WW1 1916: The Year of Battles (Full Documentary)

[@TheGreatWar]

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[@Napoleon1815-l8c]

An hour and 40 minutes of WW1. Let’s go!!!

[@jacksin3323]

Yesssss! Love this stuff for chill evenings laying in bed after a long day

[@caseyh1934]

Kinda neat we got a remake 108 years later

[@SavageFreddy33]

1 hour and 40 minutes is cozy, 4 years is a bit much...

[@ShadowReaper-pu2hx]

I don’t think they were as excited when they hit four years of it.

[@marine4lyfe85]

Nothing like a long WW1 documentary to watch until I drift off to sleep!

[@63mckenzie]

My grandfather and his brother fought in WW1. His brother died and my grandfather survived to meet my grandmother and have six daughters, one of which was my mother. Watching footage of the carnage makes me feel how incredibly lucky I am here at all.

[@declanluedtke]

How old are you

[@63mckenzie]

@@declanluedtke 60s

[@grandotium3902]

Phenomenal work guys! The comprehensive detail, additions, and seamless editing will make it a classic on this channel

[@PatMzongo]

Great video, beautiful work. The vivid quotes from soldiers writings really bring the picture to life.

[@jacksin3323]

A new one! Its over an hour, too! I love the long format ones. Lots of detailed info. This has to be soooo much work, so THANK YOU for all the hard work put into it.

[@rikuvakevainen6157]

1916 was a major turning point in war tactics and strategy. There were many changes already but 1916 was the key changer. If 1914 was a goodbye to the 19th centure tactics, 1915 was a slow growing pain period foe armies to mature to modern war. 1916 on the other hand was the year what happens when a modern nation goest to total war mode and begins to produce war material in unbelievable speed. 1916 truely showed how much carnage and destruction can be made when titans go with strong force.

[@tonymaiullo2674]

omg fu 😂

[@Devils_DoubLe]

*Its never ever boring to watch these Documentaries* 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻❤️

[@mlann2333]

It was a terrible time to be a young man, thrust into a war and blown to bits for nothing.

[@Peepsuk1234]

Shortly followed by a pandemic, rise of racism and another war. I think being born in 1900 must have been one of the worst years to have been born

[@VladimirVladimirovich1952]

What do you mean? Haven’t you heard of White Male Privilege?

[@renegadehomesteader3127]

I moved from the US to bourbonne les bains. This town had a large hospital and was used for R and R by allied troops. Also a vet clinic for horses. The memorial here shows over 40 boys died from here, from a village , the, of 2500 people. Every little villiage in the area has big memorials…. The french paid dearly

[@wildrose2748]

Unfortunately these conflicts are quickly becoming forgotten. Schools do not teach the history or the implications of world conflict. Sadly not even a footnote in text books. I PERSONALLY WILL NEVER FORGET.

[@dennisfoulds3941]

Your history chanel is the best I have ever heard. Thank you.

[@Terinije]

WWI was sadly a multiyear tragedy of leaders constantly being surprised at how much of a beating that opposing armies, societies, and civilizations could withstand and common soldiery and citizenry suffering for it.

[@IMNOTAMUSED1]

We will remember all who died and more than that, we shall live as they would want us to.

[@antonisletsos]

I have been expecting a documentary for WW1 for a loooooooong time. Thank you very much!

[@FacesofHistory-uss]

The video provides a comprehensive and insightful overview of 1916 during World War I, covering devastating battles like Verdun and Somme, the Brusilov Offensive, and the tense domestic situations. It’s a powerful reminder of the cost of war and the resilience of humanity in the face of immense hardship

[@rogueleader1996]

An absolute masterpiece of a video

[@theplayerofus319]

Thx for the long upload!

[@hlynnkeith9334]

Excellent video. I always enjoy Jesse's narration.

[@talesoftheeldar8688]

Can you make a whole video about the Romania Campaig ?. It was truly unprecedented when the Entente had a change to truly end the war in 1916 and all 4 central powers came together to deal with an existential threat.

[@ThealmightyMatt]

Are there any plans on convering some of the other fronts / battles in detail, such as parts of the Serbian campaigns like the Battle of Cer, or the caucasus front between Russian and the Ottomans like the Battle of Sarıkamış? I imagine it is difficult to find photographs / videos from those battles, which is important for the Channel's narration style. But, it would be awesome to learn more about them:)

[@snapdragon6601]

I'd like to see a video covering the Italian front in detail but I'd be happy to watch any videos proposed by the other commenters. They all sound like they'd be interesting.

[@TheGreatWar]

It's really tough with the footage in some of these campaigns. That being said we will cover the Palestine campaign 1917 and Caporetto 1917 pretty soon and whenever possible focus on the "other" fronts.

[@cfctidcfc]

This won't be my Last time watching this

[@jl88570]

Excellent work friend. Keep going like that 😉👍👌.

[@guytigerli]

Very well made documentary. Thank you 🙂

[@Bob-jn8gt]

Love the long format!

[@jackstinson4001]

The French get such a bad rep, they were a defensive force in this war

[@justinperry3791]

And they got some fight in them for sure hanging on to verdun and the other fortifications is insane and sure shows balls

[@SavageFreddy33]

They liked killing their own men a bit too much to not get a bad rep.

[@mohammedsaysrashid3587]

It was an informative and wonderful historical coverage episode about 1916 WW1 frontiers... Thank you for an excellent ( RTH) channel for sharing

[@saltyassassins5816]

Thank you for another excellent video.

[@Sawyer186]

Commenting for the algorithm

[@freetolook3727]

Replying for the algorithm.

[@joeshmoe8345]

thanks for sharing big dog!!!

[@prestonpalmer2663]

Have fallen asleep to this the last 2 weeks. Still making my way thru brusilov offensive for the past week 😂.

[@jessealexander2695]

Not sure how to take that, but thanks for the watch time!

[@uniball5667]

If I was Brusilov I would have probably challenged Evert to a duel lol

[@JenniferinIllinois]

Luigi sure loved himself some Isonzo. 😉

[@raigarmullerson4838]

Absolutely love this. Thank you guys for creating this amazing documentary. Cheers from Estonia

[@dansmith4077]

Excellent work thank you great war team

[@hlynnkeith9334]

1:29:44 Are you still talking about 1916? The Albatros D.III did not enter service until 1917. The D.I and D.II came on line in September 1916. The French SPAD VII also came on line in August 1916, but engine problems were not resolved until 1917.

[@Totallytotality77]

Amazing video. I have AP world history and this is honestly so interesting.

[@joeyj6808]

Just amazing how much abuse the troops of both sides endured.

[@Alec.40]

Love the long videos thank you so much. I wish I could donate, you make a difference in my life. ❤

[@welcometonebalia]

Thank you.

[@El_Presidente_5337]

I'm finally catching up on this channel and it is absolutely fire that they just dropped a 1,5 hour long documentary!

[@TheGreatWar]

wouldn't want you to run out of documentaries

[@indianajones4321]

Wow, I just started 1917 in my Great War re-watch!

[@MUHAMMADAWAIS-g6y]

Bro can you make a 40 mins Vedio of battle of passendale

[@TheGreatWar]

it won't be 40 minutes, but we will have a detailed video soon

[@neiloflongbeck5705]

Traditionally, it is accepted that a defending force has a 3:1 advantage over an attacker. In other words, a defending force can hold off three times its own number of attackers. This means the British and French needed over 172 divisions to overcome the German 57.5 divisions on the Somme.

[@ZacharieGartner]

3:1 is a theoretical reference that is hardly likely. Most breakthrough advances in military history, including the great war, were made with far less of an advantage. Just look at siege warfare. In some sieges fewer numbers of attackers would simply bottle up and starve the enemy. In other sieges, such as Burgos in 1812, the anglo portuguese and spanish forces could not break through the French defenses despite a 17:1 advantage. Many factors come into play.

[@neiloflongbeck5705]

@ZacharieGartner In the case of Burgos, IIRC, the British and their allies suffered from supply shortages and a lack of artillery.

[@ZacharieGartner]

@@neiloflongbeck5705 supply shortages, lack of artillery, and poor tactics.

[@maximilianodelrio]

The number of divisions you give is the total that fought, not the Frontline strength at any given time

[@neiloflongbeck5705]

@maximilianodelrio I was just using the number of German Divisions given in this presentation.

[@zenlizard1850]

Great video, and demonstrates the importance of the year 1916 in effecting the course of the later war. I'd like to see a follow-on detailing the effects of the defeat and occupation of Romania by the Central Powers. Not only on the immediate military situation vis-a-vis Russia, and the Allied occupation of Greece militarily, but the effects, if any on countering the British blockade of Germany, and the squabble between Germany & Austro-Hungary over the distribution of the resources they could gain by the occupation of Romania (which squabble, my limited understanding suggests was mainly a result of the blockade.)

[@vjbd2757]

You guys should say "This is modern war" at the end as a nostalgic tribute

[@myjinji8079]

Yo!!!!! I gasped when I saw this!

[@Scon1990]

Why am I so obsessed with Ww1. Is it just me? 🤔

[@jessealexander2695]

Nope!

[@Impositivelygay]

Its such a tragic yet fascinating topic

[@IMNOTAMUSED1]

We will remember all who died and more than that, we shall live as they would want us to.

[@tenarmurk]

Long form content yippie!

[@juliocesarcasaspietrini1146]

Yes! Love this voice and his ending jokes

[@kiankier7330]

Any plan for a video to cover the Serbien front?

[@TheGreatWar]

we covered the early stages in our big 1914 video. The Great retreat we will cover when we get around to 1915.

[@forgetmeshots]

1916: The year Falkenhayn rage quit off to Romania after his concentrated focus on Hill 304 did not reward him with its anticipated resources.

[@BratrLucasino]

yesterday, it was exactly 106 years after the ceasfire

[@Mitril47]

As a Lithuanian non-patriot that would have 100% given up my citizenship for a British one if it weren't for Brexit.. I do still want to thank you personally for referring to our capital by its right and proper name.

[@Mr110074]

Question: is this video a compilation of some of your other videos centering on 1916?

[@TheGreatWar]

yes, but there is also new material in there about fronts we hadn't covered. you can refer to the chapters to see what you haven't watched yet.

[@michaelshelton5488]

Fields of Verdun! And the battle has begun! 🎶🤘

[@Krasko666]

Is this amalgamation of previous parts of brand new?

[@freetolook3727]

@59:41 Is that Jar-Jar Binks?! 😂😂😂

[@HD-np7eb]

56:28 there is a detail, city between Erzurum and Trabzon, Bayburt is not fell until mid of 1916. Elements of exhausted third army defend region in mountain ranges. It was one of the reason that why Russian couldn't move inner Anatolia

[@dragosstanciu9866]

Romania entered the war in 1916 on the side of the Entente, quick advance into Transilvania followed by defeat and a general retreat to Moldova and continued resistance. Rough times for Romania.

[@landondittel2643]

This video is amazing. But could you please do a video about 1915, No one does a video about 1915

[@RatchapoomThaongpong-j9n]

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[@davegooden7179]

nice

[@gonzalodavidvazquezgonzale5796]

15:00 "faulty intelligence" LOL?

[@arthurvane3901]

Could you do a video of the 1905 Russia revolution or The Russian Revolution of 1905 also known as the First Russian Revolution. It went on for 2 years, 4 months, 3 weeks and 4 days. I thought Because you do videos of short wars that happed before and after the Great War.

[@versiable8041]

Great Video! Will there be a future video about how Kurdistan almost became a country/why Kurdistan didn't become a country after WW1? It's a huge part of modern Middle Eastern history.

[@isaacrubin9291]

Sick

[@JohnMoody-l2d]

Am I crazy or have a ton of these quotes been used in other videos?

[@TheGreatWar]

this is a Supercut of some of our previous videos with some new material

[@atakorkut5110]

On average each gun fired 228 rounds per day for three first week that’s 2 million rounds from 1250 field arty😅 Edit* if all guns fired the same amount daily

[@morewi]

Hard disagree with the modern opinion that Verdurn wasnt about bleeding the french white. The armies of the time were extremely cruel to civilians especially the germans.

[@terryjohnson5579]

Just looking into the battle it's the only thing that makes sense. There may have been a a small tactical reason for that terrain but nothing that would have warranted that many soldiers being thrown at the problem.

[@morewi]

@terryjohnson5579 and Verdurn had no strategic value either. It's not even close to where the main action is.

[@terryjohnson5579]

@morewi I guess I was trying to give the benefits of the doubt to a bunch of high ranking soldiers. Having just looked at maps of these battle ya it just seemed an awful waste of life.

[@morewi]

@terryjohnson5579 no those high ranking officers basically ordered their soldiers to be malicious as possible. Look at the Austrian invasion of Serbia and how they purposefully took photos of them torturing civilians.

[@kohtalainenalias]

This war was such a waste of human life.

[@JoachimDeckart]

one part is missing the reestablisching of Poland on the 5. November 1916

[@Aothis]

Has anyone else noticed a lot of WW 1 documentaries being released by historian content creators in the last week ?

[@davidalexoff1658]

Yes.

[@stoneymcneal2458]

No, and I fit the demographic for such video content.

[@first-dooblette6911]

Hello from France🇫🇷🙏. I would like to know if your videos are copyright because I would like to introduce them to some Americans so that they can react to them. Thank you for this channel, in France we learn from middle school about WW1, the Marne, the Somme but especially Verdun, to never forget 🇫🇷🙏

[@hlynnkeith9334]

1:28:30 ". . . native askari soldiers." Askari is Swahili for soldier, so what you said was 'native soldier soldiers.' Not to worry. People make a similar mistake every day with Sahara Desert. 'Cause sahara means desert.

[@ZacharieGartner]

Sahara means desert in arabic yes. The term has however become an internationally recognized name for that specific desert itself, regardless of what that term means in one specific language. It is therefore not a mistake to call it Sahara desert, so as to specify we are talking about the desert in North Africa and not another desert (sahara) of the world.

[@hlynnkeith9334]

@@ZacharieGartner If the first letter is capitalized, we know which one is meant.

[@pillipino3788]

Indy Naidell?

[@freshtendrills5969]

I love the military theories of the 18-20th century feeling on the French. "They're poofs! Attack!"

[@elfrad1714]

The 1916 destruction of the Romanian oil wells at Ploesti through British sabotage is rarely mentioned in the history books. The few sources one does come across indicate however that the event can be compared to the destruction of the Kuwaiti oil wells in 1990 by Saddam Hussein´s army.

[@terryjohnson5579]

I will say this for France as they've been invaded in these conflicts more than most any mainland Europe nation the hold together remarkable well. Always amazed that France has been repeated invaded by foreign powers yet doesn't try to conquer everything they can.

[@theplayerofus319]

Napoleon😂.

[@SRB_SYNDICATE]

bang bang

[@ProudhonKropotkin]

Why did the U.S. enter the war? What happened to get us militarily committed in Europe?

[@geraldsteele4384]

Zimmerman letter and the sinking of the Lufthansa

[@ProudhonKropotkin]

@ I’m just jumping into American history after spending 25yrs on Europe and the ME and the Zimmerman, Unrestricted submarine warfare, and the Lusitania doesn’t sit right with me. I’m spitballing here, but I do think this is the real reason the U.S. entered the war: The U.S. got rich off the aid they gave the European allies. The U.S. forced the allies to pay for all the wartime aid they had given them-with interest. The only way the allies were able to pay the Americans back was by winning the war. If the allies lost., the U.S. would not be able to collect. 1917 was a horror show for the allies-the worst element being the French mutiny. It really looked like the Germans were going to end up with the victory. So, the U.S. had to enter the war. If they did not a the allies lost-the Americans would be out a lot of treasure.

[@bearisarius]

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[@MBP1918]

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[@merlinwizard1000]

7th, 8 November 2024

[@freetolook3727]

6th loser, 7 November 2024

[@ThomasBoyd-r6c]

Has Italy got control Art Bezrukavenko and Johnny Wilberton politically Thomas yes Pietro Boselli Italian say it politically obvious Thomas he runs Italy 🇮🇹. Wonder what Martin sellner Austria Vennia thinks about it. Pietro Boselli Italian meet him London England 2016 Grazie Italy best channel on you tube. You very much appreciated by Italy 🇮🇹.

[@EGSBiographies-om1wb]

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[@ThomasBoyd-r6c]

Italy have easy First world war with Austria Vienna yes Thomas. My Granddad Italian Captain Constantine Bernardi Italian Army 1914'to 1918 November 5 Kingdom of Italia Italy 🇮🇹 Unification. Italy only nation survives it politically obvious Thomas.

[@jack88liyuan]

Russia started ww1

[@lilmike2710]

Nonsense.. Weapons manufacturers, patent holders, their vendors and investors instigated that war. Today it's called a Military industrial complex.

[@gregorymilla9213]

The British started the War

[@zeitgeist8870]

Not accurate sir. The greatest cause of WWI was the German Schlieffen Plan in combination with the Franco-Russian alliance. Germany had to attack France and Russia at the same time before it could give either side enough time to get armies onto the battlefield, it saw this as its only way to avoid a war on both of its borders and win. The dominos were: Austria Hungary declared war on Serbia, Russia began to mobilize as the historic protector of the Slavs, Germany implemented the Schlieffen plan and quickly attacked France through Belgium and Russia at the same time, and this caused Britain to declare war on Germany.

[@fishofgold6553]

Just commenting so I'll be notified of further replies. 🤣 This might turn into a shouting match.

[@isporsathemighty2750]

Every step in this war had an impact on the course of my life ! Because I was born in Lebanon, I found that Israel, which they planted among us as a result of this war, is the one that destroyed our beautiful country and opened wars upon us ! the price of which we are still paying to this day!

[@theplayerofus319]

Lebanon is at fault for his own economy... a failed state.

[@rickharris4579]

This guys voice & pronunciation of foreign words is excruciatingly bad.

[@azakchowns6752]

Bring back indy. Not this waste of hot air

[@adambane1719]

This guy and his channel is NOT to be trusted !!!

[@dbranch23]

Years later, and still some of the very best content out there. Incredible work, TGW. 🫡