Only heard about Noor. Theres a memorial for her in little garden near Tottenham Rd London. Respect for All these brave ladies.

Solute all these women. They are real hero. And this movie made me cry a lot.

Radio operators such as noor Khan paid the ultimate price.Capture was a whisker away with the Gestapo monitoring units.What courage may they never be forgotten.

@david-joeklotz9558

2 ай бұрын

They doubted her ability but she turned out to be amongst the very best. There is a memorial for her in London

@markbackus1449

2 ай бұрын

There is also a memorial plaque for her at Dachau.

@jodyfulford8215

2 ай бұрын

This is the first time I am aware of her. The film sent me to read her bio in Wikipedia. An amazing woman.

@shirleyjordan5941

Ай бұрын

What a courageous woman one amongst many

@michellefletcher3924

Ай бұрын

More than courage what selflessness

A brilliant story about the brave women who fought the unseen war of resistance. This was one fine production on all levels and deserves to be watched and remembered. Given that it is based on a true story it is all the more significant. Thanks for sharing this.

My father was an SOE Radio Operator doing at least one trip to France , possibly more. He told me just before he died , keeping a sworn secret till 2004.. Miss you man....

Based on REAL Women who faced utter danger.

These women were unbelievably courageous and highly intelligent operators. They haven’t gotten the recognition and respect they so deserve. Much respect and gratitude to them all.

@Horgi-vv2kh

Ай бұрын

I think all the agents and spies who worked for SOE man or woman were courageous difficult wherever they worked and dangerous, Germans sent spies to England as well

@LadyBug1967

25 күн бұрын

Robert yes you're right. WE all saw the movie of African-American code breakers. itt was fantastic and I believe got some awards but you or somebody needs to make a movie of these women who ACTUALLY put their body on the line --not just their minds --and they died for their country and the right to be free.

If you dig this type of movie, I invite you to find the 'Foyle's War' episode with Samuel West playing this type of SOE executive dropping spies into France. It's terrific. "This is exactly the kind of operations we were set up for. If we win, we survive. If we lose, we don't deserve to."

@BGivka

24 күн бұрын

I've seen it. Called "the French Drop". Great show.

I read the negative comments. It is very easy to sit in front of a computer and pontificate. These women and, the story I know particularly well, that of Noor Khan, were exceptionally courageous and brave. No less so that the RAF pilots during the Battle of Britain. Back then the US and UK understood the difference between good and evil and why it must be fought. Objective reality, the reality in which we metaphysically live and interact within means we have to make choices without knowing the future. I suppose the past can always be debated to whatever degree desired. Did these brave women make a difference? Yes they did. They fought the NAZI head on. Did the soldier that was killed the moment he stepped onto a Normandy beach make a difference? Yes he did. Those of you who have studied Calculus will understand the relevance of incremental movements, that taken from the perspective of that individual level, it not possible to see the overall level - but it is significant

@wendyhughes8740

2 ай бұрын

Wow, well said 👏🏻

@aviemore393

Ай бұрын

Brillianty put!

@Queenie-cm3kl

Ай бұрын

People from different cultures and backgrounds working together. A moral lesson. More co-operation and understanding worldwide is necessary, not just mindless criticism.

Having read a lot in the past of the work of those female SOE agents in those war years, I was keen to see this film. I was not disappointed. It came across as a powerful, well informed film, and well acted by all concerned. Those brave ladies deserve to be remembered for their courage and sacrifice.

@TriciaSenior25557

Ай бұрын

In London there is a statute of Noor Anayat Khan, unveiled by the Princess Royal (Anne). On KZread Violette Szabò’s daughter talks of when HM the king presented her with the George Cross on behalf of her deceased mother, Murdered by the Nazis

Great movie👏 Watched it cause of Radhika Aapte from Bollywood, she never fails to deliver the best👍

This film moved me to tears. My take away is that courage has no gender bias; These women showed amazing bravery. As a British expat living in Canada for the last 60 years, I have changed dramatically in my opinions about the British way of life. A story about the SOE I read sometime ago detailed the training and use of a young woman who didn't score so well in her training. She was used in the most alarming way. She was put in the field in occupied France with the expectation she would be captured and tortured. The SOE boffins loaded her up with loads of false information knowing that under torture she would tell all. All this came to happen. As a former Brit, I feel very conflicted about the many incidents in WW11 used SOE agents as throw away assets. The SOE were and still are the most effective of their profession, they are rated as the top in their field. I can't help but feel ambivalent about their methods though. I was an infant in England when these brave women sacrificed so much so that kids like me could grow old in peace. They have my heartfelt gratitude. I think this film was an excellent piece of story telling and film making. I still have a lump in my throat.

@brianmorris8045

Ай бұрын

It's sad there was a total a/hole trying to take over the world that caused all those spies, and resistance have to lose their lives fighting for their respective countries way back then. But in the end...the allies couldn't have done it without those brave people.

@LadyBug1967

25 күн бұрын

Richard one way to get rid of the lump in your throat is to join the movement that is fighting the suppression of the First amendment as it is known in America or freedom of speech as it is known in the Western world. Is under a vicious attack like no other that has ever occurred due to AI. If physically you don't feel fit to protest in the way you would like, then find other ways to aid the movement because we are coming under a technological dictatorship that could not even be imagined in the world of science fiction unless of course it was also a horror film. Good luck and thanks for your information. BTW, what's SOE?

Excellent Movie, these women were heroes. Thank You.

Thanks DDF Collections for making this film available. Very educational.

Nor Khan, international Hero, person like her help to shape the world we live in today, soul rest in eternal life, love from Jamaica

Una película y una historia estupenda. Espero que algún día la puedan doblar al español. Un gran recuerdo a todas estas mujeres que arriesgaron sus vidas por nuestra libertad. Que siempre queden en nuestra memoria y nuestros corazones.

A wonderful film very good to see women working as secret agents against the Nazis must have been very demanding work and very scary as well but SOE did a great job in many respects lovely actresses in the film as well

It would have been good if the french was translated. Cheers Rosemary Western Australia 73yrs

@TheMtljo

2 ай бұрын

Don't worry, they didn't say important things in french.

There was British series from the 80's that was quite good called Wish Me Luck. Not fancy production but it went in to more detail of the training and what these spies had to do. Available on KZread.

@naguerea

2 ай бұрын

thanks.

@coastalseasider4634

2 ай бұрын

I was going to bring this up. They did a beautiful job of detailing what all was involved. Such noble women predominately & men. I bought the set of DVDs a while back. A good lesson in remembering not to take freedom for granted.

Amanzing movie! Reivindicating women role as always when potatoes comes boiling. A very and needed versión of that great war

With the American Lady she was in right at the start in Paris getting escaped PoWs, downed Airmen, targets for the Gestapo etc. out & down the Rat Line to Spain. She actually led groups several times over the Pyrenees. The Gestapo were on her trail in Paris. They knew they were looking for a young woman with a wooden leg. She got away only by 15 minutes. Unfortunately, her French Doctor pal was captured & executed in the raid on their location. When the Yanks joined fully, she moved from SOE to the American OSS & stayed with them through the War. She was put back into France but up in Normandy. Afterwards she moved into the CIA. Re. her shooting accident - it actually happened whilst she was stationed at the US Embassy in Turkey. . They missed out one comedic moment. When leading escaped PoWs/wanted Agents over the Pyrenees, her prosthetic limb was acting up. In a message to London she reported, "Cuthbert is a pain." They replied, "Kill him." A very broad subject to cover & focused on a a small part. The captured women suffered horrifically before dying. Really brave.

Britain did not stand alone. There was the empire, the commonwealth and and many Europeans. India fielded the largest volunteer in the history of the world. Please get history straight.

Superb and really involves us in the story. May there be as brave women and men today, in all our countries.

Nice movie, fairly reasonably made, hiding the true extents of those mistakes. When one radio operator was caught it went on and on before London finally realised that, the guy who noticed the change in style, was right. By that point several agents were sent straight into gestapo's hands over a period of quite a few months. But the worst thing that never transpire from any of these patriotic movies, is how the third reich hold out for so long thanks to business dealings with all major banks, including bank of england, and many entrepreneurs who made themselves very rich in just few years, such as mr onassis, just to make one name. And, worst yet, how a burnt out corporal well known by munich police and pubs, all of a sudden had the money to provide uniforms, food, equipment and wages to hundreds and hundreds of german thugs who, within weeks, formed the SA in 1920, that rocketed to thousands of members to few milions throghout Germany. I don't care how good a speaker you might be, you need plenty, loads and loads of money to achieve such thing.

@connieswoboda4662

23 күн бұрын

This is the truth, don´t forget to mention the BIZ (BIS in english) in Basel Switzerland. The book "Trading with the Enemy" from the author Charles Higham is a very important book. The time has come to tell the whole story.

What's with the dark make up for the role of Noor Inayat Khan, played by Radhika Apte who, in real life, is quite fair, as was the original Noor. Is this some British notion of what ALL Indians are supposed to look like? In fact people in India have a range of skin tones, from the very pale to very dark.

@TriciaSenior25557

Ай бұрын

Pictures of Noor Inayat khan show her hair to be quite dark. Like her brother (who was out at sea), I think on a minesweeper. Her nephew, David, narrates her life through growing up, the loss of her father, helping look after her younger siblings to going to the Sorbonne. Noor loved music, played the harp. She also wrote 20 Jataka tales.

I bet Winston bit through the end of his cigar and spilt his brandy - when he found out after the war that *all 29* agents sent to Holland had been captured and turned by the Nazis...

@Horgi-vv2kh

Ай бұрын

But without those Agents we would have not screwed up the Nazis in France and when D-Day came the resistance there did a lot of damage to the Germans helped. Being a Spy is a very dangerous thing to do. And what about the German spies sent to England they got hung as well, worked on both sides war is awful for everybody!

@aviemore393

Ай бұрын

Your somewhat negative comment made me think - and do some digging. I had no idea, so thank you for sharing your point of view and widening my knowledge! It’s quite an interesting read… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Englandspiel

@cattymajiv

Ай бұрын

Churchill must have been so enraged at Buckminster and Virginia for their sloppiness, and lack of concern for human lives!

credits at the end made me cry and I ve watched this again

Thank you very much for the upload of such a good quality film. I would have liked some subtitles - my french is not wonderful.

@Queenie-cm3kl

Ай бұрын

Most dialogue is unnecessary. It's amazing how much one can guess correctly from following the storyline and facial/vocal expressions, with a little intelligence.

@ddp8972

Ай бұрын

​@@Queenie-cm3klwell aren't u the clever one then!

@Queenie-cm3kl

Ай бұрын

@@ddp8972 Why be so rude, the intention was to help you make more effort to understand movies and overcome your difficulties. Or are you just a loser who likes to grump?

Nazis are friendly in this one. I don’t imagine they were so friendly face to face. The SS, that is.

@Horgi-vv2kh

Ай бұрын

Anything fanactic is awful

That precious piece of chocolate would have been wrapped up and pocketed for later....and nibbled, for sure

A Call To Spy (1988) or (2020) the official British version? This film has also been shortened at the end.

@frenchartantiquesparis424

Ай бұрын

No, it was made in the late 1990s

Un film extraordinar!Vera Atkins sa nascut la Galati.

the film would have been good but there is no english conversion for all the french., miss half of what is being said.

Outstanding on all counts

Love this movie. Poor Noor.

What it is with films nowadays? Filmed in some sort of constant twilight, are they showing off that they save electricity to reduce emissions? You can hardly hear what they say, the are just mumbling and whispering! And then that bloody annoying "dramatic" background music!

@frenchartantiquesparis424

Ай бұрын

Humm... Do you think WW2 Spies were yelling and talking loudly? No, they were whispering and being very discreet.

@tombrunila2695

Ай бұрын

@@frenchartantiquesparis424 this is movie, the audience is supposed to hear what the characters say! The audience are NOT counter espionage agents trying to catch spies. And by the way real spies never spoke about their activities in public where somebody could overhear them, not even whispering about them. Being too discreet would also attract the interest of counterspy people!

Man they nerfed who she was in real life! She was a badass!

Another fantastic classic! Thank you!

Another fantastic classic, thanks!

Very good movie .. thanx for posting

If someone has no knowledge what the exactly meaning of **utilitary calculation ** or **useless innocent ** Just take a deep look at this movie... in the end some got safe nationality oaoers,others get job positions by expenses of someothers got a bullet in the head. My respect for the sufi girl's mother who spoke the honest words statetement the others only 1:56:54 selphish hypocrats.

It’s horrible that so many people that cared were lied too and joined fake causes 😢

Such a beautiful movie

Outstanding Historical account. Thank you for sharing. Jeri Engineer New Zealand.

Linus Roache is the absolute "spit"of his father Bill (Ken Barlow).

Significantly, not too much annoying background music. Not a bad movie overall. 😊

sad there is low volume..needs subtiles

Absolutely brilliant movie Thank You

Radio operater or spy same thing. Both face death if caught and neither is covered by any protections of the Geneva Convention

im imagining my self being a spy in ww2😮

#2024 Thank you for this.

Please increase volume; lighten scenes... CC so dark, too difficult to enjoy...can't continue. Looks like one of various documentaries I read about Indians serving in WW2 (WW2 ending w/ India remaining UK colony); a woman whose brother was in service & she wanted to help the war cause, too.

Yup....all 50 or so agents sent to Holland were captured and turned by the Gestapo - the British ignored the security code transmitted by the agents - and so, progressively, more agents fell into the Gestapo trap...

Revelation 20 the end of wicked cowards...

Support and Vote to save democracy everywhere so this doesn't happen again.

Well this surely seems to absolve Vera for the network cockups.

excellent film

Was there really an Indian spy in France or this is just the DEI craze that created such a movie character

@Queenie-cm3kl

Ай бұрын

Just check it out on Google. Yes, there was.

@frenchartantiquesparis424

Ай бұрын

Yes, Princess Noor.... this is a true story, along with Virginia.

@Rtg5637

Ай бұрын

@@frenchartantiquesparis424 Hence a Muslim. Raising even more suspicion that it was manufactured to fit today's woke trend.

@frenchartantiquesparis424

Ай бұрын

@@Rtg5637 Sufi.

@Rtg5637

Ай бұрын

@@frenchartantiquesparis424 All Islamic flavors promote Jihad

YO NUNCA HABRÍA TENIDO EL VALOR.😪😔

You Tube..maybe instead of putting adverts every four minutes you should put them every 2 minutes!!!! Absolutely ridiculous!!!!

Ang haba NG movie nato😅 maganda naman😁👍

I saw this movie before.

Oh that horrible background "music" noise that seems to go on forever.

@Horgi-vv2kh

Ай бұрын

nice music

How can an Indian mingle in French society?

@thefettfan3994

Ай бұрын

Very easily! Only in silly movies such as this one.

@kateleblanc604

Ай бұрын

Read more history about France pre WW1 and 2.

@frenchartantiquesparis424

Ай бұрын

She was absolutely fluent in French, she grew up in a chateaux outside of Paris that the followers of her famous father set her family up in.

@cattymajiv

Ай бұрын

French society has never been as narrowminded as the US, then or now. They are still cut off from the rest of the world by the 2 oceans. The internet doesn't seem to have closed that gap at all. It's like an echo chamber. They talk to each other, and talk at the rest of us, but they hear nothing at all beyond their own voices, and don't care or want to know what's going on in the rest of the world. They somehow think they can control the rest of the wold by ignoring it, and once in a while sending their armed forces, even if they have to lie about the reasons for it, which they have done countless times. But when their help is really needed by somebody else, like in Ukraine, where are they? This is the first time their help was needed insuch a big way since WW2, and it's needed BADLY. All of Europe, and indeed the world, needs for Russia to be STOPPED, but the US is hiding behind Ukraine,and forcing them to fight a neverending proxy war. This way it will go on forever, until Ukraine is a destroyed place empty of people! I'm so bloody angry! If they would have me I'd go there and fight the goddam Orcs. LEMME AT 'EM ! ! ! But I'm sure that I'd be refused. A 63 year old lady might not be that helpful. I'm so full of ANGER about it! SLAVA UKRAINI ! ! ! 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦

@edbrake2723

26 күн бұрын

Google Noor and see her photos; then you will see that she would not have stood out like the actress who portrayed her.

This movie is nice but very very slow.❤❤

No... You go Slavia!

Don't understand the beginning. There is no further connection in the movie.

@gabegrace8333

2 ай бұрын

Training exercise...to withstand torture

@pennymathysen2428

2 ай бұрын

Trained so they know what to expect or actual torture if they captured by the Nazis.

Unwatchable-audio.

Great movie this going to happen soon in the USA

🌼💫💛

Germans and history

If the movie wants to be credible use correct uniforms - what a joke

The ones that died thought it would they did save lives

Amazing women and great story! Unfortunately, you miss a lot when the dialogue switches to French and German. Not covered by auto generated English captions OR the transcript. Thanks for posting this film.

The acting was B grade and more of a feminist celebration for our times. Women of that era who were in the spy business were as cold as ice and not at all sentimental. This was more like a soap opera!

@hamishford5486

3 күн бұрын

If only you actually knew what you were talking about.

😂❤🥰👍🏼💫😆

No English subtitles. VERY DISAPPOINTED

@gabegrace8333

2 ай бұрын

Tap on screen...tap on CC at top English only

@coastalseasider4634

2 ай бұрын

Much of this isn’t in English so I agree. I pretty much get the gist but feel much is missing without translation.

@nicolarollinson4381

2 ай бұрын

Definitely subtitled ...tap Cc

@cattymajiv

Ай бұрын

@@coastalseasider4634 Yes. They often leave it to our imaginations, but I don't care for that.

Just not nice to have no subs to French AND English... Will not follow it any further.

@Horgi-vv2kh

Ай бұрын

then learn it then you got Google !!

@brianmorris8045

Ай бұрын

@@Horgi-vv2kh Oui!

Israel is soo lied about . Their 2 mistakes blaring but their sanctity of life and caring about the gazans is honorable . Urban warrfare is brutal . hamas did this using no morals uniforms or geneva convention using civillians for shields . How come no one is whining about putin ? or turkey taking out Arminia ?

@paulwalker6045

Ай бұрын

BEST STICK TO PRAYING TO YOUR god

@sarahhearn-vonfoerster7401

Ай бұрын

@@paulwalker6045 Twit !

@rogerkenyon6209

Ай бұрын

Not really relevant to the film. But whilst Hamas committed terrible acts in October, the Israeli army also have committed acts of extreme ferocity, against women and children. Neither side is free of guilt.

@cattymajiv

Ай бұрын

This dumb OP thinks nobody is complaining about Putin or the treatment of Armenians! Have they been hiding in the wilderness, completely cut off for years? It just goes to show the intelligence level of most people commenting on KZread. Why do I even bother reading or replying? I must be just as dumb!

F N ad's

A Movie made by Women , for Women.

I took a chance on this movie, started out really good. But as usual the Lords name was taken in vain twice halfway through. This is where I stopped it. I’ll go back watching these kinds of movies made in the 30-40’s.

@TheCrusty68

2 ай бұрын

The sky fairy's name in vane 😅😅

@cattymajiv

Ай бұрын

@@TheCrusty68 I know. Ridiculous isn't it? Next they'll be saying bad stuff about Santa Claus. Or even the Tooth Fairy!

Cest incroyable les flic francais etait aussi coupable est brutale comme les Allemand.

@steph1918

2 ай бұрын

Et oui hélàs. Il y avait des collabos dans tous les pays européens.

@maakeklein4073

2 ай бұрын

Oui cest ca.

all of us know that WW2 was win by sir Charchill and Bred PEET from '' Inglorious bastards'' /no Russia , none Yugoslavia --ONLY these 2 ''heros'' /LOL

@coffee6783

2 ай бұрын

Those lazy Russians watched on as Hollywood single-handedly won war after war after war! 😉🤣

@user-ls7sx8ox3g

2 ай бұрын

@@coffee6783 may be ''lazy'' --but very-very smart !! Long live Mister Putin!!!!!!!!!!!!

@coffee6783

2 ай бұрын

@@user-ls7sx8ox3g Lavrov is one of the smartest! I love Russia, what little I've seen. 👍

@user-ls7sx8ox3g

2 ай бұрын

@@coffee6783 you are welcome ---I can show you the rest!!

@zendon4010

2 ай бұрын

😂😅 the british believe in their own lies.

Ifind the dreadfulsubtitles distracting! It’s as though the typist did not understand English

@cattymajiv

Ай бұрын

Unless the video maker paid for expensive subtitles of their own, all subtitles are the free ones KZread provides. They are done by computers and are not reviewed by people for accuracy.

What painful old eyewash!

Terrible film about woman ‘spy’ say no more.

EXCELLENT! the movie could have been in french, didnt matter absolutly terroifying, put too in too together this is what is happenning right now in faciast america, it just might take a allout nuclar this time to stop the nazi- zionists.

@wsiklogfh

2 ай бұрын

A) Learn to type. B) nazi-zionists? really?

@mickround1034

2 ай бұрын

Incoherent Jew hating crap. You'd have supported the Nazis in WW2 - if they could have understood you.

@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx

2 ай бұрын

@@mickround1034 Zionists are not all Jews; Jews are not all Zionists. Given the appalling atrocities committed by Zionists in Israel since at least 1948, and the Palestinian-hating rhetoric routinely used in Zionist media, is it any wonder that conclusions are drawn?

@cattymajiv

Ай бұрын

@@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx Right on! We should encorage every person who speaks out on this! It's unbelievable that Netanyahu and his supporters are still being encouraged by the US, and many other countries. Those countries are afraid of being called anti semetic if they withdraw their support, but they are encouraging a group that behaves just like the Nazis. The Israeli govt and its supporters are vicious murderers on a genocidal rampage.

@cattymajiv

Ай бұрын

@@mickround1034 You have no clue what you are talking about. To support Israel is to support people who are behaving exactly like Nazis.

Poor quality production

All this nonsense didn't shorten the war by one day !

@nicolarollinson4381

2 ай бұрын

How would we know?

@Queenie-cm3kl

Ай бұрын

@@nicolarollinson4381 Well, said Nicola. Nobody can judge especially as at least they tried.

@cattymajiv

Ай бұрын

It bugs me so much that there is no way for me to talk to the OP as I can talk to everyone else who replied to them! I would say they are 100% wrong. It made a huge difference. It won the war in Europe for us!

@nicolarollinson4381

Ай бұрын

@@cattymajiv absolutely

Just when you thought ah something of interest, this is a second rate, third rate American production not a first rate British production and as such is a load of shit with sub standard acting that ruins these important stories.

@healthyself7941

2 ай бұрын

Since the invention of movies, it's American movies that have been major blockbusters. Worldwide. Not British. Fact is, many other countries produce goods and services of a quality that's way better than British.

@Queenie-cm3kl

Ай бұрын

@@healthyself7941 Agree! Want great movies with superb production and acting, try Russian war films. Very informative too.

@cattymajiv

Ай бұрын

@@healthyself7941 That is hilarious! Intelligent movie makers don't strive to make blockbusters. That's the area for the bean counters who don't give a sh*t about quality. Anyone can make a blockbuster, but most people are too intelligent to bother. Americans were taught how to make good movies by Hitchcock and Chaplin, both British, and by watching other British films, but they diverged after WW2. When Americans were lied to by their politicians and press, and told that they alone had won WW2, they became arrogant as can be, and still are to this day. Their movies also went way downhill for many years, and although there have been plenty of good ones by both countries over the approximately 80 years since WW2, there has been plenty of garbage too. What you consider a blockbuster is in reality a pile of garbage that caters to the instincts of people not smart enough to think. Sitting in a theatre while you are bombarded with mindless fights, chases, and explosions is the equivalent to taking an arm full of smack or fentanyl. It just knocks you unconscious for an equal length of time. Even the price is fairly equivalent. The fact that a large number of people are stupid enough to waste their time and money on this is NOT something to brag about. Neither would I brag that my country produced most of them! It's also no surprise that American movies win the most American awards. The Academy Awards have also never been considered all that accurate in judging quality. They are less respected than ever now. The technical awards do carry some respect, but most of the others are considerred to be political in nature, and often highly unfair. They are certainly in no way an accurate international reward. But then nobody expects that of them. I have been far too wordy here. My point is simply that you are wrong.

Brave people