Verdun, 1916: The Battle of the Great War | FULL DOCUMENTARY
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- From February to December 1916, the French and Germans waged one of the First World War’s most devastating battles in order to take control of the hills around Verdun. A head on confrontation, fought with no help from their allies, army versus army, nation versus nation. 11 months of fighting, over 2 million soldiers mobilised and 300,000 dead.
Today, this massacre seems senseless. But in 1916, soldiers on both sides accepted to go into battle. Why?
This documentary looks back at this insane battle that was to become the bloodiest chapter of the First World War. Looking back through the personal archives of veterans, delving into their daily lives, their dreams and their nightmares, but also using historical re-enactments and numerous computer-generated images, Verdun: They shall not pass! revisits France’s last great victory over Germany. A battle that would become the symbol of nationalist folly and age-old hostility between two nations.
Documentary: Verdun, The Battle of the Great War (2015)
Direction: Serge de Sampigny
Production: Histodoc
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Blurring out the dead and wounded disrespects all that fought. Furthermore, it was never the intent of commanders, film-makers or fighting men to have that happen. It was to remember them so that it would never happen again. CZcams violates this solemn oath.
I get what you're saying, a documentary should show us the raw footage of events, but you're writing this comment on a video that (as far as i know?) isn't age restricted, and CZcams's policy doesn't make exceptions for what you can or can't blur. Your message is pure and respectful but you can't really say CZcams is breaking any oaths here, it's the simple fact that a 9y/o kid wouldn't click on this video unsupervised to get traumatized by seeing unedited raw footage of piles of dead bodies
Want to blame somebody, blame Pewdeepew or whatever his stupid name is. He is the one that made anti-Semitic remarks that were made while being paid. The advertiser did not want to pay for their brand to be associated with a person like that and who can blame them, a true foul human being that one. He is the one that brought the advertiser changes. First they started with foul, racist language, then profanity and it just continues on.
@@minirock000 Bro what? Did you open up CZcams once in 2007 and once more today? Your comment made no sense at all
@@LnyMts If you fail to comprehend it, that is a problem that lies perhaps with your reading comprehension and retention not in what was said.
That is odd you would pick a year, 2007, when you were not even on the webernets yet. You try so hard, I know, but it was still a worthless attempt on your part at attempting to play with the adults. Now run along and wipe your nose. Hey and pull up your pants!
@@minirock000 My guy, you need a hug? I always thought the grown-ups would know better than to start off conversations by agression, I don't know why you're so focused on who I am in real life, I didn't know you could come up with so much hatred based off 1 comment, but I guess I struck a big nerve. You just said more about yourself than me in your 2 comments, you seem to believe your lies so much it becomes truth, right? you can't even spell the youtuber's name right, about a situation that happened years ago, stating blatant lies for no reason, about something that has NOTHING to do with a youtube documentary about WW1 of all places. If you spew bullsh*t don't act like you're the tough adult superbeing lmao
imagine a granddad talking about Teh Peewdepees Who Ruined the Interwebs, get a grip boi, now run along and tell someone else about your good old days. I really hope you don't have kids, or are ever planning to. Poor souls
Why censorship on historical fact
The fact of bodies of brave dead men never to grow old. Censor them in death is like a slap in the face to them.
Censorship on comments is even worse.
Because of money. That's all that it is. CZcams could demonetize the video due to uncensored images of the fallen. So why not sacrifice historical accuracy and brutal honesty in favour of that sweet, sweet cash?
What’s with CZcams censoring clips with dead bodies in a war documentary FOR CHRIST FUCKING SAKE??????
Bloody ridiculous!!
They think it's funny to see lil babies cry about it in comments
If the uploader dont censoring he will not earn money from views thats why they censoring
I disagree with the disparaging comments about Jesus Christ, the name that was on the lips of occupants of both sides of the battlefield, living, wounded, or dead. However, I do heartily agree with the rest of the comment! 100%!
Oh well
Great documentary but censoring the dead is beyond disrespectful, youtube should be ashamed!
Damn right!
I've seen YT videos with bronze cherubins in a fountain blurred because of tjeir "nudity".
Try uploading a video with corpses and monetize it in CZcams
What is the point in showing a photograph if the image can't be seen because it's been blurred out ? Makes about as much sense as this BATTLE !
What has been achieved by this CENSORSHIP ❓
@@oddball7483the uploader will earn money from this
That blurring out nonsense is ridiculous. So it was ok some years ago when the doc was made, but not now? Lame.
thank you tube and big tech suckling on ad money
A French veteran speaking about Verdun said that when he and others were digging a trench he yelled to the officer in charge, "We're digging through flesh!" (On pioche dans la chair!) The officer yelled back, "Keep digging!"
I don't know if it CZcams or the Doc, but I find the practice of caesura-blurring the photographs in the original documentary absolutely irritating and despicable.
Blurred images have no meaning nor any educational value. Censorship can be performed by the individual watching or rather NOT watching images they don't like. !!
Knochenmühle + Blutmühle. Unthinkable Damage + Pain.
I ve been there 1985. No trees no gras. All is Oberkilled 10 times.
J’ai 6 ancêtres tombés à Verdun....+2 à Neuville St Vaast❤😪✌️🎖🎖🎖🎖🎖🎖🇨🇵
Toute l'armée française est passée par Verdun, chacun de nous avons un membre de notre famille qui a survécu à l'horreur ou qui est tombé là-bas.
300,000 dead in one long, horrendous battle.. difficult to process
The Entente launched the Battle of the Somme to take the pressure off the French at Verdun. When you add the two battles together, it is more than twice as bad because the butcher's bill at the Somme was even worse.
Verdun was awful, but the Somme wasnt much different, hell most of WW1 wasnt much different, to go from all that, in 10 or 20 years just to start another World war, i mean, is it not common sense? the leaders of these nations mustve been on drugs or something, why sacrifice millions just for nothing, even WW2 had that happen quite often, the Germans got pushed back all the way to Berlin, what was the point then? to loose millions just to loose everything they fought for.
@@castlerock58
The battle of the Somme was planned before the beginning of the attack on Verdun. Substantial adjustments were made because of Verdun, though.
As french, I have learnt a lot on this battle with your decomentary. Thank you.
When I was a kid, Verdun was a name I have to learn in History lessons.
Each 11th of November, the classroom of the primary school have to honour the Death Monument. It was boring, all these these speech, these old men with medals on the chest and this ceremonial with flowers offered for the young men who give their life for the Patrie or if you are cynical, who died and that all.
My mother worked in a asile for all old people. All of them were poor, fishermen, shepherd, workers ..all kind of people who belonged to the working class.
They were absolutely grateful to Maréchal Petain, despite all what but bad an treason thing he did for France. He's portait as officer during this awful war, is not so beautiful and glorious as "Père la Victoire. " legend , .but that is an another subject.
It appears that battle is battle of french officers against German officers who didn't care about humans being but just of some bloody game and self- glory.
I can't see pictures about Camoun who was a shepherd in the Pyrénées wo don't speak french jut a dialect, as occitan, or André, a little man who explain how is size helped to survive in the trench.
How old they were during this butchery call WW1 ?
We can remark on these pictures some african people . They became brothers of arm for these french soldiers but for the high rank officers they were considered just canon fodder. They were coming from Sénégal and others place of the "Empire colonial Français ".
They give their life for France, and maybe the unknown soldier under the Arc de Triumph is an African..
France give to them the promise to be full and entirely french citizen. A lie.
I had a teacher, Mr Carrer, one of this teacher that many of them knew, who's seem a man who give so much, for an entirely life. We have visited a cemetery called "Cimetière des Senegalais", Sénégalaise cemetery. ..
That was a disturbing discovery about the french History.
Then, I have married a German wife and have an another point of view.
The conclusion is the same, not a people, the simple people, like me, without power, would have to die in this war.
It's the war of upper class, an international war which opposed people of the working class, french, German or English, American, Italian...so on.
It was a war of high ranking officers as a sinistre game for the glory of them.
I love my country, I love France...I love french people as I have described and feel narrow of them. It's not my purpose to say but things about them, but to say the bad side of these french who have the power to avoid and to stop this awful madness.
I can't understand the sens of these run of soldier, in the mud, hole, just in front of machine gun...and that for nothing.
There are a small town in France where the ceremony of the end war is a monument for Peace.
And that is great.
Now, as adult, my thought is for all these young dead for nothing than capitalism and glory.
God give them peace.
Thank you so much for watching and sharing your thoughts, may they have peace
Because of the bluring I stopped watching, what a shame on you CZcams....
Who cares go ⬆️ urself
Surely the blurred images over the dead is a mistake because when the youth watch these videos they will not be shocked into thinking 'this must never happen again' but rather i see no death its ok to fight, i am 64 and have seen such images in many books and documentrys etc and my minset is ''Never again''. rest in peace to all the dead of the two world wars may you rest easy knowing that the world will never allow such slaughter ever again despite the efforts of goverments to do just the opposite.
We totally agree with you, sadly we need to adapt to youtube requirements...
@@SLICE_Full_Doc Yup then we do indeed know with whom the fault lies, youtube and the agenda, sad for true history. love to all.
Sorry BIG thumbs down for blurring out the pictures or part of the film.
That's today's hypocrite snow flake censorship by YT.
Why those blurrs? Ruins the film. I know YT but its not doing any good to it.
Superb documentary! Great work.
Thank you so much!
Lets blur what war is. Soft
Was very interested, then I saw Bluurrrzzzz!?!
😊😯😪😫😪
Is there somewhere we can watch this w/o the infernal censoring??!!
My Great Grandpa was in WW1 from the US, he survived and would never speak about what he saw to my Grandpa. Sadly he died in a work accident a short time after getting back. I cant imagine what the guys went through having artillery falling around/on you 24/7, not being able to do anything but pray a shell didnt hit close enough to get you. After awhile, doesnt matter how tough you are, any person will start to go insane.
Real informative and visually appealing to put clips of blurred corpses... certainly doesn't defeat the idea of a documentary at all.
Heck why not put whole 50 minutes of censored pics and clips...
It was an informative ,incredible, and accurate military and politically evaluated documentary about Verdant battles during WW1.
Thank you so much!
It's so sad. All that human life wasted. Imagine how much it changed Europe to lose all those young men. Then to do it again 20 years later...
Excellent documentary film.
Thank you!
Well thought, documented and narrated
Thank you!
One of my grandfather’s brothers volunteer in the French army and died at the battle of Verdun .Another brother volunteer in the Greek army and my grandfather with another brother serve in the British army .Four Greek Cypriot brothers did the right thing ,to fight for Liberty and Justice .
Excellent
Thank you!!
Unforgivable is this censoring of the heroes that gave their lives. Why?
We are so very sorry for it, we do agree with you.. however it has become a CZcams requirement for monetisation and we can't show those to you if we are not gonna pay the producers of this documentary for their work...
@@SLICE_Full_Docdo you upload uncensored versions elsewhere?
Where is uncensored version?
Unsure if this exact doc is there, but Tubi has a great many WW1 and WW2 docs uncensored.
What was the French song being played towards the end?
Les Marseilles.
La Marseillaise - National Anthem of France
The first statement of this documentary couldnt be more wrong on my opinion, soldiers back then were not stupid, they knew this was all madness too
All the death and misery, and we still have learned nothing we are still trying to kill each other in 2024, nations being suckered into wars that kill thousands of people.
dziękuję
Thank you!
youtube has no respect
AEG made shells?
The censor is illegal
Man the part at 18:37 gave me chills seeing those young boys sleeping not knowing the terror that will soon come odds are none of them survived and then the boy laying there with his eyes open deep in thought one can only wish he made it. God have mercy on us all.
I thought there were only two stories in the world, but it’s the Bible, WW2 and now WW1
What a f**king waste. And we're sleepwalking into it again.
Censored video by U-TUBE.
The punchline at the end "... how much we've changed" LOL changed? changed what?
Well i agree with you there lol, i bet if all the Nations involved had the choice to do it again or completely ignore it this time, they would do it all over again. in Modern standards as well.
Verdun video game on Steam PC game app great game and authentic recreated area setting to fight on. Very realistic
Is there a special form of YT without the censorship, I would pay for it. YT is like putting a figleaf on the statue of David.
Didn't realize the Germans were that close. Scary.
I stopped watching soon as I seen blurred out snowflakes show real historical facts
Great narrator
Thanks!
Yeah too bad they cut the credits out so we don't get to see who it was. Now they are even taking the credit for hiring them. Cutting out the credits is as bad as plagiarism and this station easily commits it. If they really were accepting of your praise they would have told you who it was.
If they would have made the film they would have told you it was PAUL BANDEY. Mr Bandey also adapted several of these French documentaries for distribution world-wide.
Hence their name "Slice", they will cut it up to pieces and take the credit for it, undeservedly so. Okay so they purchased a twenty year old documentary, does not mean you get to take all the credit for making it.
@@minirock000 haha yeah it's funny they take credit for all the docs like they created all them.
@@RightSideNews Updated my post with the narrator's name.
Falkenhayen gets a lot of heat when the whole time, since its inception, this battle was supposed to be a meatgrinder. When it was over, with basically a million men killed or wounded, he had done what he set out to.
The intention of Falkenhayen was never to « bleed the French white ». He made this up after the war.
War didn't change.
I think the losses were even higher, too.
Where are the credits? Cutting out the credits is worse than stealing it is plagiarism. It confuses the little ones, they think this station somehow "made" the documentary.
We put them in description to better correspond the youtube format, though this is an arguable position you are right
@@SLICE_Full_DocYeah cause hiding them at the very bottom of the description is better for CZcams how?
@T.Watts89 better then alot of channels I see never seen anyone include credits personally.
@@Fittafella27 I agree but the reason they are there....."to better correspond the CZcams format"???? That's just bullshit
@@SLICE_Full_Doc "though this is an arguable position you are right"
If it were still an arguable position I would still be obligated to convince you of it and it seems I have. I appreciate that you understand my position.
I must also confess my statement that plagiarism is worse than stealing was meant as hyperbolic, they are the same.
Never realised artillery and machine gun fire could turn you into such a blurry mess!
Jesus, stop with that blur
If you have to censor it? Quit posting it.
If you're going to cry don't comment.
Perfect video, despite the blurring.
Greetings from the Netherlands 🇳🇱.
Thanks!
BLUR OUT WHAT WAR WAS ABOUT IT JUST POINTLESS THUMBS DOWN
18:45 scary AF
Well we aint changed much!
Were back to turtle tanks and trench warfare!
Drone warfare is new though and helmet pov is so powerful
Now, thanks to this, i don't know what filmage is real or a damn "reconstruction"!
❤
Great documentory and helpful preparation for next Verdun visit in 2 days. Just one remark: umcensored pictures will make people think more about war then censored ones. Censoring yeopardizes this purpose.
Thank you so much for watching! We do agree with you, unfortunately our hands are tied on this topic, it has become a CZcams requirement...
STOP CENSORSHIP WHAT ARE YOU SCARED OF DEMONETIZATION😒
Unfortunately, we can't exploit a documentary if not monetised... the production team needs to be payed for their work and to invest in future productions. Also we work with AVOD rights.
"What is this "Glory"? People die for it but not every death is glorious,
it takes a speciall someone to die a glorious death. In peace time it would be sen as utter stupidity and lack of self respect and preservation.
People were hospitalized for the very same notions in peace time. But in war, this is topsy-turvy, as is most matters concerning war. " Quoted fro Jo Morken
Censoring this content is blatantly wrong. This was a real war with real casualties. Censoring it waters down the effect that documentary’s like this are supposed to have on
surive all that only to be blown to bits in the reconstruction 10 years later
Blur it out - not worth watching. Bye.
Go ahead and blur out the whole film , , , ,
We are very sorry about this, it has become a CZcams Policy
He said the soliders didnt think it was obsurd
They did they had to frontal attack
Pertes officielles de la bataille de Verdun :
Français (21 février au 20 décembre 1916) : 61.619 (1895 officiers) tués, 214.923 blessés, 100.689 (1852 officiers) disparus = 377.231 (Les Armées françaises dans la Grande Guerre, Tome IV, 3e volume, Appendices N° Ia).
Allemands (21 février au 10 septembre 1916) : 41.632 (1388 officiers) tués, 228.695 blessés, 13.165 décédés aux hôpitaux, 26.739 (262 officiers) disparus = 310.231 + mois d'octobre à décembre 1916, environ 36.400, soit 346.631 (Sanitätsbericht über das Deutsche Heer im Weltkriege 1914/1918, III Band, pp. 46-49)
It wasn't Petain who said they shall not pass. It was Robert Nivelle.
Only times I've seen this comment. Thank you for knowing your history!
"War, we have come to believe, is a spectator sport. The military and the press ... have turned war into a vast video arcade game. Its very essence - death - is hidden from public view."
(Chris Hedges)
War is not glorious, war is hell. But humans are amnesiac and in 1939 the horror began again. And now, there is war in Ukraine which threatens to turn into World War 3.
The blurring ruined it
If you want people to witness the horrors of war then let them see the horrors of war. People fought for a cause and should be remembered for their sacrifice without someone on a keyboard blurring the truth.
''Around this time a city called Verdun was the centre of the thriving European trade in young boys, who were sold to the Islamic emirates of Iberia, where they were enslaved as eunuchs'' The estimated death toll on both sides were 143,000 dead Germans and 162,440 French soldiers..what victory?
Why did germany always beef with france?
Why did France always beef with Germany, Napoleon 3 had claims in the Rhine land so Germany had to fight 1870, since then France wasnted beef and when ww1 broke out it was the perfect opertunity, the treaty of versailles that starved millions to death and turned Germany into a 3rd world country, then France again decleard war 1939 making Germany invade again in 1940.
Because France was the only real challenger on the Continent (Land power). It meants for the Germans that if they could beat France on the Battlefield, they would dominate Europe, as the United Kingdom was very powerful on the seas, but could not challenge neither France nor Germany on land.
@@GordonFreeman-sl6pi What kind of conspiracy theory are you on about stop the drugs, France had claims on the rhine land in 1871 and in 1914 they just started to mobilize after Germany honored it's treaty with Austria-Hungery germany wanted to dominate or take over the World ww1 propaganda Lavader already crushed that.
@@GordonFreeman-sl6pi
Germany saw the main threat coming from Russia. Germany went to war because Russia started mobilizing which Germany perceived as an existential threat. They went to war with France because France was allied to Russia and refused to stay neutral. France alone was no match for Germany by 1914. France and Russia combined was seen as a mortal threat.
@@GordonFreeman-sl6piAnd this is what happenned during ww2. The allies was beaten in 1940, the french soldiers sacrificed themself for help the brits to escape, at least for keeping a big power alive. Most of the soldiers and ships of the battle of Britain were in Dunkerk this day. That's the only reason why Germany didn't invaded UK.
People today are not capable of withstanding 4 years of the intense hardship and suffering of ww1.
Ukrainians and russians do.
It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it. - Robert Edward Lee; General, Confederate States of America
-Maréchal Pétain
after this WW1 trauma, small wonder there was no french appetite for another engagement with the germans in WW2
Jesus Christ, the lgbtq doesn’t give a shit about the blur. Show everyone. Jesus
Shame on CZcams. Hiding the brave soldiers that gave THEIR LIVES Is Beyond shameful.
Um welchen Preis???????????????????Er lernt einfach nicht's dazu
sorry, stopped and disliked after 43 seconds for censored blurry imagery - it's a documentary, what's the point if it's censored? really bad.
Censoring what must be seen is disrespectful. What's the point youtube?
German plan was to bleed the French white. battle of attrition
No, that was never the plan.
It was just an excuse after they failed to take Verdun.
thumbs down for the censorship, thanks, but no thanks.
Sad,they die for politcal gangster!
notice the last words of this documentary : it reminds us how far we have come and above all perhaps how much we have changed . well we did not change a bit, in 1940 it started all over again ! it will probably happen again,and this time there would be no survivers.so people beware who you choose as your leader,
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1939*
Ridiculous censorship. I shut down and moved on to a more mature show!!
Start wars not.
@42:03
Zelensky must be a huge fan!
Rather Putin: "the man who's lead his country's youth to death".
If you survived ww1 it wasnt from being a better solider
Pure lottery
nada a cambia el hombre sigue igual de bruto
I was shocked to find out that much of the battle scenes were reconstructions- ten damn years later!! I had thought they were the real real deal that happened at the actual time of the real battle! What a bunch of fucking cowards who didn't film the battle as it actually happened!!
If you can't stand the heat, don't get in the damned kitchen!!
Ready to fight may be an exaggeration after the propaganda proved to left out a lot of details
If you don’t like the censoring, go to a platform that allows creators to show such images. Many historical docs at pattern, but you’ve gotta pay creators to see their content. Otherwise, shut up and enjoy the free content.
So now you censor the protests against YT censoeship.
Most platforms don't have NEARLY the amount of content youtube does, thats why WE the viewer come here, to watch, to experience what we want to watch, weather it's horrible or not should be up to US to decide. Not a bunch of squemish parents who don't censor their kids' internet...
Why censor the dead bodies? Cmon, this is the stark, horrific, reality of war. Yet, there are channels on YT showing the dead Russians and Ukranians in the current conflict. An argument can be made for taking a lot of that war porn shit down. However, for this? A serious, solemn, documentary. It's disagraceful. The only reason I can think of, is its a stern reminder of the bloodshed between France and Germany. The past isn't a great look for a "united" EU.
Oh no, we are very sorry, it has become a youtube requirement to blur corpses
Generais assassinos que nunca foram julgados.
The censoring makes no sense in a war documentary. Whose stupid idea was that?
CZcams sucks on that