Always struck me as strange why a movie that is in English needs to have all the French Characters speak with a French accent. We know they are French characters. In reality the would be speaking French, not English with a French accent. I swear that the producers of most movies think that we are that dumb. I don't say that this is a bad movie, but the producers should have watched Paths to Glory made by a master director. All French characters and not a French accent to be found. Imagine Kurt Douglas with a phony French Accent.
What is very often forgotten is the fierce battle and resistance of the Belgian soldiers throughout Belgium. In the surroundings of my hometown for example there is a cemetery, and several landmarks where battles have taken place. For every major road, or crossing, even small or of little importance, there was a battle
After the fall of Liege and the frontier forts, the Belgian Army was forced back relentlessly, to the coast and then down along it toward the British lines. Eventually they opened the dikes fronting their sector to prevent the Germans (von Kluck's I Army, the "far right arm" of the Schlieffen Plan) from approaching them. They hung tough until the end of the war.
it s make me feel bloody proud to see those soldiers where Belgain army uniform s, my grandfather was a Belgain soldier from 1916 till 1919, field artelerie , and trench artelerie ,
Arthur piantadosi, actually America joined WWI one in 1915 then dropped out of the conflict in 1917 EDIT: this comment is false. At the time of writing it I did not know the actual facts of America's involvement. The truth is that they joined serious diplomatic discussions in 1914 then joined militarily in 1917 effectively sealing the fate of the war in favor of the allies. Were it not for their continued efforts and involvement, the central powers would likely have done enough damage to at least get away with a white peace if not victory. After learning this I only wish that America had joined earlier on as this may have indeed prevented the next war in Europe, and prevented the rise of communism in Russia.
The Legendary song "one" by Metallica was about a soldier who sustained ww1 injury's. He could not see, he was paralyzed and limbless . Imagine not knowing if your alive or dead? Awake or dreaming? "Johnny got his Gun". Great book .
Our TV at the time of this airing rarely got the channel very well that carried this. Only bits I remember is an Old Man Jones telling the tales of his life to an interested young boy of similar age to my own of the time. I'd forgotten about this series. I should look into getting it.
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my grandfather was a machine gunner in the sherwood foresters..( life expectancy in a battle was approx two and a half hrs )..he got gassed but survived.. when the germans sent over gas shells about 7000 started running he said..about 300 survived and a most of them had lung problems all there lives
The rifle shot at 11:58 is honestly just beautiful. One of my favorite classic gun sounds since I first heard it from Kazim's guerillas with their VZ 24 rifles in "The Last Crusade".
Anyone that has study WWI history would know it will not be just be mortars, but all sort of field guns. In some places in the western front its been estimated that three tons of shells per yard were drop. In checking the hospital records, seventy-five present of all casualty were from artillery. Even today there are places that are still off limits as people are still getting killed from WWI artillery shells
guys, look up "in vlaamse velden" have not watched the full show myself, but it came out due to the hundred year aniversary of ww1 a couple years back, and they actually show the situation better than most shows,
" Trincheras del infierno "....excelente film donde refleja la matanza...la carniceria .en los campos de batallas durante la 1ra guerra mundial. Cuando el oficial a cargo hacia sonar ese pito...y tenian q correr a campo travieso sorteando las explosiones..la metralla del enemigo...ahi se desataba.el infierno....como dice el titulo del film.
What's sad is that the charge in this film actually looks better than most WWI charges I see in more recent movies (except for "A Very Long Engagement")
My grand-grand uncle was to tall for the trenches and has been shot. My grand-grand-father fought in the trenches, Flanders fields and won. His brother has been decorated(the decorations ara at home)but he had PTTS. It was the hell for them, they did not like it. They were glad WOI was over and their country was liberated. A Fleming. The English soldiers came after the gaz attacks to the farm of the parents of my grand mother for shelter, medical care, food, warmth, rest and new clothes. I still can tell you a lot of that war because a heard a lot of stories from my family and visited the trenches myself. Some spot gives me the feeling I have been there before, most other spots not. As a kid I knew a lot of those trench soldiers. It is hard.
This is tragic and heartbreaking. WW1 still brings me to tears it was such a waste of human life and for absolutely nothing better in the future. I love soldiers and would never even think of hurting one. Think of all they do for us and how little thanks they get. They die for us and we call them murderers and I hate that I won't stand for it. My last name is Flemish. People don't know that they think "Mitchner" is German or something. Actually it's Flemish. Belgians and French are all nice people most of them I don't know why they hate each other, but they do. This is a very realistic look into trench warfare and life and death for these great brave boys. Much love to you all.
Benjamin Blake Mitchner when you said "for absolutely nothing better in the future" that is not true soldiers die and fight for us because they don't want bad pepole to hurt us and second look into in the second or first world War if the allies didt fight we would have horrible life would you live under Hitters order he was racist to many people so apparently you want that. the point is the soldiers made a HUGE difference to human life. and if we let hitter attack and do nothing about it life would completely suck
And that is why people really did die for nothing in WWI, however, I will say that they didn't die Entirely for nothing, they did save the freedoms of: France, poland, Belgium, Yugoslavia, Italy, the middle eastern countries, and southeastern European states. such as Romania etc. So it they did die for something after all, but not quite what they intended.
I am Canadian. Some of my ancestors have lived on this continent for thousands of years. My European immigrant ancestors have been on the soil called Canada for many generations. Both my parents were WWII veterans. But I knew nothing of the enmity between the Belgians and French til today!
@@Xingmey The problem is that trenches on the western front during WW1 was often soaked in rain which turned the trenches into a quagmire of mud and water. Meaning that there would be no way for everyones uniforms to be sparkly clean. Officers maybe found ways to try and keep their uniforms cleaner or have them cleaned more regularly. Just imagine yourself walking around a wet and muddy trench all day long. You are going to get some stains on your clothes no matter what.
@@richhh9000 I hate how people like you state things as if they are facts. Consider this, these soldiers just got on the line therefore have no had chance to get dirty yet (people did clean clothes back then and soldiers were required to). It doesn’t constantly rain in Europe and when the ground has dried out the groundwater level lowers ergo there wouldn’t be any water in the bottom of the trench.
@@archluke6099 Geez man sorry if I sounded like a wiseass, was not my intention. Was simply stating that trenches could often be soaked from rainfall, which would make maintaining clean uniforms problematic. I live in Sweden and it does occasionally rain in Europe dude. I've watched many photos from WW1 trenches and sometimes It's muddy and terrible, other times It's dry and less terrible.
Ok, it's from Young Indiana Jones. This was a series I didn't like very much and didn't watch a lot of. But to be completely fair, this isn't too very awful. I'm an ACW reenactor and have several friends who are much more interested in WWI. From them, I've learned a great deal. The animosity between the French and the Belgians was very real. It got so bad that the Belgian king, King Albert, demanded that Belgians be deployed only under BEF command. The trench systems are actually overly dug-in for 1915... And you'll note that there is no mud, dust, or vermin. But you really can't show the Hellishness of WWI on prime time TV in the States.
At one point during the war Albert I wanted to switch sides as well, after all, it makes more sense for Belgium to be on the side of Germany due to cultural and historical reasons, and most Belgian territory was occupied by the Germans anyway. Also: during the Anglo-Boer wars Belgian sympathy lay obviously with the Boers, just as it was in Germany and the Netherlands. This conflict was still fresh on everyone's minds. An assassination by French spies destroyed the secret diplomacy of Albert I with the Germans, BTW.
the Belgians never where never under BEF command, the Belgian army remained the Belgian Army. the Belgains fought alongside the british and french but the Belgian king king did not want to sacrifice any men if he didn't want to and denied almost every request for offensive(and pointless) actions (except the raids from antwerp in 1914 which gave the french some much needed time to prepare for the marne) until 1917-1918. The belgian army was not capable of performing offensive actions until late '15, early 16 since it took on the full might of the german war machine in 1914, they performed way better then anyone including the germans could've dreamed of but they also lost a massive ammount of their men in those first few months. this angered the british and the french so the relations between the belgians and it's allies where strained to say the least, it got so bad that the french and british at a certain point where not called allies but guarenteers (or something in that line).
did not realise that background Belgium/France WW1... Of course, there is an ethnic and language dichotomy in the Belgians..half are not French first language...maybe that did not help?
like in ww2 you got a mg a rochet auncher you could hide better but in ww1 it was like napoleonic tactics vs continous mg fire and like yo paul octave i like history
History is so ironic. Countries like Britain, France and Belgium fight together even though they had centuries of warfare and hatred. The Germans had that effect of uniting strange alliances against them. Just look at the USSR and the USA.
The watch at 11:38 is way newer and can't be from the first world war, it's probably from after the second world war even. The automatic watch was invented in 1923, but even in the second world war military personal didn't use automatic watches, they used hand-wound watches because those were more reliable. Also, the watch shown is this clip is a moonphase and annual calendar dress watch, which doesn't fit in a military environment.
este es mi episodio favorito de esta serie, Las Trincheras del Infierno, ademas del Tren Fantasma, Los Hombres halcon, Aventuras en el Servicio Secreto, Los Temerarios del Desierto, entre otros capitulos
@@sdporres Damn right. The courage of the Belgian army was something those germans had not counted on. They never managed to conquer all of Belgium during WW1
I looked after men British who fought in WW1, they said, the French didn't like the British, but the Belgians hated us more, their words not mine, if anyone doesn't believe me, that's fine, i was only 16 when i looked after these brave men in 1978.
@@shawnwellington6963 Just as the Anglo-Saxons did not like Francophones. There is an old story between France and England. And then, France has been many times the first power of the world. The break in what we know today was after Napoleon.
Not true, the Flemings loved the British. I am a Fleming and I know they did. My family fought in the trenches. They loved the British much more then the French. They still do. They really loved them. My grand mother did not like the Germans, neither the French.
Reminds me of "Gallipoli" ... In this case it was the British who sacrificed the Australians ... WW I saw the introduction of poison gas, but it was the tank that broke the trench warfare stalemate and advantaged the Allies ... 20 years after WW I was concluded, Germany rearmed, and the conflict was resumed with increased lethality of more modern weapons ...
Australians played a huge part, and suffered high casualties, but it's ingenuous to claim it was all Anzacs. English, Scottish and Irish regiments were decimated, and Indian soldiers also participated. My grandfather was with the RIR, who were thrown into battle straight from the training depot, and cut to pieces by the Turks. It's not a competition to claim which country lost the most men. Every one was some mother's son, and many Anzacs were British immigrants to Australia and New Zealand, doing what they perceived to be their patriotic duty. Petty nationalism is a curse, both then and now.
The first battles were like that. The attackers expected that the German troops would mostly be destroyed by the artellary bombardment before the battle but in fact it would have less effect than they expected
I love how the main character who is supposed to be Belgian sounds the most American. The characters that aren't even shown as much as him have a better accent.
+SuperJSkyline Maybe watch the Young Indiana Jones Chronicles before you make a fool of yourself. He is Indiana Jones. He's a 17 year old American. He traveled to Europe and lied about his age and signed up for the Belgian army because the States had not declared war on the Germans yet. He speaks fluent German and French, but since the actor doesnt, they improvise and keep 95% in English. The few scenes where he does have to speak German and French, he does a good job but ofc with a thick american accent, eventhough they claim he's fluent with no hitn of accent in the series :-)
+Ole The Viking Maybe, you should calm down and read what I write. I figure, he doesnt know the series, which still doesnt warrant his flaming it, and then tries to enlighten him. All you do is trying to pour oil on the fire. I think SuperJSkyline was happy that I enlightened him. Maybe even got him hooked to watch the fun series.
they did alright on this series, for what it was, obviously the Western Front through the Belgians' eyes is the one we see least often.. recommend in the same vein the 1980s 'All Quiet on the Western Front" remake, starring Richard Thomas and Earnest Borgnine..TV movie, but alright for what it was..brutal depictions of hand to hand combat...which the Huns mostly get the better of...LOL..
@9:20 well....other than the fact that enemy machineguns have a view of the WHOLE battlefield, you may as well put some snipers to use and keep them preoccupied.
