Great movie: Theirs is the Glory

[Brooke]

I just got done watching Theirs is the Glory.  Wow -- an excellent movie.  It's about the stand at Arnhem.  Filmed in 1946, it uses the real location, mixes in footage from the fight, and -- amazingly -- everyone in it is a veteran of the actual battle!  It even has prominent Dutch civilians in it (Father Dyker and Kate ter Horst, for example, playing themselves).  You would think that 1946 effects would look dated by modern standards, but not so -- they are excellent and very realistic.  Of course, there are things like real German tanks getting really blown up in it.  When there are explosions, you can tell that the reactions are not an act.

What an amazing film.

It's available via Watch Instantly from Netflix.

[-ammo-]

Thanks Brooke.

Here is the Youtube link:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCgxoaSi1f0

[bortas1]

 

[SmokinLoon]

 

Thanks for posting that, I had not ever seen that before.  Quite impressive, really.  Just think if those props were still available today!

[cpxxx]

Strangely I never heard of this film before. Yet apparently it was one of the biggest grossing movies in Britain for a decade. It must have been strange for the veterans to go back and re enact the battles of barely two years earlier. I wonder if any are still around?

I also noticed the narrator had an Irish accent and sure enough it was the director and again I never heard of him before. Yet he had quite a decent career on both sides of the Atlantic.

Great find that. I still can't believe I never came across this before.