WWI 1916: The Terror Of The First Tanks | Greatest Tank Battles | Timeline
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- Опубліковано 21 лип 2021
- In 1916, the British Army unleash a terrifying new weapon against their German opposition in WW1. Here, we explore the deployment of the world's first tanks, and the German armies attempt to fight them before developing their own -- creating history's first tank war.
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Imagine being the first soldiers to come face to face with a Mark 1... That must of been a different level of terrifying!
Exactly what I came here to say. It's the sound of them that gets me. As someone who spent 17 years in HM forces, I've been in theatre against tanks and even today, it's not a great feeling, but to have never seen or even imagined such a vehicle could exist, to then find one coming towards you, is horrible.
From what I have read the German troops that faced them were terrified at the sight of them slowly yet inexorably rumbling across no man's land,
@@wm9355 I'm American and don't know much so what tanks did you come across? Cool to hear from other armed forces
yes, but also imagine being one of the first to man a tank in what they constantly call steel coffins? lol. WW1 was a scary fight on all levels - those paper airplanes, that observation balloon... let's face it. there were no good jobs in WW1.
My thoughts exactly..
So THIS is what the History Channel used to be like.
Yeah, I remember when the History Channel was only actual history. Back when A&E was actually Arts & Entertainment, MTV had actual music, and football was still a spectator sport. Ah, the good ol’ days.
I watched documentary at history channel about that tanks were given to British by alien egyptians
@@maxymorzeszko8344 really? Lol I'd like to hear more
@@B355Y I was there
Ya they had actual badass history I would watch it all the time. it's crazy how they went against their entire history audience by making garbage on space aliens and mermaids
I don’t know quite how to explain it. But there is something about the appearance of WW1 tanks that seem so much more menacing and ominous than the model we are used to today
Probably because they're weird to us, not exactly the tanks we are familiar with. Strange things induce fear
Agree
It is a different design philosophy for a different kind of warfare. You needed something big and heavy to cross static lines of infantry and take them out. Modern tank warfare is about speed and attacking from long ranges. Also lessons had not been learned yet about what armoured warfare could do, and how to counter it.
There is a game out in early access called Sprocket, if you have an interest in tank design.
Maybe because of their raw steam punkish appearance? It give these tanks an ominous appearance.
@@santoparfano1910 I wouldn't call it steam punk ish it more fits with diesel punk more than steam punk and yes they are very very ominous
Every historian after a new weapon is first used in battle: “This totally changes everything.”
Such a simple but powerful sentence.
first the machine gun, then the plane, and then the tank each changed war vastly in its own way
That's in our genes I guess. Just imagine you're living in the cave and have only the big non ergonomic rocks to fight with and the next moment the tribe of guys with long pointy sticks come to kill you. Ofc anyone in this situation will think "that changed everything", since the future of their tribe depends on the outcome of the fight
@@SolvietSoundtrack115 Needle fire gun, smokeless powder, brass cartridges, small bore, heck even magazines have all been huge steps forward
i wonder what it will be next, and by who
I was walking in a local cemetery yesterday. I went to the vets section and saw a lot of different civil war vets, (confederate because I’m from bama), ww1, ww2 and more. It’s crazy to think about what they all went through. The stories they could tell. I wish I could shake ALL those mens’ hands. Those poor guys didn’t know what they were walking into when they got sent to no man’s land.
The historians in this one are so passionate about their work, really makes the video worth watching, despite the constant reused animations.
My great great uncle was a tank operative in 1916, I have inherited his WW1 medal.
Must be an honour to inherit such a priceless heirloom
@@Slenderslayer351i can give him 20 bucks
@@AbuHajarAlBugattiyou are poor soul
2:43 western front
4:24 Mark 1 analysis
18:40 Morshi
24:08 Battle of Cambrai
34:25 A7V German tanks
35:53 A7V analysis
My thanks to the creators of this brilliantly executed documentary. The use of animation greatly enhanced the narrative, which would have been a tough challenge to overcome had the story been told through a book.
Again, I give a heartfelt thanks for all the efforts of those who made it possible.
Agree, however the film could be almost a half shorter given the many almost literal repetitions of the voice over text.
I used to love this show. I’m so glad this channel is rerunning them
Its fascinating to see tanks specifically designed to combat trench warfare...
My great grandfather served in the 1/4th battalion West Riding Regiment who were involved in this battle......he was sadly killed on 23rd September 1916, the day after this battle finished.
Gerry tanks! I love how excited the tank crews were to fight each other.
Tanks for this!
I was going to watch this now but I cannon a minute
Dont thread it man..
@@SortenRavn Well that one tanked.
@@cheeptrick5464 cannon understand what you point exactly is here..
🤔
I see what you did there😂
It was 1980. I was a freshmen studying engineering at the University of Arizona. A classmate named Harry was an Israeli citizen and he was being drafted into the IDF. He was filling out forms and he said he did NOT want to end up in a tank, because he remembered seeing burned out tanks everywhere after the Arab-Israeli Wars of 1967 & 1973. He dared NOT put that on the form, because that's exactly where they'd put him, if he wrote that. The last I heard from Harry, he had been in the Invasion of Lebanon in 1982. I think he avoided being in a tank, however.
David fletcher is such an knowledgeable man
This would have been greatly improved if the runtime-padding had been edited out.
Exactly. Are American viewers unable to remember what they've been watching on either side of an ad-break? Or just a cheap way to stretch out your content by at least 25%?
@@WibblyPigNZ ikr? It's like this is almost every damn documentary made by/and for Americans.
Bloody annoying
@@WibblyPigNZ I know this is the UA-cam comment section and we're not allowed to have nuance, but It's probably used to fill in the blanks for the viewers who randomly landed on their channel and retain their watch time. Of course this doesn't really make sense on UA-cam.
@@rainevermore4683 Don't try to use logic or nuance, they don't quite have the attention span for it
I'm an American. I won't join this petty banter but instead remind you all who helped turn the tide in both world wars. Yes...it was us "brutish Yanks" Enough said...
I think the British probably hold the hat when it comes to psychological warfare, from the lone piper being sent forward to play ahead of the advance, knowing the Germans could hear the eerie sound drifting across no-man's land to the sound of grinding metal and loud diesel engines. It reminds me of the final scene from Saving Private Ryan, when you can hear the German tanks slowly approaching.
Must've been terrifying.
As a species we are infinitely better at war than we are at peace.
Isn't that a bit contradictory? It sounds contradictory. When we are gone the possibility that there is world peace one day could be acheived, dealing with unlimited time or infinity there could well be peace the like we have never known, the alternative is to disturbing to think about. Although looking back in history you would be mistaken for thinking time isn't linear as history often repeats itself, this being the reason for your comment i expect. I don't give up hope that my childrens, childrens, children have a future to look forward to.
War Apes. . Death Dealers
Smoke Monkeys. . The Brutes
If nothing else war is a good tool for population control. Boosts others economies aswell.
Considering the booming global population, I would say we have been quite peaceful lately.
well, we have a lot more practice in war
havent really tried peace on a large scale before
and you know what they say, stick w what you know...
Never get fed up with ww1 video's! More the merrier! Just such a different war all together than what ww2 was, I find the Great war just so interesting alway new information popping up in newer videos to that's a great wee bonus!
Just the Dan Snow intros.
my favorite part is how there was no clear good guy or bad guy, only war
@@EndoClaw a new German one was uploaded just 2 days ago yet to watch it that's for tomorrow while building my ferdinand model tank
Whenever I see David Fletcher I feel safe in the knowledge that the information is correct. Tank Lorax is the best.
First time hearing "Tank Lorax". Fits so perfectly.
Yes, I've put in an order for one. With a sun roof.
The early Mk 1 tanks were tested in Dollis Hill ( no where near the tube station) and at my local Park to Gladstone Park. Just as much a nightmare for the crew, fumes, heat and cramped conditions. They were called the Entente at the time, arguably only when the US joined the western front, became the Allies. More testing and training would have helped the British to achieve more of a breakthrough and capitalise on the terror generated amongst the German Imperial armies.
I love these videos, after playing battlefield and older call of duty you feel like you were there and they're telling your story
33:40 how happy is the German historian telling the story of German field guns destroying British tanks? LOL!
Best moment of the video, love it as a german! :D
If tanks had been equipped with nuclear laser munitions, they could have simply killed all the Germans and WW2 would never have happened. Also, England could never have won the World Cup, which is another sadly-missed opportunity.
His smile was glaringly wide!
@@jdbarr769 A cheesy grin, indeed.
@@Ndlanding Yes if only they had nuclear laser munitions in WWI, would you like me to tell you why them did not? Smoothbrain.
I always find ww1 more interesting and fascinating than ww2.Great documentary,loved every minute of it.Plus great references on my next ww1 project with A7V and Mark IV battle diorama 🙌🏻
Thank you so much for uploading this video. It is helping me get through the pandemic!
Thank you the information
This was awesome 👏 best way to convey history to all
I LOVE this episode. I had some fantastic tank battles in Battlefield 1 that were almost exactly like this first tank vs. tank battle! I find it pretty cool that I was reenacting history in some small way.
I noticed that too.
Such a good game
No you're not
As if you’re comparing BF1 to what WW1 was actually like.
@@gmailalt6928 what else is he gunna compare it too? A book?
This is awesome... The atmosphere of how scary a war is truly present... Thank you very much...
Such amazing footage.
Excellent show. Thankyou.
Really great nice to have it uploaded here to watch
Outstanding video and presentation.
Love this content thank u
I've seen this episode more times than I can count in my head back when I still paid for cable television. This show was on the Ancient Alien's Channel for years and played reruns of the same episode about 6 times in 24 hours, and another episode repeated the next day and so on... While this is still a good show and interesting. It brings back memories of a fairly crappy time in my life when I had little better to do than zombify in front of a TV screen... Blah... It would be nice if Timeline would produce an improved variant of this same show, without the memories of those hellish years of what was, at one point, a decent TV channel.
Excellent 😊👌 explaination..💯
There needs to be a movie made about this
May i say the banter related to Time Line is refreshingly positive and supportive! Thank you all!
Ain't no moustache like a David Fletcher moustache!
That's the best moustache in town!
Ten....shun!!
Haha NONE!
What about hitlers
Thank you for an interesting documentary)
Cars back then were for the very rich and most people still used horses to get around. Imagine growing up with horses and carriages and then seeing a tank coming at you
It’s amazing that at that time, the British Empire was the largest empire in the world, through military prowess. And to think that they would be so incompetent as to delay an attack and not inform all elements of the delay is incomprehensible. It makes me wonder if that is what really happened, or rather an experiment.
communication was a constant problem to all sides during the war. lack of communication caused many endless incidents where people were slaughtered.
There is also the issue of having pre-great war commanders, who would be used to issuing orders to their command staff and let them distribute said orders to the two branches that traditionaly did the fighting - infantry and artillery. Everyone probably thought someone else would tell the new guys in the tanks
Is it incompetence or simple inexperience? The tank corps was a completely new arm of the military and I can see how they could easily be missed when issuing orders.
Like how I've changed cars and no longer have automatic headlights. I've had numerous occasions where I have initially at least, not turned on my headlights because I'm not used to having to do so.
thanks...good textbook for ww1 learner
It's brutal and we shouldn't joke about it, but those original tanks looked just so much cooler and more impressive; like the first bombers with several gun turrets
incredible storytelling!
Shame nobody talks about the Battle of Hamel (4 July 1918) which was a successful attack by Australian Army and US Army infantry, supported by British tanks, against German positions in and around the town of Le Hamel, in northern France, during World War I. First great combined arms engagement.
Thanks for the info ill check it out
I love your videos
I'm so glad I grew up in the golden age of documentaries.
I didn't imagine that so many of the old documentaries would be reused though.
I guess I figured they would find a way to make even better ones now.
This is what makes great viewing .
"Carl it appears the Mark 1s seem to be domina... WOAH! Here comes Ricky Carmichael flying through the whoops section on the last lap to win the Supercross Championship! What a Race Carl, back to you in the studio!"
It's amazing to se how horrific it was facing the first tank, just as it was operating it
Had me on the edge of my seat.
"Looks like we have to capture it all over again, so we did." lol
HISTORY HIT TV IS LIKE THE NETFLIX FOR HISTORY
Thanks
that guys mustache is exactly what i want my british historians to have
His mustache is so epic.
everyone is gangsta till you hear rumbling in the distance in your trench
History is amazing
Fascinating.
it would have been terrifying to face those tanks, but it would have been terrifying to be in the tanks
Rolling down that street with 3 tanks firing every gun at once. Glorious
Good old Dave. He is a gem.
A lot of field artillery guys might have something to say about that "king of battle" title being given to tanks within the first 3 min...
Maus: _"I'm the biggest tank!"_
Ratte: _"Hold my beer."_
*imaginary beer
@@apooyosucks Maus = New beer which never left the brewery (and likely wouldn't have been popular if it ever did)
Ratte = Pipedream beer which never even got beyond the recipe stage.
Modern tank designers = There's only so much beer a man can practically drink and not collapse.
UA-cam is the new History Channel
I can't get enough of WWI docs!
Absolutely terrifying
25:17
"keep going, keep going, keep going"
"you're good"
*slam*
Tanks for the memories.
the tanks back then, that big engine coupled with the metallic repetitive ggingging giing ging ging ging tingtingtingtingting with some metal squeaks in there, that sound with the tank slowly creeping up, and then the guns, the sound of the tank rolling gave that foreboding of what was coming
The British Mk.1 heavy Tank , some times affectionately called Mother as it was the first of it's kind.
Being extremely clostrophobic myself, being inside one of these things is my worst nightmare, only a submarine could be worse for me.
Modern submarines are quite cozy. Its only a potential engine or electronic failure that eeks me. Sinking and sinking. Then the hull slowly breaking over many hours and nobody being able to come and save you
@@AbuHajarAlBugatti dude. Why did you have to add that 🤣
The 77mm in ww2 and the 88mm in ww2 shows how advanced things were getting then. I love the way today in all the Munster museum videos on UA-cam etc how they make a fuss over the A7V and how good it was it was a great success! Far from it! They kept the same triple bogie set up from the tractor they just slapped an armour shell on and that low nose the first lot hit a small hill and were stuck! They were so skinny n tall they fell over all the time! Near every photo I've seen of one's on it's side or stuck nose down! What a failure that thing was! That's why there's only 1 original left in the Australian museum! There not handing it back over to Germany anytime soon even though Germany have asked so many time's so they got that copy in the German museum but it's not the same as the real thing! You do see the difference face to face!
standing in the line of fire.
32 lead the way.
crawling over trench and wire.
move into the endless grey.
Amazing video!
Thank you
I recognise that narrator... The Mass Effect Codex!
It's not though.
Germans: what’s that tractor noise?
Imagine being one of the first soldier's to operate a Landship
Back in those days it was not fun. You were pretty much guaranteed a terrible death the moment you entered a tank. It was not something many liked to be a part of even though tanks ended up helping them immensely on the battlefield.
WW1 tanks in reality were coffins on tracks.
Hearing David Fletcher talk makes me happy
Some times I forget I'm watching a documentary its that good
Just watched fury today. This should be a good follow up 🙂
I love that captain tank chat is in this
So I live in a rural area, and now and then I'll find old rusty barbed wire in the ground from where farmers used to have fences. I'm not just imagining the absolutely insane amount of barbed wire that must be in the soil all through that area. >.>
What country?
@@fredkruse9444 me? I’m in the U.S.
12:58 most of these guys had never even seen a car. a brilliant re-enactment of the battle.
!!! Great//lars
as a Elite Tank Commander in World of Tanks i like this video
Too bad the American Picker’s Channel doesn’t have actual historical documentaries like this anymore.
People always joke about British tanks breaking down and being unreliable, but you gotta remember that these were the very first. There was nothing to compare it to. No bar to pass.
And it worked.
Too Nice Military Tactical video In Historical Background Defense Events of Battel fields Obviously Proved That German Infantry members faced tanks with Bravery & German Artillery crews Learnt how to stopped tanks waves during 7 months experiments (direct hit in short Range & 45 degree in Medium Range )
The CGI on this gives me good-feeling BF1942 intro video flashbacks...ahhh 2001 ;)
the scariest thibg about the mk1 that its slow and steady
High quality content!
The design of the a7v just begs to get stuck in an bomb crater, look ath these tracks and the tanks chassis extruding at the front and the back just waiting to hang it self up while crossing an bombcrater
All Quiet on the Western front remake has a terrific scene depicting this.
i like this arnold commentary
When is the movie being made ? Incredible stuff that would make an awesome motion picture 🙏🙏🙏
the first attack sounds like a good plot for a horror game
Mr. Fletcher my beloved
Brilliant videos! Much love from NY USA
Considering Churchills involvement in Tanks, I'm surprised they weren't Crewed by the RN, Men used to working in confined, hot and noisy spaces that are Immune to Motion Sickness.
Not a word about the French tanks . This is amazing …Do you hate us so much ?
Especially not a word about the Renault FT17 , which was the first tank with a 360 degree turret , which is the stereotype of all tanks afterwards, even in present day…It was the most produced tank in the world, and famous generals like Patton learnt the tank tactics with it…
Revolutionary idea with a rotation turret. Sure. But the FT17 was obsolete after WW1, even though it was continued in use up until post WW2. To be quite honest, most of "us" aren't sure if the French even like fellow Frenchmen at this point. As I've heard myself: "When the world cheers the French sneer." I've no opinion either way of the French, it is only an observation. I've met some good, and some bad. I don't think anyone particularly hates French people, "we" simply don't want to get tangled up in sensitive egos and a history going back a thousand and some years between Spain, England, Portugal, Germany, The Dutch, etc. It is a very touchy subject, as offense is always made known when others do not make note of French historical events or contribution.
The FT wasn't introduced until 1917 ( see video title), it wasn't the most produced tank in the world, and it wasn't the first tank to be manufactured with a turret.
Also, I love French people, it depends on the person. In fact, I spent most of my day today with a wonderful French lady.
@@svenkonig453 ' revolutionary idea......turret' Nice pun!
@@thejacal2704 Right it had a short existence, which is what i'm insinuating.
@@svenkonig453 Whoosh