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The photo damian lewis used on the book cover is of the long range desert patrol group somaliland camel corp.on deployment.i do wonder who gave kind permission for the use of said photo?

I served as an active duty officer from 1969 to 1989. One on Independence Day in the early 1970’s, I went to the movies at a theatre in Philadelphia. Some clown detonated a small firecracker, everyone in the audience looked around and some jumped up to improve their field-of-view. I was instantaneously on the theatre’s floor, with the discarded popcorn and soda spills. As Major Winters’s stated, you REACT. Incidentally, the folks with whom I went to the movie gave me considerable grief for my actions, however, none of them had my experiences.

Overworked organs tends to be injured. This is logic if it is the liver or a hip. We never ( until now) accepted, that the brain is damaged after heavy overexertion. One example, a man from Danish minority fightting in German army in France during WW1. One day he was covered with soil af grenade hit. For 4 minutes. His comrades managed to dig him out. Before the war he was a proud and skilled farmer. After home coming he had frequent attacks of PTSD. But wife and friends managed to run the farm. And in fact he got an almost balanced and normal life. The psyciatric hospital was very good, because they had many similar cases. And he had served well before and after this incident. He is now a case story in Danish psyciatric history. It was not the length of duty, dead soldiers, but one afternoon with utter fear of life. Please if you are sceptic. Most people in direct combat returns with a changed personality. Not broken, but changed.

This actor deserved an Oscar for this role.

Great summary, thanks. It is also a great movie nevertheless.

My dad had a similar experience but, it was in the earl 2000's. A jack hammer was started and being used. He looked me dead in the face and said " damn it sounded just like a german mg." At about 77 78 years old at the time he hit the pavement fast. Took him a couple of days to get over it. My mother said after he came home and was discharged from the hospital after being wounded in early april of 1945 that he would have nightmares. Horrific nightmares. Often she had to get him back in bed so he didnt hurt himself or someone else.

no, it didn't "fail to capture". It was way outside their scope.

Love it ,cause Henry gets to play the man who inspired James bond so Henry gets to be the real james bond so cool

For a chanel whining about movie is not historical accuracy, i don't see any video about Netflix's Black Cleopatra.

All those years of combat 🤣... Sorry sir, how many months? Because d-day was 6 june 1944 and the war was over in may 1945 so that's not even one year. And airborne wasn't always deployed.

I literally just got done watching this for the first time…definitely in my top 10 movies of all time

Him and those big fish lips of his

SOS isn't a Hollywood movie. It's an Independent Film. Alive is the Hollywood movie, and is the whitewashed and glamorized version of the story. You have your facts backwards.

You should be criticizing Alive instead of Society of the Snow. Neither are perfect, but one far more so than the other, and you have them backwards. Alive entirely omitted the rancher (Sergio Catalan) who saved their lives at the end, making the viewer think the "green valley" magically saved them -- which is highly offensive. Alive also only gave Nando and Roberto's journey 18 seconds of screentime, which is unacceptable. Alive also omitted the aftermath of the rescue, which is also a terrible omission. SOS did a superior job telling the true story, whereas Alive whitewashed it and glamorized it to suit Hollywood narratives, an insult to the survivors and those that died.

The pre-closing credits sequence does actually mention March Phillios as the model for 007.

The only historically accurate event portrayed in this movie, and in the real life of the characters, was that it took place on planet earth.

My buddy's mother tells the story of when she was young just after the war she saw two Canadian veterans walking down the sidewalk when a jackhammer went off. They threw themselves to the ground. Got up. Dusted themselves off. Had a good laugh. And kept walking. That's probably the best attitude to have.

I would expect anyone who's been in combat under live enemy fire would be 'wounded' for the rest of their lives. I respect these men and women for what they continue to sacrifice for our benefit. Wish I could fix it for them, but I can't.

The analysis of character development in this video is spot on. It really highlights how important well-written characters are to a movie's success.

"A world full of takers" which was created by politicians who depend on those parasites every election cycle.

that's not PTSD... its called reflexes and muscle memory

Ted danson would have made a better choice for portraying Winters in band of brothers Being a fellow American and More of a lookalike Was in saving private ryan!

Ambulance scene with adrenaline shot never happened

Great video and first of yours I have seen so will checkout more. In relation to the movie, it was a shame it came out such a box office failure as it deserved better support, but it was the Lock Stop and Two Smoking barrels version of Operation Postmaster and a bit too jokey for me. Also I note that a really similar version of the forming of the Special Air Service was made in the UK in 2022, written by Steven Knight and though that sticks more closely to the origins of 1st SAS Regiment in North Africa, a bit like this movie it had a quiet childish and cartoony feel to me and I was putoff by the music of ACDC being played by Stirlings jeeps were being driven through the desert. But one positive thing I will say as a British Amateur military historian and military veteran myself it is always good to see real stories re told, even if in a slightly unbelievable way as it does educate the young people about WW2 which has to be a good thing!

i find this movie annoying. you cant take it seriously

Band of Brothers is far better OVERALL than Saving Private Ryan. SPR of course has the outstanding landing sequence and the last battle is very good. The movie itself has too many Speilbergism's and his annoying habit of trying to soften things that should be unsparing..

We never transition back to civilian life. It's been 21 years since my last combat experience and 17 years since I left the Marines. The lack of leadership, camaraderie, drive, and discipline in the civilian sucks for us. Especially given today's entitled mentality. A world full of takers is how we see it. USMC 1999-2007

As a history buff, this movie is the equivalent of watching Speed Racer to learn about nascar.

I wouldn't have minded watching a movie based on the actual events.

It is a great story about brave and resourceful warriors risking their lives for their country. The movie was a cartoonish affront to the memory of those men.

If Honey actually stabbed Tommy with a pen, and was hitting him first, then she had it coming. You dont get to step up and be aggressive like a man and then when youre hit back, go back to being a woman.

Very entertaining movie. Although, as someone who read the book. They couldve made a tv series about the reat of the amazing feats they accomplished.

It's called a movie. Enjoy. 😉😉😉😉

Roy Harley cluched while the avalache hit the plane. Roy and Carlitos were the only one that weren't buried in the snow. He managed to pull himself free then he pulled Carlitos free. After the avalanche Roy broke the window

After the release of the movie Argo, it was criticized for it's accuracy. Ron Howard said " if you want the facts don't look to Hollywood"

You are making a classic historical mistake. Not all Nazis were true believers in the Nazi cause. After Jesse Owens dominated at the Olympics in 1936, several German Officers called Jesse Ownes the Übermensch.

Ca I suggest you read and comment on the book which is a brilliant bit of work and has so many other stories that need to be pictured

Says something about the Hollywood hype machine that I never heard of the first movie, even tho it was directed by clint Eastwood. Now that I think about it, I dimly remember something about the guys portrayed in this movie meeting the press in Cannes during the film festival.

Elsa Gonzalez' character being Jewish not German?? WTH? Jewish is not a nationality. She can be German, or French, or Polish, or Russian, or any other nationality and ALSO be Jewish. Jewish is also not a language.

So the black and female characters are DEI hires to qualify the movie for Academy Award consideration. got it.

"....that is exactly what Churchill would have done" - which makes it a factual truth in some people's eyes today. that it never happened is irrelevant.

I enjoyed your video, but one niggly little criticism: " . . . the HMS Violet . . ." Please do not use an article when a ship name is preceded by the abbreviation HMS, which stands for His/Her Majesty's Ship.

Extra trivia: Anders Lassen joined the Allied war effort on April 9th, 1940, the day of Nazi Germany's invasion of both his native Denmark and Norway. April 9th is a mythical date in both those countries. Lassen was KIA exactly five years later in Northern Italy, on April 9th, 1945. Denmark was liberated by British forces on May 5th, less than a month after Lassen's death.

Gotta have that diversity included women & Black dude 😂

So typical Hollywood BS 😂

Film was great. This video sucks.

It has always struck me as odd that the British are criticised for operations conducted in neutral countries such as Fernando Po & the Altmark incident in Norwegian waters, while ignoring the fact the Germans were using the same neutral countries for their benefit & advantage.

It smacks of more WOKE pandering with a fictional woman and black man. The rescue scene is absurd. It's like the German soldiers were bowling pins knocked over right and left. What do you expect from a guy who married Madonna.

No different that the Americans pretending they captured the u boat with an enigma machine “U571”

Steroid, muscle-bound men defo weren't a thing in the early 40s