A BRIDGE TOO FAR Clip - "Final Battle" (1977) Gene Hackman - WWII Movie 

The Netherlands made it up in 2006 by awarding 1st Polish the Order of William, the highest Dutch military award. Queen Wilhelmina wanted that in 1947, but was opposed by the government because of the start of the cold war.

as a Pole, answers for great information about Polish soldiers and their system during the Second Civil War. Yes.

@@ulcolandheer773 Too bad the Netherlands went to shit, itself, years ago.....

Good ole monty just couldn't accept that his plan was overly ambitious and doomed to fail, he only blamed the men who fought and died and never himself.

The plural of "hero" is "heroes." No apostrophes need apply for the job of pluralizer.

I agree.

From Dunkirk, at the beginning of World War II, to Normandy, almost at the end, the Allied Armies did not put a single soldier in Germany. The participation of the Allied Forces in Europe was limited to Aerial Bombing. These actions received a lot of publicity to make us believe that the Aerial Bombings were winning the war. But, there is a very long list of Bombing cities by “Mistake”. The bombing of Nijmegen in the Netherlands (February 1944), it occurred when US bombers returning from a failed mission, as occurred in most cases, were looking for "Optional" targets. Nearly 1,000 Dutch civilians were killed by the bombing. It is proven fact that Aerial Bombardment does NOT win wars, unless it is Atomic. Aerial Bombardment can destroy cities but does NOT destroy armies. If there is any doubt, then Nazi Germany would have defeated England, after nearly a year of bombing, or the US would have won in Korea, Vietnam or Afghanistan. Propaganda has always led us to believe that we, "The Yankees", beat Hitler. But, I have news for you: The US did not win the war against Germany. The Russians won it. The Allied Army of the US, UK, Canada, Belgium and France (and Poland, and other countries), was able to reach Normandy, thanks to the Soviets destroying the Nazis in Stalingrad, Leningrad and in Kurks, in 1943. It took them 289 days but the Russians won and without the help of nobody… OF NOBODY! Normandy was until June 1944, and Mr. “Hollywood” Patton did NOT manage to set foot on Germany until February 1945, when the Red Army was going over Berlin. In Fact, General Patton was able to enter Germany only when the Russians were 150 kilometers from the Oder River (LOL). The Allies were defeated at Arnhem (Market Garden Sep. 25-1944), and at The Battle of the Bulge (Jan. 25-1945). General Patton was paralyzed without fuel, while the Red Army was preparing for its last offensive into Berlin. Look here: The average age of the German Army that fought in Normandy was between 18 and 24 years old. And these soldiers faced each other in a ratio of 27 to 1, without Tanks, without Artillery, no Navy nor Air Force. To make matters worse, knowing that eight Parachute Divisions were inland behind their backs. Never the less, It took the Allies 8 months to advance only 500 kilometers from Normandy to Arnhem, and from there, start the Withdrawal back to the border of France/Belgium (What?), facing a virtually defeated German Army cuz USSR. It's a Verifiable Fact that is written in all the History Books, that the German High Command surrendered to the Russian Generals six days BEFORE the first US soldier set foot in Berlin. Well… The US has been defeated in Korea, Vietnam, Cuba, Lebanon, Somalia and now, in Afghanistan. However, the powerful US Army defeated the tiny island of Grenada (1983), as it faced a fearsome army of 287 Police Officers, since Grenada does NOT have an army. In fact, they were half this number, since the Policemen on the afternoon shift had not yet come to work. What seems incredible is the fact that the US was defeated by Vietnam. What? Did the US lose the war against Nam? OMG! Against a poor country, underdeveloped, malnourished, without Navy, without Air Force, NO Marines, Green Berets, SEALs, Rangers, Delta Force, USMC, Rambos or Chuck Norris. Defeated by a country of peasants without strategic plans, no B-59 Bombers, PT-Boats, Northrop F-5 "Freedom Fighter", nor Atomic Submarines. Without Aircraft Carriers, NO Continental Missiles, nor Tanks, Choppters, AR-15, Gatlin Machines’, Flamethrowers, Napalm, Agent Orange. NADA! And to top it off, defeated by an army of teenagers who had no shoes: WITHOUT SHOES!!! Army that fought with bamboo sticks!!! Charlie Kicked Our Asses and even invaded our Embassy. Jeezzz!!! Here is the Duty, Courage and Chanting of Heroism of the US Army. This is the True Story of our Country. This is the History that is already written in the US Books. And the History that was written in Afghanistan is made with the same ink.

​@@salvadorvizcarra769 Dude you are manipulating facts. ZSRR had help from allies in the form of equipment (lend-lease act) so it isn't true to say "won without the help of nobody". And if USA and other Western allies applied same strategy as soviets (pushing with many unnecessary casualties, executing officers for lack of progress and killing their own retreating soldiers), then they would get faster to Berlin then ZSRR did, but at what cost? Many of us living today wouldn't be born if they used methods that communists did. They just didn't value life (be it enemy or their own soldiers) so they pushed Germans a lot faster then any other nation would.

@@Mantades Additionally it wasn't just equipment like guns, tanks, planes, and the like. The US gave huge quantities of food, clothes, boots, trucks, jeeps, raw materials, and trains that don't get mentioned but were massively important for the soviet war effort. It doesn't matter if you have the best weapons if you can't get them to frontline, and clothe and feed the men to use them.

@@salvadorvizcarra769 Additionally would it hurt you to please space out your words because holy shit that fucking wall of text is extremely hard to read.

@@salvadorvizcarra769 The Soviets carried most the load in Europe the US in the Pacific. Try and tell the whole story. Most of what you describe as failure or success were political and management failures and excuses to profiteer vis a vis military excursionism. The US combat soldier acquit themselves favorably in all encounters regardless the political outcome. Numbers i.e. body count, enemies KIA, don’t lie, and the numbers are there for any prudent scholar. As for the Vietminh, Vietcong, and NVA, to describe them as peasants is very xúc phạm. Did you miss this part of the war? No you deal in subterfuge and misrepresentation don’t cha….. The Paris Peace Accords, (Vietnamese: Hiệp định Paris về Việt Nam) officially titled the Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Viet Nam (Hiệp định về chấm dứt chiến tranh, lập lại hòa bình ở Việt Nam), was a peace treaty signed on January 27, 1973, to establish peace in Vietnam and end the Vietnam War. Your summation about Grenada is a bald faced lie and liars deserve zero credibility. US invading force was opposed on Grenada by about 1,500 Grenadian troops and 700 armed Cuban military engineers working on the expansion of the Point Salines Airport. Despite having a clear advantage in manpower and equipment, the U.S.-led forces were hindered by a lack of intelligence on the capabilities of the Cuban troops and the geographical layout of the island, often forced to depend on outdated tourist maps. The primary objectives of Operation Urgent Fury were to capture the island’s two airports, the disputed Point Salines Airport and the smaller Pearls Airport, and to rescue the American medical students trapped at St. George’s University. By the end of the invasion’s first day, U.S. Army Rangers had secured both the Point Salines and Pearls airports, and rescued 140 American students from St. George’s University True Blue campus. The Rangers also learned that another 223 students were being held at the university’s Grand Anse campus. These students were rescued over the next two days. By October 29, military resistance to the invasion had ended. The U.S. Army and Marines proceeded to scour the island, arresting officers of the Grenadian military and seizing or destroying its weapons and equipment. You portray an emotional diatribe which appears to have the research continuity of an 8th graders single source book report. Your opinion may contain some facts but moreover is there to distort and not reveal the truth which historically speaking is between the “Black Legend” and “The White Legend.” Your implication therein is that US military Pax Americana post WWII is a failure, your examples are like dots on a Jackson Pollock painting and quite unconvincing because primarily you omit the over abiding presence of the entire work, after all here we are, discussing it in America, in English, on Technology by in larger created and proliferated by the same. Most people do not recognize Marxist revisionism, your attempt is not even worthy of the charlatan Howard Zinn. If you are going to do the America bad America failure bit do it it better you might convince someone and not come across like a howling lunatic.

And they got awfully screwed after the war. Decades of sowjet opression...

As the world saw in 1939 ;-)

@@TOFKAS01 Indeed, from one occupation to the next one.

Look up Inmate 4859.

Have not watched this movie in full in awhile, because of the cast we always laughed and called in An Actor To Far Still a good movie

WE’RE NOT GONNA PROTEST!

Anthony Hopkins as well

Wow, thank you. During the filming, a favorite of mine hardy Kruger, former Hitler Youth, when in costume and between takes, would wear an over coat over the uniform.

@@jjahsepuyeshd he was also former Waffen SS.

Cornelius Ryan acknowledged that Bittrich and his subordinates were very cooperative when he was writing his book, which was unusual because former SS officers tended to be hard to find and tight lipped about their wartime service.

@@fishingthelist4017 SS officers were not hard to find the veterans organizations were publicly published as well as their meetings in Germany all through the 90s please

@@JMark-zk5pj I am going on Ryan's statements published in A Bridge Too Far. Apparently he had trouble getting SS veterans to talk to him about their wartime experiences. Bittrich was active in one of those SS veterans groups after the war, and he tried to counter the postwar image of the Waffen-SS as a ruthless fighting force that committed atrocities wherever they went. He wanted to focus on the military exploits of the SS instead. Bittrich helped make it possible for others that served in the SS to be more open about their service.

GERMAN !!!! not nazi!!!

Actor

Not really true. Market Garden room for failure was just too small. The 82nd Airborne failed to capture their bridges and allowed German forces to fortify Nijmegen. The British 1st Airborne and the U.S 101st both did their jobs. In my opinion if Montgomery was actually commanding the operation directly it would have had a larger chance of success but he was busy with the Normandy breakout. The top allied commanders should have put a British Field Marshall or American General in directly in charge. Even then it might have still failed. The fact that XXX Corps was expected to make it to Arnhem in 3days was just too optimistic and as I said before if anything went wrong (Like the 82nd Failing to capture the Bridge over the Vaal) it was going to fail. But at the time it was worth the risk and a lot of historians believe that if it had worked then the war would have been over in 1944 with the British and Americans making it to Berlin before the Soviets.

@@elliott7531XXX corps made it to Nijmegen with only a few hours delay (after building a baileybridge!). The 82nd should have captured the bridge immediately..They didn't. That's what doomed the operation.

There are too many reasons why the operation failed to point to one. The narrow road, blown bridges, stronger than expected German resistance, bad radios….everyone forgets that the paratroopers dropped on top of 2 SS Panzer divisions. Tanks against rifles and bazookas is always a long term bad outcome. The road was cut in multiple places at multiple times AFTER the forward XXX Corps units had passed through. So even capturing all the bridges wouldn’t have guaranteed success.

From Dunkirk, at the beginning of World War II, to Normandy, almost at the end, the Allied Armies did not put a single soldier in Germany. The participation of the Allied Forces in Europe was limited to Aerial Bombing. These actions received a lot of publicity to make us believe that the Aerial Bombings were winning the war. But, there is a very long list of Bombing cities by “Mistake”. The bombing of Nijmegen in the Netherlands (February 1944), it occurred when US bombers returning from a failed mission, as occurred in most cases, were looking for "Optional" targets. Nearly 1,000 Dutch civilians were killed by the bombing. It is proven fact that Aerial Bombardment does NOT win wars, unless it is Atomic. Aerial Bombardment can destroy cities but does NOT destroy armies. If there is any doubt, then Nazi Germany would have defeated England, after nearly a year of bombing, or the US would have won in Korea, Vietnam or Afghanistan. Propaganda has always led us to believe that we, "The Yankees", beat Hitler. But, I have news for you Mr Lloyd: The US did not win the war against Germany. The Russians won it. The Allied Army of the US, UK, Canada, Belgium and France (and Poland, and other countries), was able to reach Normandy, thanks to the Soviets destroying the Nazis in Stalingrad, Leningrad and in Kurks, in 1943. It took them 289 days but the Russians won and without the help of nobody… OF NOBODY! Normandy was until June 1944, and Mr. “Hollywood” Patton did NOT manage to set foot on Germany until February 1945, when the Red Army was going over Berlin. In Fact, General Patton was able to enter Germany only when the Russians were 150 kilometers from the Oder River (LOL). The Allies were defeated at Arnhem (Market Garden Sep. 25-1944), and at The Battle of the Bulge (Jan. 25-1945). General Patton was paralyzed without fuel, while the Red Army was preparing for its last offensive into Berlin. Look here: The average age of the German Army that fought in Normandy was between 18 and 24 years old. And these soldiers faced each other in a ratio of 27 to 1, without Tanks, without Artillery, no Navy nor Air Force. To make matters worse, knowing that eight Parachute Divisions were inland behind their backs. Never the less, It took the Allies 8 months to advance only 500 kilometers from Normandy to Arnhem, and from there, start the Withdrawal back to the border of France/Belgium (What?), facing a virtually defeated German Army cuz USSR. It's a Verifiable Fact that is written in all the History Books, that the German High Command surrendered to the Russian Generals six days BEFORE the first US soldier set foot in Berlin. Well… The US has been defeated in Korea, Vietnam, Cuba, Lebanon, Somalia and now, in Afghanistan. However, the powerful US Army defeated the tiny island of Grenada (1983), as it faced a fearsome army of 287 Police Officers, since Grenada does NOT have an army. In fact, they were half this number, since the Policemen on the afternoon shift had not yet come to work. What seems incredible is the fact that the US was defeated by Vietnam. What? Did the US lose the war against Nam? OMG! Against a poor country, underdeveloped, malnourished, without Navy, without Air Force, NO Marines, Green Berets, SEALs, Rangers, Delta Force, USMC, Rambos or Chuck Norris. Defeated by a country of peasants without strategic plans, no B-59 Bombers, PT-Boats, Northrop F-5 "Freedom Fighter", nor Atomic Submarines. Without Aircraft Carriers, NO Continental Missiles, nor Tanks, Choppters, AR-15, Gatlin Machines’, Flamethrowers, Napalm, Agent Orange. NADA! And to top it off, defeated by an army of teenagers who had no shoes: WITHOUT SHOES!!! Army that fought with bamboo sticks!!! Charlie Kicked Our Asses and even invaded our Embassy. Jeezzz!!! Here is the Duty, Courage and Chanting of Heroism of the US Army. This is the True Story of our Country. This is the History that is already written in the US Books. And the History that was written in Afghanistan is made with the same ink.

@@salvadorvizcarra769 Wow! Now I've really learned something today, most interesting. I have read a lot of history books, but to be fair, only specific ones about specific Operations like Operation Mincemeat, for example. You know your stuff!

@@salvadorvizcarra769 Made possible by Lend Lease trucks, jeeps, food, millions of rounds of ammunition, artillery and rounds for them. The Western Allies pulled many German troops to the western front.

@@salvadorvizcarra769 How hard is it for people to understand the word allies? It wasn't just a band name, it actually meant something. Not one single county won, the allies won. It's also bullshit that western powers didn't put soldiers in Europe between Dunkirk and Normandy. Countless raids aside there was a whole campaign in Italy. Not to mention that there were other fronts as well as it was a WORLD War

It's funny you write this after there have been films made depicting loss

that was murder.

@@streamofconsciousness5826 The Jerries never played fair.

​@@streamofconsciousness5826No that was war.

​@@reynaldoflores4522So what do you suggest, they should have let them cross then shot them???

@@frankvandergoes298 The soldiers should've been given some covering fire, at the very least .

? Were you too young and bought a ticket for starwars and went into this instead?

+aguynamedscott11. Now, _who_ would want to see a silly space adventure, instead of a realistic, well-made epic about one of WWII’s most tragic episodes? Unbelievable. 😊

which situation? sorry not sure why you would? Vast majority of Prisoner taking between the German Military and western Allied powers was absolutely fine

easier said than done tough guy.

To be fair, in general british and german POWs were treated quite well by both sides.

@@burnbobquist8999 many German prisoners of war were sent to England to work on farms or road repairs and were given alot of freedom whilst working the farms (aprox 170k were working on farms)and many liked it so much ,(many got friendly with the young women but this was strictly forbidden)that they preferred to stay after the wars end from aprox 400k POWs aprox 25k elected to stay and make a new life in the UK

@@burnbobquist8999 During but not after the war ended, then some German POWs got treated badly. sorted and graded into white grey or black status. according to unit or party status.

The fog of war my old son

How so?

Oh it has. The film as a cinematic effort, for the time, was outstanding. No computers, no green screen, just real actors in a local setting, literally "on location". The para drop at the beginning was shot with actual DC-3 planes, with real paras jumping out of the planes, over the original dropping zones at the Ginkelse Heide.. you can not get any better than that. Sir Richard Attenborough has said that that was a one off attempt, and if it didn't work out, they would not have had the budget to shoot it a second time..... CGI "I'll just tweak that explosion a little more" eat your heart out. Lots of local actors, mostly speaking in their native language, and most of the lines for Sir Laurence Oliver and Liv Ullmann in Dutch, because they played Dutch characters. Some of the historical accuracy of the movie, and the background of the actual planning of the operation, has been amended by additional research, and new documantion thta has been unearth over the last fourty years. But A Bridge too Far stands as an outstanding movie.

Exactly

Nazis invade motherfucker. Nazis cross borders and murder.

Thank god , I'm not the only one who can see this bull*hit for what it is, as for the western news media and their rampant propaganda, makes me sick.

Regardless of a segment of Ukraine's population's political persuasion, their nation is still being invaded by another more powerful nation, which is ruled by an authoritarian murderer.

@@hannotn oh shut up, Zelensky is a puppet who is being used by the west to wage its proxy war with Russia

The 1st Airborne dropped with 6pdr anti tank guns, and even a few 17pdr anti tank guns, as well as PIAT's, all against Panzers. They also brought their own artillery, with the Pack 75 Howitzers (who, incidentally, from their position in Oosterbeek, played a big part in helping the 2nd Batt at the bridge to hold out for nearly four days...). They also brought plenty of 2 and 3 Inch mortars. It was not the lack of equipment that the 1st Airborne landed with that was the reason for their defeat. It was, first, XXX Corps' failure to do their part (not their fault though), and the RAF's fault to 1. Drop the 1st Airborne near the target, and 2. resupply them during the battle. Did Monty drop the ball? Yes he did. Was it, at the time, a reasonable attempt? probably, yes. Hindsight is a beautifull thing to have...