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@ricksfilmrestoration5163 teria como deixar as legendas em português acionadas. Sou do Brasil e não entendo nada de inglês e gostaria muito de entender o que foi faldo no documentário. Obrigado.
My grandfather fought at the Somme. I can’t help but scan the faces of these brave young men hoping to see a glimpse of him. Thank you so much for your tireless work putting this remarkable footage together.
"You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye, Who cheer when soldier lads march by. Sneak home and pray you'll never know The hell where youth and laughter go."
it´s unbelievable how much more value that old footage becomes in that stadium of ai!!!!!! Emotions and technics are so much more "touchable" with the ai enhancements and colors even it is not perfect but imagine what it will become if you look towards the speed of ai-development. WOW!!!!!!! ...the topographic of the areas are realizable for me for the first time i guess!!! THANKS for your work!!!!! It is unbelievable worthy!!!!!!!!
"Where have all the young men gone , long time..........." . Well they are all underground together ! What a waste of life, All those smiling, unsmiling, suffering men , for what ?😢 Great clarity., great colour, such restoration is astounding given the material it was begun with ! 👏👏
My grandfather fought 4 years in these trenches, Somme included. He never got physically wounded, but he was mentally destroyed.After the war he opened a cafe-restaurant in our home town and became one of the most feared man around. Nobody would dare to start a fight.
this is an amazing film......amazing footage..... .in all the years [over 65 of watching history of war, I am 70] I have never seen such descriptive images of WWI.... thank you for doing this wonderful compilation..... when in my teens, I was lucky enough to spend time talking to a veteran of WWI...but did not really know what to ask.... my interest is in what the troops had to endure..... .Paul from the USA
The logistics of all this is incredible. Just the care for the horses alone must have been incredible to plan for. I'm sure in most cases they were treated better than the men.
I visit many memorials, cemetaries and battlefields of the great war. I lost count how manycemetaries, monuments and graves i've seen.. This footage in color is so great to see and helps me understand things even better. Thank you for this wonderful upload!
That was VERY GOOD.....Much footage that I had never seen..... especially the after effects to trenches after battle and scenes of the wounded awaiting treatment.....well done!
Adding hints of colour & slowing the frame rate down to normal speed changes so much how you view this film! It truly brings it home, these were just young men doing their duty. With hindsight we now know what a terrible waste it was, particularly the idea behind the PALS battalions.. Nicely done though, I enjoyed watching all of this.
Remarkable, haunting footage. Even watching it, I still cannot even begin to comprehend what these lads saw and endured. God bless all of them, German and Entente alike... 🙏
Ialways wonder if my grandad was in any of these films from the Somme, he went from 1914 to 1919 and survived without a scratch and fought at the Somme
Your best chance of finding out is if you know which unit he was in.. My grandfather was in the Kings Own South Wales Borderers Pioneers.. he was captured at Ploegsteert Woods on the night of 17/18 April 1918. (I still have the photo postcard his commanding officer sent back with the information that he was listed missing) There are surviving reports of the night action to recapture the woods which back up the story he told, though he thought he was on the Somme in reality it was just south of Messines.
Brilliant upload. Made me think that being a POW was probably the safest place to be. Wondered where they were taken too, being so many. This was 1916, so they had to spend 2 or so years somewhere
this is super great work! Thanks. My great grandfather was in those trenches too, on the german side. So, former enemy, but who cares about that now? What a colossal waste of human lives that was, and for what?
'hence the use of a very realistic digital voice' Oh, I had no idea. I wondered why 'you' pronounced Somme as Sommer at the beginning. Your video is a tour de force.
In 28:25 if you look at the bottom of the hill you will see two soldiers running and falling to the ground. According to some historians these soldiers are thought to have been shot, so this is the first footage of soldiers falling in battle ever captured on film. Of course the scene is cut because so many people possibly died and so you then see another footage of more soldiers rushing to the crater.
It was somewhere stated by eyewitness accounts that in the orginal footage many were moved down and in reality men were dropping like flies outside the footage in the same area. It was a turkey shoot for germans because after that huge mine bomb germans got their shit together really fast.
Such amazing footage and heart breaking at the same time just knowing they had no choice but to be there. My Great Great Grandfather joined his majesty's service in 1893 he was 14 years and 11 months old when he joined he became part of the 84th Field Battery. Documents show he then went on to be called up again in November 1915, when he went on to fight with the 84th battery, Royal Field Artillery in The Somme and I believe he was lost in this battle he was 36 years old but unfortunately I just can't get any further with my history search as it all becomes very difficult to work out as it appears his death was only registered in 1932 which was 16 years after the battle but as I know this isn't true because of the stories my Grandfather told me of his Grandfather so I am now stuck with seemingly nowhere to go from here and the online forums don't seem to be very helpful in my case but anyway I digress I seem to lose myself when talking about this particular subject so will say again fantastic viewing and incredibly sad it had me feeling some very strong but very sad emotions. A great video which all should see because we really don't know how lucky we are.
I think you'll find mostly they were volunteers and many lied about there age, lots were shamed into volunteering by being pinned with white feathers in the streets.
There is a version with some of this footage(6.30mins) etc and other parts that the British War Museum has had a lip reader go through the film and actors spoken these soilders words.,watch the silent version then the one with audio and you can then see Yes thats what was said .Its really interesting and emotional .
My grandfather was royal Warwickshire regiment he was the only survivor found him under his pals had a bayonet put in his back .he was lucky spent the rest of war as a prisoner of war.
Notice how many are happy go lucky laughing and smiling at the camera at the beginning as if they were embarking on a great adventure. That generation truly didn't have a clue what the meaning of war actually was. So many of those poor kids were just not prepared for what they were getting themselves into. Hence why an astronomical amount of people was killed throughout that whole war. WW2 was brutal but WW1 was just tragic in terms of the inexperience of so many of those soldiers.
Sadly, Since the beginning of time, if there is one thing that mankind has excelled in, it is killing his brothers. "Rich man's war , Poor man's fight ".
What a waste of men from both sides. Imagine all these men doing something productive instead, having children. The exponential effect it could have on building a strong europe.
My papa fought with the Gordon Highlanders. He joined when war broke out. He was only 15yrs old. I am so proud of him. What it took to survive 4yrs of hell. A English soldier went over too the German trenches before the battle. He told them how many artillery pieces the Allies would use and what kind of shells. He also told them how many Regiments were taken part. Also some officers made calls home that the Germans heard. Thanks too careless phone calls as well as the traitor the Germans even knew when the bombardment would start.
Where were the payphones? Fool. One of the only forms of contact with London the military used was carrier pidgeons and dispatch riders and runners, they did have morse code as well and field telephones of course, but international phones, don't make me laugh.
This is the equivalent of UFC back in 1916. These men didn't hate each other. They were just bored war was what you did. I'm sure they changed their might over the trench conditions though.
Excellent attention to detail in what surely must have been a painstaking colourization process. A bit of a shame that the narrator couldn't have given the same detailed attention to his French pronunciation...
And when it was all over, those that survived went back to their mansion houses and some went back to their slum dwellings. "A land fit for heroes" Nothing changed for many, dumped and forgotten. Until the next war.
Granted that the colorization has been painstaking, but everything keep switching between green and brown. It’s especially a pity for those soldiers whose face is colorized in green. At 29’54 you can read all the horror of this war in the eyes of the 2 soldiers on the left 😣
Recognizing that it's an artifactual distortion (I'm not really a "woo woo spooky" supernatural guy), nonetheless check out the guy third from right/left side of screen at 12:53. I screenshotted and zoomed in just to check it out. Curious indeed. I can't imagine that the guys would "prank" ie wear a mask during a solemn religious service. Odd indeed.
Then you didn't watch the video! The commentary is intermittent (only when needed) and has gaps. If you had watched for more than about 30 seconds you would have come across some of the comments.
Yes, the filming of this documentary has been thoroughly researched over the years and most of the units shown and even a few individuals have been identified.
29:06 Those men were later caught in a withering crossfire resulting in 7 officers killed and 14 wounded, 156 Other ranks killed and 298 wounded with 11 missing presumed dead. Resulting in 4 military Crosses and 8 Military medals in that one day.
@@jasonnicholasschwarz7788 Very true. I can never see that picture if those men about to die without thinking of how they epitomise the utter waste of life that was that war. I mention their medals only to recognise their bravery in the face of such horror, I cannot begin to comprehend what they endured.
One of the few actual cool things I've seen from AI tech, usually it's just big titty anime girls and 'tucker carlson talks about futa and the most breedable pokemon'. Awesome to see the heroes in a new light. 17:30 is absolutely crazy. No safety equipment, no hearing protection. Could only imagine.
I'm almost certain that I have a blood relative who lost their lives in both the first war and the second. José's DNA indicates that 59% of his ancestry comes from Africa. Africa 59% Europe 34% Western Europe 17% Germany, France and the Netherlands British Isles Iberia 12% Italy 4% Eastern Europe < 2% Americas 7% Jose's DNA indicates that 59% of his ancestry comes from Africa. Africa 59% Costa da Mina 40% West Africa 8% East Africa 6% Great Lakes Region (Eastern Bantu Peoples) Western Kenya Senegambia < 3% Send < 3% Mbuti < 2% Europe 34% Americas 7% generates..because I say this because I have ancestry from several countries....Brasil
Sad, as that was the MOST useless and TOTALLY unnecessary war EVER fought in history and set the stage for the Second World War! So many of those men going to the front in 1916 likely either died or were horribly wounded either during the Battle of the Somme or in the two years of contued war afterwards! I am listening to the free audiobook: "How I filmed the war" czcams.com/video/6IP2fAnxcAY/video.html by the man who filmed much of the footage shown here. Very great book and brave man who risked his own life to get footage for future generations to study. He gives even more details of many of these images. PS - the German prisoners were the lucky ones because they were out of the war that would go on for two more years!
Dose anybody have any information on the soldier carrying the wounded soldier at timestamp 30:53. I ask because, I've seen him in British documentaries/books about the first world war.
Another comment i want to make, is that i got the idea, that we huge masses of men, not knowing really what was going on, and what they were supposed to be doing. Thats what you had, when the powers that be were 50 miles behind the lines, not knowing what actually was going on. All those smiling faces for the camera, made me think that this was a Kitchener progaganda film
A middle class, reasonably educated man volunteers to become part of the British Army in order to fight the Germans, then risks his life on the battle field week after week in the most atrocious circumstances and he "wouldn't know really what was going on" ??? Amazing comment... Life was much simpler then and governments didn't have hidden agendas like nowadays.
@@ricksfilmrestoration5163 I’m not complaining, (just a word of note)…great vid though… I’m fortunate to be able to remember visiting me Great Grandad when I was younger. He was a British working class man’s soldier. I never did see my Great Nan.. (she stayed, and slept in the front room (down stairs front room,((living room in todays language)), with the curtain’s shut 24-7, from what I’ve been told she never did manage to get over the death of her brother. ?? I do understand how words are missed pronounced ! Look at how the British Tom pronounced Ypres ? Why..pers !
Well I am somewhat offended, in particular because you didn't read the description. There is a summary version with spoken commentary and music on my main channel. I don't have the best commentary voice, hence the use of a very realistic digital voice. CZcams's rules don't permit me to put this full version on a monetized channel, but I didn't want to waste the immense amount of work that was done on this video. So I don't like such comments and ask myself: why can't viewers just be contented with what is being presented? Do viewers like you contact David Attenborough to tell him they don't like his voice nor the music behind e.g. "Planet Earth"?!
I Watched without sound. Far more realistic. But then I don't want colourisation either. I come from the days of black and white film and that's fine for old fogies like me with a bit of imagination and background knowledge.
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@ricksfilmrestoration5163 teria como deixar as legendas em português acionadas. Sou do Brasil e não entendo nada de inglês e gostaria muito de entender o que foi faldo no documentário. Obrigado.
My grandfather fought at the Somme. I can’t help but scan the faces of these brave young men hoping to see a glimpse of him.
Thank you so much for your tireless work putting this remarkable footage together.
"You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye,
Who cheer when soldier lads march by.
Sneak home and pray you'll never know
The hell where youth and laughter go."
it´s unbelievable how much more value that old footage becomes in that stadium of ai!!!!!! Emotions and technics are so much more "touchable" with the ai enhancements and colors even it is not perfect but imagine what it will become if you look towards the speed of ai-development. WOW!!!!!!! ...the topographic of the areas are realizable for me for the first time i guess!!! THANKS for your work!!!!! It is unbelievable worthy!!!!!!!!
This restoration is amazing. Looking at their struggles, can't help but feel as sorry for the survivors as well as the dead.God Bless All these souls
"Where have all the young men gone , long time..........." . Well they are all underground together ! What a waste of life, All those smiling, unsmiling, suffering men , for what ?😢 Great clarity., great colour, such restoration is astounding given the material it was begun with ! 👏👏
The fact that everyone you see in these amazing videos are long gone wow
OK, but how about commenting on the actual contents of this video?
@@ricksfilmrestoration5163 The men in the video aren't "contents of this video"?
@@ricksfilmrestoration5163 What a weird selfish thing to say.
Thank you so much, all they have endured for all of us ...
My grandfather fought 4 years in these trenches, Somme included. He never got physically wounded, but he was mentally destroyed.After the war he opened a cafe-restaurant in our home town and became one of the most feared man around. Nobody would dare to start a fight.
this is an amazing film......amazing footage.....
.in all the years [over 65 of watching history of war, I am 70]
I have never seen such descriptive images of WWI....
thank you for doing this wonderful compilation.....
when in my teens, I was lucky enough to spend time talking to a
veteran of WWI...but did not really know what to ask....
my interest is in what the troops had to endure.....
.Paul from the USA
Remarkable and extraordinary! Never seen a Great War film quite like it! Congratulations to all involved!
@@dennishornikx2338 You are now blocked for complaining twice about the sound on my channel. Goodbye.
No words can do your work justice, Rick. Thank you....
Thank you for your time and effort on this footage, well done
Extraordinary accomplishment! My grandfather (U.S.) served in France in 1918. Thank you
for posting this. Remarkable.
How old are you man
The logistics of all this is incredible. Just the care for the horses alone must have been incredible to plan for. I'm sure in most cases they were treated better than the men.
Yes definitely
I visit many memorials, cemetaries and battlefields of the great war. I lost count how manycemetaries, monuments and graves i've seen.. This footage in color is so great to see and helps me understand things even better. Thank you for this wonderful upload!
That was VERY GOOD.....Much footage that I had never seen..... especially the after effects to trenches after battle and scenes of the wounded awaiting treatment.....well done!
Adding hints of colour & slowing the frame rate down to normal speed changes so much how you view this film! It truly brings it home, these were just young men doing their duty. With hindsight we now know what a terrible waste it was, particularly the idea behind the PALS battalions.. Nicely done though, I enjoyed watching all of this.
Thanks!
Brilliant. Incredible to contemplate. Thanks for your efforts in posting this.
Remarkable, haunting footage. Even watching it, I still cannot even begin to comprehend what these lads saw and endured. God bless all of them, German and Entente alike... 🙏
Ialways wonder if my grandad was in any of these films from the Somme, he went from 1914 to 1919 and survived without a scratch and fought at the Somme
Your best chance of finding out is if you know which unit he was in.. My grandfather was in the Kings Own South Wales Borderers Pioneers.. he was captured at Ploegsteert Woods on the night of 17/18 April 1918. (I still have the photo postcard his commanding officer sent back with the information that he was listed missing) There are surviving reports of the night action to recapture the woods which back up the story he told, though he thought he was on the Somme in reality it was just south of Messines.
Brilliant upload. Made me think that being a POW was probably the safest place to be. Wondered where they were taken too, being so many. This was 1916, so they had to spend 2 or so years somewhere
The Airburst shell were particularly brutal.
"The generation of broken faces" Came from this battle.
Wonderful addition to humanity. Thank you.
Great video here! Color is great, & better picture quality! ✨👏🏼😎✨
this is super great work! Thanks. My great grandfather was in those trenches too, on the german side. So, former enemy, but who cares about that now? What a colossal waste of human lives that was, and for what?
Hopefully the number of views of this video goes up in a big way, Rick. You deserve it.
'hence the use of a very realistic digital voice' Oh, I had no idea. I wondered why 'you' pronounced Somme as Sommer at the beginning. Your video is a tour de force.
20,000 dead... the first day. If only they knew what they were marching into 😥
Stunning.
Brilliant restoration. Thanks for your great effort.
In 28:25 if you look at the bottom of the hill you will see two soldiers running and falling to the ground. According to some historians these soldiers are thought to have been shot, so this is the first footage of soldiers falling in battle ever captured on film. Of course the scene is cut because so many people possibly died and so you then see another footage of more soldiers rushing to the crater.
It was somewhere stated by eyewitness accounts that in the orginal footage many were moved down and in reality men were dropping like flies outside the footage in the same area. It was a turkey shoot for germans because after that huge mine bomb germans got their shit together really fast.
Brilliant restoration id love to see a Peter Jackson doc with this footage
This is a very nice video thank you
Thank you for this stunning film
Stunning is right !
Stunning. What a sad loss this war was.
All wars, yet, here we are again. We never learn and I doubt we never will.
God bless all their souls.
Wow. This looks amazing. Thank you!
45:24
That wounded Tommy with his arm in a sling was not happy at all with that German prisoner brushing against him!
Even with all the suffering, you can clearly see how proud they are to be part of it. It’s so haunting, it sounds crazy but I was there.
Amazing footage
thank you so much for this footage it was fantastic.
Such amazing footage and heart breaking at the same time just knowing they had no choice but to be there. My Great Great Grandfather joined his majesty's service in 1893 he was 14 years and 11 months old when he joined he became part of the 84th Field Battery. Documents show he then went on to be called up again in November 1915, when he went on to fight with the 84th battery, Royal Field Artillery in The Somme and I believe he was lost in this battle he was 36 years old but unfortunately I just can't get any further with my history search as it all becomes very difficult to work out as it appears his death was only registered in 1932 which was 16 years after the battle but as I know this isn't true because of the stories my Grandfather told me of his Grandfather so I am now stuck with seemingly nowhere to go from here and the online forums don't seem to be very helpful in my case but anyway I digress I seem to lose myself when talking about this particular subject so will say again fantastic viewing and incredibly sad it had me feeling some very strong but very sad emotions. A great video which all should see because we really don't know how lucky we are.
I think you'll find mostly they were volunteers and many lied about there age, lots were shamed into volunteering by being pinned with white feathers in the streets.
Couldn't see grandpa anywhere, very moving footage, thanks. I think the colours are a little off, khaki appears blue
There is a version with some of this footage(6.30mins) etc and other parts that the British War Museum has had a lip reader go through the film and actors spoken these soilders words.,watch the silent version then the one with audio and you can then see Yes thats what was said .Its really interesting and emotional .
Rick, incredible work
Thank you! 🙏
Wow. This is incredible. You made my day. Thanks
Thank you very much! Dit you watch the 17 minute version on my Rick88888888 channel?
@@ricksfilmrestoration5163 yeah mate. Fantastic. Thanks
They knew the wire wasn't cut in all places and still went through with the attack. All those men died for nothing.
Astonishing
My grandfather was royal Warwickshire regiment he was the only survivor found him under his pals had a bayonet put in his back .he was lucky spent the rest of war as a prisoner of war.
Beeindruckende Bilder der Grausamkeit des Krieges
ALL those wasted young lives .....................For what , So the Donkey Generals.....
....Could give each other medals .
the whole lions led by donkeys thing came long after the war ended , the same ˝˝donkeys˝˝ were once soldiers themselves serving very different wars
It's indeed a little weird to see the soldiers waving and cheering on their way to the battlefield.
Notice how many are happy go lucky laughing and smiling at the camera at the beginning as if they were embarking on a great adventure. That generation truly didn't have a clue what the meaning of war actually was. So many of those poor kids were just not prepared for what they were getting themselves into. Hence why an astronomical amount of people was killed throughout that whole war. WW2 was brutal but WW1 was just tragic in terms of the inexperience of so many of those soldiers.
And the tactics and the strategies of generals who were more than too willing to sacrifice their troops in savage butchery again and again.
Fascinating and horrifying in equal measure. Thank you.
Sadly, Since the beginning of time, if there is one thing that mankind has excelled in, it is killing his brothers. "Rich man's war , Poor man's fight ".
Brilliant mate thank you 👍👍👍
What a waste of men from both sides. Imagine all these men doing something productive instead, having children. The exponential effect it could have on building a strong europe.
My papa fought with the Gordon Highlanders. He joined when war broke out. He was only 15yrs old. I am so proud of him. What it took to survive 4yrs of hell. A English soldier went over too the German trenches before the battle. He told them how many artillery pieces the Allies would use and what kind of shells. He also told them how many Regiments were taken part. Also some officers made calls home that the Germans heard. Thanks too careless phone calls as well as the traitor the Germans even knew when the bombardment would start.
Yeah ok. Sending snapchats too
Nowadays everybody would be sitt'n in the trenches with their cell phones taking selfies .
Where were the payphones? Fool. One of the only forms of contact with London the military used was carrier pidgeons and dispatch riders and runners, they did have morse code as well and field telephones of course, but international phones, don't make me laugh.
If you watch the documentary you see. English WANKER
Great video.
This is the equivalent of UFC back in 1916. These men didn't hate each other. They were just bored war was what you did. I'm sure they changed their might over the trench conditions though.
Excellent attention to detail in what surely must have been a painstaking colourization process. A bit of a shame that the narrator couldn't have given the same detailed attention to his French pronunciation...
And when it was all over, those that survived went back to their mansion houses and some went back to their slum dwellings. "A land fit for heroes" Nothing changed for many, dumped and forgotten. Until the next war.
27:22 are the white lines over the ridge the German trenches??
Granted that the colorization has been painstaking, but everything keep switching between green and brown. It’s especially a pity for those soldiers whose face is colorized in green.
At 29’54 you can read all the horror of this war in the eyes of the 2 soldiers on the left 😣
Such a tragedy. English and germans are not so different. Any other day we would be friends
My Great Uncle died on the 1st of July on the somme.
Recognizing that it's an artifactual distortion (I'm not really a "woo woo spooky" supernatural guy), nonetheless check out the guy third from right/left side of screen at 12:53. I screenshotted and zoomed in just to check it out. Curious indeed. I can't imagine that the guys would "prank" ie wear a mask during a solemn religious service. Odd indeed.
My grandfather was a gunner aboard a merchant ship during the war, he didn't have to experience he trenches.
I feel like I've just been watching a time machine screen,that let's you see in the past,,,,but I actually have when you think about it😎
Seems to me that becoming a POW is not so much unfortunate as rather one of the safer options..
Total insanity !
What has happened to the sound as all my volume is up and can't hear Nothing just seeing pictures
Then you didn't watch the video! The commentary is intermittent (only when needed) and has gaps. If you had watched for more than about 30 seconds you would have come across some of the comments.
De onde vinha tantas tecnologias, assim no meio do nada? Coisa estranhissima.😳
I wonder what the British would say and think when they saw us if we could automatically warp to that time and location
4:56 anyone know what those lines are?
Do we know where this footage was shot and what units were filmed?
Yes, the filming of this documentary has been thoroughly researched over the years and most of the units shown and even a few individuals have been identified.
29:06 Those men were later caught in a withering crossfire resulting in 7 officers killed and 14 wounded, 156 Other ranks killed and 298 wounded with 11 missing presumed dead.
Resulting in 4 military Crosses and 8 Military medals in that one day.
They'd rather have lived than being decorated posthumously...
@@jasonnicholasschwarz7788 Very true. I can never see that picture if those men about to die without thinking of how they epitomise the utter waste of life that was that war. I mention their medals only to recognise their bravery in the face of such horror, I cannot begin to comprehend what they endured.
One of the few actual cool things I've seen from AI tech, usually it's just big titty anime girls and 'tucker carlson talks about futa and the most breedable pokemon'.
Awesome to see the heroes in a new light. 17:30 is absolutely crazy. No safety equipment, no hearing protection. Could only imagine.
STUNNING!
WAR IS HELL
I know you don't want to draw comparisons to current date.
But its hard to find the differences >_
I'm almost certain that I have a blood relative who lost their lives in both the first war and the second. José's DNA indicates that 59% of his ancestry comes from Africa.
Africa
59%
Europe
34%
Western Europe
17%
Germany, France and the Netherlands
British Isles
Iberia
12%
Italy
4%
Eastern Europe
< 2%
Americas
7% Jose's DNA indicates that 59% of his ancestry comes from Africa.
Africa
59%
Costa da Mina
40%
West Africa
8%
East Africa
6%
Great Lakes Region (Eastern Bantu Peoples)
Western Kenya
Senegambia
< 3%
Send
< 3%
Mbuti
< 2%
Europe
34%
Americas
7% generates..because I say this because I have ancestry from several countries....Brasil
👍🏼
Sad, as that was the MOST useless and TOTALLY unnecessary war EVER fought in history and set the stage for the Second World War!
So many of those men going to the front in 1916 likely either died or were horribly wounded either during the Battle of the Somme or in the two years of contued war afterwards!
I am listening to the free audiobook: "How I filmed the war" czcams.com/video/6IP2fAnxcAY/video.html by the man who filmed much of the footage shown here. Very great book and brave man who risked his own life to get footage for future generations to study. He gives even more details of many of these images.
PS - the German prisoners were the lucky ones because they were out of the war that would go on for two more years!
What is "slightly wounded"? It is noticeable how many resentful glares are evident in the close shot scenes. Totally understandable.
Tolkien was there
56kbritish casualties...20k dead bloodiest Day of the Britisch army ever
😭😭😭😭😭
"Sommer"?
WOW! That must have been SOMME battle! Get it?
Dose anybody have any information on the soldier carrying the wounded soldier at timestamp 30:53.
I ask because, I've seen him in British documentaries/books about the first world war.
There was an attempt by a British documentary to I.D this man. I believe they never could
@@willspencer8694 Thank you, for the reply.👍
@@richardgray2453 I did try and locate the British documentary bit I couldn't find it. It was released on the 100 year anniversary of ww1
@@willspencer8694 Thank's for trying.👍😎
Surprised I didn't see one Biplane
Little did they know until they marched smilingly into deadly machine gun fire! Lions led by donkeys!
Another comment i want to make, is that i got the idea, that we huge masses of men, not knowing really what was going on, and what they were supposed to be doing. Thats what you had, when the powers that be were 50 miles behind the lines, not knowing what actually was going on. All those smiling faces for the camera, made me think that this was a Kitchener progaganda film
Kitchener was already dead nearly a month before this battle started... He perished on 5 June 1916 on his way to Russia.
A middle class, reasonably educated man volunteers to become part of the British Army in order to fight the Germans, then risks his life on the battle field week after week in the most atrocious circumstances and he "wouldn't know really what was going on" ???
Amazing comment... Life was much simpler then and governments didn't have hidden agendas like nowadays.
@@Rick88888888 really enjoy and appreciate your great work, but sorry i couldnt understand your point
@@davidwilliamgay4821 You were talking about a "Kitchener progaganda film", but Kitchener was already dead.
Fascinating it is propaganda of the time, l lost two uncles that day.
The poor fight the ears. They were the population reduction of the time.
The Somme is pronounced Somm
This is digital TTS voice. Complain to them not here!
@@ricksfilmrestoration5163 I’m not complaining, (just a word of note)…great vid though… I’m fortunate to be able to remember visiting me Great Grandad when I was younger. He was a British working class man’s soldier. I never did see my Great Nan.. (she stayed, and slept in the front room (down stairs front room,((living room in todays language)), with the curtain’s shut 24-7, from what I’ve been told she never did manage to get over the death of her brother. ??
I do understand how words are missed pronounced !
Look at how the British Tom pronounced Ypres ? Why..pers !
Nice Video. Could do with some Music and the Johnny Five Narrator is a turn off for me. Just an opinion... no offense meant.
Well I am somewhat offended, in particular because you didn't read the description. There is a summary version with spoken commentary and music on my main channel. I don't have the best commentary voice, hence the use of a very realistic digital voice.
CZcams's rules don't permit me to put this full version on a monetized channel, but I didn't want to waste the immense amount of work that was done on this video. So I don't like such comments and ask myself: why can't viewers just be contented with what is being presented? Do viewers like you contact David Attenborough to tell him they don't like his voice nor the music behind e.g. "Planet Earth"?!
@@ricksfilmrestoration5163 ignore him...very good video...thank u !..and thanks for not adding music..
Didn't realize the narrator voice is AI. sounds fine to me.
@@ricksfilmrestoration5163 No.... But I did save a whole lotta money by switching to Geico. You can too.
I Watched without sound. Far more realistic. But then I don't want colourisation either. I come from the days of black and white film and that's fine for old fogies like me with a bit of imagination and background knowledge.