What a film. I went to the flicks with my Dad when this first came out. I was mesmerised! I still love it to this day. One of THE most iconic film to remember how close things actually came. The Germans were a phenomenal fighting machine in their prime. We were lucky, thank God for all our fighting men and women in every role. 🇬🇧🇬🇧
We weren’t lucky. We were good. The RAF fighter command was run by ruthless professionals. A well thought out raider chain. An observer Corps that identified what the aircraft were. And a sector station network that coordinated the squadrons to attack where needed. A first class supply network that ferried aircraft to squadrons to replace lost aircraft. And factories that in a month was out producing Germany.
Only my parents would’ve remembered the events of World 🌍 War Two.They are no longer here.In honor of them,I made a chocolate potatoe cake 🎂 in the fall of 2017.Because,this is what they made in that time…in 1940.So…it was an honor to make this cake!🎂 Someday,I’ll do it,again!❤😊
The Few that never failed Britain and its generations to come. I strongly recommend that generations X, Y, and Z watch this film and be fully aware of our history and the freedoms we have. But also what price was payed by the the "Greatest Generation" and what it went through to achieve such status. God bless them all.
I am Generation X (born 1970) and my parents were both born before the Second World War, but children during the Battle of Britain. My father was seven and my mother just four at the time. Neither my grandfathers donned uniform as they were in reserved occupations, but I had great uncles who did wear khaki and fought for Britain!
Was lucky enough to see and hear Ron Godwin at the Norwich Theatre in the 1980s with a full orchestra playing his great film scores including the Battle of Britain theme, Aces High (the Luftwaffe theme), 633 Squadron and others. His telling of how he came to write such memorable themes and his interaction with the film industry was worth every penny of the ticket price. This is a truly great piece of cinema music 👍
The Royal Air Force showed tremendous courage and determination. The movie does go way over the top in implying that the spitfire was feared by German fighter pilots because they had nothing to match it. Typical movie nonsense. The reality was that the spitfire and hawker hurricane were pretty much evenly matched with the Bf-109s they faced. Each of these airplanes had strengths and weaknesses that both sides were aware of and that experienced pilots used in combat to defeat the other. The victor on any given day really depended on circumstances, individual pilot skill and experience. Overall, its an excellent movie and fun to watch!
@@minerran The Luftwaffe had previously only had to contend with the likes of the Polish PZL P.11 and French Dewoitine D520, which they treated rather badly. Their first encounters with RAF fighters over France and the Low countries quickly made then sit up and take notice, but the RAF planes of the BEF's "air component" were far from their peak performance, not having the command and control systems in place in France which was the "glue" which held Britain's defence together later through summer 1940.
@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684My parents were both born before the Second World War, so this was their early years. My father would have been seven, my mother just four. Both my grandfathers were fortunately in reserved occupations, otherwise I might not have been born!
@@paulwhite6745 Hahaha all in due time sir. Remember it took the working stiffs to lay aside thier daily business to win that war and it will be us working stiffs next go around as well.
I agree with Brad. The spirit is sure still there. It's just a matter of having a true, clearly identifiable and visible enemy to fight against. Coronavirus, for instance, is not a good example.
Had the pleasure of meeting a true hero who flew Spitfires in the Battle of Britain, Geoffrey Wellum. A gentle man who was a pleasure to know. From one of the many in honour of the few!
I knew a South African who flew in the BoB, a quiet man. Only found out after his death. The generation of WW2 never talked, as the men of WW1, about their experiences.
I like this movie because it's so rare that us Brits made a war film where we actually got to kick arse. We're often showing our tremendous defeats, or us barely escaping certain death, but not actually winning.
‘All hearts go out to the fighter pilots, whose brilliant actions we see with our own eyes day after day; but we must never forget that all the time, night after night, month after month, our bomber squadrons travel far into Germany, find their targets in the darkness by the highest navigational skill, aim their attacks, often under the heaviest fire, often with serious loss, with deliberate careful discrimination, and inflict shattering blows upon the whole of the technical and war-making structure of the Nazi power. On no part of the Royal Air Force does the weight of the war fall more heavily than on the daylight bombers who will play an invaluable part in the case of invasion and whose unflinching zeal it has been necessary in the meanwhile on numerous occasions to restrain.’ Winston Churchill, House of Commons, 20th August 1940
Saw this in the theaters on its original run. What great scenery, cinematography, and characters. Seemed like all the Stats of the period aligned for this film. Sweeping scope and a great score.
at that time Airfix range itself would not have had an 8-gun Spitfire or Hurricane ..or an Emil Bf109E...a crude JU87B maybe..even the Heinkel 111 they had was wrong, being a later-war top-turret model from the Eastern Front..
@@BravoSixGoingDark oh I don't have Netflix 😁 but I heard about them. Yes there are still good war Films of course but I mean , when you talk about a ww2 film most of the people will talk about things like fury or Midway 2019 (both, not....... Bad but overrated and no real historical films neither, for example the battle of Midway is just something like 45 or 50mins long in the film lol the rest is about pearl harbor) I heard someone saying enemy at the gates is a "masterpiece" LOL. Stalingrad, das Boot, a Bridge to far are Just known by people who want good historical films ☹️
Like to pay homage to the men from the Irish Free State (then) who flew in the Battle, as well as to the many nurses who gave sterling service to these brave men and to the victims of the Blitz!
Iam 64 and remember this movie getting filmed over my school in England 🇬🇧 us boys were watching every chance we got untill the head master shouted .YOU LOT BACK INSIDE NOW . HAHAHAHAHA The sound of those engines ,they had an old ww2 bomber painted white for the camera plane that why there was good dog fighting no computers back then
My girlfriends grandad was at biggin Hill when the battle of britain was on he was a armour and thank you so much for the service that they gave us freedom
I recall that the armament available to our fighters only allowed a limited period to fire and this must have presented so much frustration and many missed opportinities in actual combat.
The Hurricane actually shot down more enemy aircraft, then the Spitfire did during the Battle of Britain. The Hurricane could withstand more battle damage then the Spitfire, & could be repaired quicker hence that’s why it shot down more enemy aircraft. The RAF used the Hurricane’s to shoot down the German bombers, while the Spitfires tackled the ME109’s the rest is history ! ‘Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed to so many to so few ‘ Sir Winston Churchill
According my grandfather on mom's side his dad was a navi onboard a Lancaster unsure how true it is but I always look up to those skies and wonder what it would've been like
Love the series particularly “Funeral in Berlin” The character Harry Palmer need to be revived in a new and perhaps more dangerous post Cold War Version..
There's a part in the movie when the German Herman Georing is asking the young German pilots what else they needed . A young officer stepped forward and said A SQUADRON OF SPITFIRES SIR . 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 NEED WE SAY MORE 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🖕
That young German officer was actually Adolf Galland, one of Germany's top aces with 104 kills. He said to Göring, "Ich bitte um Ausrüstung meines Geschwaders mit Spitfires" (I request my squadron to be equipped with Spitfires). Cheers from Germany!
My father served his National Service at Biggin Hill (he actually had 1 day of War Service before WW2 ended). He says he read some of the old pilot logbooks from the pilots of that time, and he was struck at how childish/young looking some of the handwriting was…..
That generations sacrifice and look at the sh*t state of our country now!..... Lest we forget those heroes and heroines and get off our collective a*ses and make this country great again!.
This very week I had a woke/ snowflake ask me what has Britains military got to be proud of. I immediately replied the Battle Of Britain. Because of that said I , you can ask me that question. I could quote many more examples. Per Ardua Ad Astra.
It is a crying shame that ther are so few Heinkels and Messerschmidt's are still around. It is only a very few. The Luftwaffe had the best looking uniforms of any nation in WWII.
Esta peli está llena de incongruencias, con todos mis respetos,los henkel111bo solo llevaban la MG de popa también dos cañones delanteros okanone de 15_20 ,más una MG de aviación,eran muy maniobrables...my abuelo puloto' uno........la historia la escriben los vencedores .
great pilot's in their time over Europe but when they fought the Japanese in new guinea they were hopeless! prime example 54 squadron raf in their mark 5 spitfires ! then you wonder why the Aussie pilots bailed them out of trouble!!! lol
Let's not forget FRENCH ACES & SOVIET PLANES 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇮🇱✡️🕎🇳🇿🩵❤️♥️💜💗🇫🇷🇫🇷🗼🇫🇷🇷🇴🇩🇰🇵🇱🇨🇦🇸🇪🇪🇸🇺🇦🇳🇴🇧🇪🇮🇹🇷🇴🇷🇴🇫🇮🇬🇧🏴🇬🇷🇮🇪🇫🇷🗼🇱🇺🇭🇺🙏❤️🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
The UK will forever be thankful for the pilots and ground crews who fought in the Battle - whether British RAF or the pilots of other nations.
Steer 230. REPEAT PLEASE
@@Dproud2700 Dagga Dagga Dagga, Behind YOU
So very true but we need to reintroduce those wings we use to all pin on our clothes as kids ...
The world should all be thankful.
The whole world is indebted to those men.
What a film. I went to the flicks with my Dad when this first came out. I was mesmerised! I still love it to this day. One of THE most iconic film to remember how close things actually came. The Germans were a phenomenal fighting machine in their prime. We were lucky, thank God for all our fighting men and women in every role. 🇬🇧🇬🇧
We weren’t lucky. We were good. The RAF fighter command was run by ruthless professionals. A well thought out raider chain. An observer Corps that identified what the aircraft were.
And a sector station network that coordinated the squadrons to attack where needed.
A first class supply network that ferried aircraft to squadrons to replace lost aircraft. And factories that in a month was out producing Germany.
@@honeybadger6313 very true on all counts
Only my parents would’ve remembered the events of World 🌍 War Two.They are no longer here.In honor of them,I made a chocolate potatoe cake 🎂 in the fall of 2017.Because,this is what they made in that time…in 1940.So…it was an honor to make this cake!🎂 Someday,I’ll do it,again!❤😊
Chocks away Algie!
God bless the few and all who supported them. My grandad was part of the ground crew.🇬🇧
The Few that never failed Britain and its generations to come.
I strongly recommend that generations X, Y, and Z watch this film and be fully aware of our history and the freedoms we have. But also what price was payed by the the "Greatest Generation" and what it went through to achieve such status.
God bless them all.
I am Generation X (born 1970) and my parents were both born before the Second World War, but children during the Battle of Britain. My father was seven and my mother just four at the time. Neither my grandfathers donned uniform as they were in reserved occupations, but I had great uncles who did wear khaki and fought for Britain!
@Jonathan Smith Well said Jonathan.
They would also be 'offended' if someone shot at them as well?
I'm from genz this movie is a great movie that symbolizes the true sacrifice of the men who saved are world.
Well said.
Was lucky enough to see and hear Ron Godwin at the Norwich Theatre in the 1980s with a full orchestra playing his great film scores including the Battle of Britain theme, Aces High (the Luftwaffe theme), 633 Squadron and others. His telling of how he came to write such memorable themes and his interaction with the film industry was worth every penny of the ticket price. This is a truly great piece of cinema music 👍
What a memorable event that was... wish I could back and hear it for myself, lucky you !!! (PS... I'd stay back there as well)
Must have heard all those themes you mentioned hundreds of times, they never fail to give me goose pimples every time.
We will still be able to say This was their finest hour! What a tribute to the Few, by Jove. Toodle Pip!
The Royal Air Force showed tremendous courage and determination. The movie does go way over the top in implying that the spitfire was feared by German fighter pilots because they had nothing to match it. Typical movie nonsense. The reality was that the spitfire and hawker hurricane were pretty much evenly matched with the Bf-109s they faced. Each of these airplanes had strengths and weaknesses that both sides were aware of and that experienced pilots used in combat to defeat the other. The victor on any given day really depended on circumstances, individual pilot skill and experience.
Overall, its an excellent movie and fun to watch!
@@minerran The Luftwaffe had previously only had to contend with the likes of the Polish PZL P.11 and French Dewoitine D520, which they treated rather badly. Their first encounters with RAF fighters over France and the Low countries quickly made then sit up and take notice, but the RAF planes of the BEF's "air component" were far from their peak performance, not having the command and control systems in place in France which was the "glue" which held Britain's defence together later through summer 1940.
@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684My parents were both born before the Second World War, so this was their early years. My father would have been seven, my mother just four. Both my grandfathers were fortunately in reserved occupations, otherwise I might not have been born!
I wish we had that spirit now.
that great britain has long since departed
Its still there. Its just sleeping until the next time.
@@BradBrassman Agreed. We just need to remember who we are...and then remind our enemies of who it is they are fucking with.
@@paulwhite6745 Hahaha all in due time sir. Remember it took the working stiffs to lay aside thier daily business to win that war and it will be us working stiffs next go around as well.
I agree with Brad. The spirit is sure still there. It's just a matter of having a true, clearly identifiable and visible enemy to fight against. Coronavirus, for instance, is not a good example.
No CGI No back ground green !! Cinema at its best !!!
Something like the 4th biggest airforce in Europe at the time of filming
Had the pleasure of meeting a true hero who flew Spitfires in the Battle of Britain, Geoffrey Wellum. A gentle man who was a pleasure to know.
From one of the many in honour of the few!
I knew a South African who flew in the BoB, a quiet man. Only found out after his death. The generation of WW2 never talked, as the men of WW1, about their experiences.
Great film one of my favorite!!!
I like this movie because it's so rare that us Brits made a war film where we actually got to kick arse. We're often showing our tremendous defeats, or us barely escaping certain death, but not actually winning.
Thank for our freedom and sacrifice 🙏 you gave too 🙏 ❤ God bless you all I am truly grateful 🙏 much love ❤
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
Indeed. Lest we forget.
‘All hearts go out to the fighter pilots, whose brilliant actions we see with our own eyes day after day; but we must never forget that all the time, night after night, month after month, our bomber squadrons travel far into Germany, find their targets in the darkness by the highest navigational skill, aim their attacks, often under the heaviest fire, often with serious loss, with deliberate careful discrimination, and inflict shattering blows upon the whole of the technical and war-making structure of the Nazi power. On no part of the Royal Air Force does the weight of the war fall more heavily than on the daylight bombers who will play an invaluable part in the case of invasion and whose unflinching zeal it has been necessary in the meanwhile on numerous occasions to restrain.’ Winston Churchill, House of Commons, 20th August 1940
It's all fun and games being in the Luftwaffe until you hear this coming over the horizon
why?
Why... because it was the Luftwaffe’s 1st defeat, indeed the 1st defeat of the “1000-year...” you know the rest😉
Hermann Goering had to explain to Adolf Hitler how the all conquering Luftwaffe had lost to an air force one third of it's size.
Bloody marvellous 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
It bloody well is mate
🌹
This video, your pfp, your comment. Most British thing I saw on the internet
That's because I am British
Top hat control be on the look out for a friendly wing joining you on your port side.
When we were warriors, long gone now. Thank you all for your service, we'll never see your like again under Labour.
Saw this in the theaters on its original run. What great scenery, cinematography, and characters. Seemed like all the Stats of the period aligned for this film. Sweeping scope and a great score.
All those talented pilots gone before there time sad
And so very young
When i first saw this film ten years after it was made, I always wondered how many Airfix models made the ultimate sacrifice???
Not many really. Look for the making of the film on YT
at that time Airfix range itself would not have had an 8-gun Spitfire or Hurricane ..or an Emil Bf109E...a crude JU87B maybe..even the Heinkel 111 they had was wrong, being a later-war top-turret model from the Eastern Front..
the greatest movie i watched, with awesome music
Good war Films like this don't exist anymore.......
Sure they do, have you seen The Kings Choice (2016), Netflix's The Forgotten Battle (2021) or Netflix's The bombardment (2021)?
@@BravoSixGoingDark oh I don't have Netflix 😁 but I heard about them.
Yes there are still good war Films of course but I mean , when you talk about a ww2 film most of the people will talk about things like fury or Midway 2019 (both, not....... Bad but overrated and no real historical films neither, for example the battle of Midway is just something like 45 or 50mins long in the film lol the rest is about pearl harbor) I heard someone saying enemy at the gates is a "masterpiece" LOL. Stalingrad, das Boot, a Bridge to far are Just known by people who want good historical films ☹️
@@Manu-rb6eo Good point! 😁
My mother God bless her was based at RAF Brize Norton.
Like to pay homage to the men from the Irish Free State (then) who flew in the Battle, as well as to the many nurses who gave sterling service to these brave men and to the victims of the Blitz!
Who were welcomed so warmly in their own country for 70 years?
Honor to all who fought in Second World War. Brave men from many countries, not unlike the cowsrds that prevail today in our societies.
God bless our British armed forces 🙏 and RAF for there sacrifice they have gave for our freedom 🙏 thank you so much 🙏 from my ❤
Best WW2 movie ever made. The Longest Day!!!!!!!
Iam 64 and remember this movie getting filmed over my school in England 🇬🇧 us boys were watching every chance we got untill the head master shouted .YOU LOT BACK INSIDE NOW . HAHAHAHAHA The sound of those engines ,they had an old ww2 bomber painted white for the camera plane that why there was good dog fighting no computers back then
A B25..
That would have been something too see an aerial dogfight over your school !
Trying to keep italianwestern memories alive. Good for older listeners. Thanks.
My girlfriends grandad was at biggin Hill when the battle of britain was on he was a armour and thank you so much for the service that they gave us freedom
God bless our allies thank you too for the sacrifice 🙏 you gave too 🙏 ❤
Heroes
I recall that the armament available to our fighters only allowed a limited period to fire and this must have
presented so much frustration and many missed opportinities in actual combat.
The Hurricane actually shot down more enemy aircraft, then the Spitfire did during the Battle of Britain. The Hurricane could withstand more battle damage then the Spitfire, & could be repaired quicker hence that’s why it shot down more enemy aircraft. The RAF used the Hurricane’s to shoot down the German bombers, while the Spitfires tackled the ME109’s the rest is history ! ‘Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed to so many to so few ‘ Sir Winston Churchill
Watching old WW2 movies/UA-cam channels like sixtygallons work me up. It's so romantic for me
Going to see battle over Britain at the weekend. Love the original.
"Home and tea! For once you deserve it!"
According my grandfather on mom's side his dad was a navi onboard a Lancaster unsure how true it is but I always look up to those skies and wonder what it would've been like
Great thanks too NZ Pilates and 303 squadron American Eagles squadron
Miracles can♥️happen as we speak,.....never lose hope in your/our country
Love the series particularly “Funeral in Berlin” The character Harry Palmer need to be revived in a new and perhaps more dangerous post Cold War Version..
All the best for good future.All the best for peace 🕊️
For your freedom and ours 🇵🇱🇬🇧
There's a part in the movie when the German Herman Georing is asking the young German pilots what else they needed . A young officer stepped forward and said A SQUADRON OF SPITFIRES SIR .
🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 NEED WE SAY MORE 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🖕
That young German officer was actually Adolf Galland, one of Germany's top aces with 104 kills. He said to Göring, "Ich bitte um Ausrüstung meines Geschwaders mit Spitfires" (I request my squadron to be equipped with Spitfires).
Cheers from Germany!
@@BingoPaletot Vielen Danke!
Personally it would be much better if you could hear the engines in the background.
My father served his National Service at Biggin Hill (he actually had 1 day of War Service before WW2 ended). He says he read some of the old pilot logbooks from the pilots of that time, and he was struck at how childish/young looking some of the handwriting was…..
A movie about commonwealth pilots during the battle of Britain south Africa and NZ and American eagle squadron
"They must be there".
"Well come up here and look for your self if you don't believe me!!"
Just Outstanding!!
I like this song and play it privately sometimes. I find it hilarious that you put Bundeswehr in parentheses.
Hahaha. Bundeswehr My Ass
love the film and the theme,freeze this at 1.11 is that an airliner's vapour trail top right?
I put this in my boss theme playlist, idk why
Hawker Hurricane baby👍👍
They certainly don't make epic films like this anymore, nor do they have the musical score to accompany them.That is why we call them classics.
素晴らしい選択です。それもテ−マではなく序曲ばかり!ただ愚痴ると西部劇、戦争映画、などゴチャ混ぜ！？ジャンルにこだわらないフリーな処が良いかも!これだけの音源を所持している事も凄いです。
Skilled with bullets.
Not fire and forget missiles.
Bloody Marvelous
I was staying with ant in London I saw it when it first came out in 1969
This movie being my memory playing battlefield 1942 and all the mod
良くまとまっていると思います。
example of every battle is won before it is fought
We either blow up or stand up! Which is it to be? my engine's heating up and so am l !
*Germans shooting spitwads across the English Channel*
"Why do I hear boss music playing?"
Remember the dogs name in the opening shot
Hello Rabbit leader
どうやって撮影したの？
It's sad situation when normal people feel threatened by now look too past give strength
The World's 1st Integrated Air Defence System did rather well, despite the absence of Mel Gibson etc etc!
Chain Home and the Royal Observer Corps
Great movie.
Ron Goodwin
Repeat please.
They didn’t think they just done it takes a lot of balls in the air ok the ground doesn’t matter they died for our freedom
空軍大戦略？✈️
RAF says it all!
I personally don't have that strength
Chwała Spitfirejowi.
Eeeeeeeeeyyyaaaaaaaaarrrrooooooo - dagger-dagger-dagger-dagger!!
hallway scene is the most intense scene bro
Britain didn`t have the best Pilots nor Planes that won the Battle of Britain but the BY FAR Superior Command
We'll settle for joint best planes and pilots AND world beating command and control systems.
A good try but the actors for these movies don't fit the part they all remained in the 60s
I love refrigerators
That generations sacrifice and look at the sh*t state of our country now!..... Lest we forget those heroes and heroines and get off our collective a*ses and make this country great again!.
Sone hills bams 12 o'Clock
tally ho chaps
Let's get intae them! Me 25 years ago in a gang fight!!!!!
This very week I had a woke/ snowflake ask me what has Britains military got to be proud of.
I immediately replied the Battle Of Britain.
Because of that said I , you can ask me that question.
I could quote many more examples.
Per Ardua Ad Astra.
Oh Stanley, you naughty boy🌈
14/05/24.
When I play spitfire in war thunder: what I imagine
What actually happens: died 20 seconds in to a he 100
I was born in the wrong time!
It is a crying shame that ther are so few Heinkels and Messerschmidt's are still around. It is only a very few. The Luftwaffe had the best looking uniforms of any nation in WWII.
0:12
Esta peli está llena de incongruencias, con todos mis respetos,los henkel111bo solo llevaban la MG de popa también dos cañones delanteros okanone de 15_20 ,más una MG de aviación,eran muy maniobrables...my abuelo puloto' uno........la historia la escriben los vencedores .
Yep, and you lost. Twice.
Spain wins ,you Lost something?.
Luftwaffe for ever
great pilot's in their time over Europe but when they fought the Japanese in new guinea they were hopeless! prime example 54 squadron raf in their mark 5 spitfires ! then you wonder why the Aussie pilots bailed them out of trouble!!! lol
2ww deygh
die briten waren damals au net besser
We were better than you krauts. Twice.
Let's not forget FRENCH ACES & SOVIET PLANES 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇮🇱✡️🕎🇳🇿🩵❤️♥️💜💗🇫🇷🇫🇷🗼🇫🇷🇷🇴🇩🇰🇵🇱🇨🇦🇸🇪🇪🇸🇺🇦🇳🇴🇧🇪🇮🇹🇷🇴🇷🇴🇫🇮🇬🇧🏴🇬🇷🇮🇪🇫🇷🗼🇱🇺🇭🇺🙏❤️🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸