A Compilation of the Best War Battle Scenes from MGM Films.
The Battle of Britain (1969)
Directed by Guy Hamilton
Screenplay by James Kennaway & Wilfred Greatorex
Cast: Harry Andrews, Michael Caine, Trevor Howard, Curt Jurgens, Ian McShane, Kenneth More, Laurence Olivier, Nigel Patrick, Christopher Plummer, Michael Redgrave, Ralph Richardson, Robert Shaw, Patrick Wymark, Susannah York
Rated G
Available on Blu-Ray, DVD and digital platforms.
Platoon (1986)
Written and Directed by Oliver Stone
Cast: Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Charlie Sheen
Rated R
Available on Blu-Ray, DVD and digital platforms.
The Bridge at Remagen (1969)
Directed by John Guillermin
Screen Story by Roger Hirson
Screenplay by Richard Yates and Willaim Roberts
Cast: George Segal, Robert Vaughn, Ben Gazzara, Bradford Dillman, E.G. Marshall
Rated R for some war violence and brief nudity
Available on Blu-Ray, DVD and digital platforms.
Beach Red (1967)
Directed by Cornel Wilde
Screenplay by Clint Johnston, Don A. Peters and Jefferson Pascal
From the Novel by Peter Bowman
Cast: Cornel Wilde, Rip Torn, Burr DeBenning, Patrick Wolfe, Jean Wallace
Not Rated
Available on Blu-Ray, DVD and digital platforms.
A Bridge Too Far (1977)
Directed by Richard Attenborough
Screenplay by William Goldman
From the book by Cornelius Ryan
Cast: Dirk Bogarde, James Caan, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Edward Fox, Elliott Gould, Gene Hackman, Anthony Hopkins, Hardy Kruger, Laurence Olivier, Ryan O'Neal, Robert Redford, Maximilian Schell, Liv Ullmann
Rated PG
Available on Blu-Ray, DVD and digital platforms.
Force 10 From Navarone (1978)
Directed by Guy Hamilton
Screenplay by Robin Chapman
Screen Story by Carl Foreman
Based on the Novel by Alistair MacLean
Cast: Robert Shaw, Harrison Ford, Barbara Bach, Edward Fox, Franco Nero as "Lescovar," Carl Weathers, Richard Kiel, Alan Badel
Rated PG
Available on Blu-Ray, DVD and digital platforms.
Hart’s War (2002)
Directed by Gregory Hoblit
Screenplay by Billy Ray & Terry George
Based on the Novel by John Katzenbach
Cast: Bruce Willis, Colin Farrell, Terrence Howard, Cole Hauser, Marcel Iures, Linus Roache
Rated R for some strong war violence and language
Available on Blu-Ray, DVD and digital platforms.
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Best WWII Battles Compilation
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Battle of Britain is such an underrated movie. It’s great
It's not underrated, you must be very young. Underrated is the most overrated word on YT.
@@Bruce-1956 Truer words have never been written in the KZhead comments.
Best aerial combat movie ever, and I’ve seen them all.
@@dougcastleman9518 Have you seen "Death comes from the sky"
I know it’s supposed to be a big deal but I couldn’t force myself to watch it all.
A Bridge Too Far fantastic brilliant movie with probably the greatest cast ever assembled.
I know right….?! Loaded with Hollywood heavyweights
Too well known a cast distracts.
Didn't critics pan it?
Always interesting to see 45 year old men play roles that at best would be 22 years of age...Those that were there were so very young. Thank you for Your Service.
Average age was about 26, but it’s just that: average. Not nearly all were so young, the soldiers typically were drafted between 21 and 45, but most combat able soldiers were between 19 and 33, with pilots more often being 25+
It's also always interesting to see Africans playing in front line battles in modern films.
Not quite wrong as RAF CO's were nearly 40 at least 35.
No matter how authentic these movies are, it seems no one wants real military haircuts.
16 into boot camp..letter from mommy and from the judge..lol..3RD CAG USMC 70-71 with the yards
THE "LONGEST DAY" IS DEFINITELY A CLASSIC AND SO WELL DONE!
And also written by the same author as "A Bridge Too Far", Cornelius Ryan
@@DavidCooney-pz4ru AND I JUST RECORDED IT AGAIN TO WATCH FROM THE TCM CHANNEL COMMERCIAL FREE. I'M SURPRISED THIS CHANNEL STILL SHOWS TRUTHFUL HISTORY ON IT'S FAR LEFT NETWORK.
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The rolling barrage as 30 corps moved along the road in A Bridge Too Far is one of the best battle scenes ever filmed.
Shame Operation Market Garden was such a disaster. One of Monty's bright ideas.
@@maxwedge5683 it wasn’t a disaster 😂
True
Max Wedge Market Garden actually advanced 100km in just 3 days. This was the fastest allied advance against German opposition in the entire September 1944 to February 1945 period. Patton in the Lorraine and Hodges in the Hurtgen Forest were the real disasters of autumn 1944. And then the retreat in the Ardennes.
Ever filmed. HMS Hood, filmed from Prince Eugene? USS Arizona exploding? HMS Barham?
You missed the best scene. When Audi Murphy maned the 50 cal on top of the tank destroyer. Later received the MOH.
My father fought in the same actions as Major Murphy. Silver Star Bronze Star 2 Purple hearts and left his left bicep and almost his arm at Anzio.
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The shelling scene at 11:00 from A Bridge too Far may be one of the best combat scenes ever filmed.
creeping barrage - crazy to think people could live through it
@@SprikSprak the only other scene that I can think of that coveys the horror of that situation is in Band of Brothers when Easy Company was getting shelled by the Germans during Bastogne
Yes indeed! Filmed in 1976 on a training ground of the Royal Dutch army or air force at Deelen airbase!
I've always thought that, the blotting out of the day and it's perceived horror could only be outdone by being a veteran of it. Those screams in the wood line drowning amidst bursting men and metal.
Beautiful cinematography
Get shivers everytime i see Spitfires flying....magnificent.
They don't make WW2 movies like they use to. A Bridge too Far, The Battle of Britain, The first Midway movie, and many others from that time frame are classics.
Oliver Stone's Platoon was Awesome 👍
The 'Nam vets who trained us hated it.
@@mitchellsmith4690 Well,stone made it to convey his own experiences of nam.
@@hashimawan2433 I know that's what he said, but the 'Nam vets who trained us universally said it was BS, and he was not being truthful.
@@mitchellsmith4690 Well,we all experience different things in the same country......And I guess he added a few things of his own, because he's a Dramatist and a drama requires Emotions and contexts........I really loved his movie The Director's Cut version of Nixon 1995, especially the deleted scene where Nixon visits the CIA headquarters to meet Helms,you can find that scene on KZhead too,just type Nixon vs Helms.
The tank battle in the town of Kelly's Heros was a great scene. Plus, after the tank battle.
During the Normandy battles the 25 pounder artillery gun was the mainstay of the British and Canadian armies. The skilled crews achieved such high rates of fire that some dazed German prisoners when captured demanded to see the belt fed automatic artillery gun that was giving them such a pasting.
Battle of Britain is a great movie. I think it won the Academy Award for special effects that year but those stuka scenes are hard to watch. Of all the planes used in the movie the JU 87 was the only one the did not have a working plane for. All the stuka scenes are done with RC models.
That's more impressive than real ones it's very difficult to did it in the 60's
ou can stream it online i just watched it in pieces but I don't remember the radar site bombings.
What doesn't make sense is how the Chain Home stations didn't detect the Stukas. They should have picked them up early enough for the fighters to have been scrambled. Fun fact: The chain home tower at Stenigot, Lincolnshire is still standing and from the top you can see bomb craters around it from the Luftwaffe's unsuccessful attempts to hit it.
The Bridge at Remagen is my favorite follow by The Big Red One - Lee Marvin! Marvin was a real combat infantry marine in WW2.
Certainly one of my favourites. The author was an infantry vet.
Loved the book too - The Big Red One...
Lee Marvin is buried at Arlington National Cemetery, a United States military cemetery. He shunned a public cemetery because he wanted to be back amongst his WW2 comrades. He was seriously wounded at the Battle of Saipan and was awarded the Purple Heart.
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I love the scene in 'Dunkirk ' when the British artillery is in the forest. They look back to see Stukas nail the place.
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People often think about the ww2 on the ground between infantry, tanks, etc. However, what truly made ww2 terrifying compared to other wars was the usage of aircraft in a coordinated way to support ground forces and destroy military targets.
I watched an interview with a German tank commander who said he was heading to Normandy to attack the Allies when they were attacked by allied aircraft. Within just a few minutes all but 2 tanks were destroyed.
@@Pmtd1234 Same on the eastern front. Fall Blau (1942.6.30~1942.8) made its way clear on the first day simply because Stukas did sorties without rest from 3am to 8pm. The unstoppable Panzers? They were stuck in AT traps as they struggled to breakthrough Russian defense (23rd Panzer Div's 201st Panzer Regiment lost 1/3 of its all service tanks on this very first day).
Carrying on close support tactics from WW1.
I would counter with being on the receiving end of an artillery barrage would be absolutely terrifying...if you survived long enough to be terrified. The "Bridge Too Far" footage at 11:10 speaks volumes.
That Fokker's a Messerschmitt No its not its a Heinkel Messerschmitt! Heinkel ! Etc
I always love these early WWII movies, where the soldiers are like 45 years old!
The sound of a Spitfire is possibly the most beautiful aviation engine ever to exist
Rolls Royce Merlin Engines, the greatest sound to hear in that time
The A-10 is the modern equivalent.
@@DTavona surely not
Mustang though with that whine!
I love the sound of STUKAS in the morning.
Whoa!!! Those scenes from 1969's Battle of Britain were absolutely extraordinary! Fantastic! I've GOT to watch this film tonight!
A Bridge Too Far is my #1.
6:52 Additional scene was filmed where Chris saves a wounded Barnes and calls for a medic at dawn, either ending works.
"A Bridge Too Far" (1977) 3 million guilders went to James Caan who fulfilled the role of US army 101 airborne staff sergeant Eddie Dohun. 12 minutes of playing time for Caan.
Good work💲 if you can get it😊
I think I remember the real Eddie Dohun being interviewed about the film and Caans' performance of him in the film. Cant really remember what he said though, long time ago. Attenborough was real upset about when this was released because Star Wars was released at the same time. and took all the press attention away from this film.
@@bogusmogus9551 Yeah, but they thought Star Wars was going to be a flop at the time. They put all their Sci Fi money on "Damnation Alley" which WAS a flop.
@@daGO_BLUE Why wasn't the big Telly the lollipop eater allowed to play a role in "A Bridge too far" missed opportunity was that......
I would put the assault on the factory from Stalingrad (1993) pretty high up there. The actors are what make it great, you see tons of different human traits: fear, shock, bloodlust, battle hardened, stoic, leadership etc... all in a 10 minute scene where only around 50 of the 500 company survive.
This is a fine list for any weekend WW2 marathon
Those Stukas really hate cars
Battle of Britain 🇬🇧
That’s funny!
and tanks
And Spitfires and Hurricanes!
Haha they weren't REAL ones as none were in flying condition
I never get tired of watching A Bridge Too Far
platoon, full metal jacket, band of brothers, the pacific, saving private ryan, the longest day...
13 hours...Great battle scene and a true story to boot...
Purple Hearts (1984) featuring R. Lee Ermey has some very good battle scenes.
Oh, how true. Ken Wahl, Cheryl Ladd and R. Lee Ermey were great. A mostly romantic film set in Vietnam, the action scenes were excellent.
Mike Caine fought from Zululand to Dover to France to Remangen wow
A Bridge Too Far, a movie that could've been released in the past 10 years, except the sound maybe but it looks insane for a 1977 movie.
Best scene in Bridge Too Far must be German armoured cars and half tracks racing over the bridge and getting stopped cold by British paras but artillery scene here also superb. Must watch that movie again soon, an eternal classic.
Classic movies always have beautiful cinematography.the color so rich.
Because they were actually filmed, instead of being created by a computer.
Every time I see Stukas blowing things up, I like to remind myself that most of them were shot down by ‘44 since they were outgunned by more advanced fighters.
That scene was supposed to be 1940 I think
They were so vulnerable to an unsuppressed enemy that they were withdrawn from the BoB whilst there were still some left.
Great compilation. When there was cinema.
"Put your eggs on my position ", it was a BROKEN ARROW.
I think the re-taking of Hue in Full Metal Jacket is one of the best scenes, including the dystopian music. Also Hamburger Hill, where they are nearly at the summit.
Definitely among the rare few who deserve such honors.
Edward Fox will always be the quintessential Brit upperclass warrior type in WW2 movies.
The thumbnail reminds of me of the army sing/dance scene in Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. He's got that half smile look on his face, like he's about to burst into dance.
Nice they included Beach Red. Totally forgotten about film.
Missed out The 1964 Drama starring Burt Lancaster,The Train ,A Classic here
Yes remember it when the krauts were stealing all the French art treasures
Loved Burt Lancaster !!He did all his own stunts !! And in the movie The Train he sprained his ankle and still continues acting with his sprained ankle. He actually served in WW2
One of my favorites is Hurricane, Mission of Honor. The story of 303 squadron in the Battle of Britain.
Great compilation! Super job!
*Amazingly good compilation. Thumbs Up!*
Watching artillery walking towards you must be absolutely effing terrifying.
That's called a "Walking" Barrage.
I used to watch bridge at remagen on betamax while playing with my soldiers. I know it word for word
The aircraft attack at the end a good insight into what Allied air superioty must have been like.
I didn't know that the Vietcong was on the Axis side in WWII? But, thanks for the great compilation. I especially agree that the anti-tank ambush in "Bridge Too Far" is the best scene in the movie.
One of best scenes of artillery "barrage" by British canoniers
Definattely not Vietcong...
@@maciejniedzielski7496 Those were Dutch Army artillerymen, wearing British uniforms and firing LIVE ammo at the Dutch Army training ground near where the tank scenes were filmed. They still had British WW2 artillery at that time
The anti-tank guns scene was very well done, and the strange truth is it never happened. The tanks destroyed during the first stage of the attack were destroyed by panzerfausts fired at point blank range by what has to be considered a suicide mission by a small group of Germans in a trench hidden next to the road. The fight escalated as the supporting infantry opened up. Also, the RAF did not come in to the save the day, the Irish Guards defeated the Germans with their tanks.
Personally, the surrender scene is my favorite.
"Best battle scene in history of Hollywood is the scene in Apocalypse Now ; the attack on the VC village.
Exciting stuff, but I really shouldn't be watching it right before bedtime. Too much adrenaline; I finish it tomorrow!
But, but, why isn't Kelly's heroes" in it?! My swan song with Clint Westwood.🦒
My favourite ever WW2 film, Telly. 👍
The Luftwäffe was known to attach speakers to the spatted wheels of Stukas to make the engine noise sound more terrifying as they dove on their targets.
the howl from the mustangs superchargers would do it for me !
That was a siren. The speed of the dive made it sound. .
@@BobSmith-dk8nw . Exactly. Think of one of those old hand crank sirens that were used to warn of an impending attack.
It was the so called "Jerichow-Fanfare".
Many Top-Class Movies Excellent upload 👍🤪
0:35 What a shot. They got the bomb to simultaneously explode inside the car AND the building.
Yeah! I noticed that, too!
A Bridge too Far is still my favorite movie of al time.
Battle of Britain.... Awesome
I was hoping to see a movie I haven't seen yet, but I have. All great flicks!
DoctorCreepy Did you see 'Is Paris burning?' Great movie!
@@guycastonguay9633 I have and I agree!
From my (limited)experience, A Bridge Too Far nailed it......
Oliver Stone's CP was not even guarded.
Laughed out loud - 'Force 10 from Navarone'?
Mike Caine - you don't even have to see his face to know it's him by voice alone...
In Battle Of Britain, he was doing the voiceover for a womble.
The depth charge scenes in Das Boot had me white knuckling the arms of my chair
the pill box scene for the thin red line movie is very good
I'm a sucker for well done practical effects over SFX
Nice that you included force 10, a brilliant sequel to guns of navarone but the scene loses some context when you don't include the preceding scene where the soldiers have to break into the airfield to steal the plane and deal with guards and Webster whose their prisoner and not part of the force 10 mission.
What a terrifying sound the planes make when diving
The way those stukas collapse after a few salvos from the Spitfires 303's; and the same shot from 3 different a angles.Ah well; it's still better than CGI.
There was no computers, no cgi. And perfect scene. Now is watching action movie like watchin PS5. especially superhero movies. I dont understands why people going such movies and pay for it...
Some of these are good, but I can think of many more that would beat these.
One rail car of POW's was strafed by friendly p-38's, killing all but one man. The train didn't stop for days, and there were so many people inside that there wasn't enough room for the bodies to even fall over, the one survivor just stood there propped up by dead men for DAYS
must of gotten awful smelly
There are no Lockheed P-38 Lightnings in this clip, just a flight of 2 P-51 Mustangs.
why are you saying people ? please call them men !
@@kentonbrown937 I think he was talking about a real life incident - not the movie. .
@@jamesselby5875 don’t mock misery. Shame on you
Harrison Ford in Force 10 from Navorone. Guess i will have to watch it now
CGI will never be able to compete with real practical effects and real aircraft and tanks in movies. "A Bridge Too Far" and "Battle of Britain" prove this over and over again.
Bravo 👏🏻
Great movies to be made we need more movies with the Stukas or junka ju 88
Missed a BUNCH of them. from movies like "Waterloo", "The Blue Max", "Battleground", "ZULU". some of which have better scenes than most mentioned here
I always thought the action in ZULU was too slow. Like they were afraid of hurting one of the actors and the timing was bad on some of the fights. Example: A Zulu warrior raises a weapon and waits to be killed by somebody.
impresionantes escenas de bombardeo y combate aéreo solo las limitaciones de la época no se ven las ráfagas de los cazas al ser estos de verdad los J 87 eran aviones en servicio el la fuerza aérea de España al igual que los J88 y 109
I have got this movie DVD of Michael Caine Robert Shaw Laurence Olivier Trevor Howard Ian McShane Susannah York Christopher Plummer Kenneth More Edward Fox Barry Foster and Curt Jurgeons as a German officer in The Battle Of Britain I am dedicating this movie DVD to my old school friends who are both sisters as I hope to see them both again very soon to Chris and Hester from Billyxxx
Merci pour ces images j espère que les jeunes immatures comprendrons que la guerre n est pas une partie de plaisir ...
I can understand the glamor of cinema but please correct me if I am wrong but once in a documentary I learned that the Luftwaffe just flew over these radar stations along the shores of GB either of sheet cockiness or they mistook them for power lines since radar had just been recently invented unaware to the germans. In any case the battle of Britain is my next best movie to the battle of the bulge.
They attacked radar stations during the first couple of days then stopped. They knew they had put them out of action but underestimated how fast they would be repaired.
From what I've read, the Germans just didn't grasp how extensive and efficient the British coastal radar network really was.
@@b3j8 That as well. There is a great book called 'Night Fighters' written by Colin D. Heaton which covers nighttime air battles and the technology race between England and Germany. If you get a chance, I highly recommend it.
@@Historylover-ho6lg Thanks! I will indeed.
Battle of the bulge is a complete joke unrealistic and really bad played by almost every actors in it
If you listen you can tell that all the Stukas are RC planes well the spitfires are actual spitfires by the way the engine sounds
The ME 109s in the movie had Merlins. Spanish Air Force upgrades.
I hate it when people come on you tube and make recommendations on someone elses video , but The Cross of Iron is epic . Sorry . Great choices of films here
I guess that this was the best MGM scenes and not the best overall scenes
Someone gets it!
Amazing . I was them all .
Hey @MGM, y'all got any more of these?
First Broken Arrow order in Platoon!!
If someone is trying to bombard you or shoot at you, worst thing you can do is run for cover. Shoot with what you got. And get out of the way! Out of the way! Out of the way! Out of the way!!
11:00 minutes in - British 25 pounder field gun .............what a cracking weapon this was
It's not fair, Michael Caine was in two of them
Platoon at the 4:00 mark: that dive into the bunker one never forgets - Vietnam Combat vet certified, no TYVM.
Platoon leader is one of my favorite
Can you imagine being one of those Germans in the woods as the artillery barrage comes ever closer? No, you can’t.
Excellent
Haven’t watched platoon. But that’s crazy asking to fallback but being told we’re overrun, to hold your ground. Vietnam…
That first scene with the Stuka's.. why didnt that radar site pick such a larger force up? hahaha 🤣😂
Watch the movie, they did pick up the planes. Shown in a previous scene
Battle of Britain...early inspiration for Star Wars.
Bruh the lighting in force ten is so painful XD
There’s something particularly sad about men surviving combat but to be killed by your own side as POWs, by strafing fighters.
beautiful movie
The guy dove directly into the blast😂😂
Thats bcuz he was the blast.. sewa-side attack
Battle of Britain was great- if not mistaken the Spanish Air Force provided the German“luftwaffe” Air Force for this film.
The Heinkel 111 bombers and Messerschmitt Bf 109 were spanish postwar built CASA 2.111 and HA 1.109, both Rolls Royce Merlin engined, like the Spitfire.
Was it just me, or did Harrison Ford show a preview of things to come there in Force Ten?