They Shall Not Grow Old - End of The War

This scene is from the movie. "They Shall not Grow Old". The footage you're seeing is real authentic film produced in color with the latest film technology.

[daverawlinson]

'Neither the Germans, or us, gave a damn any more who won the war. We just all wanted it to stop'. Quite a moving sentence really.

[Uromastyxfanatics]

Crazy, those people had no idea that the film they were on would be seen by millions over 100 years later

[hoosierhiver]

Can you imagine risking your life everyday in a foreign country and then suddenly someone, somewhere decides that is no longer necessary and there you are wondering why you were so important yesterday and now you are not needed.

[SuperMilesy]

1:17 the good looking chap in the bottom left corner smirking at the camera has been confirmed as my great grandad Lancelot Miles. Lived a long life an died in 1979!

[LordSummerIsle]

My great uncle survived through the whole war but sadly died the day after the war ended of the flu

[wogsykirk]

Can you believe this footage is a 100 years old. Mind blowing stuff.
This is much more then a film. Its a piece of history that had been forgotten by many.
Thank you Peter Jackson and all the restoration team for this priceless historical document.

[wesleys]

Weird way of thinking but their sons on both sides would be fighting each other in the next war...

[waltertaljaard]

Everything they did afterwards must have seemed utterly trivial.
Digging out coal in mineshafts.
Adding and substracting numbers in an office.
Milking and feeding cows and clearing up manure.
Having to worry about things like the costs of groceries, winter fuel and clothing.
While before they had to be constantly on their guard and make decisions about life and death 24/7 for sometimes years in a row.

[imranasghar]

"There were no cheers" - There are no winners in war.

[slabhead]

1:40 a german soldier says:“ich sagte, sie sind sehr freundlich“
„I said, they were very kind“

[CunningStuntsGoFast]

people talkin bout the teeth, im from the countryside in holland, and my family were poor farmers who only got acces to a dentist after ww2 . this was normal then . also, antibiotics were invented in ww1, so a few years before this movie people could still die from an infected wisdomtooth, imagine that

[Codetutor-DemystifyCoding]

"The only way we could have celebrated with regards to a liquid would have been tea, that's all" - it can't get more English than that.

[terragthegreat]

"He shut his watch and said 'I wonder what we're all going to do next.'" I can't imagine after all that time suddenly realizing that it was over and now you had to just...move on. What really would you do next?

[andro]

This is by far the best WW1 documentary ever made.

[akshatgupta]

As an Indian, I thank you for putting that "and Empire" in the concluding statement. Most of the time, sacrifices of the soldiers of the British Indian army are just brushed away. We might have played a small part by being just 1 million strong but this small gratitude towards the soldiers is deeply respected.

[Survve_Thrive]

Very moving. We shall not forget them.

[cansam]

A war that ends similar to how a school day would, strange.

[KittRembo]

It's so sad that thousands lost their lives up until 11am, especially on the last hour of the war

[Booker]

My Great nan (Who recently passed ) lost 3 brothers in this pointless stupid war.


Lest we forget.

[Donnerbalken]

I spent most of my life just trying to survive my parents and now i'm all alone. I know it's not quite the same, but when i stopped talking with my parents and moving out, this question popped into my head too: "I wonder what we are going to do next". And when i saw it in this movie, i couldn't help but burst into tears.