Now i know why the heavy is *heavy*, After he suffered a awful injury he was bed bound and he turned to food as a stress relief for the nightmares he saw in his time fighting alongside the Iranians in the Iran Iraq war
Much respect to the director of photography (or director) who paid a lot of attention to the set design. Not many film makers would think about small details like littering a firing position with tons of spent brass...and the fact that they represent detonations as black and grey clouds and not big orange explosions adds to the realism. Getting the gear correct (Soviet armor and small arms) is a huge bonus. There's nothing worse than seeing a Patton dressed up like a Panther in big budget movies.
My father fought for 8 years in this war. He swore to my mother "I Will go to war, I will win every battle I'm sent to and when I return, I will take your hand for marriage"
@@lk6912 it actually would not have ended in a stalemate if united states did not supply satellite images of Iranian armies to Iraq. Then you know, mustard gas and all. Father was hit too.
@@DeNihility he had 5 more brothers, I known one was a commando fighting behind enemy lines these guys were awesome. My cousin showed me a video of a general(I think he was a general) talking about them on TV.
That was the most realistic depiction I've ever seen. Enough so that I was a good minute into the clip before realizing that it wasn't actual combat photography. Other than the RPGs seeming a little too colourful, I feel that they nailed this one. That kid who squatted completely out of cover to dump a magazine in the general direction of the enemy? Yep, seen that happen. And that kid also survived doing something I'd thought stupidly suicidal.
This was the only conflict where modern technology went back to ww1 tactics Update: This is one of several conflicts where modern technology went back go ww1 tactics.
The Armenian Azerbaijani war in the 90s was like this as well attacking fortified mountain outposts. And one could argue some of the trench fighting in eastern Ukrainian has a WW1 feel to it.
I've heard the same thing said about the war between Ethiopia and Eritrea. Seems like when the technology outstrips the training level of the troops involved (or possibly more accurately the skill of the generals ordering them around), you get this kind of situation.
It's believed if there was ever a third world war, most of the advanced tech such as ships fighters and bombers would be destroyed in the first five months and since the global economy is so interconnected the disrupted resource flow of the war would prevent making new ones so if the war lasted longer than five months it would revert to WW2/WW1 style infantry small arms fire battles
There are many varients of RPGs. So it's not uncommon to see different explosions or smoke trails. There's even an RPG that doesn't even blow up, it's just a metal fist used to penetrate armor. Also, Hollywood is....well it's Hollywood. Lol
JAVID IRAN 🇮🇷 90% of Iranian Soldiers were volunteer From 9 years old boy to 80 years oldman Dr. Chamran, he was a NASA scientist and had the best life in America, but he left everything and back to Iran and fought to the last drop of blood and many cities were liberated under his command, Those Known and Unknown Soldiers are our Heroes
Shut up. We fought in defense of our country against an enemy supported by all. We did great. Big thanks to your dad and uncles. But your views are scummy.
@@xman822 No need to treat them this badly, yes your countrymen did this for the sake of defending their country and families, but I believe he has a point the war has no point at all, both sides had sadly sacrificed their lives just to achieve nothing only misery and sorrow was what they got at the end. As the matter of fact, no one should truly deserved this war nonsense.
@@radziwill7193 Saddam Invaded Iran to gain control of Khuzestan. But when failed to do so and offered peace to khomeini. He refused, Why??? You see Islamic revolution happened in 1979 and the war started in 1980. Now people started to realize that this regime is not what they thought. So there some protests here and there, But War was a blessing for the regime, and Khomeini knew it. So he tried to stretch it as long as possible to keep the people's minds off the protests and keep them busy with the war. 500K Iranians died in this war which could have been lessened if Khomeini had accepted the peace offer. So in a way, both Saddam and Khomeini are to blame for this war and deaths. Just like always, soldiers are pawns in the chess game of their leaders.
Well over 1 million soldiers died and over 100 thousand civilians died in that war alone. The war they those is very accurate to the movie, frontal warfare even child soldiers used in this war and even suicide attacks used in Iranian side.
Imagine having AKs, RPGs, Iglas, Hinds, MiGs, T-55/62/72s on one side vs American items like M-14, F-14 Tomcats, M-16, M48/M60 Pattons and yet all turned it into a freaking siege warfare with trenches and and poisonous gas all over again. What the actual fuck...
On one side you had Iraq with 20 000 Soviet advisors, Mercenaries including pilots from over 14 countries, Tens of Billions in armes sales from all around the world as far away as Brazil and a free hand to use Chemical weapons without any international condemnation Vs Iran that was under full Arms embargo with the minor exception of Iran Contra could only access arms from a handful of countries namely North Korea , Syria, Libya and the black market at several times the normal price.
Iraq had weapons sold to them by russia, China, usa, germany, Britain, we only had what shah bought when he was ruling like the F14 you mentioned american m47/m48 or M60A1s were also used that were bought from shah. But germany sold iraq his chemical weapons which they used to kill the kurds in iraq and wage an unfair war. Which ultimately ended in iran winning.
My father was a participant in that war and he says that the Iranians came in the form of human waves to trample on the landmines, and then the tanks would come after them.
Iranians were defending their country from Saddam Hussein who was an opportunist and thought it's a good time to take advantage of Iran's volatile situation after the revolution to capture oil reach lands. Iranians fought with what ever they had. Not that I support Iran's today's regime, but Iraqis started it and they were at fault. Clearly you don't care much about human lives, but it's the irony that today Iraq has to buy electricity from Iran and still won't have 24 hours of sustained power! Maybe Karma 😉
@@dennisivan85 As I said I am not supporting Iran's regime and you just wish to sting because you hate Iran. I have no doubt that your understanding of the middle east and Iran is basic and that's why you don't understand the difference between people and the regime ruling over them. It is my wish that Iraq will someday becomes a country that can sustain itself. What I was saying was to answer this guy who obviously was very proud of their country invading and killing millions. You on the other hand choose to be ignorant and biased and full of hate. That only tells me that you are a wishful nobody. Good luck.
@@Nikitas1978 Every Iranian I've met here in Canada have definitely been very nice and considerate. Met some members in North Van some years ago as well as here in Victoria. Also briefly had a guy from the country as a roommate. This was in 2014 and he was early to mid 30's so he had lived through the war as a kid. Super nice dude.
I am surprised by the art of photography and the wonderful direction. This movie is of better quality than many American films. All due respect to the director and the cast.
An interesting story about this war ⬇️ My father used to say that we had just had a revolution and the huge wave of war had entered the borders from the west of Iran, and we lacked weapons. And all Iranian people were needed for this unequal war. At the beginning of the war, when my father was newly married, he entered the war and said that we were divided into three groups in the war, and the first soldier was given a G3 rifle. A gun that overheats or jams after a few more shots. And the second soldier was given a grenade and the third soldier had to chase them and by killing the Iraqi soldiers they got good weapons like this Kalashnikov (this memory was from the beginning of the war. The war). I, the son of that father, as an Iranian, say without exaggeration that Iranians are really brave
God bless your father I'm Iranian also from Iran. Our enemy today is our own government and we must take it down, but I see you as an extremist and traitor to your own people by using the evil symbol of our current government. If you dare and truthful. Don't you see what our government is doing to people and how people are killed and starved? How dare you use this symbol of hate and barbarism on your profile ???
It must have been hell, please correct me if I am wrong here, Iran was not only fighting Iraq but the US too, the US wanted this war and provided $billions in state of the art military weapons and even had advisers helping operate the weaponry, What those Iranian soldiers must have faced was horror and as you said they must have been the bravest of men.
@@feintfaint7213 a lot to be honest. It all falls down to the diferent tribes. That still exist and rule the area. Like i mentioned, babylon/iraq vs persia/iran. We also have greeks/greece vs trojans/turks. Humanity....... not so united.
Speaking as a Persian, it is just Islam being retarded. A pointless war fueled by Sunni/Shia and the Islamic revolution of Iran. Both sides committed crimes against humanity and it basically ended in a stalemate since they had equal military hardware back then.
My Uncle fought in this war my father died in the Offensive to take Basra. My uncle has breathing problems from Iraqi chemical attacks to this day. It was Iran vs the world. I do not support the Islamic Republic in any way but this was a full on Arab invasion into the Persian homeland.
@@pikiwiki yes and no. We are ethnically and linguistically not similar. They speak a Semitic language while we speak an Indo-European language. We had the Persian Empire while they had the Caliphate. Saddam saw himself as an Arab leader going to defeat the Persians. Even during his execution he blamed the Persians
@@pikiwiki they wanted to stop the Iranian revolution which sought to export itself which would of lead to the down fall of alot of governments. Annex the oil rich Khuzestan province and control key water way which was Iraq's only access to the Persian Gulf. Saddam considered Iran to be weak since the military was purged. He actually ended up uniting the country against a common enemy...
@M H You have funny ideas 🤣 Turn back the history of thoes who attended Basra and used children to blow up the men other than Iran. If Iraq is occupied . I want proof ?
That was a damn sight better than Hollywood would do! The Iran-Iraq War started when I was in High School and there were many talks about who would be the preferred winner. Saddam Hussein's Iraq was the favoured. But I always told Class Mates and Teachers that Iran would just outlast them. Stalemate and an uneasy Peace would follow.
Politics and everything else aside, it was a very unfair battle, one side was completely isolated and had access to no new weapons while Iraq received simultaneous help from the soviets and the West at large. And they were supplied with and given the green light to use chemical weapons with international silence. Had it not been because of great human sacrifice, Iran would have been overrun in a matter of weeks as many predicted at the time...
Only part that annoyed me a bit was the guy with the RPG who just stood there while the pillbox LMG was spraying dirt up infront of him. He was way to calm and unresponsive to the bullets hitting right infront of him and it was pretty clear they were aiming at him, since he was aiming straight back at them.
@@opai1821 war movies can be biased An American can’t recreate a Movie about the Iran Iraq war Neither does MODERN Iraqi filmers (because old Iraqi movie about the War contained real things and weren’t that biased) So does Iranians
Quite an excellent illustration of the chaos that follows after the assault takes place -close quarters combat, confusion, fear, smoke, explosions, death....
Yes but the frontline was 1600km long as the shared border between Iran and Iraq is longer than any found between two countries in Europe, thus most WW1 frontlines in Europe were tiny in comparison.
@@USB740 True. That probably had to be a good thing that the border was that large so they couldn't concentrate all the death on a small piece of land. I'm just a bit curious since I don't know much on this war.
@@owenhammond1880 Exactly, it was spread out more. Trenches are still there, look on Google maps satellite you can zoom in to see them. The strongest ones were around the cities of Basra and Amara, on the Iraqi side.
Iraq was so weak during the war with Iran that 30 countries supporting Iraq could not imagine Iran, but although no country came to Iran's aid, Iran fought the Iraqis and did not allow a single inch of its territory to be conquered. It was Iran's field because he was able to defend his country well
hey come on.. are you joking us ?? no country helped iran ?!?! hhhhhhhh how about US and Israeli support ?? read about Iran Gate .. how about Portugal Sweeden Syria Libya North korea Etc ....
@@adankmeme651 oh he didn't die, he and his men were dismissed when they got bombed and gassed and my father fled to the Netherlands luckily enough to get 2 very cool ass children and live a life worth living for. He still has PTSD, Depression, etc but he always tries to hard for us and I'm proud of him being my father
Haven't seen this movie or even knew it existed. But if this clip is anything to go by the production values at least must be pretty damn good. Details like the track sprawled behind the disabled tank are excellent. There may be echoes of Saving Private Ryan here but so what? Practically every war movie since has been influenced by it one way or another.
The visual effects of the film is very impressive. Neighbors can't fight with eachother. They should establish friendship and common work with eachother.
Looks like very similar to real battle footages of the war. I like it, very realistic. Maybe bullet sounds would be a little bit better. But in general, I like the scene. Congrats.
When I was kid, Always TV news used to anounce about this abroad war. But it's hard to find any movie or record of this war. This is the only Iran-Iraq war movie I found
A lot of people don't know this but the US was selling arms to Iran under the table to keep the war going Israel was in support of this decision and helped this deal to keep Iran and Iraq occupied with each other It was called "Iran- contra" and was a famous scandal
All the details in this from set, direction, how the soldiers fight (their tactics, training and lack thereof which you'd expect of conscripts & volunteers), use of artillery and tanks and the power of close in anti tank makes me think this film had some consultants who were actual veterans of this war and listened to them well.
@king of IRAN god da mn iran if iran get strong we will be a weak and if iran get weak we will be strong. All the mercy to our iraqians soliders from syria 🇸🇾🇸🇾🇸🇾
@@user-le2vt9ci6e هذه حرب مقدسة بالنسبة للعراقيين لا تضيع دماء أبناء جلدتك على بعض الأفكار التي تعتقد أنها إنسانية. المسألة أكبر بكثير من كونها حرب استنزافية. قوة العراق وسوريا في ضعف إيران وتركيا. تلك الدول أعدائنا التاريخيون ولن نغفر لهم ما حيينا انظر إلى الانتهاكات المستمرة لإيران وتركيا في أوطاننا هل يمكن أن نغفر لهم ؟
The militia was so poor we couldn’t even afford a rpg-7 so we had to make a huge grande and when the Iraqi tank came close we throw it underneath so it could damage the tracks or the Engine.
Good battle scene, but when I watched it first, it felt like something was missing. Watched it again and I realized that the battlefield has no corpses on it, just vehicle wreckage.
@@abbasabidi7503 in every war there are warcrimes happened , the case wasn’t even better in the Iranian side too !! But the testimony of my dad is solid , doing what he can for everyone in the battlefield.
I knew an Iranian who fought in this war. The Iraqis, he said, were better trained and had far more and better weapons while the Iranians had far more troops. He told me he was the only survivor of his company.
It was a war that lastet for 10 years sadam vs Iran, no one win in the war, buth had lost allot off lives and the war did effect buth countries in a majer way, know we buth love and resbect each other, and iranian come too Iraq every year in millions just too viset holly places, and they are reabect..
The first clip is from the film 'The Lost Strait' from (2018) ... as is stated in the beginning of the video (I missed it too, had to read a comment to realize).
Politics and everything else aside, it was a very unfair battle, one side was completely isolated and had access to no new weapons while Iraq received simultaneous help from the soviets and the West at large. And they were supplied with and given the green light to use chemical weapons with international silence. Had it not been because of great human sacrifice, Iran would have been overrun in a matter of weeks as many predicted at the time...
@@zx7siovia213 most of what you said is false The US and other NATO nations through out the war kept helping Iran Because Iraq was supporting a Communist Persian Party
@@husseinoskovjino9398 just wanted to correct you, there was no communist party in that time, before the revolution king of iran exiled and jailed most of the marxists, after the revolution all parties were banned except for couple parties (democratic party, islamic party were the biggest ones), also the hostage incident really pissed U.S off so they aided Iraq just like most western powers, even china and USSR helped iraq, they none of them intervened, Syria played a major role by blocking the Iraq's only way to Mediterranean sea. Etc etc, all in all, there was no communist parties (it was against islam so most of them were killed)
@@Pierre-lj4sq actually you’re not right Mujahdeen khalk were Persian Communists supported by saddam hussein to topple Khominei’s regime And communist parties were never Anti religion and in the Arab world Especially Syria and Iraq were leftist at the time (The Baathist party was made by a communist) And No the US didn’t give direct support and Media support and continuous Arms support was giving to Iran and not Iraq which only purchased Gas weapons The only nations that really helped Iraq are China,USSR,Yugoslavia and France And no Syria didn’t play a major role in blocking Iraq’s way because Iraq has another going from Kirkuk to turkey until Adana And most of the communist parties in the Arab world weren’t killed You should know that the first people that get attracted to communism are religious people
@@husseinoskovjino9398 mujahedin were not communist they were kind of a Islamic party, they helped in revolution but once khamenei took all the credit they become furious and helped iraq during the war also communist group name was tude which was dismantled before revolution
