Military Historian Reviews the Best Movie Battle Scenes of All Time

foreign s actually were filmed in the making of This film oh I love that mud when I meet Veterans of D-Day I asked them what it was like and it's amazing how many of them say just go and watch the opening scene of Saving Private Ryan all in all just a completely horrific depiction hi my name is Dan snow I'm a military history expert today I'm going to pick out six of my favorite battle scenes from Hollywood history these are the ones that despite a few inaccuracies I think give us a real sense of what it might have been like to be on one of these terrible battlefields Alexander Battle of gargamela 331 BC there's Alexander the Great that must be his companion cavalry a lot of attention paid historical accuracy in this film brilliant looking at the cerissas those long six meter Spears wielded by the infantryman the heavily armed Macedonian infantryman the best interim in the world are those must be the Persians slightly less well-armed but yes Alexander leads his Cavalry in this Mad Dash to the right wing and everyone's like what's he doing but he is about to change direction stunningly and completely wrong for the Persian army Persian leadership looking a little bit eye shadowy and sort of effeminate that's I think a sign of the kind of slight racism of The film's Producers there no Persians actually were filmed in the making of This film here come the challenge this is interesting the rise III did have chariots and he'd flattened the battlefield taking all obstacles away bushes and and anything that was in the way to make sure he had a good playing field for his chariots all right [Music] the Persians would have been less well-armed but actually the best armed groups in the Persian army would have been the mercenary Greeks fighting against their their Greek countrymen who were under Alexander the Great they would have been heavily armored and there would have been a proper infantry Clash darius's Empire was massive extended from India well to the Mediterranean so he had people bactrians Armenians their troops from India they had Arab tribesmen so they would have been riding the camels so it was a very Multicultural Army thank you oh yeah they make gaps they made they made channels in the big Phalanx in the master in Phoenix to let the Chariots in then they end up in this cul-de-sac in this dead end where they're as you can see here sort of killed and dispatched that was an accurate tactic there foreign ones and twos like that it's not very effective and then just hold themselves onto Spears I think it would have been more hesitant the bigger bodies of men moving forward in time for a big Clash push of Pike as they called it in a different period And the main battle here I think would have been the heavily armed Greek mercenaries working for the Persians so they would have had similar weapons shorter space similar weapons to the macedonians and it would have been a brutal pushing match shoving match there there you go Alexander raised his hand they switched the left they zigzag back and because the Persian Cavalry is launched off to the left there is now a huge gap at the center of the Persian army where the Persian Emperor Darius is now unprotected by his Cavalry they've been let off on a wild goose chase and Alexander is coming like a lightning bolt at the Persian Center and Darius sees that charge coming and he sees death in that charge I like the fact that it's so dusty I think these battles would have been very very obscure to the people involved in them at the time chaos and confusion and the dust thrown up by the horses who's by the tens of thousands of men's feet on a hot day it would have been a it's so obscure the rice is shown here not fighting on the front line like Alexander and his leading generals that's correct he wasn't and that was part of the reason perhaps that he lost his Empire he wasn't able to show that charismatic leadership on the battlefield but Alexander shows pretty unlucky being up against the companion cavalry the best Cavalry in the world that is actually Robin Lane Fox that shot there shows the historical advisor the great biographer of Alexander the Great I met him once he told me that his price for advising on this movie was that he'd get to be in it and that's him charging with the companion horse [Music] so Alexander now leading His companion Cavalry and some infantry in this giant wedge against the Persian Center appearing where they were not supposed to be the old trick in military history turn up where the enemy is not expecting you and the enemy was not expecting him here Battle of gargamela is the second of the two great battles that Alexander fights to conquer the Persian Empire it is a strange film Alexander because people often criticize films as being historically inaccurate that's actually quite accurate it's quite loyal to the sources that movie and yeah as a result it's kind of plodding it's actually they try and cover everything everything we've heard about the life of Alexander we give you all the anecdotes here one by one and it's it doesn't work as well as a movie because it hasn't just got a great Central thrusting narrative that some scriptwriters come up with it's almost like they've gone too far the other way and tried to be too literal there's certain howlers certain weird things about it for example no one Persian or Greek was involved in the making of that move the filming of that movie in front of camera so the people are kind of look Western European or are drawn from the imagination of of the director but I think in they do go to some effort to make the battles realistic in terms of the the the the uniforms the the equipment of the men involved and so I think it deserves a historical advisor Robin Lane Fox knows more about Alexander the Great than anyone living so I think they deserve credit for that so that's why I've included one battle scene from The Classical world and it's gargamela Alexander's greatest Victory which is reasonably accurate I love Gladiator I love that fight scene theater but it's entirely made up it's got no basis in historical fact so we're gonna go with gargamela Outlaw King remember this right the speeches before the battle now that said but the second he wasn't actually at the Battle of Loudon Hill it was the uh Earl of Pembroke that was in charge of the English army he would have spoken French but never mind that's a different story heavily armed English Knights on Horseback that's accurate but they would it went over the Cavalry battle from their point of view oh I love that mud look at that mob that's great it would have been these medieval battlefields and modern battlefields would have been so muddy in fact I think during the filming of this that mud was just stirred up wasn't it wasn't artificial it was just created by all the extras all the horses all the camera equipment and there was a saying on set there will be mud There Will Be Blood which is appropriate I could talk about honor you are here says King Robert the Bruce making his speech he could speak English French Gaelic Scots so I don't know which language should have used this time but it's a good speech for country for family for yourselves I do not care so long as you fight oh I like that Battlefield there because it was apparently a track with some firmish ground either side of the track with very very boggy rough ground other side so the Scots very cleverly chose that place to negate the English advantage of numbers you force them to fight a narrow front always the key tactic if you're a smaller Force facing a bigger one Savage the heavily armored Knight well-mounted Galloping towards the enemy who could stand against that Robert the Bruce will learn a lesson at previous battles he could not fight the English on their own terms if he stood there as the heavy horse attacked heavily armored Knights Galloping towards you these men couldn't be expected to stand some of the most professional soldiers in Europe bearing down on you so this battle he makes he has an innovation at this battle he's dug some trenches across the narrow Battlefield you can see here it's brilliant depiction so when the Cavalry arrives they get completely wrong footed by the trench the pipes go up any survivors that manage to get through enter a wall of spikes and this was the tactic that Robert the Bruce would use at this battle and several battles later just long Pikes giving infantry protection against those massive horses horses will not hurl themselves voluntarily on those Pikes they're not suicide and you can't make them do that so they'll they'll they'll weave aside at the last moment and and the charge will descend into a chaos as it is now Robert the Brewster Warrior from a young age he and his brothers had been trained as Knights he was well known for his Battlefield leadership unlike Edward II who did not at the late a later battle Robert the Bruce would kill someone in single combat before the battle started giving a big boost to his own side unlike Emma II who I don't think you'd have found in this situation [Applause] here you can see again filmmakers doing what they always do which is breaking the battle up to make it more visual to make it more dramatic one's men's in ones and twos fighting hand-to-hand room to swing an ax or a sword I think at this battle you'd have found that that English charge met the Scottish wall of Spears and the trenches and actually there would have been a pushing shoving uh melee at the front but then the English would have turned and run I don't think you've got this much fighting in I don't think you've got this much chaotic anarchic fighting in in smaller groups of people [Applause] foreign does a great job in showing the terrain the ground in in England in Scotland it's very very wet the fields far less well drained even than they are today it's wet enough today const horses getting bogged down people in armor getting bogged down people drowning in the mud I have no doubt a Scottish chronicler wrote a beautiful account of of this battle um he wrote their shouts and cries Rose loud and clear a grievous noise it was to hear [Applause] it's understandable I think they got a bit too heavy on the body count here it you can see why the director wants to make every scene as apocalyptic as possible in fact only around we think 100 people were killed at this battle so what I think happened was that the English charge came in which is brilliantly showed here uh they were they were they were frustrated by that wall of Spears there was some rgbaji that that interface between English and Scots and there was the English who ran away and actually the Scots Advanced up the hill after them so in fact I think it would have been slightly different but overall this film gives you such a powerful sense of a northern European medieval battle these heavily armed Knights these horses this Clash of infantry against horses the exhaustion the mud the face-to-face brutality of it [Applause] [Applause] it shows a clash between Robert the Bruce and Edward II of England now with the second I don't think would have been up to taking in on anyone in single combat certainly not Robert the Bruce who'd fought his entire life very successful Guerrilla War leader now successful on the battlefield in many of us it was a given that you tried to decapitate the other enemy's Army you'd the Battle of Shrewsbury many efforts were made to kill Henry IV at Shrewsbury they almost succeeded uh you you would it would it was a key tactic of battle to try and decapitate the enemy's Army kill their leader kill the king that was the quickest way of achieving Victory I doubt Robert the Bruce will let him stagger off like that I love the battle scenes in Braveheart I love watching them growing up but I think the filmmakers have tried to take it on a level they've made it dirtier and more real and I think in their depiction of Robert the Bruce's innovation of using these long Pikes to persuade those English horses not to press home their attacks I think this is brilliant they've got the trench there you've got the mud of the battlefield you've got the confusion of it which I really like and I think in Braveheart you've got sort of fiery logs and you've got sort of certain things that look a bit more cinematic but this feels to me like an authentic vision of a medieval battle between England and Scotland history can be awkward and sometimes you really want the key protagonist to be there when you want them there and annoyingly Edward II wasn't here at this battle I think they they put him here at the Battle because they they they're looking forward to the great battle of Bannockburn 1314 Robert the Bruce's decisive victory that means that Scotland will be independent was never conquered by England and that that battle you do have over the second on the battlefield he wasn't leading his men like like it depicted in there and you also have Robert the Bruce standing in the front rank wielding his battle ax so I think the filmmakers here have slightly alighted two of these clashes in the Scottish Wars of Independence Last of the Mohicans it shows that this shows the British column moving through this Glade with Forest on either side I think realistically there would have been more scouts out in those Woodlands they weren't stupid they weren't suicidal they knew how dangerous it was to be marching through this this terrain when the Native Americans were masters of this terrain so there would have been Scouts in those woods out in front and alongside that column foreign I've included this battle even though it didn't really take place like this there was a massacre of British prisoners off the fall of Fort William Henry but it wasn't as um as big as big scale as this for an entire British regiment is basically wiped out this though is the most brilliant depiction of war in the American frontier in the colonial period the French Indian War of the 1750s it shows British Redcoats in unfamiliar terrain fighting against indigenous peoples in this case that the Huron led by Maguire and it just for me it has Echoes of a real historical event which the Battle of molonga Halo in which a British force was annihilated by the French and their Native American Allies I find the images of the Clash of cultures The Clash of fighting techniques so powerful in this clip in this movie you get Carol Monroe and his horse there senior officers in British battalions would have ridden in infantry times would have been up on a horse they get a view of the battlefield but anyone from Captain and Below would have been on foot with their men Camp follows women and children with the army they would have been absolutely cook and laundry and and supporting their men folk there would have been children there and you can see some Native Americans Allied to the British as well suddenly there's an ambush both sides at once and there are lots of accounts of British forces being ambushed in this way in in the French Indian War the Seven Years War in North America thick Woodland the Brits were used to fighting on flat open territory in Flanders for example modern day Belgium they had to learn a different way of fighting out in North America their tactics of standing in long lines and firing musket volleys wouldn't work when there was just much cover and you could fire one volley and then move in for close combat the Native Americans had no indigenous way of producing guns and gunpowder they would they would trade them for pelts for Beaver skins they would steal them off the dead they'd be issued with them by the British or French dependent on who they were allied with and they became expert in their use for hunting and fighting [Applause] it's terrifying and once that Thin Red Line once the British lines eruptured then those Native American troops that can get it get in amongst the Brits and their their fighting skills their Fitness their agility can really come into play foreign pistol very slow to reload but devastating at close range [Applause] is cook Not Unusual actually for Native Americans to adopt European children raise them as Native Americans or Indians they would call them at the time so it's not it's not an impossible story of this used his rifle he was quite a marksman there would have been some mostly there were muskets on the battlefield but some rifling whether a Groove down the barrel and the projectile can be pushed out at greater speed and accuracy so rifles can far more accurately further away [Applause] British cut to Pieces here used to Tomahawk use of scalping one of the great musical scores of all time as well we should say in passing brilliant music before you die and this is Colonel Monroe who did not die at the procedure for William Henry but General Braddock dies on the Monongahela it wasn't unusual for British forces to lose senior officers in in ambushes I chose this thing because it really explores the different types of fighting the two styles of fighting that you see in this terrible war that rages along the colonial Frontier in the 18th century they're both very effective on the European battlefields red-coated infantryman fighting massive musket volleys was devastating but in the woods and the Broken Ground in heat and uncertainty of North America the the far looser the far more hand-to-hand nature of indigenous American fighting would prove absolutely lethal and to win in North America you'd have to embrace both you'd have to train your men to win at both it was a tall order what I love about the scene is there's no CGI there's a physicality here a realism here which is just superb Michael Mann worked with Daniel Day Lewis Daniel Davis lived in the wilderness for months before this he's so Adept with his tools as Tomahawk his rifle away slings it unslings it it's it's almost like a part of him there's a liquid motion they recruited around 9 100 Native Americans from across America so you get a real sense of the scale the mass the noise of the battlefield and again the physicality of that way of doing War Cold Mountain so this is Cold Mountain this is this depicts the battle so-called Battle of the crater which was part of the siege of Petersburg and the march of the northern armies towards Richmond the Confederate capital in 1860 1465 this took place on the 30th of July 1864. and it's a great reminder it depicts trench warfare in the 19th century and trench warfare was pretty common in the U.S Civil War it was common in other Wars of the late 9th century it did not come a surprise in 1914 and here you go the Union forces have worked out a way try and break the stalemate of the trenches not by attacking them in human wave formations and being shot down but by tunneling beneath Enemy Lines packing a load of gunpowder a load of explosives in there and then lighting a fuse this shows life in the Confederate trenches this is daylight in fact the fuse was very complicated it was wow look at this detonation it was a lot more complicated than that they had to re-light the fuse a couple times it actually took place at night about 4 40 in the morning it's dark but it was a vast explosion the Union Army was supposed to send in a unit of a black division African-Americans who train relentlessly they were highly prepared at the last minute the day before they were withdrawn and white troops were inserted instead but then look what happens they go down rather than go around the edges of the crate they go into the crater these untrained unprepared men charge into the crater and come up against the Steep other side of the crater [Music] they Mill around at the bottom but the Confederate the Confederate troops the top start pouring down a murderous fire on them and I think this bit is I think this bit here is one of the most Savage depictions of warfare I've ever seen they managed him gather themselves line The Ridge of the crater and pour fire down upon the union troops who are stuck down there I like this bit there's a nice detail here alongside those uh the Stars and Stripes the US flag you see a unit flags that yellow one with cross cameras that's actually the 14th New York artillery they had been Garrison troops firing up Manning artillery big guns around places like Washington DC protecting it in case of a Confederate attack now that Ulysses S Grant the the commander of U.S forces advancing towards the Confederate capital in Richmond Virginia men like this had been sent to the front they were no longer needed to Garrison and so they were some of the first troops into the crater on that fateful day that unit would suffer terribly both at this battle and throughout this Siege of Petersburg [Applause] foreign [Applause] [Applause] [Music] African-American Soldier there there were some African-American soldiers who were sentenced as reinforcements but they meant to send in this crack unit of African Americans no one knows why they didn't perhaps they wanted white troops to get the glory perhaps they were worried if it went wrong they'd have been accused of sacrificing black Americans no one knows for sure but it was a disaster for the Union forces it could have lifted the sea it could have been a decisive breakthrough in The Siege it kind of brought the water in Quicken but it was not to be and I I remember reading somewhere in the making of this movie there was actually they did show the execution of a black soldier who surrendered by a confederate soldier and this was one of the worst massacres on the battlefield in the Civil War hundreds of African-Americans were killed in Cold Blood having surrendered have been captured after the battle of the crater the siege of Petersburg of which the battle of the crater is just one tragic episode stretches all the way from Summer 1864 all the way through to the spring of 1865. it's a Savage positional battle very much like the battles of the first world war that would come a couple of generations later in the end Union troops break through the siege lines and they are able to capture the Confederate Capital Richmond Virginia just hours later because it's just a few miles north it was the end of the Confederacy but it came at a terrible price I really want to include this clip because I thought we got classical Warfare medieval warfare we got the early modern the colonial era Warfare this is 19th century Warfare and it's a blend of the of the modern war that we recognize later on in the 20th century you've got longer range weapons you've got much more Firepower and explosives but also the men are still mashed together they're still holding their battle Flags Aloft they're attacking in big numbers and so the U.S Civil War is a bloody horrific War because it comes right at the juncture of these two kinds of different ways of making war and it Bridges the old and the modern All Quiet on the Western Front I'd say this is reasonably early in the first world war you look at the uniforms equipment the amounts of barbed wire in the battlefield aren't as intense they would have been later in the war but you can see the grounds churned up bodies littering No Man's Land these long straight trenches are more typical of the early years of the first World War [Applause] [Music] like a very organized act looks like in perhaps a counter-attack and German Doctrine was in after Ally after an Allied attack trying to counter-attack immediately while they were disorganized this looks like it could well be a case of that but it's late enough in the war they'd have the steel helmets earlier in the war they had the uh the leather with the famous helmets with the spikes on them that was so favored by souvenir Hunters oh my God so there'll be gaps in The Wire like that so your your troops can get out between your own barbed wire okay quite quickly all come on and control breaks down though just a series of individuals out there you'd seek any cover you could on the battlefield you stuck your head up as much as an inch or two you could easily you could easily attract enemy sniper fire when you're out there in no man's land you're on your own so I said you've only got you may be pinned down that position all day you've got the food and ammunition on you you had to be self-sufficient and hope that you perhaps you could crawl back at nightfall in this period interestingly all the German troops armed with rifles very good Mauser rifles but you don't see some of the weapon systems that started to get introduced a little bit later in order to give the Infantry more Firepower it's picked up his entrenching tool and Spades or entrenchedules were incredibly important in this period he actually uses that one to bludgeon to stab a French infantryman but they would have been he'd have got his entrenching tool out and tried to dig in scrape out some Earth try and get below the ground and that initially actually in 1940s how the first trenches were formed as men pinned down burrowing underground joining up that one with a neighboring Foxhole and before you know it you've got a continuous line stretching from the Alps to the channel Coast I didn't know he's going to use that tool to stab a Frenchman with by this stage of all the Allies didn't shoot armored vehicles known as tanks loosely and we know in especially in the early occasions when they were used they did terrify the enemy their impact was as much mental as it was physical they were tracked Vehicles they were able to cross No Man's Land the Broken Ground the mud that would have bogged down any other vehicle and they had armor plating on the outside so rifle bullets machine gun bullets could bounce off them they were also armed with an artillery piece on occasion and machine guns depending on the tank these ones are French since charmand I think not very reliable not used that often it's interesting they've chosen this tank please show the tanks very effectively actually tanks were very prone to break down they really struggled and they would the idea they'd move on like this is probably the best case scenario many of them were vulnerable to breakdown and you see here them sticking grenades in the tracks infant determined infantrymen could overcome tanks in the way that you're seeing here terrifying ideally the tank should move forward with the Infantry hand in glove the Infantry hiding behind the tanks taking cover the Tank's crushing any obstacles the Infantry moving through the barbed wire like that and then the Infantry able to suppress any enemy resistance going on around the tanks but you see that and you see the French following up here they've got their flamethrowers later in the war you start to get weapons like flame throwers you get trench mortars you get handheld machine guns that means that the Infantry have got more much more fire powers this I think is very realistic as the war goes on you've got a greater mix on the back of where you've got the tanks and you've also got infantry candles sorts of different weapons it's it's a lot more like a later First World War battlefield this one what's up all in all just a completely horrific depiction of the horror those men face day after day and I think you see it in the actors and you see it in the face of those infantrymen by the end of the war they'd have been so degraded they'd have been so traumatized all quiet in the Western Front is actually based on very very famous novel uh written by a guy who was in a German in the first world war it's one of the classic Great War novels written before the second world war but in many ways it predicts many of the trends that would lead Germany into the hands of the far right into the hands of Hitler and see Europe thrust once again into terrible conflict in the Second World War I think it was in the Czech Republic that they they create this vast space something like 10 football pitches wide on which they built a first world Battlefield and there's something horrific about it but also something awesome something overpowering it's it's a very difficult thing to watch you're you're amazed you're in awe but you're also appalled I feel the first award's been a bit overlooked by filmmakers growing up the very few first world war films the second world war really dominated recently that's been put right and it's great to see more filmmakers turn their attention to that appalling conflict uh 1917 was a great movie but I included this one because I wanted to show something from the German point of view what the impact of Tanks as a psychological weapon when you're a Defender and what this does so brilliantly is it shows just the horror the day-to-day brutality of the Western Front where you're existing in this destroyed moonscape of mud and death but you also see the Technologies changing and warfare changing and this is a vital link between what goes before and the second world war which we're going to come to Saving Private Ryan when I meet Veterans of D-Day I asked them what it was like and it's amazing how many of them say just go and watch the opening scene of Saving Private Ryan there are inaccuracies of course there it's a movie it's not a documentary things are done for dramatic effect but there is something about the way Spielberg creates this scene that makes it so believable it was a revolution in filmmaking there's a guy being sick over the side of the landing craft there they were but they'd been tossing about on ships all night they were badly seasick many of them wanted to get to shore they were hungry they'd thrown up their food from the night before they were in poor shape Omar was the bloodiest of the beaches [Music] oxens of the landing craft they were brave men they'd have to go into the beach back out again into the beach back out to pick up more troops to take them in they knew what was on the beach they're incredibly Brave having escaped the Firestone they have to go back into it again and again I think that level of self-control is something else well the classic lines I'll see on the beach the men would have been wet and cold it was a pretty Grim Day and that part of the English Channel was cold even in June the ramp goes down it's one of the most shocking moments in cinema history I remember seeing this at the time very Innovative use of filmmaking everyone in the landing craft is is killed at that point German machine gun fight it wouldn't have fired with that rapidity the barrel would have melted from the heat but it's forgivable exaggeration the beach is a bit narrow here the tide would have been further out they had a lot of ground to cover a lot of flat Sandy Bottom to cover before they made up to the gravel Beach Spielberg puts them a bit closer I think those might be the wrong way around as well but from the original Robert Capper photos those Beach obstacles are the other way around but again there's a small detail there [Music] foreign was much higher the German Defenders were when you go there you can't believe why the Allies tried to land there the German Defenders were dug in on higher ground it back through bad luck the German Defenders actually been up that night for a for a rehearsal a training exercise so they were more ready than they might have been on other beaches and as a result the first waves of the American attack were decimated almost some units wiped out it's a very difficult it's very difficult even now to read the accounts of the first wave on Omaha there are many stories of D-Day veterans watching this movie for the first time and being traumatized having having flashbacks and they must be deeply shocking to watch it [Music] yes and this is the key with D-Day it's about small well-led groups of very brave men getting forward with the right equipment you can see now they're organizing to take that jump up to the German defenses and just probing holes in Hitler's Atlantic Wall the Atlantic Wall was strong but it was very brittle and when you punched a hole through it and you infiltrated it it became very very vulnerable because you could move in behind it in circle and outflank the enemy so the key thing was to get tow holes just to get pin Pricks into that Atlantic Wall that's what they're up to that's what they're heading up to do now our party first win and once they're up against that sea wall they've got a little bit more cover they can work out what the next step is try and suppress those bunkers and then once they express their monkeys push through that Atlantic Wall that great defensive line you're out in the fields behind you can fan out you can take the Germans from the rear you can outflank them and so although it's a brutal process once you crack it once you break into that wall the rest of it will fall with greater ease because this film is so powerful and so well made it is obscured all the other realities of D-Day everybody thinks this is what D-Day was like in fact Omaha Beach the first wave of Omaha was the toughest of all the fighting on D-Day there were other beaches some fighting at swords gold and Juno Canadian Beach where there was much less German resistance and there was a very very brief period of violence before the German defenses were penetrated it was at Omaha that it was a long brutal process so what the filmmaker done here is take the worst bloodiest piece of D-Day and use that to tell the story of The Landings themselves so perhaps we have an inflated sense just how awful it was right along the coast but on some of the other beaches casualties were pretty low this has to be on the list because the Beach Landings were Saving Private Ryan have gone down as one of the most recognizable iconic War scenes of all time there might be a few historical accuracies but it's brilliantly made it was revolutionary for the time and it features D-Day which is one of the most famous military events in history well those are my battles I hope you enjoyed my take on them let me know what you think by leaving a comment below and if you've got any suggestions let me know as well if you like the film you can check out me reviewing battle scenes from the early modern period the Age of Empires right here thanks for watching

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