The making of "1916" - Exclusive behind the scenes documentary 

Lucky!

You all did an awesome job to make this music video a masterpiece!🤘😃

Good job yo

Some things go beyond... Thank you to all of you for this masterpiece. Its important I think because, even all the years later, the ripples from these battles are still felt by families worldwide. Thanks for your part Syd.

Thank you so much for doing this

Thank you for sharing. I think many of the stories we could do with hearing are never told because they have been so traumatic. My dad and his brothers were in the British army in WW2, but they had very different experiences. My dad only went into Europe after D-Day, and came back with a Belgian wife; he was involved with equipment maintenance and troop entertainment, and was quite happy to talk about it all. One of his brothers fought in the Pacific theatre, never spoke about what happened, and even as a child I could see how visibly distressed he was whenever the subject of the war came up. I will never know what happened to him. My mother was a nurse and would tell "funny" stories of her experiences, which were often quite chilling (for instance, how some wounded German soldiers they looked after were terrified whenever any of the medical staff came near because they'd been told that they would be experimented on if captured; or how one nurse lost it during a bombing raid and ran and hid, shivering - between some oxygen canisters and a glass-fronted cabinet full of surgical implements, which was about the worst possible place if a bomb were to go off nearby). Even so she didn't say everything - it wasn't until she was in the early stages of dementia that she forgot herself enough to let slip that it was a bomb that had cost her her hearing in one ear. My mother's aunt lost her husband in WW1 and then her only son in WW2. As I've said in other videos, my wife's grandfather was one of those who lied about his age in WW1 - he was only _14_ when he went to the Front! He got out alive, thanks to some amazing luck: he was wounded and taken to a field hospital, and his own father was there at the same time. He swore a lot when he saw his son, then wrote to his wife back home explaining the situation. She in turn sent evidence of their boy's age to the War Office and they pulled him out. After he came home he never spoke to anyone in the family about his experiences, another piece of history that wasn't passed down, though we have some of the letters. Let's share the stories we do have. All the best from South Yorkshire.

Since I'm Dutch, I don't think any of my great-grandparents fought in WW1. But I know that my grandfather fought in the Dutch army in May ´40. One of the few officers who refused to tear of his officer-markings on his uniform in his POW-camp, and where his fellow officers were treated as harsh as the regular grunts, he got all honors an officer should recieve (the old Prussian ways were still quite strong in the early parts of the war). He told this story only ones, a few years before he died. In the same story, he also told how he was in Rotterdam during the terrorbombardment of the city, and decided there was nowhere save and there was nothing he could do to improve his chances to survive it. So he just laid down where he stood as the bombs exploded all around him, and the closest bombs landed soms 50 meters on either side of him (most likely dropped from the same plane, since he said it was a line coming perfectly down the street he was in). I was too young and not yet interested enough in military history as I am now, though I doubt I would've gotten more out of him. By that time he was in his 80's, and had survived not only 2 wives, but was also recovering from a 2nd TIA (the 3rd a few years later would prove fatal).

My great-grandfather was at the Somme. Shot and gassed, but lived til I believe the late 60s/early 1970s.

I have nobody in my family that fought in WW1 but my Grandpa Fought in The Korean War i never met him cause he passed away a year before i was born my dad said my grandpa was a Canadian Armed Forces Paratrooper that went behind NK lines to Sabotage Enemy Factories he was wounded in battle but survived the war

@@andrewbradimore Dad's dad survived, that war. Not The Somme tho. Another battle, place, time. Covenant With Death. John Harris. Good book.

Truer words cannot be spoken about this music video.

Save for the terrible grading.

I heard it when Par sent me it and knew it fitted perfectly.

Wow! That’s awesome to read, thank you so much. I really wanted to keep the style in the same tone of respect as the music video. Have a good day Michael. (I made this film 🤓)

It's been our privilege 😉

Wow thanks Jimmy! Glad you enjoyed seeing how it was all made. (I made this film)

@@joshualeodorfman It was such a pleasure!

Ale na chuj po Polsku piszesz?

@@Kubz0n na ch*j to się w wodzie stoi ,jestem Polakiem to i po Polsku pisze masz jakiś z tym problem ? To nie czytaj !

​@@konwalia283 Wyświetlił mi się ten komentarz kurwa jako pierwszy i to wkurwia jak widzisz Polski kurwa język pod Angielskojęzycznym filmem

@@Kubz0n ale ty masz problemy xD

@@nightmaredogepl463 Czy my zamierzamy robić tu kurwa debatę polityczną w komentarzach?

Definitely 😎 That's what true friends do

Thank you for being there!!! 🤘

@@Sabaton Thank you all !

Hahaha that was mint to read thank you! (I made this)

Your editing work is amazing, as always dude 🤍

@@Michelleyatesmuha Thank you matey. Shoutout to Michelle - one of the BEST Makeup-Artist in the game and it clearly shows in this production!

Really appreciate that man, I love making these making-of docs and it’s great to see the visual insight paid off

It definitely is! We're more than happy to help, thank you for counting on us 😎

Thank you for your suggestion! Feel free to send it to us through our official website so we can check it out and take it into consideration for the future 😉 www.sabaton.net/do-you-have-a-good-idea-for-a-song/

Votre commentaire l'est effectivement 👎.

Good eye Sarah! I had to film some of the interviews after principal photography and most of us live in Manny 😎

If I'm not mistaken they did do a song about Simo Häyhä. I believe it's their song White Death.