Discussion Watching a ww1 documentary.

[Unsaveable]

It's called 'World War I in Colour' and so far 10 minutes in it's quite well made and interesting.



View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rhr74HjOwI


I hate when documentaries have multiple people cutting in and narrating instead of just presenting the story, American documentaries like to do that and it's boring as hell.

 

[Deleted member 19971]

Looks interdasting
I've been reading a lot about the German Navy during WW1, especially their submarines

 

[VindalooCell]

This was also interesting, they added sound to it


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mbmdk-IScJo




View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QizfN6l5trI
More footage


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlgE1PiwIyg

 

[your personality]

This was also interesting, they added sound to it


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mbmdk-IScJo




View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QizfN6l5trI
More footage


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlgE1PiwIyg

ngl but because so many guys were forced to fight in wars in the past you can't help but feel all these kinds of footage are part of a story of, if not people like us, previous generations of guys like us.

 

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[Deleted member 30682]

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[Unsaveable]

ngl but because so many guys were forced to fight in wars in the past you can't help but feel all these kinds of footage are part of a story of, if not people like us, previous generations of guys like us.

Millions of Men died it was brutal.

What makes is sadder is that a lot of them looked at war as something of a romantic manly adventure, Europe didn't have a major war for 50 years so people had forgotten how it was like. plus everyone thought it would be over quick.

 

[your personality]

Millions of Men died it was brutal.

I know. I remember in my teenage years learning about how matter of fact it was at the time and how such a situation could still occur now because the military draft for men is in place in case of a war.
It really weighed heavily down on me knowing such a thing could happen again and wasn't relegated to archaic times when people may not have known better and didn't happen very long ago.

What makes is sadder is that a lot of them looked at war as something of a romantic manly adventure, Europe didn't have a major war for 50 years so people had forgotten how it was like. plus everyone thought it would be over quick.

They were brainwashed to think that way.

For God and Country as they call it in the western world but really it was to protect women and children and be pawns on the chessboard of the ruling class and their petty squabbles over land and family issues.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVM-tFAdADg


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCUzD5eBTNU



And what's worse WWI is largely seen as a pointless war today yet it put in place the acceptance of military conscription that still exists today
(there were challenges to the sex selective conscription system even in World War I https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_in_the_United_States#Opposition).

 

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Try to search it on youtube.

Maybe you will find some other versions.

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I've watched it to about halfway point yesterday.

It's quite well made.

 

[Justice Bao]

didnt watch but i guess they blame Germany (and maybe austria) for the outbreak, since its in English.

 

[Deleted member 27159]

Try to search it on youtube.

Maybe you will find some other versions.

Yeah I will try

 

[Darkenzo]

ngl but because so many guys were forced to fight in wars in the past you can't help but feel all these kinds of footage are part of a story of, if not people like us, previous generations of guys like us.

Most of them volunteered but they thought it was going to be a romping patriotic boys own adventure not shitting around in muddy trenches being shelled and snipped at.

 

[VindalooCell]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA6SRm471OM

 

[Unsaveable]

Op, have you ever watched "They shall never grow old"? peter jackson directed it and he got his hands on alot of footage from ww1 and he even had it restored and colorized.

I've seen the trailers, is it free to watch?

 

[your personality]

Most of them volunteered but they thought it was going to be a romping patriotic boys own adventure not shitting around in muddy trenches being shelled and snipped at.

Initially they volunteered. But when it was obvious there weren't enough volunteers that's when military conscription came in.
Don't forget the sinking of the Lusitania and increased anti German propaganda conveyed in the anglo media at the time.
And despite campaigning to keep the US out of the war, under the direction of Woodrow Wilson, the US oversaw the forced conscription of American males for the first time since the Civil War. And it established a precedent that to this day conscription of males in times of war is considered normal. There was very much opposition to this but like today courts kept striking down any rulings or challenges brought by men who didn't want to be enslaved financially or bodily.

It's funny that Woodrow Wilson is hated for creating the Federal Reserve but not establishing the system of military conscription that ensured pointless forced bloodshed that was WWI and resulted in women gaining more foothold in the workplace (that's right, with every war and slaughter of men feminism and women's rights made great bounds, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/11/women-first-world-war-taste-of-freedom, https://www.history.com/news/how-world-war-ii-empowered-women).

 

[Deleted member 28148]

Have you tried The First World War documentary? I liked that one.

 

[Iwanttolive]

I realise Idk anything abt WWI . Whys it not as popular?

 

[Unsaveable]

I realise Idk anything abt WWI . Whys it not as popular?

Because it happened at a earlier date and is overshadowed by ww2.