Battle of San Pietro | World War 2 Documentary | 1945
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This World War 2-era classic - originally titled as "San Pietro" - is a documentary film produced by the US Army Pictorial Service about the historical event known as the Battle of San Pietro Infine. It was released in the US on May 3, 1945 but shown to US troops earlier. It was written, directed and narrated by prominent Hollywood director John Huston. The production supervisor was the multi-Oscar-winning director Frank Capra. The cameraman was the later film producer Jules Buck.
The film opens with a short speech by General Mark W. Clark, who explains that San Pietro is a 700-year-old town in Italy's Liri River Valley, just south of Monte Cassino about halfway between Naples and Rome. The valley is a wide, flat pass that's surrounded by high mountains. The fighting took place from 8-17 December 1943, as US forces tried to wrench control of the area from the Germans. Unfortunately, the enemy had the advantage, with machine guns and mortars situated in the mountains. Flooding rivers also made movement exceedingly difficult for American troops.
The film shows a series of maps that give a thorough explanation of the ongoing tactical situation. US Army soldiers assault German positions, making progress but taking heavy losses. US tanks then brave a single winding mountain road, fully exposed to German artillery fire, in order to attack the enemy-held town. Finally the Americans drive the Germans out of San Pietro and the surrounding mountains. The Allied victory in the battle was crucial in the ultimate drive to the north to liberate Rome. Scenes following the battle show villagers as they returned to their devastated town and attempted to rebuild their lives.
"San Pietro" was one of the most controversial documentary films made during World War 2. When it was filmed, Huston was a captain in the US army. His initial assignment was to document the liberation of Rome. When the fight northward proved slower and more frustrating than the army anticipated, he was reassigned to make a film that would explain the difficulties to stateside Americans. Huston and his crew were attached to the US Army’s 143rd Regiment of the 36th Division. Unlike many other military documentaries, it was claimed Huston’s cameramen filmed alongside the infantrymen as they fought their way up the hills to reach San Pietro. Huston's claim that the film was made during the battle was proven false by the research of Peter Maslowski in his 1993 book, Armed With Cameras. When Huston and his crew reached San Pietro, the battle for the town was effectively over, so several of the scenes were reenacted.
The film was held up from being shown to the public by the US Army until May 1945, after victory in Europe. Huston screened his first edit for army superiors in October 1944. The complaint voiced against the film by the army brass was simply that "this picture is pacifistic" and "against the war." The film portrayed the controversial Italian Campaign in a bad light. (General Mark W. Clark, one of the most widely criticized US commanders, looks distinctly uncomfortable talking about the battle in the film's introduction.) The Italian campaign was controversial because its primary purpose was to draw German divisions away from France and relieve the pressure on the Soviets in Russia. That meant many months of heavy, costly fighting for the Allies slogging over mountainous Italian terrain that favored the enemy, with few tangible results. Army Chief of Staff, General George C. Marshall, however, came to the defense of the film, stating that because of the film’s realism, it would make a good training film. Then the film was used as a training tool. Huston was redeemed, decorated and eventually promoted to major.
The film is vastly different than any newsreel-style, cheerleading documentary of the era, as the voice-over is sober, ironic, and poignant at times. In 1991, the documentary was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
"San Pietro" followed Huston’s relatively straightforward documentary "Report from the Aleutians". Watch Report from the Aleutians here: • Forgotten Battle of th...
Battle of San Pietro | World War 2 Documentary | 1945
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NOTE: THE VIDEO DOCUMENTS HISTORICAL EVENTS. SINCE IT WAS PRODUCED DECADES AGO, IT HAS HISTORICAL VALUES AND CAN BE CONSIDERED AS A VALUABLE HISTORICAL DOCUMENT. THE VIDEO HAS BEEN UPLOADED WITH EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES. ITS TOPIC IS REPRESENTED WITHIN HISTORICAL CONTEXT. THE VIDEO DOES NOT CONTAIN SENSITIVE SCENES AT ALL!
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Idk why, but there’s something about WW2 that really facinates me.
Same here, I chalk it up to a mental condition XD
Maybe past life memories linger ?
There is a reason we are attracted to particular periods of time ,but not others .
@@BlawtheLegendSame, but Im also making a ww2 film so these really help
Cool upload thank you!!
My dad was in the 36th CO L 141st INF, he survived the initial landings at Salerno, and was wounded later on during the battle of San Pietro
I really appreciate the description. Thanks for all you do.
1st, I'm surprised there are so few comments. This film should have much broader and greater viewing. 2nd, it makes me sick to hear all the wimpy whiners these days complaining about how bad the United States is, and the oppression of all of these "poor victims" in this country. They haven't got a clue about real oppression. Real suffering. Real hardship. Real sacrifice -- and the work it took for these villagers, just to survive and scratch out a living...
And thank you, nameless person, for your work in bringing this film to us.
( Shhh.... 🤫 The upside is, "Good guys with guns killing bad guys with guns!")
Never seen any WW2 footage like it. Usually the same images over and over and over
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I wonder if any of these men imagined they'd still be looked upon by people in 2022. Crazy to think about
A hundrend years from now somebody will probably write RIP in replies to you and me and that person is not even born yet and we will be biting dust at the time of his birth possibly,quite fascinating and scary it is...
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Clark. What a dead fish
Funny how old soldiers
Read scripts with monotonic voice
High respect for the man and woman who died...
I love UA-cam for this type of shit. So much history that would be completely lost to time. Thank you for your channel homie
That's a really good point. We scoff at Social Media, but forget the positives
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25:45 I think that GI just said ”bullshit” 😂
FYI, the thumbnail is from the movie “Indigenes”, a french movie about the algerian recruits’ point of view in the French army during WW2
The guy on the miniature looks like Jamel Debouze 😂😂😂
thats him mate
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I don't understand why I'm so drawn to the times between the late 1890s and early 1950s. I wish I knew. I was born in the mid 60s.
Maybe it's a funny human thing. I'm 25 and can't get past the 80s. In high school my favorite class was the Vietnam course.. there just so much to learn from our history.
I was born in the 80s but should of been 50 or 60s I am sure I was born the wrong decade 🤔😄
The narrator sounds like John Huston.
That's because it is.
@@tedfio1tedfio1 you are totally correct it was Huston and if i remember right he was also the producer of it and was given an award for how good it was. I could be wrong on this part but i think it was also Huston who described this battle as murder not war for all the losses we took.
@@stevewixom9311 It was also not shown for years because the Milliary thought it would be a hinderanc to moral .
And not shown in theaters here in the
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It is mate he said it was murder war as the U.S deaths were massive
Clark caused a lot of unnecessary death and injury because he couldn't do the job.....
But why Are they wearing American uniforms
He wanted to librate Rome the first foreigner in for long time it caused some shit like Duncan
Could this be some of the first action US Army Rangers took part in?
My dad was army tank destroyer operator OSI ( later other intelligence etc stationed in Hamburg Germany) He was infantry & purple Heart recipient. My brothers& nephew Air Force My one brother cyber intelligence
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Los rostros de esos niños debe vivir todavía algunos de ellos
Excelente cantante Linda Ronstadt. Felicidades.
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No we won't. Just once a year on 11am 11th November.
I want to go back in time and experience ww2 bcoz im really fascinated to ww2 topics
No you don't. It is some of the most horrific moments in human history. It is romanticized so that's why you said that but if you truly knew you would never want anything like to to happen.
@@kstreet7438 true, a lot of veterans never spoke One Word about war,and we know why😔.
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Lol seriously I looked on Amazon already 🤣
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The Germans had us for breakfast lunch and dinner on the Italian Peninsula. One of the biggest Allie mistakes according to Victor Hanson .
The Germans were barely present in the Italian peninsula. Not even half of the Axis forces most of the times.
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