Buck Compton from Band of Brothers fame was UCLA baseball teammates with Jackie. I emailed Bucks radio show in the early 2000s and asked him about it. He says he wasn't close with Jackie but said he was a great player and he knew Jackie would play in MLB one day if a black player was given the shot. Kind of a cool connection to another of your great series.

@Tales_of_Tanks

4 ай бұрын

Wow that’s incredible I had no idea

Great commentary. No doubt that Jackie Robinson was the right person for this important role in our history. He held his cool throughout his time in the spot light. Another movie that I liked was The Express: The Ernie Davis Story. One of the other bio-pics starring as themselves was To Hell And Back. Fun fact. Richard Todd was asked to play himself in the epic The Longest Day. Richard Todd had participated on the assault on Pegasus Bridge. Todd said he didn't do much and asked to play the leader of the assault Major Howard. Another actor depicted Richard Todd in the film.

My father had seen him play in Montreal with the royals. Dad had lived in the neighbourhood and managed to get in. He never said how, lol.

@ReelHistory

2 жыл бұрын

That's awesome!

3:00 - Kansas City Monarchs wasn't a "minor league" team, it was a Negro Leagues team. One of the premier teams of that league.

@ReelHistory

Жыл бұрын

Apologies for the misquote!

Thanks much for a great commentary about a great movie about a great American hero!

@ReelHistory

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for tuning in!

Loved your commentary, learned a few things extra about the history 💜💜

Great video man!! Glad a history buff covered this movie I was surprised at the lack thereof

@ReelHistory

6 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

love watching these. waiting for alot of movies

Great commentary. Good balance of the personal and historical. Loved this movie. I am a big fan of Brian Helgeland. May I suggest L.A. Confidential? He wrote the screenplay and Curtis Hanson directed. Wonderful film that has deep historical roots in Los Angeles police corruption, Hollywood and racial tensions of the era.

Great job, I really like your work. Keep up the great work.

This is a very underrated channel, IMHO!

Great job, guys!

@ReelHistory

3 жыл бұрын

THANKS! more to come

A good portion of this movie was filmed at historic Engel Stadium in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and the train scenes were filmed where I work at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum.

Have you ever considered doing a breakdown on the movie "The Great Debate"?

Happy Jackie Robinson Day!

@ReelHistory

Жыл бұрын

Cheers!

@StephenLuke

Жыл бұрын

@@ReelHistoryHear! Hear!

Absolute awesome uniform! Love it!

Could you do Miracle next?

Also movies that have anything to do with history should just have your videos in the extras, I’d watch them all!

@ReelHistory

2 жыл бұрын

Now that is a compliment if I've ever heard one! We have a special episode we're putting out in the next week so keep an eye out.

29:08 Thanks for that tidbit of Baseball history that I was NOT aware at all. So Rickey did not only signed Jackie but also "The Great One"

They show that Leo Durocher's romance with Lorraine Day is what lead to his suspension. That's what they showed in the film and Happy Chandler tells Branch Rickey when ge calls him in that scene. That might've happened - but that wasn't the reason for Leo Durocher's suspension. He had a large circle of friends and among them were known gamblers and that's why Happy Chandler suspended him - not his romance with Loraine Day.

Great film...love it. Thet did a great job of depicting his first stop on road to MLB, DAYTONA BEACH, FL. I GREW UP THERE IN THE 1960's and we played many Babe Ruth league and High SCHOOL GAMES On the CITY Island minor league park as it was named then and in the late 60's early 70's . Now it is named JACKIE ROBINSON PARK. The depiction of the field is pretty accurate.

@Patrick-xv6qv

3 ай бұрын

They did do a great job depicting Daytona Beach and the Forida area. What makes it greater is the fact none of the scenes of Daytona or Florida or even the scenes of Brooklyn were filmed on location. They were filmed in Macon Georgia, even the one of the ball park scenes and the practice fields in Daytona Beach were filmed in Macon GA.

Love the videos I actually met the musician that produced the music of many of the ken burns documentaries

Keep an eye out for 'Come Out Fighting' A film that will focus around the 761st I believe it is now fully in post production Tyrese Gibson and Michael Jai White have starring rolls(I have a really cool photo of MJW posing in front of one of the Sherman tanks that was on set

Nice to see someone wearing Ebbets Field Flannels!

If memory serves, one of the long time managers, either Connie Mack or John McGraw, despite strong belief in the "Gentleman's Agreement" had a list of ball players who were black that he would've put on his team. Guys like Rube Foster, Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, and Cool Papa Bell.

@opes134

4 ай бұрын

You are correct.

I think you were unaware if sonething in the scene where Rachel opens the door and lets her baby sitter i to tgeir apartment. The actress she lets in, who's playing her is actually Branch Rickey's great grand-daughter.

Is there anything to suggest that the hug didn't happen? That question cuts both ways.

When talking about his UCLA days one should remember that Jackie had 3 African American teammates Woody Stroud, Kenny Washington and Tom Bradley. Washington was the first African American to play professional football and Stroud was right behind him both with the LA Rams. Stroud also became a leading man actor in Hollywood. Tom Bradley? He only became the first African American Mayor of Los Angeles.

@Rusty3659

Ай бұрын

Woody Stroud is also who Woody, the cowboy in Toy Story was named after.

Forgive me for saying, but I could have sworn Harrison Ford did play a historical character before as a Soviet officer on a submarine I think called The Widowmaker. Was that in fact not historically based?

Take a look at 61*.

20:22 thing about music 23:30 talks about race 25:20 talks about double standards

To be sent to the pirates now is also a career ender 😂😂😂 sad pirate fan here!

What is your accent?

How can you not get romantic about baseball

I think Robinson's uncommon valor leads to Truman ending segregation in the army in July of 1948.

The Natural. Was a mish mash of truth and ficton. I never knew the real story of a woman who stalked a baseball player inspired the book The Natural. Would you know more of which is the truth in the movie.

@linda10989

2 жыл бұрын

Love that movie!

@danballe

2 жыл бұрын

@@linda10989 My favorite Baseball movie of all time.

@linda10989

2 жыл бұрын

@@danballe Definitely! And for a lighter tone, I sometime watch A League of Their Own

Can we just all come together to acknowledge just how bad the Pirates are?

@ReelHistory

2 жыл бұрын

Andrew here - I've been to exactly 1 MLB game in my life in 1997 to see the Pirates. They lost. Got a signed ball though.

@danballe

2 жыл бұрын

Give the poor Pirates fans a break.

I’m not the only one that saw “42” and not thought about Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy….right?

I'm impressed this guy said R.B.I. instead of R.B.I.s because the last video of his I watched he called an outfielders glove a "mitt". That's like nails on a chalkboard

Film left out something pivitol: Jackie Robinson never would have been allowed into the major leagues if the despicable commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis hadn't died in 1944. He was an avowed racist who never would have allowed baseball to be integrated. I generally love this guy's work but sometimes the liberal college professor in him comes out and he can't grasp people in the past didn't have liberal 21st century beliefs. Nobody in 1947 is going to think about identity politics outside of the south. That the stadium wasn't filled when Robinson debuted was great! Brooklyners probably just thought of Robinson as a man, not a black, exactly what MLK wanted. People weren't wealthy enough then to think about "social issues" they had to work to get food on the table. Can't think of a better way to end racism: not caring about the color of someone's skin, just living your life.