Battle of the Somme - WW1 Documentary

nritain and us overconfifencr id their downfall.slways underestimating enemies as weak and no much resources😢😢😢😢

This blurs the line between documentary and movie. Just really well done. Exceptional

I've heard 80K killed. Which is right? 20K or 80K?

Lions led by donkeys who never stood trial for their murderous incompetence.

Could have lost the best baseball player in History, or the best Boxer, best movie actor etc etc. Your comment really makes you Think

The person who is reading this comment , I wish you great success , health, love and happiness !

WW3 is going to be wild

Lions led by donkeys..

Look at all the major wars, it is always same countries that are involved, coincidence?

Sgt Tony said after receiving a shot of morphine:
"a divine compassion flow over me...its being like a dog kicked and bullied by everyone at last find by master."

We must be mad, utterly insane! WW 1 made this world we live in today, and we still don't have a clue. 😞☠️👋

WW2 only happened because we Americans didn't listen to the wisdom of our founders, who told us to keep out of European wars. We should have let our former "rulers" die by the sword. Now look at Europe, infested by immigrants and Marxism.

"Most part of France ".. says the man who has never looked at a map

No mans land with Grass...

Two of my ancestors cousins of my great grandmother ,2 brothers where in the Liverpool 4th battalion kings regiment, one came home the other died from his wounds after a battle of the somme 14th August 1916, RIP buried in France

Lions led by donkeys

wonder how many French would have volunteered to fight in Britain if the roles were reversed

This was a fantastic documentary. Best I’ve seen yet. RIP to all from both sides..

Y tantos para nada.😢😢😢

My grandfather, Scottish born and grown up in Sydney Australia, was a stretcher bearer in this battle and others in WW1. This depiction means a lot.

Outstanding documentary! WWI was THE most useless and unnecessary war EVER conducted. ALL because of alliances and egos of the ruling elites! They are doing same now in Ukraine but the difference is that if the Ukraine war gets out of hand as WWI then it becomes a nuclear war and destruction of all of mankind! What is needed is peace negotiations but the ruling elites and media on both sides are like they were in WWI fanning flames of escalating war!

Ich gedenke allen Toten

My grandfather was on the SS Transylvania being shipped to Egypt when it was sunk of the coast of Italy, eventually getting to to the army in Palestine he was shot and injured. After recuperation he was then posted to France where survived a bayonet wound and ended up in a hospital in England. He remained in the army until he had his knee damaged in a friendly game of football in 1921. Took a game of football to end his army career.

why did they just walk like on a sunday stroll when leaving the trench and not run?

The World has learned NIOTHING from these mass slaughters!!!

Vietnam vet here. Lions led by donkeys, just about sums it up.

Im Krieg gibt es keine Helden sondern nur arme Schweine.

An absolutely brilliant docudrama. Well done!

as they said meaningless carnage ❤

The letters from the night before going over the top are so hard

As usual a lie with British ! Verdun was the most crucial battle in WW1 not Somme ! Also , half of men in Somme was French ! Pls tell the truth

Just watched 😮, I'm lost for word's!

War is when people who do not know each other shoot at each other on the orders of people who do know each other but do not shoot at each other.

USA loves boasting about their short involvement when they only saw fighting for six months while the Brits suffered 150,000 deaths in one day at the Somme.

Old men, miles behind the front line, send the young to utter slaughter. I only hope that this statistic as the worst day for losses in the British Army is NEVER surpassed. The level of the carnage on that first day is the equivalent of the entire population of Bognor Regis disappearing one morning.

British under command of Haig were fools

Alot of MK4 Enfields

such horror

My great-grandfather was called to war in the italian-austrian front, he was 17 years old. May he rest in prace

If the horrors of the Great War were not enough to end such madness, nothing ever will.

Outstanding thanks from. Sc

Excellent stuff

All wars are bankers wars , thanks Rothschild

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My Grandfather was there at the time. 1st Australian Siege Brigade, heavy howitzers.
I have his war diary. He is very dry and matter-of-fact. “Another day at the office” . “Carried on the war as usual”.
He never dramatised it. He had a job to do and men to lead, so he kept himself under strict control. I knew him as an old man. A very fine and considerate gentleman.

Without britains falsifying the Lusitania as a civilian ship the US might have never entered the war. That would have made for a very different outcome. No matter how we judge that, this was a clever move by GB. I do think the US government was in on that information that the ship acrually brought weapons and amunition to GB.

Strange how easy it is sometimes to manipulate the people.

The Somme was a failure by the british military leadership imprisoned in their snobism ,elitism ,gained rank by nepotism they lacked the understanding and ability to adapt of what was happening. Whole platoons of men being nearly the whole male population of villages got deleted days after it was clear rheir approach wasnt working.