The black Congolese police you see were given the coins (whites kept the paper bills) and were allowed a few hours to loot anything else they wanted (that time was up when they were taking the shit back at the end). I think in the originally documentary it was 24 hours and that footage is from literally minutes after that period had lapsed
So if there’s still people who think that this conflict was JUST about “communism” or whatever....it was very much also about white supremacy. Just like Rhodesia, just like South Africa
@@Kctubes so it was about white supremacy and those who benefited from it against the rest. Odd choice of words saying “civilization vs primitivity” doe👀
The truth is also missing from most documentaries. Too many of them wrap the raw footage and such in their own politics or commentary about the world according to themselves.
Small recap: Essentially, after the siege from the Mercs, the city was liberated. And eventually, Mercs arent really armies, they dont have any MP's. So they set up an 24hr(?) martial law-ish thing which permitted looting.
"Hey mercs we need you to help us around in africa" " Hm'kay what's in it for us ?" "I mean.. You'll get beer and loot.." "Alrighty then we'll do it !" :start blasting music:
Looting has always been a common and even expected activity in conventional war. The ancient Greeks and Romans formalized and regulated it into systematic operation; it wasn't a free -for-all where every soldier grabbed what he can. Instead, they canvassed a captured city, piled up everything of value found, and divided the loot based on rank or merit. The militaristic Romans made so much off of looting that franchised citizens in the Republic regularly voted to go to war simply for the sake of pillaging their neighbors to enrich themselves.
@Ben that’s not odd for nice clothes. Buying expensive clothes is an investment but you’ll actually save money in the long run. Like the guy in LA noire says - buy two suits and get em pressed. They’ll last you your entire life
@@princejaxisblack8789 Nah I'm kidding, obviously Africa is super ahead in terms of development and their intellect is superior. Ever heard of Zimbabwe?
@@arnantphongsatha7906 I've probably seen it close to 100 times and never saw that. lol I even bought the English version of the documentary called 'Africa: Blood and Guts' and never noticed it.
I’ Never think this is remastered by an documentary Film .😳 I think more that was made with a mini hd camera hide in an old 8mm Film case 🤔 The more i think about it is possible an Time Traveler like such rich Tourist who used the cam.😳
@@juststuff8742 I figured. Love the charging habdle on commonwealth guns. Considering buying a classic style FAL and buying a special charging handle made by DS Arms because of how much I love it
it's hard to think that this image is so old that many of these men had fought in the second world war (or at least lived through it), just goes to show how the soldiers don't just disappear from the face of the earth when the war is over.
After Iraq died down I left the Marines. Went back because I didn’t find civilian life to my taste and went to Afghanistan. Remembered why I left the Marines in the first place and left again after my years were up. Took up an offer from an Afghan warlord’s security forces I’d met on my last tour for a job with their company. That put me in South Africa. Sent me up to Sudan and Libya and wound up in Syria for a bit. Back down to the Congo and some light work in Estwatini. I’ve got a little nest egg and now am running some private work in the states since I’m getting a little long in the tooth. There’s a shit-ton of guys like me running around the “private contracting” circuits. Good money to be made. Most of it outside of the state department contracts.
@@Skullgar absolutely they will. For only $70k a year last time I heard. No dice. It used to be closer to $200k. The warlords pay better. Much better if you’ve got a little clout and a recommendation.
@@hieug.rection1920any tips to try and get into that life? Anything that can make me look better to be approached or is there a way for me to approach them?
Iirc the previous one got deleted because it showed some dudes getting clocked in the head, an execution. The bare ass man made it in i'm glad (?) to see
1:36 Part of the unspoken gag of this scene is that the money (Congolese franc notes) is near worthless in 1964 thanks to the rampant inflation caused by the war. That whole big pile of moldy paper francs they looted out of that town is probably worth $50 in modern USD, and that's if you could find anybody willing to accept it. That's why they're jokingly sorting it all out and then the merc ostentatiously lights his cigarette with a fat wad of it. They're there for the loot, true, but mostly for the adventure. Edit: in a new twist, I was amused to see this reference in Jagged Alliance 3, in which your mercs find burlap sacks full of Grand Chien francs, each which is worth roughly $5. 😆
Thank you for completing the series. Based on watching the original footage before your edits. you did an incredible job that the original directors would surely be proud of the the emotion you pull from your audience. Well done bruv
my fathers friends escaped the stanleyville massacre a family of five drove overland in a bedford truck down through northern and southern rhodesia and stayed with us in natal, the mother gisele used to tell me stories that i couldnt get to sleep at night after... thanks for this upload
A fascinating story. Thanks for sharing this memory with us. Did she (the mother, Gislèle, who I assume was Belgian and likely spoke French, predominantly, her being in the Congo and all) speak English to you? Or did she also happen to speak Flemish, which is a Dutch dialect, and by extension, very similar to Afrikaans? I'm genuinely interested, as this period of geo-political history has always fascinated me.
@@pabloboy6397 Not much of that side of history is allowed to even be published or stored on book shelfs in South Africa and absolutely not in the rest of black Africa. One of the few or perhaps last vetiges of history of the European people in Africa is kept inside the Voortrekker Monument. Won't shock me at this point if Chris, myself and many other White South Africans are racing our bukkies back up the same way Gisele came down, either in a 4x4 or horse back at this point.
Any way to share and spread the knowledge, I had family killed in both SA and Kenya, the more the history is remembered the better as it is increasingly becoming a European reality as well.
Im glad this has returned after being so rudely youtubed away from my playlists. Your work is so simple yet it helps create interest in the topic at hand for me at least
"Due to the lack of men required to use for police actions. We'd been forced to hire mercenaries to act as police man. Harassment to civilians, corruption and brutality was a plus in the deal"
These hit hard with me. A documentary gives you the details and often does a wonderful job, but the mix of the music, and brutal reality of the shots does more to make me remember these situations and what people have gone thorugh.
Not much reading on 5 commando and the Simba Rebellion in 64 and 65 but Congo Mercenary by Col. Mad Mike Hoare and Mad Dog Killers by Ivan Smith are both good reads. Road to Kalamata by Hoare is another good one but it’s about the secession of The Katanga Provence when Belgium was handing over the Congo to the Congolese in 1960. Good Netflix movie is the Siege of Jadotville. It’s about an Irish unit deployed on a peacekeeping mission for the UN and attacked by a couple thousand katangese soldiers and white Mercenaries. Other than that hard to find much on this interesting time in history. Time magazine had several articles if you can find them and want to pay the money.
@@WarmeMilch you are welcome. I don’t know why but I’ve always found the Congo crisis and the Balkan wars when Yugoslavia was falling apart very interesting. I read every article I can find on both and any documentaries. BBC had a good documentary mid to late nineties on the Balkan wars called The Death of Yugoslavia. Lots of decent footage and goes in depth on how that whole shit show unraveled.
@@billmattson2001 Yes, The Death of Yugoslavia was a fascinating documentary. In fact it was first class and I watched it all the way through in one sitting. What I realise now, is that most of the protagonists are dead, which makes it all the more significant.
Here is a documentary, perhaps a bit biased towards the Katangese and freedom minded people, about the crisis: ua-cam.com/video/rvgBvwfW5Dw/v-deo.html And here is a speech about southern Africa: ua-cam.com/video/J2PROb8FaCs/v-deo.html
My grandfather was in the Indian Army and he was sent in Zaire in 1964 due to the United Nations peacekeeping mission there. The time was during the Katanga insurgency.
Please share a bit more, also please don’t mention any sensitive information (I’m not saying child friendly/nsfw thing, I meant anything which is not supposed to be shared).
>TFW you'll never be an allied WWII combat Vet turned Merc looting your way through a forgotten part of the dark continent alongside Wehrmacht Vets against poorly trained Guerrillas armed by the reds.
This is the side of UA-cam I absolutely love. These sorts of videos and the comment sections. There's some quite interesting and maybe even important oral history recorded in these comment sections.
Congo has dozens of stories I’m from Ireland I have family who fought for the UN in the Congo It was one of the worst wars just covered up and called a crisis Irish un troops went crazy when they reached towns they threw Grenades into a school with some pakistan UN soldiers. Even a few Irish were ambushed a cut up by the tribes
@KGE Studios ah, my bad, thought the clip of the guy firing the 1911 was it as I think it was on the original The Guns For Hire vid? Someone said it was, guess I really need to watch the full documentary
I'm currently taking a documentary class for film school and got a bunch of recommended viewings. I think I'll recommend the professor this documentary for next year because it's really great
The context behind the money scene at 1:35 is that the Simba rebels had been raising money so they could invade the U.S. Thank god these mercs stopped them before it was too late
@@brandnew3225 It’s also probably not true lmao, the movie presents it as fact but there’s pretty good reason to believe they just said ridiculous stuff for audience attention.
I'mma be real with you for a second. Lookin at the thumbnail, I thought that was photoshopped Rick Grimes for a moment. And pardon the vulgarity but holy fuck! The quality of the video has improved so much that alot of it feels like it might be from a modern movie. It's a huge upgrade from a few years ago which was the last time I saw your vids on my feed. A huge leap, you should be proud of your accomplishments in this. And just to note, your older stuff was already top tier.
![Mercenaries - Congo '64 [Remastered]](/img/n.gif)
2:30 My man liberates a village, breaks into a literal treasure vault chock full of cash, ivory, and antiques; and he takes a toilet.
well my man gotta poop y'know
I’m guessing that in times of war good hygiene is a luxury.
The black Congolese police you see were given the coins (whites kept the paper bills) and were allowed a few hours to loot anything else they wanted (that time was up when they were taking the shit back at the end). I think in the originally documentary it was 24 hours and that footage is from literally minutes after that period had lapsed
So if there’s still people who think that this conflict was JUST about “communism” or whatever....it was very much also about white supremacy. Just like Rhodesia, just like South Africa
@@Kctubes so it was about white supremacy and those who benefited from it against the rest. Odd choice of words saying “civilization vs primitivity” doe👀
1:14 The Man, the Myth,
the Legend and our Hero.
The Pirate on Cocaine
Damn, I miss Mr.Cocaine Pirate
yeah great
lets hope this new remastered video finds a person able to shed light on his identy / story / life, so many seem interested in.
Damn i always thought he was bald
I almost didn't recognize him with his shirt on.
This honest brutality is missing in most modern documentaries.
@@shashanksangaru4827 All i read in this comm is anime and octupus, this guy really write only that?
@@ragman2623 the volunteers on UA-cam
@@shashanksangaru4827 That sounds very interesting, bookmarked it to watch later.
Thank you for the tip.
The truth is also missing from most documentaries. Too many of them wrap the raw footage and such in their own politics or commentary about the world according to themselves.
............it's missing from most conflicts xD
The lawyers won’t be necessary on this trip, Mr. Zevon.
Guns and money are in large supply though.
Pesky human rights courts
@@gsd4me00 guns yes, cash, not so much
You think that, until our genius merc' has to go back home.
Dad! Git me outta this!
2:36 I can't help but feel the moment he put on that tailcoat he instantly became the CO.
2:35 peak jungle loadout. cross-draw pistol holster, knife, camo pants, rifle, slouch hat and a damn petticoat.
Pimp while you rip, hellz yeah...
Suddenly he became the CO
@@CTM-lz4jj John Wick now has competition to the title of Dapper Gunslinger
There's me in me slouch hat and whatever the hell I found lying round
Is preston garvey
Watching the guy pick up the hats and not stack them inside one another hurt.
God I was thinking that lol these people have no common sense
Mob mentality kicking in, common sense may not apply when blinded by money
@@dennile_7355 yeah haha that's totally it
@@augustdenger8231 lmao, yeah that has to be it...
@@dennile_7355 or hats.
Regular Armies: "No looting! It beneath our honor."
Mercanaries:
"If you can bring it back home, it's yours!"
not at all something to boast about
@Union Jack Im canadian you dolt.
@Union Jack i voted conservative lol
@Union Jack Ok Mr. TV License
@Union Jack Cheers to that my friend
Small recap: Essentially, after the siege from the Mercs, the city was liberated.
And eventually, Mercs arent really armies, they dont have any MP's. So they set up an 24hr(?) martial law-ish thing which permitted looting.
So basically they sacked a city?
@@windmill563 Not the mercenaries, but yes. Everyone, including the civilians ransacked the place.
@@windmill563 basically all of citizen and Mercenary is allowed to looting the city in 24 hour after that they Will not allowed to looting
"Hey mercs we need you to help us around in africa"
" Hm'kay what's in it for us ?"
"I mean.. You'll get beer and loot.."
"Alrighty then we'll do it !"
:start blasting music:
Looting has always been a common and even expected activity in conventional war. The ancient Greeks and Romans formalized and regulated it into systematic operation; it wasn't a free -for-all where every soldier grabbed what he can. Instead, they canvassed a captured city, piled up everything of value found, and divided the loot based on rank or merit.
The militaristic Romans made so much off of looting that franchised citizens in the Republic regularly voted to go to war simply for the sake of pillaging their neighbors to enrich themselves.
2:37 Even while surrounded by Philistines, style never goes out of fashion.
The drip lord.
@@thetoasterinyourbathtub1086 Thanks, had a good laugh :)
should have used that 'money' to buy information, tools, weapons and safe passage
@@TheTyrial86 gotta get that drip bro
@Ben that’s not odd for nice clothes. Buying expensive clothes is an investment but you’ll actually save money in the long run. Like the guy in LA noire says - buy two suits and get em pressed. They’ll last you your entire life
If I tell the dude at 2:48 what the meaning of 'stacking' is his mind will be blown
Something something Bell curve
@@Guydebute Very subtle but effective way of making your point.
@The Last Carolingian in Kartvelia why is it that nobody seems to know nowadays? Is it guilt?
@@Guydebute ah yes, because one guy who couldn't stack hats proves the validity of the bell curve
@@princejaxisblack8789 Nah I'm kidding, obviously Africa is super ahead in terms of development and their intellect is superior.
Ever heard of Zimbabwe?
We've all talked about the parrot in the other video, but how about the badass mf owl at 0:26 chillin on the shoulder of the guy with the black beret.
Holy shit i must have watched this video a couple of dozen times and just noticed it. Dude looks like something out of an rpg.
@@arnantphongsatha7906 I've probably seen it close to 100 times and never saw that. lol
I even bought the English version of the documentary called 'Africa: Blood and Guts' and never noticed it.
Sick af
Blessed by Athena.
Thanks! That’s kickass
This remastered footage clip it's more better quality footage that I ever seeing
@8A Benaiah Dandel oh I see
@@azj_ i think it is from the documentary Africa Addio (1966)
@@riccardopattarin oh okay thank you for your information
@Magor Gaming thank you
I’ Never think this is remastered by an documentary Film .😳
I think more that was made with a mini hd camera hide in an old 8mm Film case 🤔
The more i think about it is possible an Time Traveler like such rich Tourist who used the cam.😳
2:47 Watching this dude be unable to just stack the hats and carry them has my sides in orbit
Have you ever stacked those hats before?
lol snowflake cuntreeman
@@snowflakecuntreeman3947no but i have stacked fucking hats before. Laws of physics don't suddenly change.
@@dasuta5047 for thicker hats trying to shove them inside one another will damage the sides and is just hard to do in general
Ofcourse its the black one too
It's rare to see a trilogy that is as good as this.
We should play a game with 5 second clips of this: "Congo or Detroit" where you have to guess where it was filmed.
The 45 to the solar plexus godda hurt!
1:14 thanks Pirate one eye cocaine man for your adventures. Sweet dreams bassed man.
Rip tiv
The remaster of the remaster
The remaster of the original that was deleted when I was still at 100 subs
Remaster of the mastered
Remastering the unremasterable.
@@MajorSamm original is still on Bit chute btw
MajorSamm at its purest Bethesda of military editions
Ah, time to liberate some beers....
It's always beer thirty somewhere.
The first clip, with the guy getting a FN FAL pointed in his face, really strikes me as showing the absolute fear and terror in the Congo in 1964
@Anh Quốc Nguyễn maybe, it's a tough situation to imagine yourself in
I don't think they used commonwealth Inch pattern FALS in the Congo
@@LiteralCrimeRave yeah it’s more likely an actual FN-Fal.
@@LiteralCrimeRave yeah, I'm British so that's the gun I know, but as they were likely Belgian it almost definitely wasn't
@@juststuff8742 I figured. Love the charging habdle on commonwealth guns. Considering buying a classic style FAL and buying a special charging handle made by DS Arms because of how much I love it
I cannot POSSIBLY think of a more fitting track to go along with this video. Absolutely superb.
The only one that could possibly compete is Jungle Work.
@@britishaviator5942 I was actually expecting that to be the soundtrack for this video...not going to lie I was a little disappointed.
I cringed at 3:06 watching him break that rifle rip Belgian Mauser you will be missed
It was probably too jammed to be used again but still it hurts
What do you mean you cringed?
@Arig Ahmed Khan
It’s a valuable firearm and it was destroyed, obviously.
@@arifahmedkhan9999
Are you usually this unintelligent?
@@samwecerinvictus its not unintelligence its not having English as your main language
Some of these "more light" scenes made me smile, even in such dark times... thanks mate!
Rodesians never die!From a Boer!
@@rossouwmalherbe757 Make Rhodesia Great Again.
@@alenparker3056 rebuild the "bread basket of Africa"!
it's hard to think that this image is so old that many of these men had fought in the second world war (or at least lived through it), just goes to show how the soldiers don't just disappear from the face of the earth when the war is over.
After Iraq died down I left the Marines. Went back because I didn’t find civilian life to my taste and went to Afghanistan. Remembered why I left the Marines in the first place and left again after my years were up. Took up an offer from an Afghan warlord’s security forces I’d met on my last tour for a job with their company. That put me in South Africa. Sent me up to Sudan and Libya and wound up in Syria for a bit. Back down to the Congo and some light work in Estwatini. I’ve got a little nest egg and now am running some private work in the states since I’m getting a little long in the tooth. There’s a shit-ton of guys like me running around the “private contracting” circuits.
Good money to be made. Most of it outside of the state department contracts.
@@hieug.rection1920 "Most of it outside of the state department contracts." Good thing too. They're just likely to throw you in the fire as not.
@@Skullgar absolutely they will. For only $70k a year last time I heard. No dice. It used to be closer to $200k. The warlords pay better. Much better if you’ve got a little clout and a recommendation.
@@hieug.rection1920 Damn sounds like a really exciting life.
@@hieug.rection1920any tips to try and get into that life? Anything that can make me look better to be approached or is there a way for me to approach them?
The three necessary things for creating and maintaining life: Lawyers, Guns and Money
use gun to shoot worthless lawyer and keep the money
The holy trinity!
One of the greatest songs.
@@SpartacusColo But, considering the circumstances "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner" might have been more appropriate.
Trump aproves this message.
Hopefully this won’t be deleted off of UA-cam for “reasons”.
UA-cam will cancel anything for "reasons." This channel shouldn't be one of them...these footage clips are masterpieces.
@@kiwimerchant121 Excellent musical score as always, too.
Iirc the previous one got deleted because it showed some dudes getting clocked in the head, an execution. The bare ass man made it in i'm glad (?) to see
@@GlidingZephyr they have deleted a few in the past I think
I have a backup in this quality in case it ever does. Did it myself 2 days before Samm announced that he was remaking the Congo Series lol
Those mercenaries somehow just look so cool, whatever the pose and whatever they do.
2:37 "Another settlement needs your help, I'll mark it on your map."
Liberated drip*
1:36 Part of the unspoken gag of this scene is that the money (Congolese franc notes) is near worthless in 1964 thanks to the rampant inflation caused by the war. That whole big pile of moldy paper francs they looted out of that town is probably worth $50 in modern USD, and that's if you could find anybody willing to accept it. That's why they're jokingly sorting it all out and then the merc ostentatiously lights his cigarette with a fat wad of it. They're there for the loot, true, but mostly for the adventure.
Edit: in a new twist, I was amused to see this reference in Jagged Alliance 3, in which your mercs find burlap sacks full of Grand Chien francs, each which is worth roughly $5. 😆
2:35 absolutely fitted
3:10 This part was intense.
"We're not only going to shoot you. If you cause trouble we will punch your stomach!"
You need to see the full documentary, to understand how truly insane it is.
@@andrei2868 whats the documentary called
@@AndrewJ9673 it's an Italian documentary from 1966 called Africa Addio. All kinds of crazy shit in that one.
What's impressive is that he manages to do that without accidentally pulling the trigger.
2:48 they should have keep filming that guy for another hour or so, i want to know more about his story.
Wish we knew His name 02:36
He went on to create Tetris after he FINALLY learned to stack those pith helmets inside one another.
I don't
@@elijahrobinson2362🤣🤣🤣
Feel bad for the guy who didnt figure out how to stack the hats
Thank you for completing the series. Based on watching the original footage before your edits. you did an incredible job that the original directors would surely be proud of the the emotion you pull from your audience. Well done bruv
@@gocagola2541 Africa Addio
Dey took evryting..
Even da toilet!
Can’t crap in Detroit!
oh ma toilet
cant shit in boende
Seeing older footage in this good of color is my favorite thing ever
my fathers friends escaped the stanleyville massacre a family of five drove overland in a bedford truck down through northern and southern rhodesia and stayed with us in natal, the mother gisele used to tell me stories that i couldnt get to sleep at night after... thanks for this upload
A fascinating story. Thanks for sharing this memory with us. Did she (the mother, Gislèle, who I assume was Belgian and likely spoke French, predominantly, her being in the Congo and all) speak English to you? Or did she also happen to speak Flemish, which is a Dutch dialect, and by extension, very similar to Afrikaans? I'm genuinely interested, as this period of geo-political history has always fascinated me.
@@pabloboy6397 Not much of that side of history is allowed to even be published or stored on book shelfs in South Africa and absolutely not in the rest of black Africa. One of the few or perhaps last vetiges of history of the European people in Africa is kept inside the Voortrekker Monument.
Won't shock me at this point if Chris, myself and many other White South Africans are racing our bukkies back up the same way Gisele came down, either in a 4x4 or horse back at this point.
What can you tell us that you remember?
@@pabloboy6397really interesting question
Any way to share and spread the knowledge, I had family killed in both SA and Kenya, the more the history is remembered the better as it is increasingly becoming a European reality as well.
Guard: What do you have in those chests?
Merc: Uhhhh, personal effects?
Guard: Yours or someone else’s?
both but mostly theirs
The juxtaposition of this high quality video and knowing its of footage in 64, makes this look like clips from a movie
2:44 I love the guy trying to carry as many hats as he can. We've all been there. Drop two to pick up one.
2:30 Bruh he got a toilet while everyone else stole all the good stuff and beer.
toilets were pretty rare and mostly only for the rich back in the 60s in africa.
@@dazerrazer3018 yes but is totaly useless if removed from water and waste pipes...
@@Tonyx.yt. african logic dont ask me lmao
@@dazerrazer3018 yeah that's the whole point
@@Tonyx.yt. i think its more about the ceramic rather than the plumbing
Im glad this has returned after being so rudely youtubed away from my playlists. Your work is so simple yet it helps create interest in the topic at hand for me at least
2:35 "Another settlement needs our help"
LMAO
2:35 You look splendid as ever today, m'lord!
"Due to the lack of men required to use for police actions. We'd been forced to hire mercenaries to act as police man. Harassment to civilians, corruption and brutality was a plus in the deal"
where’s that from?
@@escape2204 I just imagine how ill explain the locals all this
@@ShinigamiInuyasha777 As far as I understand, the mercs were actually the best behaved faction in that mess.
@@publiusventidiusbassus1232 And that says a lot
1000% incorrect. Do some research about the murderous scum the mercs executed that day. It was beautiful and they got everything they desreved.
These hit hard with me.
A documentary gives you the details and often does a wonderful job, but the mix of the music, and brutal reality of the shots does more to make me remember these situations and what people have gone thorugh.
Every one of your congo videos is brilliant.. keep up the great content.
Literally one second into the video I recognized the song. Warren Zevon's music just pairs perfectly with these kinds of videos.
"Jungle work" would have worked well too. I used to sing it over and over in my head on a particularly long 8 day mission in Nicaragua.
Its just like bean and carrots
@@stevel6939oddly specific I daren't ask anymore but really want to.
Love the song, love the footage, love the subject. God I love this series.
Not much reading on 5 commando and the Simba Rebellion in 64 and 65 but Congo Mercenary by Col. Mad Mike Hoare and Mad Dog Killers by Ivan Smith are both good reads. Road to Kalamata by Hoare is another good one but it’s about the secession of The Katanga Provence when Belgium was handing over the Congo to the Congolese in 1960. Good Netflix movie is the Siege of Jadotville. It’s about an Irish unit deployed on a peacekeeping mission for the UN and attacked by a couple thousand katangese soldiers and white Mercenaries. Other than that hard to find much on this interesting time in history. Time magazine had several articles if you can find them and want to pay the money.
Thank u
@@WarmeMilch you are welcome. I don’t know why but I’ve always found the Congo crisis and the Balkan wars when Yugoslavia was falling apart very interesting. I read every article I can find on both and any documentaries. BBC had a good documentary mid to late nineties on the Balkan wars called The Death of Yugoslavia. Lots of decent footage and goes in depth on how that whole shit show unraveled.
@@billmattson2001 Yes, The Death of Yugoslavia was a fascinating documentary. In fact it was first class and I watched it all the way through in one sitting. What I realise now, is that most of the protagonists are dead, which makes it all the more significant.
Here is a documentary, perhaps a bit biased towards the Katangese and freedom minded people, about the crisis:
ua-cam.com/video/rvgBvwfW5Dw/v-deo.html
And here is a speech about southern Africa:
ua-cam.com/video/J2PROb8FaCs/v-deo.html
Fly on Wild Geese!
My grandfather was in the Indian Army and he was sent in Zaire in 1964 due to the United Nations peacekeeping mission there. The time was during the Katanga insurgency.
Please share a bit more, also please don’t mention any sensitive information (I’m not saying child friendly/nsfw thing, I meant anything which is not supposed to be shared).
One of my Irish friends had an uncle who was among the 100 or so Irish Army soldiers stationed at Jadotville during the same UN Mission.
Now Katanga has been brought to the rest of the world...
Awesome use of one of the greatest songs by one of the most underrated musicians of all time!
That thumbnail is a work of art, even if it was just a screenshot with text overlayed
I've seen the Congo footage from you now maybe three or four times and it's always fantastic.
2:08 I believe that the door is open outward.
2:36 now i know from where kojima got the idea of skullface in mgsv lol
Mondo films truly had an edge modern films can’t match. Africa Addio is one hell of a ride
You know Sam I thank you a lot because you set me on the path of Warren Zevon and I will never forget it
2:35 that drip is UNMATCHED
took me a long time to figure out if this was real footage, great job on remastering/editing, it's literally like out of a movie
2:35 what a gentleman!
2:35 What a man of style.
Glad that the original is still out there, but this version can still be enjoyed on UA-cam.
Nevermind, I can’t find it anymore
Is this from a documentary? If so, what is it called?
@@laurencewainwright Africa Addio, you can find it here on youtube
I got permanent hearing damage by having the volume a bit too high as I listened to this for a solid 5 hours. Worth it.
SEND LAWYERS GUNS AND MONEY!
HELL YEAH!
1:49 guy lighting his cigarette with money on fire. Nice. Very nice
Little has changed since then….. Great video, thx!
Always love some Warren Zevon!
>TFW you'll never be an allied WWII combat Vet turned Merc looting your way through a forgotten part of the dark continent alongside Wehrmacht Vets against poorly trained Guerrillas armed by the reds.
Feels bad man
You never know what a post WWIII world might look like
@@idonhaveanyideawhattocallm1472 Can't be much worse than it is now eh fellas? Fellas?
I just wanna feel again.
a crazy unforgettable movie, from a crazy but forgotten time.
THank you,i waited fpor this reupload for a long time.
love how this is literally the third result for "lawyers, guns & money"
rest in power Mad Mike ✊🏿
This is the side of UA-cam I absolutely love. These sorts of videos and the comment sections. There's some quite interesting and maybe even important oral history recorded in these comment sections.
Вы правы
Congo has dozens of stories
I’m from Ireland I have family who fought for the UN in the Congo
It was one of the worst wars just covered up and called a crisis
Irish un troops went crazy when they reached towns they threw Grenades into a school with some pakistan UN soldiers. Even a few Irish were ambushed a cut up by the tribes
A lot already will have been lost to the algorithm, and more will follow.
3:18 I think 1911 man should be Sgt Donald Grant, Mad Mike's personal bodyguard
Haha. At 1:05 that's the same priest with the goatee that is liberated at the end of "Liberation of Boende". Cool. Love these. Keep it up!
gotta love this fancy boy feeling fancy at 2:36 not giving a fuck and walking his walk.
1:40 isn’t it crazy that they are talking about the same Queen that we still have today?
They saved her, and they get no credit for it... 🙁
@@misdangered4326 Well the mistake was helping any British person
@@cortex8239 any "royal" person* British are just people like everyone else.
@@misdangered4326 The British in Rhodesia took in many refugees from here, the Americans were cheering on white slaughter.
uhhhh yeah abt that
“Send Lawyers, Guns & and Money; the shit has hit the fan.” - Warren Zevon
Great song and a fantastic use for it! Beautiful and crisp footage! Well done!
2:36 dude looks fresh AF
02:46 Someone tell that man, that if you stack the hats, you can carry them all!
The guy wearing the tail coat and slouch hat was my favorite.
Not a phone in sight, just wonderful people living in the moment 💀
The guy at 0:45 was dragged off and executed by the same guy popping of a 1911 later on, and for good reason.
Good
Why
@@bliecoug1029 if I remember correctly, he burned a school full of children.
@@aspiringadonis1253 i remember that it was another guy not that one
@@aspiringadonis1253 also the other guy burned 26 childrens
Your “Adios Africa” has to be my favorite shirt I got from your store. Keep it up 😎
2:35 dude's got some drip, I'll give him that.
2:37 - another settlement needs our help. I'll mark it on your map.
should have shown the leader getting slotted by the 1911 man
I missed that scene!
Nah they would bann it.
@@geoffbell166 yeah this video will get deleted by youtube thats what happened old one where it show people being murdered
At the very end?
@KGE Studios ah, my bad, thought the clip of the guy firing the 1911 was it as I think it was on the original The Guns For Hire vid? Someone said it was, guess I really need to watch the full documentary
Nice, give us the 2019 one also pls! Amazing videos and remaster!
I'm currently taking a documentary class for film school and got a bunch of recommended viewings. I think I'll recommend the professor this documentary for next year because it's really great
I've ripped the blu-ray with the documentary and uploaded it in the best quality I could get out of it, if anyone wants to watch it.
damn didn't expect you to be here
The context behind the money scene at 1:35 is that the Simba rebels had been raising money so they could invade the U.S. Thank god these mercs stopped them before it was too late
They could’ve invaded America all they wanted, we would’ve kicked them back into the Ocean like we did to the British.
That's ridiculous lmao
@@brandnew3225 It’s also probably not true lmao, the movie presents it as fact but there’s pretty good reason to believe they just said ridiculous stuff for audience attention.
You genuinely don't understand Africans @@JohnBrownsBody
2:36 bro is a customizable character
@3:08 he was serious! With his finger still on the trigger he did not care for accidental discharge!
They had just burned to death 2 dozen white kids in a racist attack.
I'mma be real with you for a second. Lookin at the thumbnail, I thought that was photoshopped Rick Grimes for a moment.
And pardon the vulgarity but holy fuck! The quality of the video has improved so much that alot of it feels like it might be from a modern movie. It's a huge upgrade from a few years ago which was the last time I saw your vids on my feed. A huge leap, you should be proud of your accomplishments in this. And just to note, your older stuff was already top tier.
Kid named Lawyers, Kid named Guns, kid named Money:
Colonial powers shouldve stood firm ...every single one of those countries is a hell hole now
It just never and cannot get old.
mercs doing what mercs done since time immemorial
My man at 2:36 with the tailed jacket, boonie, bowie, S&W Victory and sporter rifle has quite the look.
Thank you for reposting it!
2:17
the most pirate Congolese of them all