Derailment of a WWII military train: brilliantly captured on film

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  • čas přidán 25. 04. 2024
  • This is a highlight of the film La Bataille du Rail, which was made in honour of French railway workers that apposed to the Nazi's during the second World War. La Bataille du rail is a 1946 French war film directed by René Clément. It depicts the efforts by railway workers in the French Resistance to sabotage German military transport trains during the Second World War, particularly during the Invasion of Normandy by Allied forces. Many of the cast were genuine railway workers.
    The film was shown at the 1946 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Prix international du jury and Clément won the Best Director Award. The film also won the inaugural Prix Méliès. A compilation of all railway shots of this movie: • How railway workers he...
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  • @kernicole
    @kernicole Před měsícem +1600

    For those who are interested, this was filmed in Brittany, near Trégrom on the Plouaret-Lannion line.

    • @kernicole
      @kernicole Před měsícem +108

      My mistake, it's rather on the Plouaret-Guingamp line, but I'm going to do a bit more research. It's not far from where I live, anyway.

    • @s1d2f3
      @s1d2f3 Před měsícem +57

      @@kernicole Have the wrecks been removed or are they still lying around today?

    • @kernicole
      @kernicole Před měsícem +101

      @@s1d2f3 As far as I know, they've been removed. I was told (30 years ago) that the scars were still visible, but that the site was not easily accessible. It's only about 20km away, so if the weather improves, I might try to do some exploring. If so, I'll be back here one day.

    • @s1d2f3
      @s1d2f3 Před měsícem +22

      @@kernicole That would be great

    • @kernicole
      @kernicole Před měsícem

      @@s1d2f3 Well, I'm back sooner than I expected. The weather staying quite reasonable, I decided to take the car and explore for myself. Fruitlessly, until I was lucky enough to meet up with the mayor of the village, who was kind enough to act as a guide. As is often the case, it's easy to find when you know! What you can't see in the film is that the embankment runs over a river (the Léguer). This is chanelled through three long tunnels at the base, one of which has a footpath running through it. Before this, there is now a picnic area - it's a beautiful spot - and the event is commemorated by two large photos, one showing the locomotive at the moment of derailment, the other showing the villagers all watching and waiting, with a team of gangers who are there to put the rails back afterwards. I could find no visible vestiges, for one simple reason. In the days of steam, all vegetation was kept well back from the tracks. But that ended fifty years ago, and since then Nature has flourished. It's even hard to see that there's a railway there.Still, it satisfied my curiosity. I hope you.find this helpful.

  • @muzeoli2868
    @muzeoli2868 Před měsícem +1938

    This is not an actual WW2 movie. This is a scene from the 1946 French film “The Battle of the Rail”. This scene was filmed in Brittany.

    • @BaoBao0923
      @BaoBao0923 Před měsícem +77

      Are you sure because that looks like a waste for a bunch of now rare German vehicles

    • @muzeoli2868
      @muzeoli2868 Před měsícem +23

      @@BaoBao0923 in first, read the video description.

    • @JEANAIMARE-kc1vd
      @JEANAIMARE-kc1vd Před měsícem +104

      @@BaoBao0923
      It was a real derailment, with true Nazi equipment. This French movie is "La bataille du rail", filmed just after the end of the war.

    • @jasonrodgers9063
      @jasonrodgers9063 Před měsícem +172

      @@BaoBao0923 At the time, they were anything but rare, and the French were NOT keen on preserving Nazi history in 1946!

    • @urban6613
      @urban6613 Před měsícem +20

      If you slow down the video you can see what looks like people on top of those APCs... ...so it could be the real thing
      Edit: could be just dummies, idk

  • @user-cg7wp8zn1d
    @user-cg7wp8zn1d Před 28 dny +688

    That feeling when a black and white movie from the last century is more spectacularly shot than modern movies with 3d graphics.

    • @justingreen2432
      @justingreen2432 Před 28 dny +24

      I was just thinking, only someone like Tarantino or Noland might have the balls to shoot an actual train crashing instead of doing it with CGI

    • @K-Effect
      @K-Effect Před 27 dny +28

      Real effects are the best, CGI can go kick fake rocks

    • @mpvcopyrightcommando5876
      @mpvcopyrightcommando5876 Před 27 dny +1

      By amateurs.

    • @stevedcase
      @stevedcase Před 27 dny +6

      That really was an amazing 80 year old scene 💯

    • @jasonrodgers9063
      @jasonrodgers9063 Před 27 dny +7

      REALITY beats the BEST CGI every time!

  • @ge2623
    @ge2623 Před měsícem +722

    Wow. The things people will do to keep people from playing accordion. And I understand it.

    • @TrainDriversPOV
      @TrainDriversPOV  Před měsícem +23

      Haha!

    • @Navigator87110
      @Navigator87110 Před měsícem +17

      What if it's Weird Al, though?

    • @bunion8579
      @bunion8579 Před měsícem +9

      That will have to go down as the funniest comment of the year. 🤣

    • @ge2623
      @ge2623 Před měsícem +1

      @@bunion8579 Thanks!

    • @ge2623
      @ge2623 Před měsícem

      @@Navigator87110 Eh...

  • @luke_skywanker7643
    @luke_skywanker7643 Před měsícem +2045

    The French Resistance was was larger than the population of France once the War was over.

    • @MultiDivebomber
      @MultiDivebomber Před měsícem +34

      ?

    • @dynamicloco2186
      @dynamicloco2186 Před měsícem +84

      lol so True

    • @marquina86
      @marquina86 Před měsícem +42

      A classic of all wars

    • @viewfromthehillswift6979
      @viewfromthehillswift6979 Před měsícem +255

      @@MultiDivebomber After the war was won, all the French (in a manner of speaking) were suddenly in the Resistance. Not.

    • @MultiDivebomber
      @MultiDivebomber Před měsícem +19

      But larger than the population of France? There was French resistance that wasn't part of the population?

  • @hugo511
    @hugo511 Před 26 dny +64

    No clickbait, straight to the point, CZcams was better back then.

    • @getsideways7257
      @getsideways7257 Před 26 dny +3

      They even pulled off 4K over telegraph lines...

    • @Fractal_blip
      @Fractal_blip Před 21 dnem +3

      Yeah my great grandfather loved watching pewdiepie in the chowhall before they went out on missions

    • @getsideways7257
      @getsideways7257 Před 15 dny +1

      @@Fractal_blip And maybe a few dancer videos on TikTok to wrap it up :)

    • @Fractal_blip
      @Fractal_blip Před 15 dny +1

      @@getsideways7257 well of course

  • @SodorTrain1225
    @SodorTrain1225 Před 29 dny +63

    The accordion falling makes it 10x funnier.

    • @mickthomas7221
      @mickthomas7221 Před 28 dny +9

      General von klinkerhoffen will be furious!

    • @OTTOMATT-me9cp
      @OTTOMATT-me9cp Před 28 dny +1

      It was a real derailment, with true Nazi equipment. This French movie is "La bataille du rail", filmed just after the end of the war. It took months, if not years, to scrap all this metal.

    • @johanbjork1650
      @johanbjork1650 Před 7 hodinami +1

      "No Accordion was hurt during the shooting of this film'.
      The Society for the Preservation of Really Annoying Instruments.

  • @ericsimmons7716
    @ericsimmons7716 Před měsícem +616

    Thomas and Friends: "Gordon Takes A Tumble"
    GORDON: I'm an express engine, I don't go SLOW!

    • @joejoejoejoejoejoe4391
      @joejoejoejoejoejoe4391 Před měsícem +4

      Ivor the engine would have stopped in time.

    • @engie809
      @engie809 Před měsícem +16

      Narrator: And he went even faster. The branch line couldn’t hold his weight and the rails buckled.

    • @ericsimmons7716
      @ericsimmons7716 Před měsícem +16

      GORDON: Oh, HELP! 0:04

    • @engie809
      @engie809 Před měsícem +13

      Narrator: Gordon cried as he slid off the tracks. And into a field *Proceeds to began plowing through field*

    • @lemmdus2119
      @lemmdus2119 Před měsícem

      Not sure Thomas had a weird German trail. He did have a Japanese one though.

  • @CoIdHeat
    @CoIdHeat Před měsícem +191

    The irony of this scene is that Museums and private collectors would pay nowadays so much more for all those scrapped vehicles than this movie ever could have hoped to make.
    But then again why would people care at this time, when these vehicles were still available in abundance.

    • @andrewmartin4258
      @andrewmartin4258 Před 29 dny +6

      The object of the film was not to make money.

    • @Pellagrah
      @Pellagrah Před 29 dny +30

      Even more ironic is that the accordion destroyed here was worth more than all of these German vehicles combined. It was indeed none other than the first accordion, invented by the artisan Friedrich Buschmann. My jaw dropped when I saw it rolling down the hill. Only the French are capable of such atrocities!

    • @mrnmrn1
      @mrnmrn1 Před 29 dny +3

      @@Pellagrah It doesn't look damaged though...

    • @attackmaster519
      @attackmaster519 Před 29 dny

      @@Pellagrah Well, to be fair, they *are* Fr*nch. I imagine being unlucky enough to be born with such a condition leaves one far more willing to continue down a path of atrocity, no?

    • @gentlemanzackp6591
      @gentlemanzackp6591 Před 29 dny +3

      @@mrnmrn1 dust it off, may need a new stitches and some wood polish. good to go

  • @JimDandy49
    @JimDandy49 Před měsícem +152

    The accordion at the end is a nice touch.

  • @carsonapplebaum2266
    @carsonapplebaum2266 Před měsícem +551

    Me finding out this was a movie and not real: my disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined

    • @foxrotneinnein1968
      @foxrotneinnein1968 Před 28 dny +20

      But it happens in real life.

    • @pseudoharm
      @pseudoharm Před 28 dny +14

      I kinda noticed. the movements are like when I watch thomas

    • @doglover31418
      @doglover31418 Před 28 dny +46

      You knew because there were multiple camera angles, which the real resistance couldn't have pulled off.

    • @ray7419
      @ray7419 Před 28 dny +5

      Review Brah for the win!! 🤣🤣

    • @carsonapplebaum2266
      @carsonapplebaum2266 Před 28 dny +18

      @@doglover31418 Yeah they had me till the accordion came rolling down the hill lol. To be fair I was baked as a potato at the time ;D

  • @user-tx1cm1fg9x
    @user-tx1cm1fg9x Před měsícem +121

    -Hans!
    -Ja?
    -Was ist das auf den Gleisen?
    -Ich denke, es ist nur ein Ziegelstein
    Einen Moment später:

    • @timmy6890
      @timmy6890 Před 27 dny +7

      “Scheisse…”

    • @jurgenhaflinger1188
      @jurgenhaflinger1188 Před 26 dny

      Und wieder fliegen 5 deutsche Soldaten um durch einen Schuss der Franzosen.

  • @inebriatedengineering6288
    @inebriatedengineering6288 Před 28 dny +49

    78 years later, it looks more real than most anything coming out lately.

    • @OTTOMATT-me9cp
      @OTTOMATT-me9cp Před 28 dny +2

      Because it was real. Even if It's not real combat footage, It was a real derailment, with true Nazi equipment. This is from the French movie "la bataille du rail", "Battle of the rail", filmed just after the war. A tribute to French railway workers who paid an heavy price for their action. Many shot, or deported. This French movie was filmed in 1945/1946. It took months, if not years, to scrap all this metal.

    • @scottupole6535
      @scottupole6535 Před 27 dny +8

      That because it was real, this was filmed in 1946.

    • @inebriatedengineering6288
      @inebriatedengineering6288 Před 27 dny +1

      @@scottupole6535 Yes, that's well after Germany's surrender. That statement alone does not infer that it's real. It just might have been done with real equipment.

    • @getsideways7257
      @getsideways7257 Před 26 dny

      @@inebriatedengineering6288 Well, you said that it "looks more real than most anything coming out lately", so it's a little bit late for backpedaling now. These days nobody is effed in the head enough to derail an actual long train full of military equipment like that just for a movie shooting. So, of course it looks "more real". Better chance to shoot another human landing on the Moon than recreate that.

    • @tiffanyganton550
      @tiffanyganton550 Před 26 dny

      ​@@getsideways7257 im sorry but you forget the unhinged level of power the right amount of money can get you. guaranteed you could do this today, with enough coin to shush anyone who complains.

  • @OYisit
    @OYisit Před 28 dny +13

    The fact it was done on full scale alone is mindblowing. 😮

    • @getsideways7257
      @getsideways7257 Před 26 dny +4

      Especially the fact they did it for a movie nobody heard of...

  • @bwoolno
    @bwoolno Před měsícem +180

    According to a bit of research this is from the film mentioned. There were quite a lot of German army vehicles still around , so the vehicles were real , the people were not

    • @joejoejoejoejoejoe4391
      @joejoejoejoejoejoe4391 Před měsícem +24

      Imagine if the camera jammed, you can't really have a second take.

    • @JEANAIMARE-kc1vd
      @JEANAIMARE-kc1vd Před měsícem +14

      It was a real derailment, with true Nazi equipment. This French movie is "La bataille du rail", filmed just after the end of the war. It took months, if not years, to scrap all this metal.

    • @Poopshit420
      @Poopshit420 Před měsícem

      That’s why you bring like several cameras for every angle so you never miss it

    • @blumenthol
      @blumenthol Před měsícem +11

      Imagine what those war machines would be worth today if they were intact. They sell for a lot.

    • @blumenthol
      @blumenthol Před měsícem +7

      My understanding is this was a movie shot in france with real german war equipment after the war. Imagine what all that would be worth now.

  • @davidgapp1457
    @davidgapp1457 Před měsícem +531

    For those who would like to decry the French resistance, be aware that by 1944 there were at least 400,000 active members of the French Resistance. Considering that, on occasions, the Germans would execute an entire village in revenge for sabotage and that capture was an automatic death sentence, the bravery of these people is without question. Especially around D-Day they were instrumental in sabotaging troop movements and disrupting communications, often in cooperation with allied special forces. I should add, I'm British. We aren't known for our fondness for the French, but it is infuriating to see people make light of their efforts and their sacrifice.

    • @marknelson2846
      @marknelson2846 Před měsícem +39

      Very true. The Danish and Norwegian resistance were also extremely brave and effective.

    • @Oligodendrocyte139
      @Oligodendrocyte139 Před měsícem +25

      The French rail workers' union requested that we stop attacking the railways as they thought their sabotage could do the job better.

    • @user-db6pt7vr3l
      @user-db6pt7vr3l Před měsícem

      The resistance was 90% Commies. They were the only ones who hated the Nazis enough to fight against them.

    • @user-ox7xr8nu4t
      @user-ox7xr8nu4t Před měsícem

      They were nothing other than sadists and vicious murderers.

    • @CoIdHeat
      @CoIdHeat Před měsícem

      While their motives were heroic they are technically war criminals, like every insurgent/partisan, as their actions tend to bestialize a conflict further. Partisans usually don’t take prisoners, wear no uniforms and their actions will result in retaliation towards the civilians out of desperation.
      You can see the results of such warfare in WW2 France and Russia, Vietnam and nowadays in Gaza.

  • @joeyjamison5772
    @joeyjamison5772 Před 29 dny +20

    A great way to stop someone from playing that damn accordion!

  • @farflungtraveler
    @farflungtraveler Před měsícem +123

    “Luckily, no one was hurt.”

    • @ArtfromBerwyn-cw5op
      @ArtfromBerwyn-cw5op Před 29 dny +4

      Only a few scratches.

    • @wakt21
      @wakt21 Před 28 dny +9

      But there was confusion and delay, and the Fat Controller was VERY cross.

    • @freesk8
      @freesk8 Před 26 dny +3

      @@wakt21 Those troublesome trucks!

  • @JEANAIMARE-kc1vd
    @JEANAIMARE-kc1vd Před měsícem +60

    A lot of ignorant clowns on this topic. It was a real derailment, with true Nazi equipment. This French movie is "La bataille du rail", filmed just after the end of the war. It took months, if not years, to scrap all this metal.

    • @guytech7310
      @guytech7310 Před 28 dny +13

      Lots of money in the steam engine & all of the rail cars in the train. Seems like a waste to me, maybe its because I am getting old & feel diminished when I see so much waste for a short video clip for a movie.

    • @fredkitmakerb9479
      @fredkitmakerb9479 Před 27 dny +15

      ​@@guytech7310 The war wore out tens of thousands of pieces of rolling stock. That engine and the freight cars were probably heading to the scrap yard anyway. I'm wondering if those are mannequins or French collaborators standing in the half-tracks and self-propelled guns.

    • @guytech7310
      @guytech7310 Před 27 dny +5

      @@fredkitmakerb9479 Sure buddy. Those old flat railcars I seen built in the 1940s that are still in service today, must be a figment of my imagination!
      At any rate, some had to spend a lot of time cleaning up that mess with all those rail cars scattered down that hill.

    • @Icetea-2000
      @Icetea-2000 Před 27 dny +3

      But just saying this is a WW2 train is still misleading which is why it is important to clear up that it was AFTER the war. Many people in the comments think this is actual war footage

    • @benjaminschneider4555
      @benjaminschneider4555 Před 26 dny +5

      To be honest, this can only be a staged scene, the Resistance didn't have camera teams out and about filming it from different angles

  • @mattdawg83686
    @mattdawg83686 Před 28 dny +6

    The clear giveaway is the fact it was captured from multiple angles.

  • @knutkleven5939
    @knutkleven5939 Před 28 dny +6

    Can’t say I’ve ever seen tanks ricocheting off other airborne tanks before.. this might be the most intense crash I’ve ever seen

    • @getsideways7257
      @getsideways7257 Před 26 dny +1

      I don't think you could ever possibly hope to have a glimpse of anything like this. Back in the day people were real crazy...

  • @user-zc9ec2oz6p
    @user-zc9ec2oz6p Před 27 dny +9

    Самое интересное что про французское Сопротивление в основном помнят во Франции, а советских партизанах знают и в самой Германии, но о польских подпольщиков даже в самой Польше не все помнят.

  • @truthseeker9454
    @truthseeker9454 Před 28 dny +5

    Director: "Cut. Great scene! That's a wrap."
    Camera operator: "Wait, I hadn't finished loading film in the camera...."
    😱

  • @KRAZEEIZATION
    @KRAZEEIZATION Před 26 dny +2

    That accordion playing its final notes is absolutely hilarious!

  • @bisbeejim
    @bisbeejim Před 27 dny +5

    Once I left my accordion in the back of my pickup, when I came back there was a note left under the windshield, "Since your heading to the dump anyway thanks for taking along this bagpipe."

  • @dr.thrashfinger4915
    @dr.thrashfinger4915 Před měsícem +7

    The expert cinematography and multiple angles along with the sound effects, especially for the accordion, leave no doubt in my my mind as to the authenticity of this clip! Hahaha!

    • @getsideways7257
      @getsideways7257 Před 26 dny

      Pretty much everyone with an ounce of brain matter in the comments section understands this is not a real WWII footage. Still, it's a real effing TRAIN we are talking about here. How about pulling that off these days?

  • @grahambarton1942
    @grahambarton1942 Před 25 dny +2

    That’s remarkably destructive and the rolling accordion giving its last wheeze is a final touch of brilliance!

  • @pizzasubs
    @pizzasubs Před měsícem +99

    That part about the accordion falling down the hill at the very end with interesting to say the least

    • @kristenburnout1
      @kristenburnout1 Před měsícem +13

      "Ah, the brutality of death... Such a tragedy in peacetime, but a normal day at work during wartime - "
      🪗🪗🪗🪗🪗🪗
      🎵🎶🎼🎶🎼🤪

    • @JohnDavies-cn3ro
      @JohnDavies-cn3ro Před měsícem +5

      You see a German soldier playing it to his mates aboard the train earlier in the run. The film is worth watching for the locomotives alone

    • @user-ox7xr8nu4t
      @user-ox7xr8nu4t Před měsícem

      Communist "humor".

    • @MrMcFish219
      @MrMcFish219 Před měsícem +3

      @@user-ox7xr8nu4t What does this have anything to do with communism?

    • @user-ox7xr8nu4t
      @user-ox7xr8nu4t Před měsícem

      @@MrMcFish219 Are you dumb? The so-called "resistance" was comprised mostly of Communists and other criminals, in all countries where they became active.

  • @thomasdragosr.841
    @thomasdragosr.841 Před měsícem +15

    If you want to watch a really good movie about WWII French Resistance watch The Train. Burt Lancaster and a very good cast.

    • @jamesfenoff
      @jamesfenoff Před 28 dny +2

      "The Train," directed by John Frankinheimer, is one of my favorite films!

    • @getsideways7257
      @getsideways7257 Před 26 dny +1

      @@jamesfenoff John Frankinheimer and Burt Lancaster sound like a legit part of the WWII French Resistance :)

    • @antoinepenciolelli2845
      @antoinepenciolelli2845 Před 26 dny +1

      En plus les différents crash effectués étaient fait avec du vrai matériel qui, de toutes façons, était destiné à la destruction.

  • @wilfridvoynich3052
    @wilfridvoynich3052 Před měsícem +17

    My first marriage.

  • @andiwangen9696
    @andiwangen9696 Před 27 dny +3

    ...perfekt, so muss man es mit ALLEN Militärtransporten machen, auch heute!👍👍👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️🍀🍀🍀

  • @duncancurtis5108
    @duncancurtis5108 Před měsícem +23

    Labiche you successfully stopped my train full of artworks.

    • @sturmovik1274
      @sturmovik1274 Před měsícem +3

      That was my first thought, too.

    • @az8theist977
      @az8theist977 Před 28 dny +1

      THE BEST WWII movie ever: "The Train"
      Actual trains used in the film. Not toys like this one.......

    • @sturmovik1274
      @sturmovik1274 Před 28 dny

      For some reason I always think of that French engineer "accidentally" steaming those two or three Germans as he passes them in the yard.@@az8theist977

    • @duncancurtis5108
      @duncancurtis5108 Před 28 dny +1

      John Frankenheimer 1964. No CGI, real old trains and great turns from Scofield and Lancaster as rivals of wartime desperation. RIP to Bernard Smith Theoden Hill, 79.

    • @Dorpmuller
      @Dorpmuller Před 26 dny +1

      WHAT ABOUT MY TRAIN!? -Paul Scofield. Excellent Nazi depiction.

  • @Stilicho19801
    @Stilicho19801 Před měsícem +7

    I watched this film on British TV about 1960. It was broadcast on the occasion of a visit by President de Gaulle. I especially remember this clip.

  • @grinningpinhead3961
    @grinningpinhead3961 Před měsícem +36

    Am i understanding this correctly? It's 1946 and the war has left the french economy in shreds along with much of it's infrastructure. And they chose this time to wreck a load of useful rolling stock just to make a movie scene.

    • @sturmovik1274
      @sturmovik1274 Před měsícem +16

      It may not have been useful.
      If I'm a French railway executive in that era, and I'm approached with an offer like this, you bet I'm going to unload the very worst stock I have. The cars that are so old and deteriorated that we can't use them for normal service even though we do badly need every car. And you bet I'm asking a higher price for them then I could get from the scrapper.

    • @pusheenthecat9264
      @pusheenthecat9264 Před 28 dny +1

      The film crew obviously bought the rolling stock from the company who needed the money 🙄

    • @Indylimburg
      @Indylimburg Před 28 dny +2

      My thoughts exactly. Amazing what could be done back in the day.

    • @beeble2003
      @beeble2003 Před 27 dny +3

      Maybe -- just maybe -- they didn't need as many tank-transporter flat cars in 1946 as they had in 1945?

    • @sturmovik1274
      @sturmovik1274 Před 27 dny

      Do tanks need their own special flatcars?@@beeble2003

  • @electrician248
    @electrician248 Před 2 dny

    That accordion at the end was the icing on the cake for such a mind blowing event.

  • @rickyparrish8310
    @rickyparrish8310 Před měsícem +8

    Man look at all that military hardware that was lost 😮

    • @beeble2003
      @beeble2003 Před 27 dny +2

      There was a little change in the world's political situation that meant much less military hardware was needed in 1946, when this was filmed, than in 1945.

    • @kurumbaatoll9190
      @kurumbaatoll9190 Před 27 dny +1

      They could have sold it off to some Middle Eastern countries in a few years if they’d hung in to it

  • @stefanfischer7351
    @stefanfischer7351 Před 29 dny +17

    WHAT??? No Hollywood explosion, no nuclear attack and the earth core still intact? Must be a real movie....

    • @OTTOMATT-me9cp
      @OTTOMATT-me9cp Před 28 dny

      It was a real derailment, with true Nazi equipment. This French movie is "La bataille du rail", filmed just after the end of the war. It took months, if not years, to scrap all this metal.

    • @srinivarma1320
      @srinivarma1320 Před 28 dny +1

      A movie is a fucking movie

  • @PrashanthSadashivan
    @PrashanthSadashivan Před měsícem +13

    Beautifully filmed - the self-playing accordion at the end provides a fitting (and humorous) finale!😂

    • @onemoremisfit
      @onemoremisfit Před 26 dny +1

      That thing played some jazzy sounding chops. I was digging it before it stopped so abruptly.

  • @peterballauthor
    @peterballauthor Před 26 dny

    Nice touch with the accordion at the end. A real cinematic masterpiece!

  • @rhwing5095
    @rhwing5095 Před 24 dny +1

    Old school stunts are amazing because they are real. Nowadays there is no excitement from stunts, because they are mostly fake, and can be made as grandiose as can be imagined. Even the realization that a stunt _could_ be fake puts an asterisk beside everything. When I watch an old film and see something like this, I can only appreciate the amount of hassle (and danger!) that went into doing it. The sacrifice required is precisely what gives these films (and most anything in life) value. Anything which is easy or requires little effort or risk to produce is by definition not valuable.

  • @buddyboy4x44
    @buddyboy4x44 Před 26 dny +5

    After WW2, Le Monde had a classified ad. "3 million surplus French army rifles for sale. Never fired. Dropped only once."

  • @JamesHarris-fn5fu
    @JamesHarris-fn5fu Před měsícem +18

    "You have been a very silly engine" said The Fat Controller

  • @mpol12
    @mpol12 Před 28 dny +2

    French post-war movies with german armor captured or abandonned. In 1946, country side was covered with wrecks and vehicule.
    About the accordéon, if I remember, in the scene before this one, you see a german soldier playing with it on the train.

  • @RickaGram
    @RickaGram Před 13 dny +1

    Tank crash inside the locomotive and then this happens:
    "Can you pass me the radio? Thanks! Hi, this is tank...uhm, what number are we?"
    "Five five!"
    "Tank fifty-five! Uh, we're in a train!"

  • @Stefan_Boerjesson
    @Stefan_Boerjesson Před měsícem +63

    My father in law was taken prisoner of war and forced to work for Germany repairing/servicing military vehicles. When putting the oil plugg back turning it only a few turns was one possibility...... Coolant tubes... the same....

    • @billb89
      @billb89 Před měsícem +42

      I think he works at my local Mercedes dealership. 😂

    • @willy_wombat
      @willy_wombat Před měsícem +5

      🤣🤣🤣​@@billb89

    • @michaelmartin9022
      @michaelmartin9022 Před 29 dny

      So bizarre the Germans used slaves to make / maintain equipment. What did they think would happen?

  • @kaferere
    @kaferere Před měsícem +10

    Wow, the French resistance set up multiple camera angles and edited all the shots together AND kept out of the way of the train ? Professional stuff.

    • @josephsupinsky5207
      @josephsupinsky5207 Před měsícem +3

      You do realize this was a scene from a movie right? Maybe that's why it looks professional.

    • @kaferere
      @kaferere Před měsícem +2

      @@josephsupinsky5207 You may have missed the sarcasm.

    • @user-gy5zy6bh3u
      @user-gy5zy6bh3u Před 29 dny +2

      A lot of ignorant clowns on this topic. It was a real derailment, with true Nazi equipment. This French movie is "La bataille du rail", filmed just after the end of the war. It took months to scrap all this metal.

    • @getsideways7257
      @getsideways7257 Před 26 dny

      @@kaferere A not very well-placed sarcasm... Nobody said this was shot by the French resistance

    • @kaferere
      @kaferere Před 26 dny

      @@getsideways7257 Oh please explain everything to me wise one, where did I go wrong ? Did I displease you ?
      Fuck off. (Pardon my French)

  • @nogginbonker76
    @nogginbonker76 Před 28 dny +1

    LOL the Accordion at the end was a nice touch.

  • @13bgunbunny46
    @13bgunbunny46 Před 22 dny

    The Accordion at the end was perfect.

  • @laurent3753
    @laurent3753 Před 29 dny +4

    Les images de ce déraillement servent souvent à illustrer les documentaires sur la 2è guerre mondiale mais il ne s'agit aucunement d'un fait réel mais d'une scène du film de René Clément la bataille du rail sortit en 1946 et qui rend hommage à la résistance des cheminots français face à l'occupant nazi.

  • @LeglessTurtle
    @LeglessTurtle Před 29 dny +4

    I love the thought that the filmmakers had someone “recite” the sounds of an accordion rolling down a hill for that audio. Adds a really creative bit of comedy. The mic drop of the time

  • @robertfindley921
    @robertfindley921 Před 28 dny +2

    Looks like a scene from a movie. It's hard to imagine it's real.

    • @beeble2003
      @beeble2003 Před 27 dny

      Correct -- see all the other comments.

    • @getsideways7257
      @getsideways7257 Před 26 dny

      @@beeble2003 Even if it's a movie, the train is real

  • @AnirudhSrivatsa
    @AnirudhSrivatsa Před 9 dny +2

    Incredible that this was shot with real trains and tanks. Have so many questions I'd love to learn answers to!
    1) How was the train running without a driver inside? How does one start a train and let it run without a driver?
    2) How exactly does one trigger a derailment at an exact spot, and towards one specific side? Would've ruined the shot if the train fell off the other side of the hill... or did they have two camera crews on either side?
    3) Why didn't anything catch fire?
    4) Did the producers have to pay for cleaning up the mess?

    • @OTTOMATT-me9cp
      @OTTOMATT-me9cp Před 4 dny

      This is from the French movie "La bataille du rail", "The battle of the rail". Filmed immediately after the war as a tribute to French railway workers, who paid a huge toll for their actions. Many were shot or deported. Thanks to them, many Nazi reinforcement convoys had been delayed or prevented, notably during the Battle of Normandy. This derailment is real, with real Nazi equipment. It had taken years to clean the site.

    • @TrainDriversPOV
      @TrainDriversPOV  Před 3 dny

      My guess is that the train was being pushed.

  • @ImNotCreativeEnoughToMakeUser
    @ImNotCreativeEnoughToMakeUser Před měsícem +3

    The accordion caught me off guard

  • @bendenisereedy7865
    @bendenisereedy7865 Před měsícem +17

    It's only missing Americans gasping "Oh my Gaaad!"

    • @1972Ray
      @1972Ray Před měsícem +1

      Why go there? I think thou dost protest too much.

    • @jeetenzhurlollz8387
      @jeetenzhurlollz8387 Před 29 dny

      very true, there always this fat american woman screaming...o my gaaad....

    • @florjanbrudar692
      @florjanbrudar692 Před 29 dny

      Americans? This was filmed in Brittany, a French region.

    • @Edwarnator
      @Edwarnator Před 29 dny

      HORRRYYY SHIEEETT

  • @marcusdolby1
    @marcusdolby1 Před 27 dny +1

    No rabbits, squirrels, snakes or mice were harmed in the making of this scene.

  • @patrickheath5011
    @patrickheath5011 Před 26 dny +1

    Albert Speer, head of German armaments production, was asked about the effect of the French Resistance. His reply: "What French resistance?"

  • @HHSTT
    @HHSTT Před 29 dny +4

    Who cleaned up this whole mess???

    • @OTTOMATT-me9cp
      @OTTOMATT-me9cp Před 28 dny

      Local scrap dealers. It took years to clean this place. It was a real derailment, with true Nazi equipment. This French movie is "La bataille du rail", filmed just after the end of the war.

  • @greycatturtle7132
    @greycatturtle7132 Před měsícem +5

    One of the best real life train crash footage ever made

    • @getsideways7257
      @getsideways7257 Před 26 dny

      You saw some other ones anywhere close enough in scale?

  • @AhJodie
    @AhJodie Před 29 dny

    Brilliant filming, for some reason made me burst out laughing, must have been fun to set this up and film it. Love the accordion at the end. I thought it looked like there were people on those tanks 😮... Thank you for sharing this clip!

  • @GrigVan
    @GrigVan Před 27 dny

    Удивительные кадры!
    Спасибо товарищам рестовратарам!

  • @user-bp7bl2pk8j
    @user-bp7bl2pk8j Před měsícem +5

    Финал шикарный)))

  • @fenixfp40
    @fenixfp40 Před měsícem +7

    I know this isn’t meant to be funny, but the accordion did make me giggle.

  • @COBRandYouTube
    @COBRandYouTube Před 28 dny +2

    The accordion made me laugh so hard, good to see my humour would work in any year in history.

  • @velkoz6396
    @velkoz6396 Před 28 dny

    I love the fact that the music of the accordion being played by falling which matches perfectly with the scene of the train derailment.

  • @theoldar
    @theoldar Před měsícem +22

    Whatever you think about the resistance, many brave people gave their lives as members. Don't denigrate the sacrifice of the brave (relatively) few just because the many chose not to take the risk.

    • @guytech7310
      @guytech7310 Před 28 dny

      Those with families (kids or perhaps old parents) not so easy to put themselves at risk. But fast forward 20 years, all of Europe adopted socialism. France is subject to Germany via the European Union, as well as the United states since Europe is pretty much a providence of the US.

    • @1SciFiGeek508
      @1SciFiGeek508 Před 28 dny +3

      And don't denigrate the accomplishments of those who actually fought in the resistance by just blindly passing out accolades to everyone without question.

    • @xEvan117x
      @xEvan117x Před 27 dny +1

      @@1SciFiGeek508this. Sad how many French “claimed” they were in the resistance. Even BEFORE they fell after six weeks brave souls

  • @colinb8103
    @colinb8103 Před měsícem +13

    There's nowhere that high in the Netherlands

    • @markshrimpton3138
      @markshrimpton3138 Před měsícem +4

      It’s in France not The Netherlands.

    • @getsideways7257
      @getsideways7257 Před 26 dny +1

      Thought it was common (and legal) to get high in the Netherlands...

  • @riccardoolago
    @riccardoolago Před 24 dny

    Was I the only one that at the end I was waiting for: A police car ending up inside one of the derailed train cars and then the following exchange of conversations?
    "Hey, can you pass me the mic? Thanks. Hi, this is car...uhm, what number are we?" "Five five!" "Car fifty five: huh! We're in a train!"

  • @burtonaka...
    @burtonaka... Před 18 dny

    Thank you.
    This seems to be comedy...
    The scaling, camera angles and planning are great...then at 0:33...
    That is some first-rate humour there...

  • @Curly472001
    @Curly472001 Před měsícem +21

    This is a sequence from a French film La Bataille du Rail made just after the war. A wonderful tribute to the brave staff of the SNCF. If you ve not seen it , watch it. It’s terrific and the trains are real.

    • @autocad3227
      @autocad3227 Před měsícem +1

      Thank you I want to look up that film now and see if it's on CZcams

    • @mattgibbs73
      @mattgibbs73 Před měsícem

      I believe years ago I saw a subtitled version with English captions but not been able to find it again.

    • @Curly472001
      @Curly472001 Před měsícem

      I have a copy but I think it came from Taiwan! It is a remarkable film with some incredible sequences. Well worth watching.

  • @muhammadizzdanish2562
    @muhammadizzdanish2562 Před měsícem +7

    "Oooohhhh Heeeeelpppp"- cried Gordon as he slides off the tracks into the field

  • @LonelierWolf
    @LonelierWolf Před 26 dny +1

    Seeing the different German armoured vehicles just bouncing around is comically hilarious for me for some reason

  • @jamesanderson7243
    @jamesanderson7243 Před 26 dny

    Loved that bit with the accordion

  • @DragonsAndDragons777
    @DragonsAndDragons777 Před měsícem +4

    That was painful to watch

  • @rancors1
    @rancors1 Před měsícem +45

    The germans had a bad habit of shipping crews with vehicles. You can see soldiers flying out of the half tracks.

    • @bjorndebakker
      @bjorndebakker Před měsícem +2

      and what is the fun?

    • @dustbowlhammer7119
      @dustbowlhammer7119 Před měsícem +1

      I saw all kinds of guys in there, I was shocked. Played at slowest speed.

    • @ProfessorPesca
      @ProfessorPesca Před měsícem +17

      @@dustbowlhammer7119including real people in your movie stunt train crash seems a little insensitive, even for 1946.

    • @neilturner6749
      @neilturner6749 Před měsícem +10

      You’re overlooking that this is “fake”post -war footage from a movie containing no people whatsoever, maybe some dummies were added for the full effect! I

    • @fiarandompenaltygeneratorm5044
      @fiarandompenaltygeneratorm5044 Před 29 dny +1

      @@dustbowlhammer7119 It's not real. It's from a Rene Clement movie.

  • @pex_the_unalivedrunk6785

    Monty Python and the Holy Grail:
    "It's only a model."
    also, lmao at the accordian at the end, omg 😂🤣😭💀

  • @GELO196419
    @GELO196419 Před 27 dny

    Какая красотища! Просто приятно было глянуть 👌

  • @gabrielarchange4680
    @gabrielarchange4680 Před měsícem +13

    Holy shit this would have been BRUTAL

    • @getsideways7257
      @getsideways7257 Před 26 dny

      Well, it was brutal alright. Or do you mean with real people on board?

  • @dosrios9517
    @dosrios9517 Před měsícem +7

    This is not actual WW2 footage. Unlike today when we stand around filming disasters, the resistance tended to scarper out of there

  • @fatherguidosarduchi5204
    @fatherguidosarduchi5204 Před měsícem +1

    Love the accordion at the end. Excellent footage

  • @863rafael
    @863rafael Před 25 dny +1

    That accordion gave it away!😆

  • @montigobear
    @montigobear Před měsícem +4

    Miniatures?

    • @antoinepenciolelli2845
      @antoinepenciolelli2845 Před měsícem +3

      Non, extrait du film ”La bataille du rail” de René Clément. La locomotive qui a fait le grand saut est une 280 ”Pershing” livrée à la fin le prenière guerre mondiale. Pour les wagons et le matériel militaire dessus, ce n’était que du matériel réformé pour les wagons ou hors service pour le matériel militaire.

    • @CENTAURE1312
      @CENTAURE1312 Před měsícem +1

      @@antoinepenciolelli2845 Le prix et le temps que cela a dû prendre pour tout nettoyer ensuite. D'ailleurs, ont-ils nettoyé? Certaines scènes de film de crash voitures des années 50-60-70, on retrouve encore les carcasses.

    • @antoinepenciolelli2845
      @antoinepenciolelli2845 Před měsícem

      ​@@CENTAURE1312Sauf que l'on manquait de tout. Tout cela a été découpé et ferraillé pour finir en 4CV, en poële ou en poteau électrique...

    • @JEANAIMARE-kc1vd
      @JEANAIMARE-kc1vd Před měsícem +1

      It was a real derailment, with true Nazi equipment. This French movie is "La bataille du rail", filmed just after the end of the war.

    • @oatdilemma6395
      @oatdilemma6395 Před 29 dny

      You're a dunce

  • @ProjectStrum
    @ProjectStrum Před měsícem +23

    "So this is not real ?" said every mouth breather that can't read the description , there is a alarming amount of you in the comments dear god .

    • @stevetheduck1425
      @stevetheduck1425 Před měsícem +5

      Wait until they realise that it's both 'real' and 'not real'. In that yes, a train really derailed, and yes, it was for a movie. No CGI back then.

    • @c.thurston8116
      @c.thurston8116 Před měsícem +1

      I got some ocean front property in Switzerland to sell ya. So gulible

    • @bunion8579
      @bunion8579 Před měsícem +2

      It's mind boggling isn't it? ''Oooh, look at the pictures!'' I was going to comment on the first one I came across but then scrolled through and saw how many more there were so didn't bother.

    • @jul1440
      @jul1440 Před 29 dny

      The derailment is an actual train derailment, but was staged.

    • @neilrobertson811
      @neilrobertson811 Před 29 dny +2

      @@stevetheduck1425 Oh don't worry. The "Its CGI!" muppets will simply claim it was made last week.

  • @stevem491
    @stevem491 Před 27 dny

    The accordian at the end was a nice touch.

  • @pzkpfw6864
    @pzkpfw6864 Před 28 dny +2

    This is from a film from 1946. If you think Bummers blew up tracks and set up a camera immediately to the right of the derailment, I can't help you.

  • @angelsone-five7912
    @angelsone-five7912 Před měsícem +6

    Filmed from so many different angles this must have been deliberate, or am I missing something?

    • @muzeoli2868
      @muzeoli2868 Před měsícem +3

      This is not an actual WW2 movie. This is a scene from the 1946 French film “The Battle of the Rail”. This scene was filmed in Brittany.

    • @Pakal77
      @Pakal77 Před měsícem

      @@muzeoli2868 And what about the "characters" trying to escape from their vehicules falling down ? Huh ?

    • @muzeoli2868
      @muzeoli2868 Před měsícem +1

      ​@@Pakal77 You don't know anything about this movie and this scene from the movie

    • @mattgibbs73
      @mattgibbs73 Před měsícem

      Yep a great movie 1946 Bataille du Rail.

    • @pilotbug6100
      @pilotbug6100 Před měsícem +1

      ​@@Pakal77they aren't real, probably some kind of ragdoll

  • @SocialistDistancing
    @SocialistDistancing Před měsícem +3

    What was that tune playing on the accordion?

  • @TangoSierra888
    @TangoSierra888 Před 26 dny

    The accordion at the end was the perfect touch lol

  • @Thatrandomguyonyoutube547

    The accordion at the end got me, lol.

  • @davidlang4442
    @davidlang4442 Před měsícem +3

    This was a movie clip. Not real.

    • @JEANAIMARE-kc1vd
      @JEANAIMARE-kc1vd Před měsícem +3

      It was a real derailment, with true Nazi equipment. This French movie is "La bataille du rail", filmed just after the end of the war.

    • @davidlang4442
      @davidlang4442 Před měsícem

      @@JEANAIMARE-kc1vd If that's what you want to believe. ..

    • @JEANAIMARE-kc1vd
      @JEANAIMARE-kc1vd Před měsícem +1

      @@davidlang4442
      Try to inform you a little bit better. It took months to scrap all this metal.

    • @getsideways7257
      @getsideways7257 Před 26 dny

      @@davidlang4442 Peel your eyes and look again - there is simply no way to make something like that even with the modern CGI and neural networks, and back then people had to calculate stuff using slide rules, so you couldn't even dream of CGI those days.

    • @davidlang4442
      @davidlang4442 Před 26 dny

      @@getsideways7257 Once again. Believe what you want. But for me, it's a model set. Not real. Fake. A good one but a set made for a movie. Why do you care what I think it is?

  • @jamesirvine9493
    @jamesirvine9493 Před 29 dny +6

    you will usually find that the french didnt oppose anything and only started to fight the germans when the allies were certain to win

    • @EB_BBLT
      @EB_BBLT Před 28 dny

      Idiot

    • @user-gy5zy6bh3u
      @user-gy5zy6bh3u Před 28 dny

      I really appreciate ignorant morons, mostly anglo US twats with their dirty mouths full of vomit, who always remember the 1940 failure, who was an accident, forgetting centuries of victories and domination. Through more than 1500 years, France is the country with the highest rate of military victories, often alone against entire coalitions, and when north America was still a desert populated by Indian nations. All true historians know it. The greatest battle ever was a French victory : the carnage of VERDUN, 1916. The only wars that US public have ever experienced near them are watching Hollywood Spielberg stuff in movie theaters, or mass shootings, their national sport.

    • @user-gy5zy6bh3u
      @user-gy5zy6bh3u Před 28 dny +1

      The French 1940 failure was an accident for many reasons, such as the devastating French losses of World War I, which are still visible 22 years later, as this previous war was mostly fought on French soil. 1.4 million killed and 4.5 million injured. For a population of 40 million. Entire generations. And the population of Germany in 1914 and 1940 was 70 million, almost twice the French. The sea saved the English, otherwise they would have been crushed like all Europe. Russians were crushed during 2 years, with a population of 188 million and a territory 10 times larger than France in the European part of the USSR. During World War II they had lost over 5 million prisoners. And US 1940 army would have been pulverized by the Nazi blitzkrieg. Even in 1944, their troops were saved more than once by their air forces. Pathetic.

    • @jamesirvine9493
      @jamesirvine9493 Před 28 dny

      @@user-gy5zy6bh3u the russians were actually judt as good as the germans it was the allies who were very weak and depended on artillery and airial bombing just as they still do, they are more pathetic, i think russia would beat nato

  • @RockyMountains0721
    @RockyMountains0721 Před 28 dny

    Wow, that is so violent! I would imagine that a train derailment is one of the most terrifying vehicle accidents that you could imagine!

  • @metern
    @metern Před 27 dny

    That accordion at end made me laugh 😂. The guy trying to make it sound like an accordion tumbling made a weird and short music 😁.

  • @cruzanmongoose
    @cruzanmongoose Před měsícem +6

    That is what Bidenomics looks like.

    • @getsideways7257
      @getsideways7257 Před 26 dny

      And some marriages... according to the people in the comments

    • @quasimodo8215
      @quasimodo8215 Před 24 dny

      And also how brain (any rest of it there) washed comment look like...

  • @TheDustysix
    @TheDustysix Před měsícem +14

    God, Just Like Joe Biden's Economy!

    • @ryphraph604
      @ryphraph604 Před měsícem

      The Orange Piece of Fecal Matter campaign.

    • @gavinwhitelaw86
      @gavinwhitelaw86 Před měsícem

      Don't be a complete dick. Trump was a complete Moron and the USA economic situation at the moment is largely due to Trump, as it was Obama's legacy that Trump rode on to claim he was doing the "very bestest ever" It always lags, as does the brain power of Trumps befuddled and idiotic supporters.

    • @johncamp2567
      @johncamp2567 Před měsícem +7

      Or, Donald Trump’s integrity.🤨

    • @TheDustysix
      @TheDustysix Před měsícem

      @@johncamp2567 Yo You Fool, Neither You nor Your Channel, Have ANY Content.

    • @shanemac5199
      @shanemac5199 Před měsícem

      @@johncamp2567 Biden's is worse. Get over your TDS. Trumps not perfect, but he did a lot better job than goofball Brandon.

  • @Xuebatt
    @Xuebatt Před 26 dny

    the fact that they had such nice sound graphics back then

  • @coconutmall333
    @coconutmall333 Před 27 dny

    I just LOVE in the end, when an instrument of (Accordion) falls down after the Nazi Train loaded with armored tanks came crashing down the hillside, maybe it’s from on of the Train Vans, It’s No CGi, this is peak for WW2 films.

  • @daltonhayhurst8501
    @daltonhayhurst8501 Před 27 dny

    brilliantly CREATED on film

  • @joecat916
    @joecat916 Před měsícem +1

    Imagine being on the crew that had to clean that mess of scrap up. 🦖

  • @paulleow8017
    @paulleow8017 Před měsícem

    Damn! at first I thought this was very good model work, but then I realized it was all real equipment! Really impressive filmmaking

  • @UzMadBro
    @UzMadBro Před měsícem +1

    The love the end bit with the concertina, classic 😂