Great footage, filmed in 'real life' by my father David Waterman - who was an ex para himslef serving in Suez and Cyprus in the 50's. Alas he past away yesterday. Good to see his work is imortilised for all to see. RIP dad.
Yes, Luke, I knew your Dad too. Sorry for your loss. Brilliant camerawork. If I remember correctly he said that he also had a 'speaking part' in the film. When he jumped as an 'extra' in the film, as he hit the ground, he went 'Ahh' from the impact & they retained it. RIP Dave.
A bridge too far was one of the best ww2 movies ever. Filmed on grand scale and nice collection of real vehicles and aircraft in battle scenes. Movies don't get filmed like this anymore
this is the greatest cinematography of a jump. gives you all the angles & specially the camera on paratrooper. i felt like i was in the chalk of paratroopers going out the door. way before gopro & still couldn't touch this
What an epic music for such a scene. That drop brought memories from Bragg in 68, but then, we were young.....and not afraid. My utmost respect to those paratroopers of the Greatest Generation. We will always remember them, they were an inspiration.
I made an earlier post here 2 years ago where I noted that my father was a member of the 82nd ABN and he jumped in to Holland that day. He was with the 504 PIR 2nd Bat.and their target was the Grave bridge. Dad told me that it was a bright sunny day and they jumped at 800 feet. He said that the Germans near the bridge were so stunned that many took off. He was also involved in the assault on the Nijmegan bridge. Dad said he saw the river crossing by the 1st Bat. and thanked the Lord he was not part of it. My father remained in the army. Fought in Korea with the 3rd Div and finally retired in 68 at Ft. Bragg. At that time he was a member of the 7th SFG. Just had to mention this. Hope you have a good Fourth of July. We remember all who served and thank you for yours.
My father jumped with the 82nd and imagine your fathers or grandfathers doing the same on that day or at Normandy, Salerno or Sicily; give pause and thank them for doing what seemed impossible.
I did a 3 year study of the British at Arnhem. Yes, it was a fuck up of our own making. I have been to Arnhem and stood under the bridge many times. It is not the original bridge but the stanchions are still there. It feels- strange knowing in detail how those men died in desperate situation. There was a raid on Arnhem the night before, many Dutch civilians died. And During the battle too. After the battle the German evacuated Arnhem and made the civilians do a forced march in a heavy rainstorm. Many died. We destroyed half of their town - for nothing - and still welcome us back as heroes. If you get a chance to go go to the cemetery at Oosterbeek. It is where the British paratroopers first landed about a 15 minute bus ride from the town centre and a ten minute walk from the village. It is in the most beautiful peaceful countryside and kept immaculately by the War Graves Commission It contains just over a thousand men and is very moving. There is also a visitors book when i came to write i noticed the comment above made by a German. It simply said ‘Sorry’ and it bought tears to my eyes. May we all live together in peace.
my old father flew as co-pilot on the Danish DC 3 contributions to the film and today we are going to see the tuchdown that Roenne airport denmark here, 37 years after
I have the planes hat!! "D - Day Doll", Normandy, 1944. Based in Riverside, CA and made the El Monte air/car show in 2019. Dogtags, too. (their Fund Raiser).
The parts where they show the Dakotas should have at least gotten a nomination for cinematography. Imagine the amount of work that just went into those shots even the special visual effects.
Amazing cinematography, I see comments on CGI and I agree. This scene is amazing though I imagine some of it was a matte painting in the background, all the same it is breath taking to see those planes taking off and the troops getting on and jumping off.
What a wonderful aircraft the Dakota was....still earning its keep 70 years later.....a friend of my father who was also a pilot in the RAF was shot down flying a Dakota at Arnhem and for a short time became a POW
Great camera angles and creativity, They did it with 11 flyable DC-3s and before CGI. @0:46 You can tell which DC-3s are real and are just mock ups. They did the same thing with XXX corps. The fake tanks were mock-ups placed on top of VW Beatles. Still Great work.
Actually the mock-up Shermans were built over Land Rovers. They were used in long shots and the Bailey bridge crossing scenes because the movie bridge could not support real tanks.
Probably the last war film to use real planes. It is all CGI now and not only defies the laws of physics it also looks sadly cartoonish. Love this film. Richard Attenborough was an incredible actor & director.
+Tim Parker To be fair, today it's literally impossible to shoot WW II movie without CG effect, because there are far too few REAL planes from that period left...
I submit that Operation Market Garden WOULD have worked with a more complete Communication Plan and the full and complete understanding that regardless of circumstances ground troops MUST be in Arnhem in 72 hour or less.
One thing they missed was the lack of glider planes that the C-47s towed. One of two regiments were glider regiments. I think I only saw one plane with a tow rope.
What do you think are visual effects here and are not real genuine planes? It all looks 100% real on first watch but if I look a bit more closely I wonder how much was paintings/ fx or even models. Anyone?
JasonPerryman These scenes are all real, no special effects. When this movies was made they used only 11 DC-3's. That's all they had. So the producer just re-ran the flight scenes to make it look like there were more planes.
steploch Nice one! I certainly hoped that all this is real. That shot at 0.47 though, I wonder if that was all planes, as there's more than 11. Could be real. The shots looking up into the air of planes in the far distance don't look like it was conceived by VFX for that time period when this film was made too.
JasonPerryman Four Finnish Air Force C-47s, DO-4, DO-7, DO-10 and DO-12, were loaned for the duration of the parachute filming. They had pilots who knew how to fly in drop formation and planes were used to training until 1979.
+Tristan van Oosten Ryan had quoted a Dutch officer in his book saying the take of Ahrenheim had been a no win situation in the Dutch Officer´s exam before the war.
Roger Lynch The Arnhem area was always a bit difficult because of the hilly, forested terrain around the city that could be relatively easily fortified.
Great war film but the actual operation was doomed to failure. This was the very last time that airborne troops were parachuted into a 'hot' war zone. In all the years since WW2 the dismal failure of airborne troops to land accurately where they're meant to go has never been repeated.
Great footage, filmed in 'real life' by my father David Waterman - who was an ex para himslef serving in Suez and Cyprus in the 50's. Alas he past away yesterday. Good to see his work is imortilised for all to see. RIP dad.
So sorry for your loss. Your dad's work is fantastic. And many thanks for his service.
Yes, Luke, I knew your Dad too. Sorry for your loss. Brilliant camerawork. If I remember correctly he said that he also had a 'speaking part' in the film. When he jumped as an 'extra' in the film, as he hit the ground, he went 'Ahh' from the impact & they retained it. RIP Dave.
A bridge too far was one of the best ww2 movies ever. Filmed on grand scale and nice collection of real vehicles and aircraft in battle scenes. Movies don't get filmed like this anymore
Brett Lloyd agreed I think the only other director that's got as close to realism is Spielberg with Saving Private Ryan & Band of Brothers
It is hard to think how many went over, and how many did not come back. This truly was The Greatest Generation.
Sherm
An excellent film & one of its finest scenes....WITH Real Dakota's, unarguably the Best General Transport plane ever built.
Still flying with Air America Affiliates!
Still flying in S. Africa.
Texans as thunderbolts, leopard 1 as pzer IV, still very cool movie
@@danikoo582 Runnable PZ4s were unfortunately very hard to come by in 76. But I'm happy with the result.
@@niklasmolen4753 Yes, also there were some M4 Shermans mock-ups
Best war film ever made along with the best musical score ...Plenty of first rate actors too !
No CGI.
this is the greatest cinematography of a jump. gives you all the angles & specially the camera on paratrooper. i felt like i was in the chalk of paratroopers going out the door. way before gopro & still couldn't touch this
What an epic music for such a scene.
That drop brought memories from Bragg in 68, but then, we were young.....and not afraid.
My utmost respect to those paratroopers of the Greatest Generation.
We will always remember them, they were an inspiration.
I made an earlier post here 2 years ago where I noted that my father was a member of the 82nd ABN and he jumped in to Holland that day. He was with the 504 PIR 2nd Bat.and their target was the Grave bridge. Dad told me that it was a bright sunny day and they jumped at 800 feet. He said that the Germans near the bridge were so stunned that many took off. He was also involved in the assault on the Nijmegan bridge. Dad said he saw the river crossing by the 1st Bat. and thanked the Lord he was not part of it.
My father remained in the army. Fought in Korea with the 3rd Div and finally retired in 68 at Ft. Bragg. At that time he was a member of the 7th SFG.
Just had to mention this. Hope you have a good Fourth of July. We remember all who served and thank you for yours.
The music composer was actually a member of XXX Corps tanks that was involved in the operation!
Being a Veteran of 618th Engineer Support Unit Airborne and the 82nd Airborne Division. I love this scene.
My father jumped with the 82nd and imagine your fathers or grandfathers doing the same on that day or at Normandy, Salerno or Sicily; give pause and thank them for doing what seemed impossible.
my dad's grandfather was a paratrooper too
Paid my respects last Friday at Oostetbeek.
fantastic movie, wonderful music... one of my favorite movies...
I did a 3 year study of the British at Arnhem. Yes, it was a fuck up of our own making. I have been to Arnhem and stood under the bridge many times. It is not the original bridge but the stanchions are still there. It feels- strange knowing in detail how those men died in desperate situation. There was a raid on Arnhem the night before, many Dutch civilians died. And During the battle too. After the battle the German evacuated Arnhem and made the civilians do a forced march in a heavy rainstorm. Many died. We destroyed half of their town - for nothing - and still welcome us back as heroes.
If you get a chance to go go to the cemetery at Oosterbeek. It is where the British paratroopers first landed about a 15 minute bus ride from the town centre and a ten minute walk from the village. It is in the most beautiful peaceful countryside and kept immaculately by the War Graves Commission It contains just over a thousand men and is very moving. There is also a visitors book when i came to write i noticed the comment above made by a German. It simply said ‘Sorry’ and it bought tears to my eyes. May we all live together in peace.
Goosebumps!
my old father flew as co-pilot on the Danish DC 3 contributions to the film and today we are going to see the tuchdown that Roenne airport denmark here, 37 years after
Which one of the three C-47 did your father fly.
I have the planes hat!! "D - Day Doll", Normandy, 1944. Based in Riverside, CA and made the El Monte air/car show in 2019. Dogtags, too. (their Fund Raiser).
great scene from a fantastic film
The parts where they show the Dakotas should have at least gotten a nomination for cinematography. Imagine the amount of work that just went into those shots even the special visual effects.
Amazing cinematography, I see comments on CGI and I agree. This scene is amazing though I imagine some of it was a matte painting in the background, all the same it is breath taking to see those planes taking off and the troops getting on and jumping off.
la plus grande opération aéroportée de tous les temps !! 30 000 paras largués....bravo à nos anciens !!
Love the movie, I just --king love it.
This bit always make me cry. My father was a para and this was his favourite film. G
He died 18 years ago yesterday.
Awesome!
What a wonderful aircraft the Dakota was....still earning its keep 70 years later.....a friend of my father who was also a pilot
in the RAF was shot down flying a Dakota at Arnhem and for a short time became a POW
masterpiece.
Beautiful
This is my love song and the best movie for the time.
Great camera angles and creativity, They did it with 11 flyable DC-3s and before CGI. @0:46 You can tell which DC-3s are real and are just mock ups. They did the same thing with XXX corps. The fake tanks were mock-ups placed on top of VW Beatles. Still Great work.
It looks like a background painting.
Actually the mock-up Shermans were built over Land Rovers. They were used in long shots and the Bailey bridge crossing scenes because the movie bridge could not support real tanks.
love this film cant wait for wait for the airbourne march this year!!
2:35, looks like the controller is a time traveller from 1976.
Probably the last war film to use real planes. It is all CGI now and not only defies the laws of physics it also looks sadly cartoonish. Love this film. Richard Attenborough was an incredible actor & director.
+Tim Parker I believe that had been Memphis Belle.
+Tim Parker You're not alone in that thought, don't worry, someday we'll get what we want, and one of us may be directing it.
+Tim Parker To be fair, today it's literally impossible to shoot WW II movie without CG effect, because there are far too few REAL planes from that period left...
Przemyslaw Kuszynski "Make WWII planes great again"?
+Tim Parker So amazing that this was done without CGI....like the Battle of Britain, both movies had large air forces in their own right.
So nice too see war films made without computer graphics.
Great theme music : Rollicking , gay (old term ), inspiring , before soldiers plunge to their deaths in a botched operation....So British !!!
It is amazing those planes could get off the ground considering the massive balls of airborne infantry.
Great movie
I submit that Operation Market Garden WOULD have worked with a more complete Communication Plan and the full and complete understanding that regardless of circumstances ground troops MUST be in Arnhem in 72 hour or less.
Of course they did use special effects with Matt's ect and those aerial shots there must be some there too.
One thing they missed was the lack of glider planes that the C-47s towed. One of two regiments were glider regiments. I think I only saw one plane with a tow rope.
Watch the movie
There is a great scene as the tow ropes for the gliders slowly unwind
+David Franklin The scenes with gliders were cut off from this video, but they are there.
Rest in peace ron. Brown towed a glider
It would have sounded better without the music. (like in Catch-22)
These were real men being portrayed!
Finnish air force ❤️🇫🇮
Fun Fact: Past the war, many of the Polish Parashooters stayed in Belgium and settled down there.
Same in Breda, the Netherlands.
What do you think are visual effects here and are not real genuine planes? It all looks 100% real on first watch but if I look a bit more closely I wonder how much was paintings/ fx or even models. Anyone?
JasonPerryman These scenes are all real, no special effects. When this movies was made they used only 11 DC-3's. That's all they had. So the producer just re-ran the flight scenes to make it look like there were more planes.
steploch Nice one! I certainly hoped that all this is real. That shot at 0.47 though, I wonder if that was all planes, as there's more than 11. Could be real. The shots looking up into the air of planes in the far distance don't look like it was conceived by VFX for that time period when this film was made too.
JasonPerryman Four Finnish Air Force C-47s, DO-4, DO-7, DO-10 and DO-12, were loaned for the duration of the parachute filming. They had pilots who knew how to fly in drop formation and planes were used to training until 1979.
Missed the best part when they were gunning the engines and lifting off.
foward to freedom
Market Garden: 90% successful, 100% failure.
+Tristan van Oosten Ryan had quoted a Dutch officer in his book saying the take of Ahrenheim had been a no win situation in the Dutch Officer´s exam before the war.
Roger Lynch
The Arnhem area was always a bit difficult because of the hilly, forested terrain around the city that could be relatively easily fortified.
Just a bridge too far.
Too much music, not enough engine.
as with so many films from the 1970's - money seemed not to be an issue hence the great attention to detail....nowadays it would all be CGI of course
hurrah
1,438 Dakotas...
I love paratroopers.
They used the wrong color paint scheme on the Dakotas. Desert Tan instead of OD for England. Biggest screw up in war film production!
at least they atually use shermans in their films now instead of chaffees or m41s as stand in. The German tanks on the other hand....
@@thitran1362 they lack panther aren't they back then
Great war film but the actual operation was doomed to failure. This was the very last time that airborne troops were parachuted into a 'hot' war zone. In all the years since WW2 the dismal failure of airborne troops to land accurately where they're meant to go has never been repeated.
Finnish air force ;)
Why always some stupid music !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
mannhaftigkeit
I know i`m 10 months late, but it is the music from the film......
As a Plane lover, this is my Fav scene in childhood.
This bit always make me cry. My father was a para and this was his favourite film. G
He died 18 years ago yesterday.
Airborne!! :)
Rhona Connor
Thank him for his service in our prayers and thoughts.
Thank you for his service and currahee
De Oppresso Liber!
My father-in-law was was one of the Market Garden pilots. His aircraft was number 42-93096. They were all very brave souls.