Looking at this, many years after watching it as a kid, you cannot help but sit in awe at the work that went into setting some of these aerial shots

@Wombat1916

9 жыл бұрын

fuckwit In the "How they made the film"section of the DVD it was explained that a lot of the filming was done in Spain and (I seem to recall) Southern France. A B-25 acted as the camera plane. Two of the CASA 2.111 bombers, dolled up with Iron Crosses and Swastikas, accompanied by some other a/c, were flown across France to Britain for the aerial scenes showing the British countryside!

@2view23

9 жыл бұрын

Terry Shulky thanks

@TheGroundedAviator

8 жыл бұрын

Taff What amazes me is no one died.

@timmorodgers4271

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheGroundedAviator The German aircraft were all current or recently retired Spanish Air Force and flown by their pilots, one of the 109 pilots was killed in a crash delivering and aircraft to the filming location.

@TheGroundedAviator

2 жыл бұрын

@@timmorodgers4271 Pretty much. After that many were sold off as warbirds. The guy who commanded everything was Spain's top test pilot I think. Regardless of the death, I think they had a great deal of fun!

For a film over 50yr old the battle scenes are brilliant no CGI whatsoever.

@MrDaiseymay

Жыл бұрын

They could never make films like this again. All those Spanish Airforce Heinkle HE111's are no longer airworthy anyway, etc etc Some dialogue was a bit ropey, but the hard ware was great.

@notgadot

5 ай бұрын

@@MrDaiseymay Who was the director of this film?

This film is the only film I've ever seen that captures what it must of been like to fly on either side during the Battle of Britain so vividly. No CGI or Holywood acting just raw reality and stark consequences. The film is a masterpiece of film making. Incredible for the 1960s

@GiantSarcasticRobot

2 жыл бұрын

You should see Dunkirk... But I totally agree that these day movies are just animations. I don't understand why Avengers movies are so popular. They have jokes that a 14 year kid will use, and use bunch of CGIs.

@twowheelexploration9228

2 жыл бұрын

@King Royal maybe but CGI wasn't thought of back then and they weren't going to destroy real veteran aircraft for public amusement

@--legion

4 ай бұрын

The film is now of historical importance - genuine aircraft in the air: "At the time of filming it formed the 36th largest airforce in the World." Even though some shots are of models, the film as a whole could not possibly be filmed without CGI... even Hitler's speech had a mass audience of real people (crude CGI crowd scenes ruined Gladiator). Waterloo 1970 has the same breath-taking quality of reality.

This film set the standard and over 50 years later, it still hasn't been bettered.

@sylvaleader

2 жыл бұрын

@King Royal There is nothing racist about the aerial photography in this film. Maybe you need to lay down for a while.

Back in August 1985 when stationed with USAF in Iceland I hopped a ride down to England on a KC135 tanker. My brother also in USAF was stationed in England. We both went to an air show that was Battle of Britain themed. It was at a battle of Britain airfield, and was simulated to be straffed by the Luftwaffe with the RAF then responding by scrambling into the air to shoot them down. A Churchill double, a band wearing period uniforms playing music of the time, and too many things to mention, made it the greatest air show I've ever seen along with being a very treasured memory.

Somehow....these old movies look more realistic that today's CGI-loaded ones

@englishguy2010

9 жыл бұрын

Bali Sunset They certainly do. Old war movies trump the new ones by miles :)

@chucknorris6640

3 жыл бұрын

I think because this movies was made with real aircrafts so the action looks like if it was real

@kneeslider47

3 жыл бұрын

Mainly because the film was made with real aerosplanes, plus some large scale models. Not CGI rubbish created by people that seem to think WW2 planes can fly at 1700mph

@richarddewitt2072

2 жыл бұрын

@@kneeslider47 Perhaps just a touch of CGI in the tracer shooting department would add to the fire works. But large scale R C planes is the way to go.

@briancohen3170

2 жыл бұрын

actual planes actually in the sky vs. what some CGI person thinks they can/cannot do without ever having flow anything. CGI is great for space movie battles as it's all imagination anyway, but cannot compete with real planes limited by reality

and proud to be Polish,Czech,Slovakia,Canadian.

@coyote5735

6 жыл бұрын

Ye,. they all deserve recognition..........shame it was witheld............Propoganda i'm afraid shameful.

As an Argentinean i am proud to say that more than 550 argentines (Anglo-Argentine pilots too) pilots went to serve with the british and proudly protected both Argentina and England.

@borninjordan7448

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for their service.

@Tourist1967

2 жыл бұрын

The Argentines have a tradition of great gallantry in the air. Not bad racing drivers too!

@Tourist1967

5 ай бұрын

@@notgadot Who he? A relative of Maradona? Anyway it was the hand of God - everyone knows that!

@notgadot

5 ай бұрын

@@Tourist1967 Only fools know that. Lol he cannot play football, hes handballer cheater 😂

@Tourist1967

5 ай бұрын

@@notgadot You're barely literate. GTF.

Dear Brits my friend spend weekend in January 2015 in London he visited Imperial War Museum and another interesting places of your Capital City. When he asked someone something about Czechoslovak aviators who helped defend your country so their answer was this - ? No. 310 Czechoslovak fighter squadron RAF No. 311 Czechoslovak night bomber squadron No. 312 Czechoslovak fighter squadron RAF No. 313 Czechoslovak fighter squadron RAF No. 68 British ( with Czech motto vždy přpraven - always ready) night fighter squadron RAF and many other pilots in British squadrons, for example No 1. fighter squadron ( 30 Czechoslovaks served in this unit) REMEMBER US PLEASE And I also apolgizes for my mistakes in English language

@chrissquire6450

5 жыл бұрын

I am from Leamington Spa in the English Midlands. In Jepherson Gardens a local park there is a memorial for Czech Paratroopers who fought in the war. www.leamingtonhistory.co.uk/the-free-czech-army/

@seoulkidd1

5 жыл бұрын

Sad the Foreign pilpts are not recognize for their actions and bravery.

@evanstj5

4 жыл бұрын

We remember the brave Czechs and Slovaks who fought in 1940 and later.

@KrillLiberator

4 жыл бұрын

@@seoulkidd1 But they are. We've always. *always* known about them and acknowledged their heroism and sacrifice and the great debt we owe them as much as our own airmen. They're acknowledged in this film (through the Poles), but please remember that this film alone cold not cover every single nationality or squuadron. There were FAA pilots, South Africans and others who are not specifically noted in this movie. But this film did acknowledge the foreign commitment to the defence of the UK during this pivotal campaign. And we've always understood. Just a shame that the whole 'Poles and Czechs are never remembered' trope keeps coming up - it's an insult to the great friendship between these nations and the UK, openly and warmly remembered always.

@daneelolivaw602

3 жыл бұрын

@@seoulkidd1 Visit the RAF museum at Hendon, you will see tributes to the brave men of ALL the country's that fought in this Battle, and there are war memorials and cemeteries all over the country, dedicated to them. Don't make such stupid bloody comments when you know nothing about it.

The crowning moment of this great film. I remember nagging my father to death as a boy to take me to see this twice at the cinema. I had eyes like saucers watching this . These men were (and still are) my boyhood heros and made me forever thankful that my generation grew up during a period of relative peace.

@robleary3353

Жыл бұрын

It's how I got my interest in vintage WWII aircraft. The sound of a Merlin engine going flat chat is spine tingling, to a degree too an original Daimler Benz sounds good too.

To this day I think they made the best decision possible to silence the characters and the flight sound effects, to just let the symphony music play out the chaos. They show a bunch of the haphazard ways a pilot could die other than being shot up. No film since IMO captures the essence of the situation as well.

@georgemorley1029

3 жыл бұрын

Walton’s music does the talking for the action.

@notgadot

3 ай бұрын

I love British films. I dont like moviez about america, really overrated

I studied this campaign a long time ago. I found it truly amazing how close the RAF came to failing. Their pilots were literally exhausted and still flying. Some even recorded as falling asleep in the cockpit when their planes landed, The one thing that never occurred to me till now was the drain their own engines had on them. Their bravery should go down in history as being among the highest.

@mjpraetorian4386

3 жыл бұрын

Their generation deserves to be called the greatest generation

@frostyfrost4094

2 жыл бұрын

The last week of the BofB have been advised that the numbers were about the same pilot and aircraft losses

@patsmith8523

2 жыл бұрын

@@frostyfrost4094 That may be true. One thing I have learned is that kills and losses were sometimes over reported. The catch was that British pilots who successfully bailed out could be snt back to their squadrons (assuming they were not injured). The same could not be said of German pilots. If they bailed out over England, they were lost to the Germans for the duration of the war.

Without doubt one of the best war movies ever made. Amazing cinematography at a time when there was no cgi whatsoever. They don't make em like they used too 👍

@notgadot

5 ай бұрын

I dont like moviez about america, really overrated. I love British films

For a 1969 movie this is extraordinary

@EAMonstah

2 жыл бұрын

Was thinking the same

@markmerry1471

2 жыл бұрын

Me too love this film. Now reads my all about it. I also have great respect for all the men that gave up there lives for us .May they all rest in peace now and for ever more.

@maxsomerjoki8147

2 жыл бұрын

What do you mean for a 1969 movie? Older movies look and are much better in almost every aspect just watch some Hitchcock movies. When cgi was introduced it fucked up everything

I think this is the best movie I seen that portrays the people of the UK in defense of homeland 75 years ago. RAF fighter pilots in action some at the point of life or death facing the forces of the enemy which was defeated. Long live the Queen.

Wait for the hollywood remake with a single American pilot destroying the whole luftwaffe......

@Gerk8

3 жыл бұрын

Probably Brad Pitt! Lol!

@thefurrybastard1964

3 жыл бұрын

A single American *female* Pilot at that!

@paulwright2264

3 жыл бұрын

We had that...the beginning of the dreadful 'Pearl Harbor'.

@philsosshep4834

3 жыл бұрын

A single African American lesbian single mother oppressed by the filth of the British empire saves Europe and all those racist white folk from the communist nazis of the east from being unpolitically correct. Well that's what Hollywood and the BBC say so who's to question them!

@Azishome

3 жыл бұрын

Wait wait wait wait wait! Didn't take much more than one single American pilot, did it?

it's scary to think this was reality over our sky's all those years ago.

@shepherdlavellen3301

3 жыл бұрын

@@chriswilde7246 just imagine spending years training to learn to fly a spitfire just to die to a random Messerschmidt coming out of nowhere. No SA, no radar, no RWR, have to eyeball everything, no ejection seats and fatigue since Britain was short on pilots

@eddiewhite7309

3 жыл бұрын

@Отоја Јамагучи shut up you ignorant pig 🖕

@daneelolivaw602

3 жыл бұрын

@Отоја Јамагучи "British Bombings all across Europe" yes, trying TO FUCKING DEFEND EUROPE, not to CONQUER it,, You MORON.

@daneelolivaw602

3 жыл бұрын

@Отоја Јамагучи My mother was six years old when the Nazi filth started bombing London, Almost Every night for months at the start of the war spent sleeping in underground stations, What a disgusting repellent little reptile you are.

@trumpstinyhands

3 жыл бұрын

@@daneelolivaw602 I thought you were quiet polite toward the sneering little toad there. Well done for retaining your dignity in the face of abject stupidity and banality 👍

The thing this film did very well (In addition to other things it did of course) is showing these planes were not just machines. People were flying and dying in them.

There was a German fella that fought for Germany that lived a few doors down from my grandparents. He stayed in Wales after being a prisoner of war. A nice bloke, they were forced to fight and many were happy to be captured.

@danielw5850

Жыл бұрын

In 1984, I was introduced to a former Stuka pilot, in a pub in Pembrokeshire. He decided to settle in Wales too and he told me his proudest achievement was serving on the Fishguard Life Boat!

@stevekitt52

Жыл бұрын

One of my Great Uncles served in the Kriegsmarine on a Uboat. He ended up a POW and remained here after the war, married into our family and my Dad told me he was a good bloke.

I think anybody interested in this film should try and find the documentary about the making of it and the lengths the production company went to for authenticity. This film was released in 1969 and probably is still the best film depicting aerial combat going.

@frostyfrost4094

2 жыл бұрын

Remember reading the paperback on the film in the early 70,s was not my book was my then girlfriend brother's. Its the only place l have seen where it notes the death of one of the Spanish Airforce pilots during the making of the film

At 2;49. Good God A'mighty!.These are real aeroplanes, real pilots, real people!.That Spitfire had to have missed that Heinkel by mere yards!, going by the look in the eyes of the Heinkel gunner!.No bloody CGI HERE!.Real Aeroplanes.Real Pilots and Aircrew.Real flying!!.

Best aerial combat photos ever. No CGI thank goodness.

@MarkHarrison733

20 күн бұрын

Such fake models in this flop.

@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684

11 күн бұрын

​@@MarkHarrison733 keep at it "Mark"... how does that piss taste? Hahahahaha.

@MarkHarrison733

11 күн бұрын

@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 See why the Jews bombed the British during World War II.

@MarkHarrison733

11 күн бұрын

@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 See why Israel bombed British civilians during World War II.

@captainnutsack8151

2 күн бұрын

@@MarkHarrison733 See why Mark Harrison is a mentally ill psychopath.

The music in that aerial fight is incredible....tense, brooding, explosive...brilliant. Old school theatrcial actors, real planes, crispy bright footage, amazing music....it can never be remade cause CGI like in Dunkirk will kill it dead.

@thomasluthi-bhatti1140

8 ай бұрын

You could not have picked a worse example to make your point than Dunkirk. Old school theatrical actors? Dunkirk has three Olivier Award winners (Rylance (twice!), Branagh & Lowden) & one nominee (Hardy), as far as I'm aware of. Almost all the cast are classically trained. Cillian Murphy started his career in Irish theatre, which has produced some of the greatest dramatists of all times like Shaw, Wilde or Beckett. Real planes & crispy footage? They took some of the best cameras available (there are only 12 IMAX cameras in the world) and strapped them to actual surviving Spitfires from the Imperial War Museum. They didn't use real 109s - they used Hispano Buchóns instead. Just as they did when filming the Battle of Britain. Amazing music - I guess this one is down to taste. But I'm sure many would argue that Hans Zimmer is the greatest film composer alive.

@user-wz2qe2pv6r

8 ай бұрын

@@thomasluthi-bhatti1140 If you dont get it the no amount of expla is gonna fix it. Good day sir.

@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684

8 ай бұрын

@@thomasluthi-bhatti1140 What does ANY of that prove? EVERY actor in history has appeared in MANY complete and utter TURKEYS. Dunkirk was just another.... totally shit boring film. Gimme 1958 "Dunkirk" ANYDAY.

@rogerkincaid931

2 ай бұрын

​@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 - It proves the original poster wrong. _Dunkirk_ was released in 2017, when CGI are ubiquitous and WWII leftover material (e.g. weaponries, vehicles) are not in abundant supply. The director, Christopher Nolan, instead opted to emphasise practical effects over digital. The fact that he was able to made his film in these conditions is worthy of admiration.

@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684

Ай бұрын

@@rogerkincaid931 The audience is in general more concerned with whether the film has captured the "zeitgeist" and the spectacle of the enormous events that occured on those 8 days in May /June 1940 than the technical brilliance of the directors art. For me and many people Nolan's "Dunkirk" is demonstrably a unsatisfying small scale rendering of a massive operation.

All achieved without any CGI whatsoever. The effects team did a brilliant job for what was available at the time.

@funkyalfonso

3 жыл бұрын

@Isaiah Tufor Are you fucking stupid? Most of those actors are long gone.

@sizzler2462

3 жыл бұрын

@Isaiah Tufor film was was released in 1969 its worth doing some research on how it was made

@neththeobnoxioussponge8929

3 жыл бұрын

@Isaiah Tufor im pretty sure that the op knows that there was no cgi in 69', he just admired the fact that this was all made with practical effects. Also stop screaming, it makes you look like you're the immature one here.

@plymouth5714

3 жыл бұрын

The scene where (I think) Biggin Hill was caught unawares and the big hanger is blown up was very real! The hanger was a leftover from WW1 and was due to be demolished anyway so the film makers got permission to blow it up and film it for the movie!

@lundrat

2 жыл бұрын

@@plymouth5714 A friend of mine and jump instructor at the large sport parachute club in Strasbourg was in the movie. He jumped from a ME108 located at the airfield in one scene, he wearing an original seat pack parachute.

The bit where the pilot bails out at 3.26 but his chute doesn’t open is spine chilling.

@Genesivare

4 ай бұрын

Just this one bit? This entire scene is spine chilling. I watched it as a kid the first time. What would you know?

@Benlu64

3 ай бұрын

I think it was a dummy...the chute didn't open by accident and they kept the scene in as it looked so effective.

@geoffrennox1840

2 ай бұрын

@@Benlu64the thing is, from time to time this really did happen

Sir William Waltons music was so accurate of the terrible carnage in those skies.

@nottmjas

Ай бұрын

And the depiction of terror that those pilots must have faced a lot of the time. Goodwin's score is wondeful, Walton's is magnificent.

Unbelievably well done for 1969.

Best scene in an underrated movie

The clip of the view over St Paul's, with contrails in the sky, and the distant rattle of machineguns, is how my mother described watching the dogfights over London. She would sit on the back door step in the East End, watching and listening. She said that every so often bits of metal would land in the back garden - bits of bullets... 😮

@hawnyfox3411

Ай бұрын

In summer 1980 we were all allowed to spend full lunch hours on top of the roof NEXT to "St.Paul's" Wasn't lost on me that it was the 40th Anniversary & that high above those scenes took place. I was also a Teenager & worked next to the Luftwaffe 'bombed out' Greyfriar's Passage & Church itself. Actual film footage exists of that raid on "Episode.4 - ALONE" - "World At War" by ITV (1970's T.V series) Wasn't until 1981 having just worked 6-days there, that my young Fiancee & myself travelled up to Hunstanton (Victorian seaside Town) to visit my old Nan, only to find out she'd been working there THAT particular night during the main "London Blitz" on the worst U.K night raid ever, 29th-30th Dec' 1940 & she survived (sub-basement) Blew me away that 40 years earlier my Nan HAD worked in MY building "King Edward Building" (KEB) which now, today, is an American Bank "Merrill Lynch" H.Q building, that for 90 yrs previous was U.K's 3rd largest G.P.O Post Office "Letters Sorting Office" from where I done Pillar Box collections & deliveries to all the E.C Postcodes

For it’s time, this was an incredible feat of airborne filming.

@UmaticSota

3 жыл бұрын

Not too easy to film today, either.

@plymouth5714

3 жыл бұрын

@@UmaticSota I don't think they would even try - all CGI now!

@raymondweaver8526

3 жыл бұрын

How about period

@roberthoffhines5419

3 жыл бұрын

Still is, no damn CGI thank you very much. Your eye can actually take it in!

I was at school in Welling Kent and I remember watching this from the playing field

Such brave young men and most of them were under 25 years old what a responsibility to have put on you at that time

@chucknorris6640

2 жыл бұрын

Now peopl of this age can’t decide if they are a boy or a girl and are still living with there parents

@serenityflies1462

2 жыл бұрын

@@chucknorris6640 Spot on Chuck! A sad statement but true. I wish you and your family a happy and prosperous New Year. Love and hugs from Australia x✌✌❤❤❤❤❤❤ God bless you all!

I remember seeing this in the theatre as a young boy and the music had me on the edge of my seat. What a great decision it was to only have the music, not the sounds of battle

@AussieMozzie107

3 ай бұрын

I like the start of this music but it’s a bit annoying and loud at the end, also there is no sound of dogfighting or anything

@sblack48

3 ай бұрын

@@AussieMozzie107 that was done intentionally for dramatic effect. I think it works very well, but I suppose not everyone sees it the same way.

@AussieMozzie107

3 ай бұрын

@@sblack48 Yeah I don’t know if I like it more without sounds or not but either way it’s much better than anything to todays standards

@AussieMozzie107

3 ай бұрын

@@sblack48 I’ve rewatched it and I think it’s better without war sounds especially at the start

The soundtrack is excellent here, really conveys how scary it would be to engage in a dogfight like that.

As there some people seem to bit confused about the nationalities of these pilots; here's a list: 2350 were British 🇬🇧 135 from New Zealand 🇳🇿 117 were Canadian 🇨🇦 141 were Polish (in exile) 🇵🇱 90 Czechoslovak (in exile) 🇨🇿 🇸🇰 35 Australian 🇦🇺 26 Indian 🇮🇳 13 French (in exile) 🇫🇷 6 American (volunteers prior to the USA joining the war)🇺🇸 And many more.. It's worth noting that counties like New Zealand, Australia, Canada, India, etc. Were either part of the British Empire or were Dominions to the British Empire - but the majority were actually volunteers and not conscripts. The Royal Air Force also faced the full might of the Luftwaffe as they hadn't turned on the USSR yet as this battle happened in 1940. This battle was also the first major defeat Germany faced in the second world war.

@MarkHarrison733

6 ай бұрын

The Battle of Britain was irrelevant as Hitler never intended to invade the UK.

@raypurchase801

6 ай бұрын

Ignore replies from the likes of Mark. He's a well-known troll.

@MarkHarrison733

6 ай бұрын

@@raypurchase801 As soon as Stalin broke the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact on 28 June 1940 the OKW started preparing for Barbarossa.

@stevetheduck1425

6 ай бұрын

Repeating himself.

@MarkHarrison733

6 ай бұрын

@@stevetheduck1425 We should have allied with the Axis against the only threat.

You couldnt have captured the scene with a better soundtrack. Chaos, panic, anticipation, destruction.

@gavinhudson3064

3 жыл бұрын

Walton was in top form when he wrote this piece.

Sir William Walton OM wrote a complete score for this picture. It was rejected by the producers yet this piece WAS included. Dynamic, yet violent, it captures in all its horror the nightmare the few went through. As a score for a film, it does exactly what it should do, and then some. At the end of the day a film soundtrack should add to the narrative, and "The Battle in the Air" does just that. I'd love to hear the rejected remainder of the soundtrack. In all fairness it has to be said that Ron Goodwin's eventual masterpiece was just that. Its as though Walton's score was 5/10 except for the battle which was something like 11/10.

@esmeephillips5888

7 ай бұрын

Yes, this piece kindles memories of the sweeping grandeur of the opening movement of Walton's first symphony, and the French knights' charge in 'Henry V'. Walton's music grew dreamier after he moved to Ischia, but he could still make an orchestra sound more explosively dynamic than any other composer of his epoch. Olivier was so angry when he heard that Saltzman was going to scrap Walton's score that he threatened to take his name off the credits and disown the film. Hence this passage, and a little over the end credits, stayed in.

@barryporteous4904

7 ай бұрын

The unused Walton material is included on the CD soundtrack of the film (well it is on mine,anyway)!@@esmeephillips5888

@stevetheduck1425

6 ай бұрын

Walton's score was never finished, but may exist as paper. It's easily findable, there are even vids here on YT of the film with the music applied wrongly. 'The Young Seigfreids' is used for the RAF pilots, when it was for the Luftwaffe pilots, for example.

The greatest 5 min scene I've ever seen in a movie.

As a 24 year old Mexican, I admire and have my respects to these brave and courageous RAF pilots who sacrificed their lives defending their homeland from being looted by a heartless and unmerciful tyrant

@KrillLiberator

4 жыл бұрын

@James Henderson But he still wanted to conquer us as an enemy. Whether that meant the negotiating table for a surrender, or the destruction of our armed forces and a surrender, or anything else leading to our defeat... doesn't really matter so much. If he couldn't have us neutral or on-side, he wanted us beaten. It's still the intent to conquer.

@Ukraineaissance2014

3 жыл бұрын

@James Henderson might want to look into operation sealion you bitter little bitch

@chucknorris6640

3 жыл бұрын

James Henderson and operation sea lion??? What it was the propuse of the operation???

@daniellastuart3145

3 жыл бұрын

@@chucknorris6640 Hitler want Britain to surrender so he have free in Eastern Europe. Operation Sealion was a bluff we called it out the rest is history

@daniellastuart3145

3 жыл бұрын

@James Henderson you right James

Absolute heroes, Britain and the Commonwealth was almost fighting alone at this point. These guys saved us from the Nazis.

@steveconkey7362

Жыл бұрын

Except for all the lend lease material coming from the US. The RAF were hero's of course.

@wellhungindung

Жыл бұрын

@@steveconkey7362 It took the US 3 years to decide the Nazis were bad and after Pearl Harbour, of course. Good job, heroes.

@MarkHarrison733

Жыл бұрын

@@wellhungindung The United States was already at war in 1940.

@johntate5050

Жыл бұрын

They need to come and save us from WOKE next.

@MarkHarrison733

Жыл бұрын

@@johntate5050 Churchill made Europe Communist and Islamic.

The stuff of goose bumps. Young men with so little training sent to save a nation. Such selfless bravery. The hubris of Hitler and his sycophants had sent Germany on a most harmful suicide mission. I was a lad in southern England when this was filmed. We use to rush out in to the playground and lay on the grass oval and watch the aircraft fly over. Never in the field of human conflict …. Lest we forget.🇦🇺🦘👍

I saw this when I was 10... amazing film and it was filmed for real... no CGI...

@clewis5220

Жыл бұрын

Me too at 10 years old I had to wear a shirt and tie as the odeon in Manchester as it was posh then!

@hypercomms2001

Жыл бұрын

@@clewis5220 I saw it at the Dromana Drive in Dromana, Victoria Australia…

Way way better than all the CGI stuff used in recent movies of this ilk.

@JamesRichards-mj9kw

Ай бұрын

The models looked so fake in this racist flop.

@Ak47warrior.

Ай бұрын

@@JamesRichards-mj9kwwdym

@MarkHarrison733

Ай бұрын

@@Ak47warrior. They were so fake.

@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684

11 күн бұрын

@@JamesRichards-mj9kw Hahahaha... keep it up Mark..... I see you're convincing NO-ONE, but God loves a tryer !!!!

@MarkHarrison733

11 күн бұрын

@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 The models were so laughable in this racist flop.

"never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few"

My half brother was killed during the last bomber raid on Germany, May 5th 1945, 3 days from wars end.He was 22, and had volunteered for the RAF at 18.

@garybenjamin7640

Жыл бұрын

Hi Philip sorry to hear about the fate of your half brother, my father put his age up to fight and trained Winniepeg, Canada ,served in 75 NZ squad ,1944-45 rear gunner, Lancaster bomber, he also had the pleasure at wars end of playing combined services rugby team against south Africa . Gary B

One of the best war movies ever made and ever seen till date. It's a treasure if you have this as a collection ❤

One of the most organised and best executed air defences in history.

This montage features the only surviving music from the original score, "War in the Air," by William Walton. Most of the other music was removed and a different score was written by veteran Ron Goodwin, who wrote a much mover conventional soundtrack.

@stevetheduck1425

Жыл бұрын

The music by Sir William Walton survives: 'Overture', 'The Young Siegfrieds' etc. , is available on numerous DVD versions of The Battle of Britain' as an option, and can also be found on youtube.

@notgadot

5 ай бұрын

@@stevetheduck1425 thank you sir.

This was so ahead of its time, fantastic film portraying the Battle of Britain its the bloody title for gods sake!

Sir William Walton was originally approached to do the soundtrack for this movie, but much of it was rejected in favour of Ron Goodwin. No mistake, Goodwin did a superb job...especially with Aces High...the Luftwaffe March, but this remaining bit of Walton is pure class and perfectly suits the action.

@ivorbiggun710

3 жыл бұрын

Walton was devastated, apparently. Olivier, who was a great friend of Walton's, threatened to have his name removed from the credits and publicity material unless they included at least this piece of music.

Another movie worth watching is Tora, Tora, Tora. All these classic war movies were shot in the late sixties when the men who had fought in these battles were still alive and a lot of attention and effort was put into every small detail like uniforms, words actually spoken etc etc....Now all of them have passed into legend but their deeds will always be remembered.

@b3j8

3 жыл бұрын

I saw Tora Tora Tora in the theatre as a kid w/my Dad. Those absolutely realistic scenes of the Japanese attacking those P40s on the ground and the stuntmen literally running for their lives will never be repeated in this age of CGI!

The score for this is on the head.. Its sheer bloody brilliant.. I saw this way back in 1970..as a child great memories

I love the fact that so often when a plane is hit you get to see the pilot and/or crew, putting a human face on the loser of each dogfight.

You can almost smell the fear in these cockpits, to think many of these Warriors were 22& 23 year old!! So many of the kids cockpits were their tombs!! Rest In Peace, may we never forget their sacrifices!!🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿

@redblade8160

Жыл бұрын

Nothing was accomplished you fool, both sides all died in vain for the establishment...

@ricardocorbie6803

Жыл бұрын

@@redblade8160 how so?? Please explain your self, or whatever your point of view is!!

@redblade8160

Жыл бұрын

@@ricardocorbie6803 How about instead you tell me what was accomplished in that war (or any war for that matter)?

@cpj93070

Жыл бұрын

@@redblade8160 You sir are a complete idiot.

@redblade8160

Жыл бұрын

@@cpj93070 No, you're wrong, I'm the one that is surrounded by "idiots" like you!

Superb cinematography, superb choreography and a superb score surely makes this the best 5 minute battle scene in any war movie.

@adamski101

Жыл бұрын

I would rather have had the sound of engines, guns and cockpit radios than a musical score. Ruined it for me.

@32shumble

Жыл бұрын

@@adamski101 You got that in the rest of the movie - but this climactic fight with just the music was a moment of cinematic genius.

Wonderful movie and have watched numerous times. I'm Canadian,and proud of my relatives from Canada,Scotland, N.Z.,England and my Father In Law from Jamaica who served in the RAF during WW2.

@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your country's loyal assistance during WW2, and respects to the memory of your family's service.

@frostyfrost4094

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you also for letting us in the UK seeing your "Vera" Avro Lancaster

Unbelievable that after all the suffering and sacrifice during this time today there are greed motivated countries ready to put the world through this again. Magnificent movie achievement at a time when CG was not the easy way to film these incredible sequences. Magnificent movie, men and achievement against the odds.

Today, most filmmakers would flood the score with drums and horns. Strings inspire emotions without dictating them.

@socratesa2536

2 жыл бұрын

Amazing for the time. But I'd argue that most top directors today have shown that they would opt for no music to minimal music so that you can hear the sound of engines roaring and guns pounding, which would have made this 1000x better imo

I saw it three times the week it came out. I was 19 - cost me a fortune. Not just the tickets but after the show (and standing for the national anthem), the Air Cadets came round collecting for the RAF Benevolent Fund.

What this clip showcases is how in this scene (for those who've watched from the start) they can tell a story in the air, with no dialogue or even head-shots of the actors involved - just war and death and everyone understands who is who and what is going on.

What a fantastic composer, you can close your eyes and picture the mayhem.

75th Anniversary of this. Britain at its best.

The score to this movie was one of my favorites.

This is such an awesome piece of work, well cheographed, well produced, i must Battle of Britain is my favourite war film.

@markharrison2544

5 жыл бұрын

It was crap, which is why it flopped so badly 50 years ago.

@cpj93070

4 жыл бұрын

Mark Harrison Seriously I see you on a lot of videos about this movie, wtf is wrong with you? Don’t watch and comment on the film then if you have a problem with it.

@thekiwibadger3756

4 жыл бұрын

James Henderson It is a film about what was a pivotal battle of World War Two.

@417Owsy

4 жыл бұрын

@James Henderson It wasn't totally irrelevant. Even if he hadn't intended to invade the UK, it was a good opportunity to spread his Nazi influence. Since the British empire was so large, controlling it would better strengthen Germany.

The 3 scenes from this clip I’ll never forget. The 2 young inexperienced pilots from Red section absolutely terrified and getting nailed straight away, the RAF pilot bailing and his chute not opening and Blue 2 unable to bail out and his Spit power diving into the beach. RIP the lot of them.

@MarkHarrison733

6 ай бұрын

Stalin's useful idiots.

@susime1239

6 ай бұрын

It's a great shame those scenes you mentioned often get cut short when shown on tv. The scene that I really like now that I'm older is the first view of the bombers with the pilot looking around in bewilderment. The Luftwaffe were told the RAF were down to their last few fighters by Sept 15th, it must have been quite the shock to see so many of them coming to meet them. Intentional acting or not, it's a great touch to the final battle scene. Seeing this film and that scene as a kid I never really got it.

@MarkHarrison733

6 ай бұрын

@@susime1239 That myth was debunked decades ago.

@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684

6 ай бұрын

@@MarkHarrison733 Brits PISSED in Hitler's face Mark... do like he did and suck it up !!!!

@MarkHarrison733

6 ай бұрын

@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 Sebastian Haffner is correct regarding Hitler's role in decolonisation.

This was Civilisation's Thermopylae, and _our_ 'Spartans' did us proud.

@JamesRichards-mj9kw

8 ай бұрын

Germany was vastly outnumbered.

@ingerlander

8 ай бұрын

An obnoxious little prick aren't you @@JamesRichards-mj9kw

@MarkHarrison733

8 ай бұрын

@@ingerlander France and the British Empire were occupying half of the world in 1940.

@ianrobinson5839

8 ай бұрын

Absolutely. “Battles are the principal milestones in secular history. Modern opinion resents this uninspiring truth, and historians often treat the decisions of the field as incidents in the drama of politics and diplomacy. But great battles, won or lost, change the entire course of events, create new standards of values, new moods, new atmospheres, in armies and in nations, to which all must conform.” Marlborough, His Life and Times p 381 Vol 2 (1936), Winston Churchill

@MarkHarrison733

8 ай бұрын

@@ianrobinson5839 Churchill was a Zionist traitor.

The brilliance of this scene from a filmmaking standpoint cannot be overstated. All the aerial sequences, really, but this one especially.

@MarkHarrison733

Жыл бұрын

Very fake models.

@LSF000

Жыл бұрын

@@MarkHarrison733 What you think about the models has no bearing on what I said.

@MarkHarrison733

Жыл бұрын

@@LSF000 I am so glad this awful film flopped, losing $10 million worldwide.

@LSF000

Жыл бұрын

@@MarkHarrison733 I'm glad you're glad.

@MarkHarrison733

Жыл бұрын

@@LSF000 They should have cast actors who were the right age as the pilots.

The 173 dislikes Did not stick to able leader like glue ...... On a serious note By the end of the Battle of Britain The RAF changed thier flying in formation tatics Not to be so tight knit Where the wingman was mostly concentrated on flying his aircraft in relatively of his leaders of other pilots. The Germans flew in a more relaxed formation early on Having the abilty to keep eyes on more of the sky with better angles Two of the leaders of the Battle of Britain on both sides advised in the making of Battle of Britian movie Which really gave the movie depth I'm so happy they used as close as possible the real aircraft of the time...Keep in mind by 1969 and the jet age Many of these aircraft were scrap metal ..In 1946 Brand new aircraft under WW2 contacts were still being built..sent out of the factory Towed outside and cut into scrap metal Like the Britsh Tempest Or sold off to smaller forces countries South America Asian etc

@thomaswilson3437

3 жыл бұрын

And it’s filmed with actual aircraft, not crappy CGI.

@sizzler2462

3 жыл бұрын

What you say is true about the fighting formation changing from the ww1 vic to the finger four but flying in close formation was used as a great way to keep the formations together when not in combat first hand accounts say large formations would climb through clouds formed on a leader and emerge at the top in perfect formation

From the first time I saw this 40+ years ago... And every single subsequent time, this part of the film brings a lump to my throat and chills down my spine. RIP airmen.

@notgadot

3 ай бұрын

Lest We Forget 🌺🌹🏵

@user-dl6yc4wx5g

3 ай бұрын

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@MarkHarrison733

2 ай бұрын

We fought the wrong enemy.

@user-dl6yc4wx5g

2 ай бұрын

@@MarkHarrison733 you - 🐓🙈🤡

@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684

11 күн бұрын

@@MarkHarrison733 You forgot to say how "shit this racist flop is"... c'mon Mark, You KNOW you want to.

One of the great combinations of music, camera work, direction and editing. William Walton is routinely and rightly lauded for his contribution - but I'm not sure that Guy Hamilton gets all the credit he deserves for putting this wonderful sequence together.

@markbaird6691

Жыл бұрын

Cameraman John Stoneman was also a major contributor to the arieal shots. He went on to become an exceptionally good underwater cameraman/ film maker, filming sharks and sealife.

@notreallydavid

Жыл бұрын

@@markbaird6691 Thanks Mark - didn't know about him. I remember reading about Skeets Kelly's camera operator work on BoB when I was a kid, spotty/stripy converted B-25 and all - but by that time he'd already died filming Zeppelin. Very sad.

They must have had every Merlin Mechanic in England working on this move EVERY AIRCRAFT in this movie is running Merlins! The Messerschmitts, the HE-111's, Spits, and Hurricanes were all running Merlins! The ME-109, and He-111's were all Spanish Air Force surplus which had been been re-engined with Brit engines.

Saw this as a kid on the BIG CINERAMA SCREEN. Obviously low tech by today's standards, but pretty cool for its time. This was a great scene, but it's needs to be seen on a massive monitor/screen.

@thomashogan9196

3 жыл бұрын

They rented half the Spanish Air Force to make this, since Franco still used the old Heinkels he bought or license built from Hitler. Modern period films are just video game CGI animation. These are real near-period aircraft. Nothing made today comes close.

@markdouglas5310

3 жыл бұрын

I saw this on the big screen as a 7 year old. This is a 'big screen film' without a doubt.

@thomashogan9196

3 жыл бұрын

@@markdouglas5310 If you saw the original Battle of Britain when you were 7, then you probably saw the remake 8 years later. It was called "Star Wars."

Brilliant for it day, still fantastic now. It holds up so well even 50 years later.

@MarkHarrison733

6 ай бұрын

It was an awful film with very fake models, overage pilots and bad acting. No wonder it flopped so badly.

@evertonporter7887

5 ай бұрын

2:41 This movie with it's aerial dogfights was one of the inspirations for Star Wars. This scene for example.

The way this scene was produced was memorable to me me when I saw this movie as a kid. It was much different from the other battle scenes since there was only music and the dialogue. Sounds of the engines, machine gun fire, the explosions, all of that was absent and it made this scene seem like an intense silent movie in color. I kinda disliked it back then because I was confused on why there was only music. Now, it's just one of my favorite scenes from the movie

They don't make films like this any more.

@filtonkingswood

Жыл бұрын

They can afford to. Ben Hur was another.

Mum watched them as they fought for hours she remembered as if it was Yesterday

The music fits the scenerio pretty good. Knights in the sky, fighting to the death, defending the nation at all costs. Fascinating

"Never was so much owed by so many to so few"

hmmmm.... ohh i see where George Lucas got his inspiration from.

@AbelMcTalisker

5 жыл бұрын

Not to mention "The Dambusters".

@scrubsrc4084

3 жыл бұрын

It's scene for scene, often word for word dambusters

@Bruce-1956

3 жыл бұрын

You mean plain right copied, the originallity of Holywood is often stunning..........

This is the only part of the film where the original William Walton score survives, Notice no sound effects. Walton first did this (no sound effects) for the charge of the French Knights at Agincourt in Lawrence Olivier's production of Henry V in 1944.

Saw this at the Odeon Leicester square a bloody long time ago great film, all brave young men.

A great score, some amazing flying sequences plus Robert Shaw, Michael Caine and a host of other great actors 👍

@raypurchase801

Жыл бұрын

I can't find the bit where Michael says, "I only wanted you to blow the bloody doors off".

Incredible musical score by William Walton for this last scene in the movie!

The producers and studio, wanted the music cut for this scene as they didn’t like it. The director and actors said they would walk if it was cut.

@junkstewy6990

2 жыл бұрын

as great as the music is, I honestly think the scene would've been great just hearing the engines and guns, it would've been way more intense

@maxsomerjoki8147

2 жыл бұрын

@@junkstewy6990 There are like 4 battles before this with sound i think the cut sound really makes this last attack stand from the rest

@frostyfrost4094

2 жыл бұрын

I think you ll find that all the aircraft had Rolls-Royce Merlins no complaints either way music or Merlins ... but hearing that sound track as Goring is inspecting makes me shiver

This really helps give the sense of being outnumbered like they were

@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684

Жыл бұрын

@King Royal June 10th 1940. 647 RAF fighters face off against 2700 luftwaffe aircraft... your move.

@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684

Жыл бұрын

Seems like King Royal's account has been banned by the totalitarian YT. The quotation often attributed to the French Writer / philosopher Voltaire applies. "“I wholly disapprove of what "king Royal" said, but I would defend to the death his right to say it.” ..... YT (and their globalist mates) think that is all BS.

Proud and grateful for the few who fouaht to give us the freedom we take for granted.

@TheGroundedAviator

9 жыл бұрын

Paul Woolerton Too the point we don't even know what it really is.

Howard, thanks mammothly much for posting these scenes depicting the hard work and sacrifice of those great aviators. Cheers to you from the States! 🇺🇸💛🇬🇧

3.22 Unlucky enough to get bounced, lucky enough to be able to bail out clean and then your chute fails to open, how shit is that? I think the truly horrible thing about modern warfare is the randomness of it all, even if you do everything right you can still get killed.

@AbelMcTalisker

5 жыл бұрын

They were lucky they used a dummy dropped from a two-seat Spitfire rather than a real parachutist. That `chute was actually supposed to open!

Who here is old enough to have collected the Battle of Britain bubble gum cards when the movie first came out?

@justinboyan573

3 жыл бұрын

Shit looks like your on your own sorry mate.🤣

@raypurchase801

3 жыл бұрын

@@justinboyan573 I've got some Likes. Seems some other people remember them.

@justinboyan573

3 жыл бұрын

@@raypurchase801 🤣🤣

@rosiehawtrey

2 жыл бұрын

No, but I just bought a Triumph Vitesse built that year 😁😁

@raypurchase801

2 жыл бұрын

@@rosiehawtrey WOW! Is it two-tone?

This scene was shot at the bunker at RAF Uxbridge. The original setting for this action in WW2

My mommy bought me a dvd blu ray full of war films like fury, spr and this. So far this was my favourite and it made me love planes. Gorgeous things manned by balls of steel.

@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684

Жыл бұрын

Does "Mummy" know you use phrases like "balls of steel"? 😂

@tygrenvoltaris4782

Жыл бұрын

@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 hey. I love my mum

The only bit of the original Walton music score to make it into the final film!

@atlasglaas2575

5 жыл бұрын

Robert Sneddon you wouldn't happen to know the name of the piece would you? Or if recordings are available

@mattjohnson7369

5 жыл бұрын

@@atlasglaas2575 Look for William Walton's "Battle of Britain's Suite" I believe this is Battle in the Air.

@atlasglaas2575

5 жыл бұрын

Super Tux I found it! Thank you :-)

@paulwright2264

3 жыл бұрын

Goodwin's score was fantastic though.

Fantastic sequence. It's a shame it's often cut short when shown on tv because the more gruesome are bits cut out which is a great mistake in my eyes. It's a war film, the gruesome stuff needs to be seen to show the reality of it. I've only recently realized the context of the scene when we see the bomber pilots for the first time and he's looking around. He's looking around at the sheer numbers put up by the RAF when they were lead to believe the RAF only had a low number of planes left. Nice touch.

To see which Sqadrons were involved & the names of the aircrew go to the Battle of Britain Memorial at Capel-le-Ferne. Its deeply moving. Lest We Forget. Per Ardua Ad Astra.

@brecibros2469

3 жыл бұрын

You should never forget times like this

That music is so evocative, if you close your eyes you ll see all the images through your head Try...

I saw it at 9 years old when it came out and a while later was able to help the teacher on air defence in like 4th grade . Learned a lot. I built model air planes and played with them with this movie and scene in mind . I used to pretend to strafe my dog holding a model plane and run machine gun hits up her back with my fingers . she liked it. I liked this scene and the one where the Germans are bailing out.

Incredible film-making.

Greatest depiction of a Aerial battle scene in the history of cinema.

Excellent sequence with Willie Walton's score I believe .

i find it good that most of these young guys trying to kill each other ended up lifelong friends ,