72]

WW1 began 110 years ago on this day, July 26th 1914. That’s actually wild.

[@louise_rose]

Yep (though the first actual battles happened a week or so later). I've known people who were born before that time - my grandparents, for example.

[@fredburgessea4925]

Yup

[@reezdog]

I remember veterans from WW1 coming to my school in the 1980s.

[@tdoran616]

The 100th anniversary had huge events all across the regions the war affected. Meanwhile today it’s just a blip on the news.

[@tdoran616]

@@reezdogThat must have been amazing whether school children knew it or not. I was born in 1999 and when I was in primary school they brought in old people to tell us about WW2. One veteran and others who were children at the same school I went to during WW2. They told us about what school life was like during the war and how they remembered the war sirens. I doubt many schools now bring in WW2 veterans, WW1 is off the table.

[@kavumatonny7441]

I salute the brave cameramen who risked their lives to cover that war on tape so that we can see it after almost 100 years..😊😊. And not forgetting British pathe for keeping this history alive..thumps up

[@garrybaldy327]

😂 You are so gullible and stupid. And you even said "thumps up" to prove my point. Just what is "thumps up"? A dwarf fighting a giant?

[@alankent2849]

To live, To love, To hate, To die; Of these four wisdoms cast am I.

[@JGD185]

My great grandfather fought in WW1. He was ethnic German from Budapest, back when it was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire; his family immigrated to US around the turn of the century and he fought in the US Army. I was told he survived a poison gas attack with minor injuries. WW1 was an unbelievably horrible war, and when you consider that its ending sowed the seeds for WW2, it was one of the worst events that ever befell Western Civilization.

[@pauldurkee4764]

It could have been avoided, those damn fools in power throughout europe couldn't resolve their differences, so set about destroying each other, and then sat around a table, signed a piece of paper, and declared it was all over.

[@pauldurkee4764]

We who are left, how shall we look again, happily on the sun, or feel the rain, Without remembering how they who went ungrudgingly and spent their lives for us, loved too, the sun and rain. WWG

[@passengerplanetearth]

Four years condensed into 6 and a half heart-breaking minutes. Further: "Of the 60 million European military personnel who were mobilised from 1914 to 1918, an estimated 8 million were killed, 7 million were permanently disabled, and 15 million were seriously injured." - Wikipedia That's a 50% casualty rate, not even including lesser wounded who were probably sent back to the trenches as soon as they were fit enough.

[@user-tgbghftvm]

Человечество во всей красе. Ни чего не поменялось...

[@Aruna88888]

Да, война всегда плохо

[@Soulseeker223]

Unfortunately, most of the infantry “combat” footage is staged for news reels. There is real infantry combat footage from WWI out there, but not a lot. It’s usually filmed quite far away from the action so that’s your key give away if you’re trying to find it

[@Thermoesq01]

Same for the Spanish-American War. Filmed in the US, there were even scenes of naval warfare obviously filmed with models and the only real footage is of the troops on horseback riding somewhere. I'm sure it's the same for the Boer War and any other conflict until WWI or maybe the Balkan Wars or the Italo-Turkish War.

[@garrybaldy327]

Oh, don't spoil it for these gullible prats. They think it's all real footage and the cameramen were risking their lives 😂

[@LanceAndrews-de1wu]

Goosebumps

[@geekpie100]

I find the Great War endlessly fascinating, far more so than WW2. The Great War was the pivot between a world I don't recognise, top-hats, horses, carriages, pocket-watches, and the world as I know it, of cars, tanks, submarines and planes. The optimism of the early century turned to pessimism and fear of the future, and it has never come back.

[@nsquaremusic9]

Camera man never dies😂

[@jairodoframer]

true kkkkk

[@SunilRa0]

He is dead in ww2

[@k.959]

Film lives on

[@natheriver8910]

True 😂😂

[@KkKk-cw4cu]

Only in Gaza they do 😢

[@pit_stop77]

Over by Christmas, they just didn't say which one

[@neilmckay8649]

Exactly my thought. Reminded me of my first job, started in the April on the construction of a power station. I was told that we'd raise power by Christmas. I innocently asked which one, nearly got a clip around the ears. Sure enough, it was 20 months later when we raised power 😂

[@3-DtimeCosmology]

Christmas 1918

[@ScoutSniper3124]

Wars are ALWAYS over by Christmas... they just didn't say WHICH Christmas they'd be over by.

[@enzobuso5933]

1:47 is this not Szent István which was sunk in 1918? 5:45 also pretty sure this is from the 1915 Turk offensives on Sarikamish

[@natheriver8910]

Very interesting

[@pauls8456]

We never learn……

[@deserttortoise2227]

WW1 is the greatest horror movie ever filmed.

[@tonys1636]

The Great War as described after, the War to end all wars was also said of it. Over by Christmas but which one was never mentioned. 21 years later we were at it again. WWIII, who knows the way a particular country's leader is actually thinking.

[@jdaze1]

Banksters wars.

[@homedecor6915]

"At the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month".....the signing of the Armistice!

[@verioffkin]

And this WWI led to next one, to WWII... Easy to start and very hard to end...

[@sayeager5559]

1:05 What is the hoop for, anyone know?

[@pauldurkee4764]

That's a coil of wire.

[@sayeager5559]

@@pauldurkee4764 Thanks

[@mountainhobo]

Who did the narration?

[@garrybaldy327]

Sir Michael Redgrave from the BBC series The Great War in 1964.

[@buerm009]

Is it just me or are those early tanks just creepy as hell.

[@yutehube4468]

Some of this is the most insane war footage I have ever seen including any WW2 footage from the D-Day landings and anything from "They Shall Not Grow Old" (2018). Jesus Christ.

[@garrybaldy327]

You actually think this is real battle footage?? 😂😂😂😂

[@alexanderkarayannis6425]

0:06 Saradjevo?...Actually pronounced more like Sarayevo, even though spelled Sarajevo, and deserves better when rolled off the lips of foreigners...Splitting hairs perhaps, but...

[@mister4701]

Almost every city name has changed spelling in the last century, in china for example: Peiping - Beijing, Tsingtao - Qingdao.

[@alexanderkarayannis6425]

Be that as it may, Sarajevo was NOT one of them, as it was always spelled and pronounced thus...

[@tonys1636]

There has always been a difference in the pronunciation of certain letters within the same language groups, particularly within the Germanic Languages and some Romantic ones. Skoda and Volkswagen have only recently been pronounced correctly in UK English. Both the UK and US still pronounce BMW incorrectly. The pronunciation of Chorizo varies enormously along with Parmigiano, the US change the G to an S and drop the O

[@Thermoesq01]

Bless them they can't even pronounce "Sarajevo" I wonder when that commentary was added because obviously it's not contemporary.

[@LEredridinghood]

I’m surprised a BBC-type narrator got it so wrong.

[@garrybaldy327]

1964

[@Thermoesq01]

@@garrybaldy327 Oh it's from that Great War documentary series? I watched it long ago.

[@ProdriveGT]

In 1917 the Most Holy Vrigin Mary warned us about the 2 & 3 ww . Not many people listened nor cared. I doubt we are having another merry christmas.....Those men suffering wont compare to whats coming our way...

[@PlutoTheSynth]

the way he said sarajevo

[@59patrickw]

has mankind learnt after this war no will mankind ever look for peace as a answer ???? who many days has mankind had with no war or conflict after the grate war /WW1 ????

[@DouggieFresh50]

Please do more train vidoes please

[@alexleary6183]

Show ww2 next.

[@nyf1968]

Tragedy of killing human lives 😢😢

[@douglasharley2440]

while ww1 was not necessary, and a genuine tragedy, sometimes war _is_ necessary (e.g., ww2).

[@nyf1968]

@@douglasharley2440 yes, it seems war some times is the only way to keep justice

[@AlbertDrippinOnestone]

​​@@douglasharley2440And without ww1, which was unnecessary, there wouldn't be ww2

[@douglasharley2440]

@@AlbertDrippinOnestone maybe, maybe not...we will never know.

[@AlbertDrippinOnestone]

@@douglasharley2440 Not saying there wouldn't be other conflicts but the actual ww2 (1939-1945) probably wouldn't happen if ww1 wouldn't happen in the first. But yeah...maybe there would be another conflict, maybe not so I agree with you on that one

[@samirabedi6353]

يجب على الدول المتحضرة نبذ الحروب وتسخير الموارد لخدمة البشرية وتحسين الظروف المعيشية والاهتمام بالتعليم والبيئة

[@damirbajramovic5416]

PROKLETI RATOVI !!

[@mario8833]

The accent of the narrator is quite peculiar. It really sounds like a commistionnof a general british and a texan accent. Anyway WW1 is one of my favourite historical events. Really horrific, the first war of the industrial revolution where machines were fully employed (submarines, tanks, airplanes, and then the flamtjroqers, the gas and so on. It mus jave been horrible)

[@pauldurkee4764]

The narrator is the british actor Michael Redgrave.

[@garrybaldy327]

What on earth is a "commistionnof"? And "flamtjroqers"? Have you been drinking bleach again, Mario?

[@dreno3221]

Wow!

[@Charles-t7z]

Who's the smart-a$$ narrating?

[@sourdoughbornsourdoughbred4712]

Fake

[@kennyongyc]

europe very prone to war.

[@garrybaldy327]

Yep, just like the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Central America.

[@conspiracystacker]

Wow, fake wars then, fake wars now. Nothing has changed.

[@pgc99]

What do you mean by fake wars? Not asking to be facetious, just genuinely wondering in what sense is it fake?

[@garrybaldy327]

​@@pgc99I think he means the battle footage is faked for the cameras. Which it is.