War Horse - Batte of the Somme

War Horse 2011
Albert (Jeremy Irvine) and his beloved horse, Joey, live on a farm in the British countryside. At the outbreak of World War I, Albert and Joey are forcibly parted when Albert's father sells the horse to the British cavalry. Against the backdrop of the Great War, Joey begins an odyssey full of danger, joy and sorrow, and he transforms everyone he meets along the way. Meanwhile Albert, unable to forget his equine friend, searches the battlefields of France to find Joey and bring him home.
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[@aaronw8781]

Never a better time to know how to play the bagpipes.

[@mikemike9888]

Lol

[@tempestmkiv]

Pipers went over the top into battle with the troops.

[@Captain-Nostromo]

@@tempestmkiv it was bad luck to shoot the bagpipers

[@jimmclean9312]

Fortunately for the Piper, by this point in the war, they kept them in the trenches instead of sending them over the top. The attrition rate was such that pipers had been getting killed faster than they could be replaced.

[@rozzleberry7]

Sadly not true, pipers had it rough, sources put deaths at 500 and casulties at 600 out of 2500 who served. Worst of all, that most of the time the acoustics were so loud on the battlefield during a charge that you couldn't even hear the bagpipes a few feet from your position. There was a recent UK documentary on whether the bagpipes actually motivated the men or not. annoyingly I can't remember it..... On a positive note your post made me chuckle.

[@JPB-wy5cl]

"Hey piper, are you coming?"......"ah nooooooo, you guys go ahead, the acoustics are much better from inside the trench, good luck though!!"

[@JoeMama-xu8sb]

lol

[@ieatmice751]

If you lose your piper who’s going play a stirring tune for the boys the next time you go over. Big brain thinking

[@road-eo6911]

He actually died, pipers usually go up the ladder but then get shot at, that's why the music suddenly stopped. But then it's just my speculation

[@manfrombritain6816]

there's a fantastic documentary on wartime pipers here on youtube. my g-grandad was a pipe major who had his leg blown off in ww1

[@YeoJ7]

Hey, you can’t charge over no man’s land, while being shot at without some good music. I think they really needed a boost of moral. 😂😂

[@c.w.simpsonproductions1230]

Fun fact: J.R.R Tolkien, author of Lord of the Rings, fought in this battle.

[@davia.3485]

With CS Lewis, and at the other side was Hitler

[@HRHooChicken]

He survived, but imagine how many great minds were lost. The world never got to enjoy their talents

[@jerry6804]

He fought in the first battle of the somme in 1916, this is the second as the war ends fairly soon after this scene

[@AndrewMRoots]

@@jerry6804 Beat me to it, this was in 1918 as well

[@charlielindsay-fynn155]

He fought in the First Battle of the Somme (1916) and this is depicting the Second Battle of the Somme (1918), at which stage he was recuperating from illness.

[@mitchy5480]

No one truely understands how scary it is to hear that whistle during ww1, no matter what side you were on

[@nicolelawless3199]

I bet it’s haunting as hell I even hear it in the middle of the night but that’s my dream though

[@nicolelawless3199]

And I was the only one who made it through

[@commissargab6181]

@@nicolelawless3199 ok

[@jiveassturkey8849]

“If a man tells you he went over the top and wasn’t scared, he’s a damn liar.” - Harry Patch, last surviving British soldier of WWI

[@Dave-hu5hr]

@@jiveassturkey8849 Unless he was a Gurkha!

[@canoli72]

60, 000 men lost in one day. The absolute waste of a generation. Just to do it all again 20 years later.

[@wattlebough]

19,000 killed in action.

[@greva2904]

@@wattlebough 41,000 wounded.

[@wattlebough]

@@greva2904 Unspeakable carnage.

[@maximilianodelrio]

This is the second one in 1918

[@the4universes207]

Indeed, but we are waste and useless than any generation. Cartel, terrorist and warlords exits today because everybody decide peace and stop violence . These people want to bloodshed . In my opinion, none war was wasted

[@mivapusa]

_"This whole blasted war would have been so much simpler if we'd just stayed at home and shot 50.000 of our own men a week"_ - Capt. Edmund Blackadder

[@spitfiremkiv339]

True

[@Lantuak]

Agreed!!

[@jodimassoud9126]

Lol

[@busTedOaS]

gotta learn german then though.

[@Perfectly_Cromulent351]

@@busTedOaS that’s the next war. Germany didn’t have much territorial ambition in the war, especially in the west - just a few mining areas on France’s border.

[@minutemanthezealoustiger1499]

It may be over a hundred years since, but the understanding of what that whistle means chills my blood to ice. Rest in peace, you brave heroes.

[@thetank971]

Agreed. Its the sound once heard, its your turn.

[@sid2112]

Congratulations on living for as long as you have. What's your secret?

[@minutemanthezealoustiger1499]

@@sid2112 Ha, I suppose I could've worded it differently!

[@Gamerafighter76]

Amen.

[@bloke1182]

Sure they were brave but how could you live with the fact that you took someone's life if you did would you call your self a hero then?

[@levethane]

My grandfather was 5 and the youngest of 9 brothers when WW1 started, he was never old enough to join but all his older brothers did and all but one of them were killed... His parents received a plaque from the King as a token gesture of sympathy.

[@nikp3649]

Sorry 7 of your sons died but here’s a cool ass plaque

[@BavarianHobbit]

@@nikp3649 Its better than nothing or do you think the king enjoyed seeing his people die?

[@BavarianHobbit]

@@cereszero6236 A joke can still be hidden critique.

[@nicholasmuro1742]

@@BavarianHobbit I think all leaders of the world couldn't care either way

[@Pfsif]

Wow a plaque, makes it all worth it!

[@TaZ101SAGA]

To all in the comments, this is the second battle of the Somme in 1918, not the 'worst day in British military history' which was day one of the first battle, July 1st 1916.

[@Jupiter.141]

Is this the battle where the british commander ordered their advance towards the enemy trench in walking pace?

[@harshbansal7982]

Ah , the one depicted in bf1 I think .

[@TaZ101SAGA]

@@Jupiter.141 No, that was July 1st 1916.

[@stewboy5490]

@Jordon Carlson There's a true story about an entire German group of students who, at the beginning of the war, marched arm-in-arm with eachother towards the British lines. The British at this point had only sent their professional soldiers over to France. Highly trained and relentless rate of fire from the professional British soldiers virtually killed every single one of students.

[@robertofulton]

@@Jupiter.141 nope. That never happened. Popular myth. The second battle of the Somme was pretty much the victory that lead to German surrender in 1918. It would have looked nothing like that depicted in the movie. Modern fire and manoeuvre techniques were pretty much universal by this point of ww1 there would likely have been a rolling barrage of artillery fire in front of the advancing men and a few hundred tanks scattered across the advance.

[@nalindesilva3493]

Sacrifices 10,000 men to gain one Kilometer. WW1 General : I see this as an absolute win

[@RealRotkohl]

WW1 wasn't really about gaining ground, but wearing each other down.

[@jacobduggan8008]

The Battle of the Somme was a victory for the allies, with all objectives achieved. It completely destroyed the German Empires ability to launch offensives untill spring 1918, (and even then it was no where near the same strength). The Battle of the Somme was the WW1 equivalent to the battles of Stalingrad or Kursk in WW2.

[@MauriceTarantulas]

@@jacobduggan8008 Bah victory. The whole thing was a bloody mess. And comparing it to Stalingrad cmon what a joke.

[@jacobduggan8008]

@@MauriceTarantulas it achieved the same effect. The German army would never reach that strength again. Can you name any battle of compatible size launched by the German army after 1916 then?

[@mustang5132]

@@jacobduggan8008 while that’s true, the battle in this scene is the second battle of the Somme in 1918

[@alextucker5819]

For those who are wondering about the bagpipes, it's a pretty interesting story. During the war on the Western Front, when British Soldiers went over the top of the trenches, one of them would play a tune on bagpipes. Said tune would tune out the gunfire and explosions, and encourage the soldiers to press on. It was also to scare and confuse the enemy, as it was often hard to hear where it was coming from. One such piper was James Cealand Richardson. A young Scottish-Canadian man who was present at the First Battle of the Somme in 1916, where he was awarded the Victoria Cross for bravery. Sadly, he would die during the offensive. Anyway, the reason the piper in the video stayed behind was because towards the end of the war in 1918, the British were running out of pipers, so to save the remainders, they ordered that they stay in the trenches instead while the others went out into No Man's Land. That was probably for the better, as the Pipers didn’t possess weapons anyway because they were holding the bagpipes and couldn't hold anything else.

[@scottwallace5239]

Advancing with bagpipes has been a british military tradition long before WW1, definetly amongst scottish regiments such as the black watch, Gordons Higlanders etc

[@alextucker5819]

@@scottwallace5239 Yes, I know.

[@flyboymb]

I'm sure the pipers appreciated not having to drag those massive steel balls through all that barbed wire.

[@robot5546]

Thanks for sharing this tid-bit of knowledge! You earned a thumbs up.

[@alextucker5819]

@@robot5546 Just kindly trying to spread a little knowledge. 😉

[@nicholasbarrett3018]

I think what makes this scene so effective is how loud it is. I remember in the theater how loud and abrasive the sound was. Can only imagine how loud an actual WW1 battle must have been.

[@a129838552]

My momma always said learning Music can save your life

[@jabber67]

I couldn't begin to imagine what they lads went through back then, brutal

[@nicolelawless3199]

Me neither and I was struggling to cope in lockdown because I’ve not visited their graves for over a year now

[@2wenty1_savage38]

Pls what's the name of the movie 🙏🏾

[@Sotsufferer]

@@2wenty1_savage38 war horse

[@maritimezhang]

yet the call the WWII vets the "Greatest Generation". what disrespect.

[@bobbyricigliano2799]

"The war to end all wars." The misery of WW1 is beyond human understanding. Being killed quickly by a machine gun burst in no-man's land would seem like a gift compared to those who were wounded and irretrievable between the lines. The heat, the cold, the flies, the mud, the mustard gas. Men who were born around the dawn of the 20th century in Europe and North America could not have imagined the misery that lay ahead of them.

[@MrFunkhauser]

It's kinda scary that we may be in the same situation. Who knows if you and I will be charging machine guns or our kids will. Such a fucking stupid bunch of nonsense.

[@dclark142002]

FYI, to add to your horror... In 1918, fully a THIRD of ALL artillery shells fired on the Western Front were gas shells. 1 in 3. It wasn't reserved for big offensives...it was a DAILY occurrence. Both sides used chemical warfare without reserve. Ever wonder why nations today are so touchy about it? It's because we've actually seen the results.

[@szpoti]

The children of some of them had the Eastern Front...

[@BIake.]

Meu sentimentos as Toninhas mortas😔

[@ASH9366]

War is in Human Blood ❌🛡⚔️🗿❌

[@Conan_the_Based]

Even if you're one of the "lucky" 1 in 100 who actually makes it to the other side, what're you going to do? There's thousands of Germans in that trench. What a ridiculous point in our history.

[@joshuajoaquin5099]

they will be reinforced by units behind the firing trench

[@gastroopertheiii8694]

The allied powers didn't need to send troops on the offensive against Germans, they just needed to halt their advance long enough until either side surrendered. This was truly a terrible time and place to live in, and these guys had to carry a heavy bag full of gear and a gun whilst sprinting all the way to the other side only to be pointlessly killed in the process by artillery, infantry, gas, or other horrors. Their deaths were in vain since 20 years later the same event happened, but worse. God bless these valiant men.

[@tillerman7272]

@@gastroopertheiii8694 except world war one was a lot worse than world war two

[@gastroopertheiii8694]

@@tillerman7272 World war one was more brutal, but the second one was much deadlier.

[@uncle7192]

@@gastroopertheiii8694 I would rather fight in ww2 than ww1 because there is a higher chance that i will survive because the war tactics werent as stupid in ww2

[@thekhoifish0146]

That moment when the German MG casually mows down a group of British soldiers who then topple into the muddy water... absolutely terrible

[@jacobduggan8008]

The most dangerous job in the German army in WW1 was being a machine gunner. It basically announced "I'm a high priority target, lob artillery shells at me".

[@confusedcapitalist2242]

@@jacobduggan8008 flash hiders, a machine gunners best friend

[@jonathanallard2128]

@@jacobduggan8008 Also, WW1 machine gunners were rarely spared if captured. They were seen as dishonorable butchers.

[@jacobduggan8008]

@@jonathanallard2128 British Army: "You can't just mow down an entire battalion you hun bastard". German Machine gunner:" "haha maschinengewehr go **BRRRR** ".

[@richardvonhohenleben3143]

Well if it weren't for the bullshit 30 years war tactics a lot more people would've lived. Charging at your enemy in a fully industrialized war - why wasn't anyone put to trial for this?

[@Football_is_Life595]

Imagine being part of the battle, going over the top, scared, wanting to go home, and thinking about making it, Going up the ladder while you see your comrades die in front of you, hearing to music, sometimes the music Stops from the guy that plays the instrument dies, some wanting to see their kids, imagine how sad the wife And kids were when they hear to news that the husband/dad died in the war, Never forget the battle of Somme, never forget the Great war.

[@Football_is_Life595]

I made a long comment lol

[@Alex-es9jt]

And this goes for all the soldiers from all countries,yes also for the germans,even though many people like to forget that german soldiers were also human beings with families and lifes.

[@Football_is_Life595]

@@Alex-es9jt yeah, people don't respect the central powers, they see them as the bad guys, but just like you and me, we're all human beings.

[@xiniks]

Most were kids

[@SCP--fj2jr]

@@Football_is_Life595 *And that's what makes humanity scary.*

[@davidmckab7527]

Boys: Playing with their plastic army men Mom: Aw so cute Boy's mind:

[@asdaf967]

Lmao

[@user-bj7oe7zo9c]

His mom just thinking, “Awww, he is playing with his toys.” But the boy is imagining legs blowing off, heads exploding, gunfire everywhere, screaming, explosions, people pleading for mercy, injured soldiers being kill on spot by the enemy, soldiers not seeing their families again. Boy: “Uhhhhhhhh, yeah nothing wrong with playing with plastic army men.” Great post man.

[@davidmckab7527]

Thank you

[@melonpan3146]

Lol, you're right 😂, i buy many plastic army men and imagine it invade France in d-day lol

[@user-bj7oe7zo9c]

@@melonpan3146 I have like over 300 Green Army Men and perhaps 6 vehicles.

[@fattail01]

"Ah nooo i'm shot! Ah the terrible luck!" *Falls back into trench* "You lads go on without me i'll be here don't worry!"

[@tc5620]

I'd literally fall over on purpose and pretend to play dead, just praying artillery doesn't hit me.

[@toyota2177]

@@tc5620 coward

[@kingsonsofaru423]

@@toyota2177 you mean crafty

[@itayonplay352]

@@toyota2177 Coward but alive... If you're dumb back than, you're probably dead. Sad reality.

[@HaydenLau.]

@@toyota2177 He's smart. You're stupid if you're gladly sacrificing your life for generals and kings who don't know your name nor care about you, 30 kilometers behind the front lines drinking their tea and sending 60,000 young men to die of machine gun, artillery and rifle fire with the stroke of a pen.

[@ZeljkoKolevski]

'Hey piper, you comin' with us?!' 'Sorry bro, long tune.'

[@TheRealWarHistory]

The Battle of the Somme serves as a poignant reminder of the futility of war and the immense human cost. We owe it to those who perished to strive for peace.

[@GepropCommentaar]

"Humans are the cruelest species." The two colonies of ants in your backyard: 1:04

[@normandy1140]

I visited the WW1 memorial and museum in Kansas City. Really awesome experience. My hats off to those grunts who will be forever young.

[@constantk8780]

Hey, cool. Didn't know they had one there. I'll have to check it out. Thanks.

[@normandy1140]

@@constantk8780 I hope you enjoy that museum. Its really thoughtfully designed and constantly updated. I felt like I really got to know the stories of these soldiers.

[@martinlewis5248]

no person should be asked to do this just impossible to understand

[@Farzocalypse21]

I found an old autobiography from one of the porter's at my college at Oxford. He had been a young cleaner in the college in WW1 (a boy), then a porter during WW2. So he was at home during both wars. He said WW2 was worrying and you read the news and talked to other people about what was going on, but it was tolerable. He said nothing could compare to the devastation you felt everywhere at home during WW1 and the years afterwards. All the young men were gone, from every town, village, city, from every section of society. He worked at one of the most prestigious institutions in the country, and all the young men from there were gone, he himself was working class, and in his circles, all the young men were gone. It was a sadness that covered the whole country for years.

[@stevenartmann2642]

As if war wasn't horrific enough, someone had to play the bagpipes

[@flyingsquirrel1135]

An sickening irony

[@bigdawg77]

Always hated that meme, lol. I definitely wouldn't listen to it on my own but if I could choose one instrument to be playing as I sacrifice my life for no real reason beyond "King and country" it'd be a bagpipe. Such a badass instrument.

[@mircovannucchi6600]

My grandfather William was born in 1887. Italian front, from Isonzo to Piave. He has runned on many battlefields. Every time the grass changed colour. Rip grandpa !

[@matthewskinner1637]

I think the best way I can really put how much of an impact this had on men coming back after the war. My great grandad fought during the First World War early 1915 to 1918. He had a metal plate put in his skull after an artillery attack, on the ship back home to Ireland he drunk and gambled all his money away.

[@AlexKosSaheli]

J.R.R Tolkien, author of Lord of the Rings, fought in this battle. Imagine how many more amazing talanted people fell there for no justfied reason as I see it.

[@hannesromhild8532]

I knew a simple soldier boy who grinned at life in empty joy, slept soundly through the lonesome dark and whistled early with the lark. In winter trenches, cowed and glum, with crumps and lice and lack of rum, he put a bullet through his brain noone ever spoke of him again. You smug faced crowds with kindling eye, who cheer when soldier lads march by, sneak home and pray you'll never know the hell where youth and laughter go. Siegried Sassoon: Suicide in the trenches

[@beard514]

WW1 was like a constant WW2 D-Day

[@masonreay276]

My great great grandfather fought in the somme when he was 16 and got sent home makes me proud, lost both his brothers to godbless

[@ferminballesteros7462]

How the fuck did he get into the army at 16?

[@paratheus6970]

@@ferminballesteros7462 lots of youngsters lied their way in, there were kids as young as 13 that signed up and made it, whoever ran the sign ups just didnt care enough

[@doriangray7129]

@@ferminballesteros7462 because he was "privileged male" and without right to vote he was forced by feminists to kill and\or die in hell cause "women are oppressed" kek.

[@doriangray7129]

@@paratheus6970 *boys girls was "too oppressed" to die for their interests in war.

[@OrionIsDaBest777]

Also...gotta give that Commander props for going straight into battle with his own men. Such a bad ass!!

[@The_Dodge_Meister]

british leaders never duck or run they always go stand tall and move forward with there men that's why they always took the most officer casualties during the wars and it also made them legendary for that

[@b..3543]

actually as i know, it was like that back then. Officer losses during WW1 was extraordinary in every faction

[@uncle7215]

@@The_Dodge_Meister It was the same with the French. Officer, NCO (particularly Adjutant) casualties were extremely high.

[@b..3543]

@@uncle7215 and with turks and germans and russians and bulgarians and austrians and australians and new zealanders lol

[@The_Dodge_Meister]

@@uncle7215 same mentality

[@salforlad64]

Waste of innocent men. Let the monsters who create war fight the battles

[@erichvonmanstein6876]

Let them? Nobodys stopping them, they're just smarter than you

[@Iexb]

You dont understand how the world really works do you

[@erichvonmanstein6876]

@@Iexb what? Yeah of course, i thought everyone did? Its money kid. Money makes the world spin. How did you not know this.

[@Iexb]

@@erichvonmanstein6876 not you

[@erichvonmanstein6876]

@@Iexb uh huh. The answer is still money.

[@jonathan45278]

I think the TV and the cinema cannot portray just how loud gunshots and cannon fire and explosions really are. I'm from Adelaide, South Australia and once went to Old Sydney Town not far from Sydney. It's a touristy place where actors re-enact life from the early 1800's, i.e. blacksmiths and Redcoats etc. At one time the Redcoats fired a canon (just once). I was about 300 metres away. It was the loudest noise I ever heard. I was over-whelmed and shaking from it afterwards. I expected loud but not that loud. Later, I was on holiday in Vietnam. I went to a place called Cu Chi. After seeing the tunnels, we (the tourists) could shoot a large assortment of firearms at targets outside. Even with ear protection, the noise of the guns shooting was extremely loud. I could feel the soundwaves hitting my body.

[@FDDFGGSHORTS]

I've experienced russian tanks and BTR-80 along with BMP-2 shooting from 10 to 100 meters away from me. It was loud and i also could feel shockwave with my body

[@jonathan45278]

Thank you for your reply. Sounds like you went thru something dangerous. Please stay safe.@@FDDFGGSHORTS

[@cal9064]

One part of this scene really stands out as a glaring error. My great uncle served as a piper in WW1(Canadian Scottish Regiment). There is no way, he or any other of his mates would have stayed behind piping in the bottom of a trench, while the troops went over the top. Pipers were always first over and led the attack. It was a matter of pride.

[@NtoTheM]

Man, your great uncle sure loved polishing himself up in his stories, eh.

[@thisguyhere5837]

The pipes stopped at 1:38. Think we was killed.

[@Supernova1.980]

🤣🤣@@NtoTheM

[@Chewable396]

It’s true. It’s why pipers were barred in WW2. The casualties were horrendous among the musicians. Inspiring, but absolutely suicidal.

[@Ukraineaissance2014]

They stopped musicians going into attacks in 1917..

[@anyoneanywhere8212]

"Enjoy the war, because the peace will be terrible." Ww2 and vietnam quote

[@tjwindsor9638]

That was would definitely apply to germans during ww1.

[@matteocervesato6372]

Film girato veramente bene.....SCENA PERFETTA......PURTROPPO LA SOFFERENZA E LA REALTÀ DI QUESTI RAGAZZI RAPPRESENTANO LA PIÙ ASSOLUTA STUPIDITÀ E SOFFERENZA DELLA GUERRA......ANZI......DI TUTTE LE GUERRE 😢😢😢

[@Hardrada88]

Good film, great book. Not the early somme offensive though in this clip. My grandfather went over said it was a beautiful day. Blue sky, flowers. Every morning at stand to the birds would sing and soon as the guns stopped before the attack, they were singing again. Some men were smoking pipes and he said it was rather warm. It really was a "country walk". He had 750 yards to cover across a part of land known as 'mash Valley'. He lost two fingers, part of an ear, a bullet went through left wrist and a shell (force of the concussion) landed nearby and blew an eyeball of its socket, still attached. He didn't even get the worst of it, one his pals got a burst of Maxim fire directly across his face and head. Another he found out later one was hit directly by a shell and nothing was left. He was with the RFA initially and due to a complication with some mothballed guns the crews volunteered to go into the trenches for a stint until it rectified. He made it from '15 up until, and after the war worked at our local gasworks. As a kid hed tell me a tiger ate his fingers. Mud and this stuff was like Passchendale(?) Yrpes salient which had seen near continuous bombardment up until the offensive in 1917. Rough one was that. Arthur ridley who played Godfrey in Dad's Army fought around there and was bayonetted in the wrist and knee..fun fact, he's the great uncle of daisy ridley, lass in those new star wars films.

[@willsaenz6320]

It's interesting how as children we're fascinated by these wars and the subsequent movies because of the action and explosions, etc. As we get older, it becomes morbid fascination as to how people could possible do this to each other, and how the old men so willingly send the young off to die.

[@jiveassturkey8849]

This is the second battle of the Somme which took place Mar 21, 1918 - Sep 2, 1918. The more well known Battle of the Somme... the one where Britain lost 60,000 men (20,000 of which were KIA) one one day, July 1, 1916. The first Somme lasted until Nov 18, 1916.

[@Hankeshon]

20K were killed in action on the first day and 8 thousand went missing. (most likely buried by artillery or just turned into a meat pile)

[@jiveassturkey8849]

That's right. That's why there were so many bodies never accounted for or at least couldn't be identified. Didn't have DNA analysis in those days.

[@Hankeshon]

yes sir@@jiveassturkey8849

[@ReesesPeeces0304]

If Spielberg didn't waste his time with the horse, I really believe he could have made another masterpiece like saving private Ryan but in ww1. Not that this movie is bad or anything but, I just wish they would of stuck more with the soldiers

[@m4cheteaxt109]

Without the horse, the movie would be named 'War' 👀

[@maxalire586]

M4chete Axt honestly a pretty cool movie title to be honest

[@Dave-hu5hr]

But there was no money lenders to star in ww1..

[@theowdgit9790]

Not seen the fim but a war horse were commandered for the expassion of the Royal Artilery and sub regiments then for use as munitions to the front . Driver T.Adamson + the lancashire fusiliers dont get a real mention in films either pvt J Tennant 10th/52nd Brigade.

[@albogypsy2842]

Spielberg is overrated.

[@user-ew2gf2wx8o]

I think my grandfather was the luckiest man to live, he fought on two fronts in WW1 and came back to us alive.

[@Gamerafighter76]

To all those poor, naive boys in the trenches who had their delusions of grandeur just days, or hours, prior to hearing that dreaded sound, rest in peace.

[@OrionIsDaBest777]

Imagine the PTSD the bag piper must've had after that battle! Knowing that as he's casually playing the bag pipes, hundreds, then thousands of his own brothers are being slaughtered just on the top of that trench. Horrifying!

[@miming3679]

Survivor's guilt

[@Spacegoat92]

The bagpipe was a weapon. Designed to drive anyone who hears it mad. He did his part...

[@SensitiveHomie310]

I'd imagine those musicians never touched their instruments ever again if they made it after the war..... I would be absolutely haunted just hearing it from somewhere else let alone ever playing it again.

[@ghillieglas7379]

@@SensitiveHomie310 Scotland lost proportionally more troops than the rest of the UK. Most families during and after the war held funerals with a piper for their lost sons and daughters with a piper present, and if possible from their unit. Many pipers kept serving in this manner post-war. But it certainly had consequences. My Grandma couldn't bear to hear Flooers o' the Forest [Flowers of the Forest] thereafter because it was one of the tunes commonly played at these funerals. And also for those lost in the Spanish Flu epidemic.

[@moteroargentino7944]

The definition of madness. Wars are sometimes inevitable, but it's not the same to risk and to waste your life.

[@joy303jake2]

This is still the best war movie I have seen. It is up there with the movie Bridge Over The River Kwai. Which is another one of my all time favorites as well as classics. Both movies are great, and are great all time classics in my opinion.

[@VanyaTheSlavic]

My great grandfather was a 51st Scottish Highlander in the British royal army in world war 2 his father in world war 1 as well “Harper's Duds” or more American “The Ladies From Hell” as the Germans called em. Proud to be seeing those Scottish bag pipes in this movie. Brings back memories of the old Scottish bastards yelling at me in things I couldn’t comprehend.

[@scotishguy]

🫡

[@sudlander9447]

Nice! Also the guy playing the bagpipe while they were charging is actually a true story.

[@user-zy8cy6hn6o]

What do you mean its a true story? There were thousands of bag pipers in the British army it's not like they only brought them in for the Somme.

[@sudlander9447]

@@user-zy8cy6hn6o I didn't say thousands did that. I said someone on the battlefield charged while playing the bagpipe.

[@wtw1427]

@@sudlander9447 yes, but its not an isolated thing, in lots of British regiments/companies (i cant remember exactly) they had pipers who would advance with the main force while playing, it goes back 100s of years.

[@DirtyOleMopar]

Scottish and Canadian regiments did and the pipers would be out of the trench marching back and forth to cheer the men before it was time. They did march into battle some of them killed in action other help save wounded troops. The movie is incorrect with the piper in the trench playing as the whistle blows

[@jimmclean9312]

@@DirtyOleMopar Not in 1918. pipers were ordered to remain in the trenches by this point in the war. Although some disobeyed and went over the top. It takes years to train a piper, they were in short supply by the second battle of the Somme. The only discrepancy I spotted was that the piper was playing a modern Chanter instead of the Ivory soled Chanters used during this period.

[@arkwill14]

So what happens if an officer sends a messenger back to the trench to report something important such as they've taken an enemy position or need more ammo...they get shot by Andrew?

[@JohnnysWarStories]

Such questions are not permitted. No man's land night reconnaissance for you for the next two weeks.

[@Peoples_Republic_of_Devonshire]

It's a film mate

[@legitimate_opposition2002]

@@Peoples_Republic_of_Devonshire it also happened in real life mate

[@talex7473]

They used courier pigeons

[@arkwill14]

@@talex7473 In the tactical situation of an assault like this I am sure runners were more likely to be used. It took much more time to write out and affix a message to a pigeon and have it arrive at an established roost and then the message be passed along to the proper recipient than it would to yell something to a runner and have him run back a hundred yards or so. Pigeons were more for strategic communications.

[@Monkeysfist221]

The fact that WWi and ii are separated by a mere 20 years to me is just mind boggling. The level of technological advancement and research that would be utilized in the next war is just wild. It feels more like 40 or 50 years to me. They’re just such different worlds to me! WWi in my opinion felt less like the beginning of the modern world and more like the end of the colonial era. So crazy that technology, politics, culture, ect can go through such a dramatic transformation in just two decades!

[@ethanwashington60]

In the first battle of the Somme, the city (Stoke-on-Trent) I am from lost nearly all of its fighting-age men in 2 days. An entire cities worth of men, dead, in a single day.

[@louisboutcher1853]

Spielberg never disappoints, no director has ever captured war for what it is... hell on earth

[@raymondyee2008]

Must be 1st July of 1916. The “worst day in British military history”.

[@TaZ101SAGA]

This is the second battle of the Somme in 1918.

[@traineespark]

I ESPECIALLY LOVE THE HORSE V MG TACTIC

[@jacobduggan8008]

I thought that was the surrender of Singapore

[@fullcircle3357]

@@jacobduggan8008 pretty close

[@samwessels8216]

raid on the medway? we stole their flagship!

[@cabdilahiaadan5228]

i don't care how tough or strong you think you are, this movie will make you cry. on of the best movies Iv'e ever seen

[@WestEndDetailing]

The bagpipes was going hard for the hype music💪🏼

[@brose2323]

WW1 was such a fkn meat grinder. Its absolutely miserable to think how rough it must have been . My war experience was just a little stay in Afghanistan for year. I only saw one bullet fired in anger and he missed.

[@belisauros370]

Tolkien fought in this battle... thank goodness he survived.

[@anthonyeaton5153]

Tolkien's life was no more valuable than your ordinary Tommy Atkins

[@kingdedede9135]

Think of all the other Tolkiens that did not.

[@drrickmarshall1191]

Not this one, he fought at the first Battle.

[@b0zy924]

“If we don't end war, war will end us.” - H.G. Wells

[@manfrombritain6816]

my great grandad was a pipe major who went over for WW1 and lost his leg. he wrote home that he was one of the lucky ones

[@brokeneveningsunset9098]

Spoke to a vet before he passed on, he's unit was completely wiped out, with only 10+ left, the sergeant or lieutenant or idk what, kept shouting and was given the same task of shooting any troops retreating , he had enough and said no, officer tried to draw he's side arm to execute him, the vet shot the officer dead, another on he's head. He was never caught. Instead reporting that he's officer was killed by artillery fire, he realizes he forgot to hid the body, when the next infantry unit went to the front trench, a large german artillery barrage bombarded the front trench, destroying the entire front trench The vet is one lucky bastard.

[@AA-pk6fo]

interesting story! Out interest, why are you unable to spell the word "his" correctly?

[@ManOfTheWildWoods]

If you're going to be a dick, at least remember to use "of" when it is needed.

[@samdumond6501]

a wonderful tribute to our grandfathers and great-grandfathers. strong men who could carry 100 kilograms on their backs. the war of 14-18 was European collective suicide. "War between Europeans is a civil war." - Victor Hugo

[@TheExsoldier1]

The officer that blows the whistle is played by Andy Robertshaw, a historian specializing in WW1 who was the historical adviser to the film.

[@davidgray8654]

The very terrible, very brutal, very inhumane part of this is that the 'casualties' were calculated, but 60,000 in one day delivered a whole new horror to the world

[@pointly]

Brave lads, everyone of them.

[@davidwilliams4881]

Fun fact: both J.R.R Tolkien and Hitler fought in this battle.

[@williambrooks639]

Like I said before... I would learn how to play the bagpipes 🤣✌️

[@rkn7450]

That British commander was a madman, nobody puts madman in charge of important battles ..

[@lw37ball]

My Great-Great Grandfather was at this battle. He had seen combat in South Africa and would always tlak about that. He would always talk about the other battles he was in. However the Somme. Never

[@LogicalMan6]

Course they waited for the bagpipes, never go into battle without your fightin’ playlist

[@HaydenLau.]

I got high watching this, and when I'm high I'm able to emphasize extremely well with people. I was able to feel the fear, the terror, the utter dread that one of those soldiers was feeling as he climbed that ladder over the top as if i was there. I stopped smoking for a while because of that

[@chadr7522]

I feel like ww1 is way overshadowed by ww2, especially where I live in America bc of our late involvement. The men who fought in ww1 deserve more recognition. I can’t imagine hearing the whistle blow and getting sent over the top.

[@joewhitehead3]

Americans prefer to remember WWII because it was a victory

[@LordSummerIsle73]

0:08 me talking to my team before the dodgeball match starts

[@tobeslmao]

Must’ve been one hell of a dodgeball match if you’re shooting your team dead for running away

[@cleverusername9369]

That bagpiper came in meaning fuckin business

[@khinxi2418]

1:11 absolutely love this part I repeat it 20x!!

[@ohheyitsjoshhinac495]

I have my great great grandfathes whistle and mk vi revolver. Can't imagine charging into that with that stuff

[@battleguru1153]

Thank god trench warfare is in the past, as a soldier myself I can assure you I wouldn’t have as much courage as these chaps did

[@idontknowhatmynameshouldbe]

Trench’s are still used today even in the war in Ukraine

[@nfllockdown6063]

@@idontknowhatmynameshouldbe I think more or less he was talking about the whole tactic of hundreds of people charging a trench which you don’t see nowadays granted there is indeed still trench warfare being used like as you said in Ukraine but just not on the scale of the past.

[@bellgrand]

What? Modern day conventional warfare is not all too different from trench warfare. The sort of maneuver warfare that the US engages in is only possible because of overwhelming air dominance. But if you see conflicts like the Iran-Iraq War, the Syrian Civil War, and the ongoing Ukraine conflict, you will see a lot of the fighting is basically urban trench warfare.

[@Mitchmeow]

On the first day of the Somme, they didn't run. They had to walk, shoulder to shoulder in almost Napoleonic-like fashion, weighed down with extra equipment and rolls of barbed wire, into well-constructed German defensive works that were not nearly as destroyed by the artillery bombardment as they were supposed to be. Most of the troops were fresh-faced recruits right out of training, and it was the best idea their commanders could come up with in order to maintain cohesion. No wonder the British took 60,000 casualties on the first day alone.

[@doug6500]

This is the second battle of the Somme in 1918 which was part of a series of battles that broke the back of the German Army. Indeed, while the casualties on the first day of the 1916 battle were horrendous, by the end of it all the casualties had more or less evened out on both sides. I find it odd that the Germans never seem to get ridiculed for the same poor tactics. They even had the advantage of mostly defending for the entire war; a far more forgiving prospect than having to attack. Indeed, they learnt a lot from the Entente attacks, which allowed them to fine tune their tactics for the big offensive in Spring 1918.

[@memine5667]

@@doug6500 I think the problem still lies with leadership. Yes the best known tactics at the time were overwhelming the enemy with numbers. Numbers mean little to a machine gun emplacement when they storm in shoulder to should. To think how little battle tactics changed when confronting modern weapons still confuses me.

[@simonl4657]

@@memine5667 The generals of WWI are not some idiots as we like to think nowadays. They literally tried everything to break the trenches, infiltration, night attacks, grand assaults, combined arms with what they had on hand, chemical warfare, digging tunnels. The problem was that the technologies of the time just didn't allow any kind of real breakthroughs that can be followed up by mobile warfare.

[@Aqueox]

@@simonl4657 That and mindset. Every army is always ready to fight the last war, not the one they're in at present.

[@Ukraineaissance2014]

Thats a myth im afraid. They often walked in some sections because they were in dead ground or could be 2000m between the trenches or behind a close barrage but they rushed enemy trenches from the very start of the war. If anything walking into the attack actually became more prevalent towards the end of the war when infantry were protecting tanks and had much more efficient cover and creeping barrages to cover them, as well as being in more open country. He talks about this in 'poor bloody infantry', and robert graves writes about manouvering in no mans land in 'goodbye to all that'. You can actually see the real somme british troops moving quickly in the attack at a jog in the original filming at the somme for the somme documentary they filmed and released in 1916

[@tobeslmao]

Soldier: “I’m so scared to go over the top I don’t wanna die” **Bagpipes start playing** Soldier: *”It’s time to go beast mode”*

[@barbub3762]

Everybody gangsta until that bigpipe start playin

[@tberkoff]

The terrain looks more like Ypres than the rolling hills of the Somme.

[@busTedOaS]

"terrain" lol

[@stevebobmcjocksock4021]

@@busTedOaS Ypres is flat. From my memory at least, it's very flat.

[@daffyddduck2419]

My grandad survived the Somme , god knows how , I loved my grandad ❤

[@sdifarkanaraynarnugroho7213]

you must be old

[@Lil_Crip543]

Dude when I hear the bagpipes, it sends chills down my spine- it’s so haunting…

[@Tjd1982]

I really love the closed captioning "You take this rifle and show them dad."

[@varidian694]

My great great grandfather was at the somme as a young man, he carted the dead and dying away from the front line. Years later he went back into action in WW2, he was killed in a Japanese war camp early in the war

[@Lekirius]

He was at Malaya?

[@varidian694]

@@Lekirius im actually not sure where he was, I only found out from my mother a few months ago

[@Lekirius]

Bullet Sponge Gaming since he got captured by the japanese early in the war, he must be at malaya or hong kong. Rip to him

[@Ukraineaissance2014]

Singalore im guessing. A lot of older soldiers went there with the reserves (territorials) and got captured. My great uncle was in both world wars, captured in crete in the 2nd after being shot in the arse. Had an obsessive hatred of italians from north africa

[@NYCSportsNBA]

Bag pipe player : Do I really have to play this? This thing alerts the enemy every time don’t you guys realize every time I play the enemy starts shooting at us??

[@hairypossum1086]

For anyone wondering the song he is playing is “blue bonnets over the border”

[@max.racing]

I really wonder why we never watched those movies like this one, Stalingrad, das Boot etc. at school in history. Im german and we always just had books and read all this for years and years. Hell those numbers are worth nothing. I was so bored from those books that i really hated the topic of worldwars. But to see this, thats the real deal. Now i can really understand. That has changed my mind forever. They should show this to every teenager thats atleast in 10th grade. I would even say earlier because new generations have access to everything and also back then i watched movies for adults when i was like 14/15. This would really help to raise awareness how horrible war really is and that we never want that again. I honor every fallen soul that had good intentions when going to war (most really young men who had no clue at all). May they rest in peace.

[@aaryanbanerjee9335]

I just don't understand how war veterans haven't gone insane for the trauma they have suffered.

[@challenger2031]

"Good luck everyone" Captain Blackadder - Blackadder goes forth. What brave soldiers who went over the top and never returned. They shall never be forgotten.

[@Hankeshon]

Spielberg doesn't disappoint.

[@hughmungus1509]

We can never say our times are hard

[@semiretired6033]

Absolute madness.

[@somekindofboy666]

The fact that the brits actually shot their comrades when they were running away from the enemy.

[@abdullahyay8078]

It's not only the brits every nations would do it, in Stalingrad movie you can also see the soviets shooting the ones that are coming back

[@DangeHD]

@@abdullahyay8078 It's a movie, no documentary. The Soviets used that tactic pretty rarely, it was far from common.

[@chrisbuesnell3428]

They didnt

[@abdirahmanidris290]

@@Derzto they didn't know about PTSD so assumed it was cowardice

[@AtheAetheling]

All armies did it.

[@michaeleverson3801]

War Horse is such an underrated WW1 movie.

[@gurk_the_magnificent9008]

The guys I really feel for are the third and fourth waves. You get to hear and see everything that happens to the first two waves, and then your officers go “ok boys it’s our turn”. By that time the approach trenches were so clogged with dead and wounded they were impassable, forcing the men to go “over the top” and out of cover well before no man’s land.

[@jayargo2109]

Every single one of those lads were brave The only ones that weren't , were the leaders that sent them there ... Not much has changed eh !

[@erichvonmanstein6876]

Brave? No thats called stupid

[@jayargo2109]

@@erichvonmanstein6876 You need to think about what you said Erich .. you'll come across as stupid yourself Most of the boys back then ( from all sides ), did not have a choice!

[@Dave-hu5hr]

@@erichvonmanstein6876 🥔?

[@mcsmash4905]

a lot of the generals who led them served in the army themselves , haig for example in south africa a very different war a very different time , and where should a general be? up front with the men so that he can lose sight of the big picture? command hierarchy exist for a reason , and you dont win wars by saving lives or moaning about every single cassualty , get over yourselves

[@titanius_anglesmith_i2323]

The moment the absolute chad of a man walked up with the bagpipes I knew shits about to get real

[@jacobduggan8008]

Look up "Mad Piper Bill Millin"

[@Zones33]

WW1: - suicide charges were encouraged due to old values -battlefields looked like desolate wastelands from horror movies -people choked to death on mustard gas -they had to get their limbs amputated for being in the trenches too long -Spanish flu was being passed around with little prevention methods WW1 was, without exaggeration, a living nightmare,

[@goodshipkaraboudjan]

And you could drown in mud.

[@Alhamdlilah.]

عن أبي هريرة - رضي الله عنه - قال: قال رسول الله - صلى الله عليه وسلم -: (كلمتان خفيفتان على اللسان، ثقيلتان في الميزان، حبيبتان إلى الرحمن: سبحان الله وبحمده، سبحان الله العظيم)؛ متفق عليه.