World War I Expert Rates More WWI Battles In Movies | How Real Is It? | Insider

You missed the holy grail movie, Major Payne!!! 😂

If you showed this guy a different scene from 1917 than he would have a blast

Well if you keep pushing the kav they will over run the mg

Head injuries increased after adding helmets in WW1. This thoroughly confused general staffs. Then someone realized head injuries increased because people were surviving head wounds that were lethal before. So less deaths is what the statistics were really showing but you had to realize it

Parhs of Glory was also very accurate in depicting the Feench Army using firing squads with tbeir own troops

"The machine gun is an overrated weapon, it has little stopping power against a horse" Gen. Douglas Haig.

I find it hilarious how this dude is destroying these scenes

Ultimately, entertainment is key in a war film. Realism often takes a backseat because it just doesn’t work on screen. I think pure realism would, most likely, be boring. That’s why I love these breakdowns by authorities of the subject. It separates fact from fiction for those that are interested.

It really hurt to see that a rare movie that pays tribute to horses serving turned out such crap.

Hollywood has been brainwashing for decades

This guy should comment on BF1

How many wars does this guy say he was in?

Whaaat? Finally a 10 out of 10? I gotta go see this movie

The Australians had a successful cavalry charge against the Ottomans at the battle of Beersheba in 1917. Never gets mentioned though.

When Kubrick gets it better than a contemporary award winning movie

its crazy how despite the technology all the good films are old

A movie made in 1957 was better than more modern movies just to show that 1900's movies weren't actually that bad.

They way he talks about the advance in 1917 without artillery cover 😂. "If you send your men forward without any artillery support,... everybody is going to die." The justifiably terse delivery keeps making me crack up.

7:30 I'd say he went over the parapet bc it looks like the back wall is much steeper than the front wall

The start of 1917 was superb showing the pair of Tommies entering the communication trenches and then walking down into the reserve and finally front line trenches.

Turns out that the best one is still a 1957 movie. Thank you Stanley!❤

One of my fave things is seeing people get rlly excited about things they love/are interested in & this man is no exception! I love how animated & giddy he gets when scenes are portrayed accurately. You can so clearly tell he loves history rather than it just being a job!! 🥰💙

"War horse" is ioverall a schmaltzy piece of crap

Would love to hear his critique on The Lost Battalion.

Paths of Glory was a great film! Having such a high rating for accuracy makes me think they had actual veterans who served during the war on set as advisors.

Would like to see him do the new All Quiet on the Western Front. Good stuff here

Would love to see these expert book worms rate real combat footage.

Does this guy understand how movies work? If everything was done by the book it would be boring, may be an expert in WWI but definitely not an expert in cinematography

I's funny how a classic war movie from the 1950s is more historically accurate than what the film industry has produced in the past 40 years. It's even funnier that a Latvian movie is even more historically accurate than all of the American, British and Australian film industries combined.

i wanna hear it first hand

He doesn't go over the parados because he can't climb it, it's too steep.

1:31 you can literally see them having rifles on horses :D, sick observer being half blind

I like the analysis its just hard for me to listen to someone as green as this guy who got all his knowledge from books and no experience say what can and cant happen in every situation. Without a creeping barrage you can never advance. Cant fake a horse into a forest. They cant have 2 machine guns like jesus dude. Never?

Yea older movies are more historical

He just doesn’t stop with the 3/10s

The white camouflage is interesting. I live in Luxembourg. In the battle of the bulge the American soldiers camouflaged themselves with the sheets off the beds of houses around Bastogne.

God I love Paths of Glory

@ Haven't you heard about the Charge of the Light Brigade? (25 October 1854) , same mentality Yes/No?

I love the photo illustrations of how to shoot standing dismounted with the saddle as support from old combat manuals

This so called "expert" is worthless. All he does is try to apply 21st century logic to the battles of WW1. The commanders of that time absolutely didn't ascribe to any of those thinkings.

Lots of great, accurate info however some points he made are most certainly grandiose myths. For example the ridge on the helmet was useful in protection from air bursts???? Ummm... tell that to physics 😂

How can you be an expert on something if you haven't participated in your chosen subject. Its his interpretation of what he has read .

Keren

Um I do believe the cavalry in Warhorse have holstered carbines at their right side... Presumably the Lee-Enfield Cavalry Carbine Mk I (LEC).

A pity you didn’t discuss Gallipoli (a film by Peter Weir starring Mel Gibson) about the Gallipoli campaign ending with the battle of The Nek in August 1915 and also The Lighthorsemen (which ends with that great attack by the Australian Lighthorse on Beersheba in 1917).

The criticism of War Horse's historical accuracy is obviously spot on. However, I feel that in this case it was justified and have little doubt that it was done to drive home the problems of the initial uses of cavalry in WW1 and the outdated military tactics and thinking at that time.

Its called for king and country

So the moust realistic movie about WW1 is made by Latvians. Hollywood is good for making fairy tales like spiderman.

Honest question: why did/ do officers not carry rifles? It seems like an extreme tactical disadvantage as well as a notifier that they are a senior in the unit

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