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September 1915.
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The Great War. Supposed to end
before Christmas, the carnage drags on.
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In the United Kingdom, able-bodied men
enlist to fulfil their duty.
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Those who refuse to commit
are given a white feather,
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a symbol of cowardice and treachery.
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Morning Standard!
Get your Morning Standard!
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Morning standard!
Get your Morning Standard.
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Excuse me, sorry.
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Dad! Dad!
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- Henry, what are you doing here?
- My bit. Same as you.
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There's a good lad. Come here.
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Britain's finest.
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In you come.
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As you pass me get your hats off!
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Come on you cultural cul de sacs.
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Hurry up, the King's waiting
and he's paying for your medical.
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Get a move on! Come on!
Hurry it up!
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Medicals are waiting.
The King is paying for your time!
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Move it out!
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L... D... X.
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THE WAR BELOW
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Next!
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Nice deep breaths, huh?
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- Occupation.
- Accountant.
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- For how many years?
- Man and boy.
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I see.
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Your lungs have a definite crackle, which
I'd suggest comes from inhaling too much uh..
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pencil dust, over time.
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Furthermore there is an irregularity
in your heartbeat, genetic in all probability.
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But I'm guessing that,
these things you already know
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and that this isn't
your first time applying.
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I can do it sir.
I just want to do my bit.
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I'd say you already
are doing your bit, wouldn't you?
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Those at the bottom can do
just as much as those at the top.
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The war office deems it necessary
that every man fits a set of criteria,
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and I must abide by those rules.
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- There's no shame in it.
- I understand that sir.
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- But all I'm asking is for the same chances.
- Next.
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- Age.
- 25.
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I promise to obey the authority.
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I promise to obey the authority.
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Of all generals and officers set over me.
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Of all generals and officers set over me.
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And serve until the conclusion of war.
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And serve until the conclusion of war.
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God save the King.
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God save the King.
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- Dad!
- Well, spit it out.
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Yeah, they said I could go.
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No, you keep it.
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You're a man now.
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The Somme, 1916.
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Here, take this!
The phone line's out!
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Communications 113.
Utmost importance! Do you understand?
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- They're opening up again, sir!
- Go! Now!
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And Private, tell the...
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Keep going, move.
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Stretcher bearer!
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There's more coming!
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Hold off positions for counter-attack.
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- What are you doing here private?
- Message from position 23, sir.
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HQ! Position two-nine-nine.
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The infantry have failed
to break the forward line.
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The German trenches have not been taken.
Repeat, the German trenches
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have not been taken.
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- Number of casualties?
- 40,000 estimated.
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How can that be?
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Seven days, seven days,
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we threw everything at their lines.
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- How many shells?
- One and a half million, sir.
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One and a half million.
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And yet you sit there and tell me
it didn't even make a dent.
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Initial reports are,
the Germans dug their bunkers
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20 or maybe 30 feet below ground cover.
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With respect, sir, at that depth,
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all the artillery in the world
wouldn't reach them.
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- So it would seem.
- The plans are in place to pull back the line...
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- And lose ground. No.
- Sir.
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We shall not give our enemies
one foot of soil.
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Is that understood?
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To do so gentlemen,
would be to give them belief.
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And belief is one
of the most important aspects in war,
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belief in duty,
belief in one's own ability.
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- Belief in victory.
- General, we cannot sustain the line indefinitely.
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- We need...
- A decisive, next attack.
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I agree sir.
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The Germans know the British
are the best army in the world.
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Their morale will surely dip
with more sustained attacks.
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- Sir, if I may.
- If you must Jack.
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We need to be decisive,
that much is correct.
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But to break the German line, we need
to do something new, something different,
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something the Hun will never see coming.
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And you'd have such a thing...
would you?
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Yes sir. I believe I do.
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Merton & Fils Company,
tunnel and gallery construction, England
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His Lordship's waitin' for you, sir.
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Thank you.
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My answer is respectfully, no.
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You do realize what losing these men
would do to my production levels, don't you?
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Well you can see from your remittance
you'll be fairly compensated.
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Maybe I should decide
what you consider fair.
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- Understand, this is an important time of year for us.
- Indeed.
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Important time of year for Britain.
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Don't pull that king's officer rubbish with me.
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We're all doing our bit.
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So, until there's a better offer,
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I'm a busy man.
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You know you're absolutely right.
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We're all doing our bit.
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Boys on the front line,
the men and women in the forges and mills.
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And... whatever it is you do exactly.
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You know there's one thing I despise
more than the enemy, Mr. Rogers.
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It's those who climb on the backs
of the fallen and claim to be patriots.
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I seem to remember a few months ago,
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pompous jumped up little man
in charge of his own fiefdom,
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he thought he was above the war so,
we decided to give him a closer
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look at it.
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If you catch my drift.
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So it's a good job.
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There's people such as yourself,
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who understand that the British
need to pull together
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- in their time of need.
- Quite.
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So, I'm going to respectfully request,
that you give your country,
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what it bloody well asks of you.
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Once the paperwork is signed,
War Office will issue a receipt
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in a couple of weeks. Anything
that's still unclear, let my secretary know.
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I understand that this is somewhat irregular,
but I have some matters of great importance
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to discuss with you.
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I'm sorry would you mind?
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That's more like it.
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Don't let the papers fool you, gentlemen.
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We are losing this war.
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And unless we take dramatic action
I'm afraid we will forfeit.
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Look, that pinstripe pillock's
probably docking our pay for this.
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So can you just get on with it?
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Alright. Your country needs you.
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Alright.
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While you enjoyed those few seconds
laughing, one of our boys
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was hit in the head by a Fritz sniper.
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Somebody's father was pulverized
by a mortar bomb.
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And someone, perhaps a friend of yours,
had his guts ripped open by shrapnel.
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I enjoy a joke as much as the next man,
gentlemen, but if I may...
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...I would like to share
with you the situation we are in.
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Gather round.
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This is the Somme.
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These markers here, are the Allied lines.
This, the German front.
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Now, the Germans have built bunkers,
30 feet below ground level,
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and we've thrown everything
we've got at them, and nothing,
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for it's as likely
to be injured slipping on
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sauerkraut is he is
from one of our bombs.
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And of course
when the bombardment ends,
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up he pops, starts using
our boys for target practice.
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Morale in France is at rock bottom,
and with our new campaign in Flanders,
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we need a decisive victory,
something that will show our chaps
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this war is still there to be won.
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Sorry Bob, still don't see
what this has to do with us.
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With these deep hidey holes,
Fritz is a tough nut to crack from above.
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- But there is one other option.
- Dig.
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Precisely.
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We're going to tunnel,
under no man's land.
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Blow the enemy to Kingdom Come.
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Our initial target,
is this forward bunker here,
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obstinate little bastard hell-bent
on slaughtering our boys.
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With our first tunnels,
we've been unsuccessful.
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They barely last a day without collapsing.
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What's ground made from?
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Clay.
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Quite frankly,
we don't have the expertise.
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But you men do,
there's a platoon, waiting in Salisbury.
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Your job is to teach them
how to tunnel the clay,
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and how to set the charges.
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So, um... how long we got, sir?
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- One month.
- Jesus Christ.
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And then the platoon has, another three
to get the job done in France.
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- No.
- Well I'm sorry but that's all the time we have.
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I know they won't get the job done.
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- What's your name?
- William Hawkin, sir.
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Well then Mr. Hawkin...
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...if you've something to say
now's the time.
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Well I've not met that many clerks
or bank managers in me time,
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but I doubt any of them
can tunnel that fast.
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With the constant risk of collapse,
and come out the other end,
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we've been tunnelling all our lives,
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there's still always risk.
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No. You want your big explosions sir,
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you should think again.
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Very well, what do you propose?
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I propose we go in their place.
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- Are you prepared to do that?
- Aye.
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Aye.
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Good lads. I'll take this to General Haig.
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We'll get you to Flanders in no time.
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Thank you sir.
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Well you better get back to work.
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Preposterous!
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Sir if you would just allow me to explain.
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Something the Germans wouldn't see coming.
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I didn't realize that meant putting
our war effort into the hands
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of uneducated, untrained civilians.
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These men may not be soldier material.
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I grant you that sir,
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but they don't have to be,
they just have to dig.
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And by Jove can they dig.
Why only last year...
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Burrow through to Australia
for all I care.
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This is a military operation, Jack,
not some... some social experiment.
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If it goes belly up,
the whole war effort is over.
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- Do you understand that?
- I must confess, I too had my reservation.
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The infantry will break through.
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We just need to keep
pushing, pushing, pushing.
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- But at what cost, sir?
- A war of nations, is a war of numbers.
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We have the numbers,
and we will outlast the Germans.
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That's how we win.
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The answer's no.
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- You're dismissed Colonel.
- With the greatest respect sir,
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this is no longer the age of the horse.
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This is the age of the tank.
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The old ways are dead
and we must change and quickly,
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or we'll have another Somme on our hands,
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and the stench of blood will reach
all the way to England.
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Lloyd George won't stand for that,
General. Heads will roll.
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You have a very promising career
ahead of you Colonel.
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- Think very carefully.
- I already have sir.
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This is our best
and only option, I assure you.
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You'd personally vouch
for these, sewer workers...
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...would you?
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Yes sir, I would.
And if they're not up to the job,
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strip me of my commission and send me
to the front line, but just give me 4 months sir.
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You'll have all the proof you need.
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Very well, two months,
and not a moment more.
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- Sir, may I just say...
- Decision's been made, Archie.
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Jack and his men
will fall under your command.
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- Then I would like it on record...
- Duly noted.
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Thank you for your assistance, both.
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Keep me posted.
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And Jack, for God's sake
don't bugger it up,
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Sir.
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If you want to bring these
cave dwellers to the front,
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then on your own head be it,
that you keep them on course, keep them in line.
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And keep them out of my way.
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- Understand?
- Perfectly sir.
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Two months, that's all it'll take.
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One bullet is all it'll take.
243
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You'll miss Mother's birthday.
244
00:18:03,795 --> 00:18:06,264
She can go with me,
to scare the Boche half to death.
245
00:18:10,202 --> 00:18:11,070
Jane...
246
00:18:12,237 --> 00:18:14,838
...it's my duty, and responsibility.
247
00:18:14,938 --> 00:18:16,940
Responsibility
is to be here with your family.
248
00:18:18,342 --> 00:18:21,578
Why you? Don't they have miners
over there or some it?
249
00:18:21,678 --> 00:18:24,881
It's not as simple as that.
They need people who can dig the clay.
250
00:18:25,349 --> 00:18:26,950
They called us experts they did.
251
00:18:27,986 --> 00:18:29,320
I'll be useful for once.
252
00:18:30,044 --> 00:18:33,056
No more putting up with old Rogers
when I get back, I can tell you.
253
00:18:34,258 --> 00:18:37,560
The army will probably give me a new job,
a proper job. And the money...
254
00:18:37,660 --> 00:18:39,163
You're a bloody fool at times.
255
00:18:39,862 --> 00:18:42,665
There's no shame in doing
what you do, a clueless busybody
256
00:18:42,666 --> 00:18:44,933
- with a white feather didn't know
a damn thing about you.
- Jane!
257
00:18:48,871 --> 00:18:50,273
I'm not doing this blindly.
258
00:18:52,707 --> 00:18:54,977
Everything I care about
is in this house.
259
00:18:56,212 --> 00:18:57,813
And I'm protecting this house.
260
00:18:58,214 --> 00:19:00,349
I can't bear to think
what would happen if I didn't.
261
00:19:03,118 --> 00:19:04,352
I'll make you proud of me.
262
00:19:05,120 --> 00:19:05,988
I promise.
263
00:19:08,056 --> 00:19:10,891
It seems like every week
I know another wife with a brave,
264
00:19:10,992 --> 00:19:12,827
dead husband that she can be proud of.
265
00:19:18,100 --> 00:19:20,667
No, I'll go.
266
00:19:44,959 --> 00:19:46,059
How's the infantry doing?
267
00:19:49,229 --> 00:19:50,330
D'you need hand with that?
268
00:19:52,030 --> 00:19:53,799
Are you coming back?
269
00:19:55,101 --> 00:19:56,202
Of course I am.
270
00:19:57,036 --> 00:19:58,070
What makes you say that?
271
00:19:58,803 --> 00:20:00,805
Uncle David didn't.
272
00:20:02,741 --> 00:20:03,976
It's not the same son.
273
00:20:05,210 --> 00:20:06,979
Uncle David was made to do something
274
00:20:07,079 --> 00:20:09,647
he hadn't done before,
and it went wrong.
275
00:20:10,214 --> 00:20:11,082
He was unlucky.
276
00:20:12,284 --> 00:20:15,287
That's not like me.
I'm going there to dig, that's all.
277
00:20:16,021 --> 00:20:18,822
- Just dig.
- D'you good at diggin'?
278
00:20:18,922 --> 00:20:22,893
Aye, I am. So you see
there's no need to worry.
279
00:20:25,829 --> 00:20:27,898
I can't get it to stay.
280
00:20:29,732 --> 00:20:31,801
Let's see what
we can do about that shall we?
281
00:20:32,936 --> 00:20:35,704
Are you going to ride a horsey?
282
00:20:35,804 --> 00:20:39,944
No, I'll be in a special unit,
top-secret.
283
00:20:41,279 --> 00:20:42,912
I'll have my own uniform
and everything.
284
00:20:43,380 --> 00:20:45,814
- You can wear it if you like.
- Any medals?
285
00:20:47,117 --> 00:20:51,221
Loads of them. By the time I come home
I'll be half man, half tea kettle.
286
00:20:53,456 --> 00:20:54,456
There you go.
287
00:20:56,091 --> 00:20:57,026
All done.
288
00:21:10,768 --> 00:21:15,139
Flanders, 1916
289
00:21:15,977 --> 00:21:17,712
Let's get away, come on, get on.
290
00:21:19,813 --> 00:21:20,982
Move along.
291
00:21:33,527 --> 00:21:35,996
Excuse us pal, we just got here.
292
00:21:36,096 --> 00:21:38,298
Alright, good for you. And?
293
00:21:39,132 --> 00:21:40,833
We've no sodding idea where we're going.
294
00:21:41,867 --> 00:21:43,103
You got papers?
295
00:21:50,209 --> 00:21:52,511
Ah! You're with Hellfire Jack yes?
296
00:21:52,612 --> 00:21:54,947
- Who?
- Colonel Norton-Griffiths.
297
00:21:55,047 --> 00:21:56,116
Up in section three.
298
00:21:57,583 --> 00:21:58,750
Section three!
299
00:22:04,923 --> 00:22:06,791
Come on, I'll show you boys.
300
00:22:08,960 --> 00:22:10,528
Trench system is simple enough.
301
00:22:11,363 --> 00:22:15,467
It's made out of three main lines:
the reserve, the support, the firing line.
302
00:22:15,567 --> 00:22:17,835
These are the communication trenches.
303
00:22:17,936 --> 00:22:18,902
They connect the lines.
304
00:22:21,472 --> 00:22:25,477
This is the reserve.
Here you can rest up, relax.
305
00:22:27,312 --> 00:22:29,546
Oh aye, looks very relaxing.
306
00:22:31,248 --> 00:22:33,251
We're coming up to the support line now.
307
00:22:33,917 --> 00:22:35,953
Christ, what's that smell?
308
00:22:36,053 --> 00:22:37,854
- Dirty bastard.
- Oh sod off.
309
00:22:37,955 --> 00:22:41,257
It's a mixture of shit,
piss, cordite and decomposition.
310
00:22:41,357 --> 00:22:43,460
Like no other, eh. Don't worry.
311
00:22:43,560 --> 00:22:45,029
You get used to it after a while.
312
00:22:48,564 --> 00:22:49,865
Cheerio, chum.
313
00:22:53,403 --> 00:22:55,171
Fritz seems a bit feisty this morning.
314
00:22:56,039 --> 00:22:57,240
You right, youth?
315
00:23:00,309 --> 00:23:02,312
Don't worry. You'll get used to it.
316
00:23:06,381 --> 00:23:08,150
And, here we are.
317
00:23:11,187 --> 00:23:12,521
So this is the Great War.
318
00:23:17,559 --> 00:23:20,195
All the water's chlorinated.
Tastes a bit strange at first.
319
00:23:20,295 --> 00:23:22,531
Yeah yeah. I know, I'll get used to it.
320
00:23:23,532 --> 00:23:26,334
Alright thank you, captain.
I'll take it from here.
321
00:23:28,135 --> 00:23:30,571
Bill, glad you all made it.
322
00:23:30,671 --> 00:23:33,474
- Yeah.
- I think some of 'em
are starting to wish they hadn't.
323
00:23:34,342 --> 00:23:36,377
Well you're here now,
so let's crack on,
324
00:23:36,476 --> 00:23:38,144
see if we can't get you
all back to Blighty.
325
00:23:38,244 --> 00:23:39,080
Here come look at this.
326
00:23:39,680 --> 00:23:42,915
Hey Harold, I've got to go, you know.
327
00:23:43,416 --> 00:23:46,186
Tie a bloody knot in it.
Not hold it in?
328
00:23:46,286 --> 00:23:48,254
Not unless you want me
to hold it in my trousers, no.
329
00:23:48,356 --> 00:23:50,190
Alright, just be bloody quick then.
330
00:23:50,657 --> 00:23:53,259
- Here take a look, 12 o'clock.
- What're we looking at?
331
00:23:56,362 --> 00:23:59,933
Nuthin' much to look at is it?
But, that's our lady nonetheless.
332
00:24:00,033 --> 00:24:02,067
About 350 yards from where
we're standing right now.
333
00:24:03,335 --> 00:24:06,305
Used to be a farmhouse,
now the Boche are using it
334
00:24:06,405 --> 00:24:10,175
as a forward machine gun post,
they've dug in deep underneath.
335
00:24:23,588 --> 00:24:26,058
- Officer approaching!
- Now, look sharp.
336
00:24:27,959 --> 00:24:28,926
Sir.
337
00:24:30,728 --> 00:24:31,996
Jack.
338
00:24:33,530 --> 00:24:34,431
So...
339
00:24:35,399 --> 00:24:38,536
...this is your, little rabble then, is it?
340
00:24:38,636 --> 00:24:40,237
They are indeed sir. My clay kickers.
341
00:24:41,538 --> 00:24:44,074
What in God's green earth
am I looking at here?
342
00:24:44,174 --> 00:24:48,445
Get on your feet boy!
And you get off that wall [...]!
343
00:24:48,545 --> 00:24:51,481
Wearing the King's uniform,
act like it.
344
00:24:52,214 --> 00:24:54,684
Your village missing an idiot
now you're here, is it?
345
00:24:55,652 --> 00:25:01,090
Shut your mouth. The enemy will die,
laughing before you can shoot them.
346
00:25:13,202 --> 00:25:14,103
Shit.
347
00:25:18,473 --> 00:25:21,943
- Name.
- Hawkin. William Hawkin, sir.
348
00:25:23,344 --> 00:25:29,049
And you'd be in charge of this,
this bunch then, would you, Hawkin?
349
00:25:30,150 --> 00:25:32,287
- Yes sir. I am sir.
- Jolly good.
350
00:25:34,289 --> 00:25:38,091
You shall be held accountable
for their actions then. Hmm?
351
00:25:42,162 --> 00:25:45,032
Just keep them away
from the real soldiers, Jack.
352
00:25:45,132 --> 00:25:47,334
We don't want the sideshow
to become a circus now.
353
00:25:47,434 --> 00:25:49,268
- Sir with respect.
- Shut your mouth!
354
00:25:49,669 --> 00:25:52,739
You don't speak till an officer speaks to you,
do you understand?
355
00:25:52,840 --> 00:25:55,708
- Yes sir.
- It's not "sir," it's "s'arnt."
356
00:25:55,808 --> 00:25:58,444
- Yes, s'arnt.
- Sure it won't be a problem sir?
357
00:25:59,445 --> 00:26:00,413
Good show.
358
00:26:03,249 --> 00:26:05,685
- Excuse a minute.
- Mate, mate! Mate!
359
00:26:06,352 --> 00:26:10,056
I don't remember layin' about to you,
I don't remember goin' to school with you!
360
00:26:10,156 --> 00:26:13,124
- Mate? I'm a s'arnt, say it!
- S'arnt.
361
00:26:13,225 --> 00:26:14,392
- Say it louder!
- S'arnt.
362
00:26:15,460 --> 00:26:16,595
You thing!
363
00:26:18,797 --> 00:26:23,535
Once again, Jack.
Excellent men you have here.
364
00:26:24,336 --> 00:26:26,337
- Only the very best sir.
- Hmm.
365
00:26:31,409 --> 00:26:35,646
Some stupid bastard, thinks this lot's
gonna hold up ten tonne of shite.
366
00:26:35,746 --> 00:26:37,681
- I guess thinking wasn't needed at Eton.
- No.
367
00:26:39,817 --> 00:26:43,521
32 degrees for the first 100,
minus ten up next.
368
00:26:44,287 --> 00:26:47,525
- A lot of ground to cover.
- We better shift our asses then hadn't we?
369
00:26:48,259 --> 00:26:51,060
Wouldn't want to be
on a charge now would we Harker?
370
00:26:53,730 --> 00:26:56,065
You are our keeper O Lord you are.
371
00:26:56,165 --> 00:26:58,768
Oh knock it off lad,
think He's listening out here?
372
00:26:58,868 --> 00:26:59,802
It's a tradition.
373
00:27:02,804 --> 00:27:04,306
Go on then Saint George.
374
00:27:06,809 --> 00:27:09,711
Deliver us from evil, keep our souls.
375
00:27:12,748 --> 00:27:14,049
Shorty.
376
00:28:00,359 --> 00:28:01,594
My dearest Jane...
377
00:28:02,762 --> 00:28:04,297
...every time I write to you,
378
00:28:04,764 --> 00:28:07,366
I fear my stories
are just a spinning carousel.
379
00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:09,702
Our life continues.
380
00:28:10,769 --> 00:28:11,769
We dig the clay.
381
00:28:12,871 --> 00:28:14,540
And the work can suck the life
382
00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:16,575
from your bones if you're not careful.
383
00:28:18,543 --> 00:28:21,512
The days when it's quiet, I forget,
384
00:28:21,614 --> 00:28:24,182
I think I'm just digging
a sewer tunnel back home.
385
00:28:24,749 --> 00:28:26,517
I think I'm gonna end my day with you.
386
00:28:27,385 --> 00:28:31,255
When we climb back up,
I remember what our home is now.
387
00:28:31,756 --> 00:28:33,791
It's strange the things you get used to.
388
00:28:34,492 --> 00:28:36,427
The rats, the stench.
389
00:28:37,694 --> 00:28:39,830
There are too many things
that I want to forget.
390
00:28:50,307 --> 00:28:53,143
My heart sinks that the other men
take us for cowards.
391
00:28:53,677 --> 00:28:55,678
That we hide from the fighting down here.
392
00:28:57,446 --> 00:28:59,349
I want them to know what we do.
393
00:28:59,449 --> 00:29:01,318
To see us as true soldiers.
394
00:29:02,518 --> 00:29:04,353
But we are once again on our own.
395
00:29:06,355 --> 00:29:10,192
The war to end all wars,
it is what I believe we're here for.
396
00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:15,563
So I shall do my part, my duty...
397
00:29:16,297 --> 00:29:17,532
...and then I'll come home to you.
398
00:29:19,869 --> 00:29:22,671
Take care of yourself, and our boy.
399
00:29:24,339 --> 00:29:25,707
All my love forever.
400
00:29:27,876 --> 00:29:28,877
William.
401
00:29:43,925 --> 00:29:46,292
Been here two months, feel like I'm 60 odd.
402
00:29:47,161 --> 00:29:48,562
Ah could be worse.
403
00:29:49,530 --> 00:29:50,864
- How's that then?
- I dunno.
404
00:29:51,831 --> 00:29:53,433
Just what people say ain't it?
405
00:29:54,367 --> 00:29:55,468
Come on lads.
406
00:29:56,470 --> 00:29:57,438
Time's wasting.
407
00:30:28,366 --> 00:30:29,467
Aah!
408
00:30:29,968 --> 00:30:32,737
Fritz bastard goes for me every damn day.
409
00:30:32,837 --> 00:30:34,806
Who the hell wants to shoot someone
when on the crapper?
410
00:30:34,906 --> 00:30:35,840
Anyone who knows you?
411
00:30:37,708 --> 00:30:39,543
If it weren't him it'd be somebody else.
412
00:30:40,811 --> 00:30:43,380
Don't take it personal
we'll be out of this soon enough.
413
00:30:45,050 --> 00:30:48,351
- How long we got left anyway?
- 40, 45 yards to go.
414
00:30:49,886 --> 00:30:52,857
Get these coordinates spot on.
Light it up, we'll be on our way.
415
00:31:22,818 --> 00:31:23,852
And that's the 200.
416
00:31:24,954 --> 00:31:27,722
Alright. Dig out caverns
set bombs and job done.
417
00:31:34,629 --> 00:31:37,565
- Oh Jesus Christ.
- Keep sucking on it, it'll break up.
418
00:31:38,632 --> 00:31:41,036
It's like them things what you give babies,
but made of concrete.
419
00:31:41,136 --> 00:31:42,503
They're dog biscuits.
420
00:31:42,938 --> 00:31:45,372
You what? These are not
bloody dog biscuits.
421
00:31:45,472 --> 00:31:47,074
I've been eating these things
since I got here.
422
00:31:47,175 --> 00:31:50,777
I'm telling you.
Had staffies since I were a nipper so, I know.
423
00:31:50,877 --> 00:31:53,480
It's true we did.
Nasty little buggers they were.
424
00:31:53,580 --> 00:31:56,882
Used to good taste is all.
And this is a dog biscuit.
425
00:32:03,455 --> 00:32:06,059
Bloody hell. That were close.
426
00:32:06,792 --> 00:32:09,461
That were close.
427
00:32:27,179 --> 00:32:28,646
Christ it's gonna break!
428
00:32:29,447 --> 00:32:30,348
Brace the walls!
429
00:32:34,852 --> 00:32:35,987
Shit!
430
00:32:36,088 --> 00:32:37,089
Get back!
431
00:32:37,689 --> 00:32:38,924
Move now!
432
00:32:50,601 --> 00:32:52,636
Everyone all right?
433
00:32:55,037 --> 00:32:56,040
George?
434
00:32:56,140 --> 00:32:58,876
Yeah I'm fine. I'm fine.
435
00:33:01,011 --> 00:33:02,445
Charlie you okay?
436
00:33:03,947 --> 00:33:04,815
Charlie?
437
00:33:07,550 --> 00:33:08,517
No I'm not.
438
00:33:09,305 --> 00:33:12,021
Like we're too close this time,
too bloody close.
439
00:33:16,859 --> 00:33:19,028
Good job you were doing
all that praying hey, Georgie.
440
00:33:20,795 --> 00:33:21,796
Still alive aren't you?
441
00:33:23,866 --> 00:33:25,867
This what you imagined it would be like, Bill?
442
00:33:26,701 --> 00:33:27,970
I don't know what I imagined.
443
00:33:29,638 --> 00:33:30,504
Not for me.
444
00:33:33,608 --> 00:33:35,877
I er, got a postcard
from Maggie this morning.
445
00:33:37,245 --> 00:33:40,048
She said the Goose Fair
just started in town. She saw those um..
446
00:33:41,482 --> 00:33:43,450
...those toffee apple stalls
and everything.
447
00:33:46,087 --> 00:33:48,489
Y'know I used to go every year
with-without fail.
448
00:33:52,127 --> 00:33:53,128
Wish I was this year.
449
00:33:59,133 --> 00:34:00,533
Sounds like a lot of fun.
450
00:34:03,636 --> 00:34:06,472
We'll go next year Charlie, all of us will.
451
00:34:07,873 --> 00:34:09,976
Yeah, yeah I'd like that.
452
00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:17,683
So how the hell d'you know
what a dog biscuit tastes like?
453
00:34:17,783 --> 00:34:19,852
- You never tried one?
- No, I'm not a dog.
454
00:34:19,954 --> 00:34:23,755
Well you have now 'cause,
these are dog biscuits.
455
00:34:29,728 --> 00:34:34,199
- Bill, what d'you think?
- I think this won't clear itself. Come on.
456
00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:38,103
Cheer up, nearly on our way home.
457
00:34:47,744 --> 00:34:48,813
Enter.
458
00:34:54,085 --> 00:34:55,552
Bill.
459
00:34:56,120 --> 00:34:57,989
The only news I want is good news.
460
00:34:58,089 --> 00:34:59,889
I believe we've reached the location sir.
461
00:35:00,724 --> 00:35:02,525
Directly beneath the German maxim.
462
00:35:04,827 --> 00:35:05,861
Uh well done.
463
00:35:07,697 --> 00:35:10,499
We'll conceal the detonation with
one of the mortar attacks.
464
00:35:10,599 --> 00:35:13,069
- HQ's getting me the schedule as we speak.
- Aye sir.
465
00:35:14,904 --> 00:35:17,140
Sir is there anyway
to double-check the coordinates?
466
00:35:17,974 --> 00:35:19,608
We don't wanna miss our only chance.
467
00:35:20,210 --> 00:35:22,178
Of course. I'll get someone
on to it right now.
468
00:35:23,811 --> 00:35:24,679
Alright.
469
00:35:35,258 --> 00:35:39,761
Baker, Marshall, I've got a job
for you two. No man's land, tonight.
470
00:35:46,834 --> 00:35:48,568
Easy. Easy.
471
00:35:48,668 --> 00:35:51,772
Will you shut the hell up,
how many times have I done this?
472
00:35:53,274 --> 00:35:55,876
Hey Woodsy, can you smell something?
473
00:35:55,977 --> 00:35:57,611
Oh, bloody sewers.
474
00:36:01,181 --> 00:36:02,681
I'm getting sick of the attitude.
475
00:36:03,817 --> 00:36:05,053
Don't get it.
476
00:36:08,155 --> 00:36:09,588
Put yourself in their boots.
477
00:36:10,991 --> 00:36:11,992
They don't know who we are.
478
00:36:15,395 --> 00:36:18,065
- Let me tell you a story about Private King.
- No, let's not.
479
00:36:20,366 --> 00:36:21,233
Huwww!
480
00:36:25,038 --> 00:36:27,273
Oh you cheeky bastard.
481
00:36:29,008 --> 00:36:30,342
Private King yeah.
482
00:36:30,443 --> 00:36:34,579
Hey. Private King. He's a 19-year-old lad.
483
00:36:35,147 --> 00:36:39,084
New to the front.
Part of a troop moving between trenches.
484
00:36:40,751 --> 00:36:43,788
And they were out for hours marching, full pack.
485
00:36:43,889 --> 00:36:48,293
Suddenly, King needs to take a crap,
right proper desperate, yeah?
486
00:36:49,260 --> 00:36:51,896
So he says to his CO.
The CO is like, "Yeah, fine,
487
00:36:52,297 --> 00:36:56,600
just catch us up after."
He goes off, does his business.
488
00:36:58,168 --> 00:37:00,671
Night's creeping in. He's in the forest.
489
00:37:00,771 --> 00:37:02,040
Sets off after his troop.
490
00:37:03,673 --> 00:37:04,942
Wrong bloody direction.
491
00:37:06,742 --> 00:37:07,643
In the morning..
492
00:37:09,212 --> 00:37:11,348
...soldiers pick him up, arrest him.
493
00:37:11,448 --> 00:37:12,648
For desertion?
494
00:37:13,217 --> 00:37:14,151
Aye.
495
00:37:15,952 --> 00:37:19,123
He protests his innocence.
"I was having a crap.
496
00:37:19,223 --> 00:37:20,958
I was having a crap, ask my CO."
497
00:37:21,756 --> 00:37:22,824
Only problem is..
498
00:37:24,093 --> 00:37:27,929
...CO's dead, isn't he?
German sniper clocked him an hour before.
499
00:37:29,398 --> 00:37:34,768
So with no one to vouch for his story,
court martial instantly returned a guilty verdict.
500
00:37:35,470 --> 00:37:40,741
And then it's a,
blindfold, bullet, unmarked grave. Gone.
501
00:37:41,209 --> 00:37:44,179
Christ that's no way to be remembered,
for everyone to think you're a coward.
502
00:37:44,279 --> 00:37:48,716
No. May as well just walk out into No Man's Land
and have the Boche do it for you.
503
00:37:49,951 --> 00:37:52,987
At least then you get called an hero.
Get a medal.
504
00:37:54,421 --> 00:37:59,094
Hey. So if them regular tommies
want to hate us, I say fine.
505
00:37:59,460 --> 00:38:02,296
Because on one side
they got maxim guns pointed at them.
506
00:38:02,396 --> 00:38:06,230
On the other, mad bastards
who would rather execute a kid then,
507
00:38:06,230 --> 00:38:08,435
believe he needed to take a shit.
508
00:38:14,474 --> 00:38:15,976
How many medals do you think we'll get?
509
00:38:17,111 --> 00:38:18,877
They don't give medals for likes of us.
510
00:38:18,978 --> 00:38:20,879
No. They give them to general's runners,
511
00:38:20,980 --> 00:38:23,283
ass lickers. Them folk.
512
00:38:23,383 --> 00:38:24,918
You're all having me on aren't you?
513
00:38:26,219 --> 00:38:29,688
It's like back home,
the bottom people, do all the work.
514
00:38:29,788 --> 00:38:33,258
Top brass take all the credit and then...
Well, when it goes right.
515
00:38:33,358 --> 00:38:36,761
- What if it goes wrong?
- It's a two way street lad.
516
00:38:36,861 --> 00:38:38,430
Praise goes up, shit comes down.
517
00:38:38,530 --> 00:38:40,465
That's just the way of life.
518
00:38:40,566 --> 00:38:42,467
Y'know, if all you can do is your best.
519
00:38:43,401 --> 00:38:44,802
That's all you can do.
520
00:38:46,305 --> 00:38:49,007
You're a poet you know that?
521
00:38:49,107 --> 00:38:52,343
- Bill. Those coordinates correct?
- Aye. Hellfire sent two chaps
522
00:38:52,443 --> 00:38:55,247
out into no man's land,
and they came back correct.
523
00:38:55,347 --> 00:38:56,948
Jolly good Harker.
524
00:38:57,915 --> 00:39:00,284
The mortar attack's scheduled
from 7:20 until 7:30,
525
00:39:00,384 --> 00:39:02,786
- should give you plenty of time.
- Plenty sir.
526
00:39:02,887 --> 00:39:05,755
Excellent. Excellent.
527
00:39:05,889 --> 00:39:08,291
Bill you do realize
what you're about to do don't you?
528
00:39:09,926 --> 00:39:11,760
Well we'll let you know when we've done it, sir.
529
00:39:11,861 --> 00:39:15,699
Good show. Good show.
530
00:39:18,535 --> 00:39:19,436
Alright.
531
00:39:58,838 --> 00:40:00,074
The bloody hell's that noise?
532
00:40:00,976 --> 00:40:05,078
Been living under a rock?
Poor sod got sent on some suicide mission,
533
00:40:05,178 --> 00:40:06,513
looking for machine gun posts.
534
00:40:07,414 --> 00:40:09,550
He's been stuck out there
for nearly two days now.
535
00:40:09,651 --> 00:40:11,051
I thought they came back.
536
00:40:11,151 --> 00:40:12,152
One of them did.
537
00:40:12,886 --> 00:40:13,987
Morning chaps.
538
00:40:16,490 --> 00:40:18,925
- Where's Bill?
- What are you doing?
539
00:40:19,859 --> 00:40:21,028
What does it look like?
540
00:40:23,195 --> 00:40:25,331
Don't be so bloody stupid, man.
541
00:40:25,431 --> 00:40:27,099
Alright Private Stockford,
you're up.
542
00:40:27,867 --> 00:40:29,801
- Well come on!
- Yes sir sir!
543
00:40:53,992 --> 00:40:56,428
If you go up there you are a dead man!
544
00:40:56,528 --> 00:40:58,271
Do you understand?
545
00:40:59,571 --> 00:41:01,265
This is madness.
546
00:41:01,265 --> 00:41:02,333
Wait!
547
00:41:22,585 --> 00:41:24,455
Help me, please.
548
00:41:25,089 --> 00:41:27,457
Alright lad, we're gonna get you down.
549
00:42:12,099 --> 00:42:14,568
Watch out then. All right, all right.
550
00:42:16,736 --> 00:42:19,406
You should get yourself checked
for insanity, old boy.
551
00:42:20,441 --> 00:42:23,443
- That's just for the COs, mate.
- Brother!
552
00:42:25,745 --> 00:42:27,680
Following this morning's mission..
553
00:42:29,047 --> 00:42:35,421
...HQ has deemed it necessary
for the.. mining effort, to expand.
554
00:42:36,522 --> 00:42:41,360
We will continue
on to the Messines as, as planned.
555
00:42:43,328 --> 00:42:44,263
Jolly good news sir.
556
00:42:47,031 --> 00:42:48,032
Quite.
557
00:42:49,601 --> 00:42:50,702
You wanted me sir.
558
00:42:52,571 --> 00:42:54,071
Yes Hawkins just a moment.
559
00:42:56,340 --> 00:42:57,208
Well then.
560
00:43:02,213 --> 00:43:03,114
Carry on Jack.
561
00:43:06,650 --> 00:43:07,685
Harker.
562
00:43:21,364 --> 00:43:23,533
So we're expanding the tunnels
to the Messines ridge?
563
00:43:25,134 --> 00:43:27,137
That's right.
No concern of yours anymore.
564
00:43:27,537 --> 00:43:29,172
Well the ridge is over a thousand feet away.
565
00:43:30,107 --> 00:43:32,575
Thanks to you and your men
we have the know-how to get it done.
566
00:43:32,675 --> 00:43:34,577
There's new mining teams
being trained back home.
567
00:43:35,211 --> 00:43:36,480
With what experience?
568
00:43:37,613 --> 00:43:40,583
Sending the wrong men down there
without the right skills would be irresponsible.
569
00:43:40,683 --> 00:43:42,618
Irresponsible, is it?
570
00:43:43,751 --> 00:43:46,822
What the bloody hell do you call
your performance out there this morning?
571
00:43:46,923 --> 00:43:50,492
Saving a man's life.
What a soldier's supposed to do.
572
00:43:50,592 --> 00:43:52,660
Soldiers follow direct orders given to them,
573
00:43:52,760 --> 00:43:54,496
they don't saunter into no man's land
574
00:43:54,597 --> 00:43:55,730
in the hope of being labelled a hero.
575
00:43:55,830 --> 00:43:57,565
The boy was out there because of us,
576
00:43:58,166 --> 00:44:00,261
checking our coordinates.
What would you have me do?
577
00:44:00,261 --> 00:44:02,402
Men die every day, doing what we tell them.
578
00:44:02,503 --> 00:44:05,440
It's not pretty, it's necessary.
579
00:44:06,374 --> 00:44:10,077
They run into no man's land,
they fight, and they die, for each other,
580
00:44:10,177 --> 00:44:12,312
not for a slap on the back
or a medal on the chest.
581
00:44:15,382 --> 00:44:17,284
Perhaps it's a good job you're leaving.
582
00:44:27,493 --> 00:44:29,061
You've done your bit bill.
583
00:44:29,863 --> 00:44:31,030
It's time to go home.
584
00:44:32,198 --> 00:44:33,766
I'll put a word in for you and your men.
585
00:44:38,638 --> 00:44:40,105
We checked the tunnel.
586
00:44:40,205 --> 00:44:42,542
There's some faint sounds scraping.
587
00:44:43,643 --> 00:44:45,478
It looks like the Germans
are digging now, too.
588
00:44:59,857 --> 00:45:03,361
- Harry where's your bag?
- Didn't see point in bringing it.
589
00:45:04,295 --> 00:45:06,230
Logistics are saying the trains
might be held up.
590
00:45:06,330 --> 00:45:08,732
There's, some commotion with the Froggies,
591
00:45:08,832 --> 00:45:10,701
taking on, the ones meant for us.
592
00:45:11,535 --> 00:45:14,371
Oh well, have to entertain ourselves then, yeah?
593
00:45:24,380 --> 00:45:26,115
Three, bloody hours.
594
00:45:28,585 --> 00:45:30,553
Calm down Charlie. It'll turn up.
595
00:45:38,361 --> 00:45:39,863
I've known you for 20 years Bill.
596
00:45:41,164 --> 00:45:43,198
And I can read you like an half-penny Marvel.
597
00:45:44,199 --> 00:45:46,635
- And?
- I know when you're gonna say it's time to dig
598
00:45:46,735 --> 00:45:50,372
and when it's time for a brew, but I also know
when you're gonna say, job's not done yet.
599
00:45:50,472 --> 00:45:53,575
- Well the Job's not done.
- Whoa. Hellfire said we're done.
600
00:45:54,242 --> 00:45:56,477
- Said we did our bit.
- I know Shorty.
601
00:45:57,479 --> 00:45:59,381
Without us those tunnels are gonna fail.
602
00:46:00,382 --> 00:46:01,582
Without the tunnels there's no bomb,
603
00:46:01,682 --> 00:46:03,651
no bomb means years more
of the same shit
604
00:46:03,751 --> 00:46:05,252
and thousands more men dying.
605
00:46:05,786 --> 00:46:07,889
- Maybe even us losing the war.
- We don't know that.
606
00:46:07,990 --> 00:46:10,157
Yeah. Yeah we do lad.
607
00:46:12,326 --> 00:46:14,260
It's a good job
I didn't bring my kit, eh Bill?
608
00:46:15,595 --> 00:46:17,298
Wait Harry? Where're you going?
609
00:46:19,366 --> 00:46:20,300
Bloody hell.
610
00:46:21,469 --> 00:46:24,638
Hellfire said they got
whole new team of miners down there now.
611
00:46:25,538 --> 00:46:26,773
Showed them how to cut the clay.
612
00:46:27,807 --> 00:46:29,776
And you trust them to get
the job done do you?
613
00:46:30,710 --> 00:46:34,246
If your life, your family's life depended on it,
614
00:46:34,949 --> 00:46:36,383
you trust them to get it done?
615
00:46:37,517 --> 00:46:38,651
I don't think I can.
616
00:46:40,386 --> 00:46:42,354
- What's going on?
- Bill's gone mad.
617
00:46:43,288 --> 00:46:44,657
Harry's gone back to the front.
618
00:46:46,392 --> 00:46:48,460
You just trying to prove
sommit to these people?
619
00:46:49,495 --> 00:46:50,595
That Fielding?
620
00:46:53,231 --> 00:46:55,869
Sod Fielding. Sod Haig.
621
00:46:57,402 --> 00:46:59,537
This is about all the men
they don't care about.
622
00:47:00,605 --> 00:47:01,673
The ones like us.
623
00:47:03,041 --> 00:47:05,777
I hope to God no one ever has
to see a place like this again.
624
00:47:06,711 --> 00:47:08,846
But to do that the job's gotta be finished,
625
00:47:08,947 --> 00:47:11,248
and I believe we're the only ones can do it.
626
00:47:12,850 --> 00:47:13,851
Shorty?
627
00:47:20,925 --> 00:47:23,560
- Oh Jesus Christ.
- You're not really thinkin' it.
628
00:47:24,929 --> 00:47:26,730
Bill, Bill, I-I wanna go home.
629
00:47:26,830 --> 00:47:30,199
- I just, want to go home.
- Then go home Charlie.
630
00:47:30,299 --> 00:47:31,401
You don't owe anyone anything.
631
00:47:32,402 --> 00:47:33,071
None of you do.
632
00:47:34,804 --> 00:47:35,972
- What if we did stay?
- George!
633
00:47:36,073 --> 00:47:36,940
I'm just sayin'.
634
00:47:38,008 --> 00:47:40,276
It's gonna take six months to dig that tunnel.
635
00:47:40,810 --> 00:47:42,378
- The Germans know we're coming.
- Aye.
636
00:47:44,547 --> 00:47:46,682
Aye. I know, George.
637
00:47:49,517 --> 00:47:52,889
No, no no this is daft.
We-we're here. We-we're goin' home.
638
00:47:54,723 --> 00:47:56,591
If the bloody train ever sodding shows up.
639
00:48:00,795 --> 00:48:01,997
You know what I'm gonna say.
640
00:48:03,665 --> 00:48:04,699
You've gotta be joking.
641
00:48:06,600 --> 00:48:07,568
We're not stayin'.
642
00:48:10,505 --> 00:48:11,406
George please.
643
00:48:13,741 --> 00:48:14,909
You don't have to come back.
644
00:48:17,344 --> 00:48:18,512
I'm sure they'd understand.
645
00:48:29,423 --> 00:48:30,590
See you Charlie.
646
00:48:35,963 --> 00:48:36,896
I'm not stayin'.
647
00:48:38,498 --> 00:48:39,599
Bunch of idiots.
648
00:49:02,020 --> 00:49:03,387
My darling Jane.
649
00:49:04,990 --> 00:49:07,425
I know each month I say I'm closer to home.
650
00:49:08,659 --> 00:49:10,494
But war makes us break promises.
651
00:49:11,729 --> 00:49:14,032
And the truth is, I'm even farther from it.
652
00:49:16,001 --> 00:49:18,736
These past few months, time has ground by.
653
00:49:19,503 --> 00:49:22,343
Messines Trench, March 1917. Four months later.
654
00:49:19,503 --> 00:49:22,039
Our new tunnels inch closer to the German lines,
655
00:49:22,705 --> 00:49:24,508
to the biggest explosion in history.
656
00:49:25,509 --> 00:49:27,677
And I know it's only us can make it happen.
657
00:49:29,679 --> 00:49:30,981
The work is slow.
658
00:49:32,115 --> 00:49:36,519
We constantly listen out for the German tunnels,
and pray they don't find us.
659
00:49:39,688 --> 00:49:41,523
They say when a soldier dies,
660
00:49:41,958 --> 00:49:44,929
he becomes a patriot.
As the war goes on,
661
00:49:45,528 --> 00:49:47,596
it seems I know more and more patriots.
662
00:49:49,665 --> 00:49:52,400
- Anything?
- Guess I must be hearing...
663
00:50:12,520 --> 00:50:13,521
Excuse me Madam.
664
00:50:14,490 --> 00:50:18,758
I'm afraid I have some rather,
bad news to deliver. Your husband.
665
00:50:20,794 --> 00:50:22,998
Do you need a chair? I-I can go inside.
666
00:50:24,431 --> 00:50:25,398
Mrs. Brown?
667
00:50:26,100 --> 00:50:28,870
- No.
- No you don't want a chair?
668
00:50:28,970 --> 00:50:31,038
No, I-I'm not Mrs. Brown.
669
00:50:31,671 --> 00:50:34,708
I'm Mrs. Hawkin.
Sarah Brown lives at number four.
670
00:50:37,143 --> 00:50:40,714
Oh, my word I'm.. I'm ever so sorry, ehh...
671
00:50:42,148 --> 00:50:46,418
Let me just um, yes it-it says 14.
672
00:50:47,486 --> 00:50:48,921
I am I am so so sorry.
673
00:50:49,021 --> 00:50:51,423
Um... thank you for your time.
674
00:50:52,225 --> 00:50:53,093
Sorry.
675
00:51:23,221 --> 00:51:26,522
Field Marshal Haig in his infinite wisdom
has given us a date.
676
00:51:28,825 --> 00:51:31,662
- Seventh of June, it's three months from now.
- Three months?
677
00:51:32,262 --> 00:51:35,464
But with the way things are going,
we're not even getting through half our usual distance.
678
00:51:35,564 --> 00:51:38,135
- It's non-negotiable, I'm afraid.
- It's too crowded down there.
679
00:51:38,902 --> 00:51:41,437
Since the Germans joined in the fun,
we've had a team running into them
680
00:51:41,537 --> 00:51:42,838
near enough every bloody day.
681
00:51:43,240 --> 00:51:45,007
We're spending more time
dodging them than we are
682
00:51:45,107 --> 00:51:46,609
actually moving forward.
683
00:51:49,712 --> 00:51:50,578
Alright.
684
00:51:52,181 --> 00:51:53,115
So we go deeper.
685
00:51:54,516 --> 00:51:57,019
Below the blue clay line
where the Boche won't even think to follow.
686
00:51:57,119 --> 00:51:58,753
We can't do it, sir.
687
00:51:58,854 --> 00:52:02,224
Our current location is here.
Messines here.
688
00:52:03,224 --> 00:52:07,629
Now if we dig deeper that'll take us to here,
that's 300-foot extra ground to cover.
689
00:52:08,164 --> 00:52:10,999
- There's just not enough time.
- Yes but staying here is suicide.
690
00:52:12,000 --> 00:52:14,035
Sooner or later every team
runs into a German gallery.
691
00:52:14,136 --> 00:52:16,503
I've lost eight in the past week
I don't want to lose a ninth.
692
00:52:16,603 --> 00:52:17,538
Neither do I.
693
00:52:18,907 --> 00:52:21,242
But if we work any harder
they'll be nothing left of us to lose.
694
00:52:24,179 --> 00:52:26,915
Only thing we can do is, stay the course
695
00:52:27,015 --> 00:52:28,148
and hope we get lucky.
696
00:52:29,016 --> 00:52:31,718
Luck's not something I like
to hang my hat on, old boy.
697
00:52:42,795 --> 00:52:43,796
Here take this.
698
00:52:47,233 --> 00:52:48,101
Just in case.
699
00:52:58,643 --> 00:53:01,046
Bill. If this is successful..
700
00:53:02,181 --> 00:53:05,550
...could change the face of the war,
no more stalemates no more trenches,
701
00:53:06,018 --> 00:53:07,085
we march to Berlin.
702
00:53:08,153 --> 00:53:09,653
You could be the man to achieve that.
703
00:53:18,795 --> 00:53:20,132
You right Charlie?
704
00:53:21,665 --> 00:53:23,534
Yeah not heard from Maggie
for a couple of weeks.
705
00:53:24,601 --> 00:53:26,303
Just.. gettin' a bit worried about her.
706
00:53:31,142 --> 00:53:33,710
I'm sure she's fine. Busy is all.
707
00:53:34,178 --> 00:53:36,047
She runs the plant as much as Rogers does.
708
00:53:37,113 --> 00:53:38,747
Yeah, guess so.
709
00:53:42,786 --> 00:53:43,786
Funny though, innit it?
710
00:53:45,188 --> 00:53:46,089
What is?
711
00:53:47,390 --> 00:53:48,893
Well, when you're at home...
712
00:53:50,260 --> 00:53:52,929
...getting a letter,
it don't mean nothin' really.
713
00:53:53,029 --> 00:53:54,064
But out here.
714
00:53:56,198 --> 00:53:57,232
Did y'know.
715
00:53:59,369 --> 00:54:03,671
Next time I see the postman on Applegate Street I'm..
gonna want shake his hand.
716
00:54:04,672 --> 00:54:05,673
I really am.
717
00:54:09,144 --> 00:54:11,346
You think I'm being stupid about it don't ya?
718
00:54:11,447 --> 00:54:12,647
No.
719
00:54:15,083 --> 00:54:15,983
No of course not.
720
00:54:19,421 --> 00:54:20,787
I think I really love her.
721
00:54:26,261 --> 00:54:27,727
Another day in the sun gents.
722
00:56:23,171 --> 00:56:24,105
Get the stuff.
723
00:56:41,889 --> 00:56:42,789
Move!
724
00:56:48,162 --> 00:56:50,930
As much as I hate to say it, you were right.
725
00:56:51,030 --> 00:56:54,467
I'll get that in writing, shall I?
How much deeper do you think you need to go?
726
00:56:54,567 --> 00:56:57,370
Well if we're going to get under 'em,
it will need to be over 100 feet.
727
00:56:58,004 --> 00:57:00,772
- But with that there's gonna be new problems.
- Such as?
728
00:57:00,873 --> 00:57:03,909
The deeper down we go, the more
the composition of the ground will change.
729
00:57:04,910 --> 00:57:08,314
Also we're below sea level.
And then there's all the stuff I can't predict.
730
00:57:08,948 --> 00:57:11,383
Cave-ins. Oxygen drop outs.
731
00:57:11,483 --> 00:57:14,186
And we'll need canaries in case of gas pockets.
732
00:57:14,453 --> 00:57:16,288
Can you do it in time?
733
00:57:16,923 --> 00:57:21,827
I don't know. We're the only crew that can,
we're working every hour God sends.
734
00:57:21,926 --> 00:57:23,527
We could do with Him sending us a few more.
735
00:57:23,628 --> 00:57:26,064
Well focus all your energies on a single tunnel.
736
00:57:26,164 --> 00:57:29,467
Increase shift times. You have to do it
just with less shut-eye.
737
00:57:53,323 --> 00:57:57,227
Right lads up we get.
Beauty sleep's wasted on the ugly.
738
00:57:57,327 --> 00:57:59,428
Bloody hell Bill
we've only just got us heads down.
739
00:58:00,562 --> 00:58:04,267
- We're here to do a job.
- I never wanted to sodding be here in the first place.
740
00:58:07,903 --> 00:58:08,570
Listen Bill.
741
00:58:10,372 --> 00:58:12,374
They've been working solid they need a rest.
742
00:58:12,474 --> 00:58:15,144
- And so do you.
- And we can have as long as we want when job's done.
743
00:58:16,045 --> 00:58:19,213
- Only a couple more weeks.
- Look at 'em.
744
00:58:19,314 --> 00:58:24,320
Look. They're on the verge of collapsing.
You'd never do this back at home.
745
00:58:24,419 --> 00:58:25,553
We're not at home are we?
746
00:58:27,221 --> 00:58:28,456
Like Hellfire says,
747
00:58:29,057 --> 00:58:31,292
"We do this, and the war's over."
748
00:58:34,629 --> 00:58:37,364
Come on. Five minutes and we're at the face.
749
00:58:59,486 --> 00:59:01,221
One more bag, nearly there.
750
00:59:06,125 --> 00:59:07,393
Did anyone feel sommit?
751
00:59:07,493 --> 00:59:08,861
Shh-shh-shh-shh-shh.
752
00:59:09,995 --> 00:59:11,130
I thought I heard a crack.
753
00:59:35,252 --> 00:59:36,320
You all right?
754
00:59:39,324 --> 00:59:40,357
George no!
755
00:59:51,368 --> 00:59:53,536
Medic! Medic!
756
01:00:02,745 --> 01:00:04,147
Bastard!
757
01:00:04,247 --> 01:00:06,349
You'll bloody kill us I warned ya!
758
01:00:06,449 --> 01:00:08,251
Get off me! Get off me!
759
01:00:10,086 --> 01:00:11,520
They will bloody shoot you.
760
01:00:13,422 --> 01:00:16,626
You see, this is what you get,
761
01:00:16,726 --> 01:00:20,061
when you let common sewer workers
play at being soldiers.
762
01:00:20,162 --> 01:00:22,164
Nothing to be concerned about sir
they're just overworked.
763
01:00:22,264 --> 01:00:23,597
Oh we're all overworked.
764
01:00:24,633 --> 01:00:27,469
A lack of discipline
is a lack of discipline.
765
01:00:28,570 --> 01:00:30,638
No ifs, no buts.
766
01:00:31,572 --> 01:00:33,307
I'm a busy man, Jack.
767
01:00:34,877 --> 01:00:40,314
So you and your underground trolls here
can apologize for wasting my time.
768
01:00:41,182 --> 01:00:43,017
This troll's name is Private Stockford.
769
01:00:43,117 --> 01:00:45,252
And with all due respect, sir,
770
01:00:45,352 --> 01:00:48,721
you can shove your little stick
up your plumy little ass.
771
01:00:48,823 --> 01:00:51,291
- Get off!
- Sergeant!
772
01:00:54,661 --> 01:00:59,632
Take him and him,
for field punishment number one.
773
01:00:59,732 --> 01:01:02,735
- Insubordination.
- Sir! You!
774
01:01:02,837 --> 01:01:05,071
Get up on your feet. Get on your feet.
775
01:01:06,139 --> 01:01:08,240
Get over there. You, face that way.
776
01:01:08,340 --> 01:01:10,509
Face that way.
Stand to attention. Stand next to him.
777
01:01:11,578 --> 01:01:13,312
Double [...] quick march!
778
01:01:13,412 --> 01:01:15,380
Hurry up, hike up, hike up,
hike up, hike up,
779
01:01:15,481 --> 01:01:17,349
hike up, hike up,
hike up, hike up.
780
01:01:17,449 --> 01:01:22,321
Left, right, left, right, left, right,
left, right, left, right, left.
781
01:01:25,424 --> 01:01:27,725
Detail! Halt!
782
01:01:31,263 --> 01:01:35,666
Hawkin. On that door facing me, go.
Stockford, by that door facing me, go.
783
01:01:36,835 --> 01:01:39,336
- Turn around. Private. Tie him up.
- S'arnt.
784
01:01:42,640 --> 01:01:44,408
Hawkin hands out in front of me.
785
01:01:46,109 --> 01:01:48,078
- Make sure it's tight, boy.
- S'arnt.
786
01:01:50,747 --> 01:01:52,215
- Ready?
- S'arnt.
787
01:01:52,850 --> 01:01:54,050
Raise!
788
01:02:01,324 --> 01:02:02,526
- Fall back.
- S'arnt.
789
01:02:04,627 --> 01:02:07,062
Detail. About turn.
790
01:02:08,498 --> 01:02:14,203
Quick march, hurry up, right, yah.
We'll be back, in the morning.
791
01:02:23,578 --> 01:02:25,246
That pompous prat wit' his stick.
792
01:02:26,148 --> 01:02:28,550
Is that the type of man
we're supposed get respect from here?
793
01:02:28,650 --> 01:02:31,185
- Oh give it a bloody rest will ya?
- I'm being serious.
794
01:02:31,753 --> 01:02:34,922
When I'm 100 feet underground trying
me best not to be burnt alive or crushed,
795
01:02:34,922 --> 01:02:37,525
- I just want to know what it's all for.
- We don't work for him do we?
796
01:02:37,625 --> 01:02:40,261
- We work for Hellfire.
- I don't work for him.
797
01:02:40,361 --> 01:02:44,364
I don't trust him, I bloody well
work for you, and I did trust you.
798
01:02:44,464 --> 01:02:45,834
When have I ever lied to you?
799
01:02:45,935 --> 01:02:47,467
You're lyin' to yourself now.
800
01:02:48,269 --> 01:02:51,271
That great victory you're waitin' for,
not gonna happen.
801
01:02:51,806 --> 01:02:54,674
This war's just going to trundle
along no matter what we do,
802
01:02:54,774 --> 01:02:58,211
and the only reason you're here is so that
when people ask what happened back at home,
803
01:02:58,312 --> 01:03:00,847
- you can hold your bloody head high.
- That's bollocks that.
804
01:03:00,948 --> 01:03:02,748
Is it? Is it?
805
01:03:04,017 --> 01:03:07,653
I've lived long enough to know
that the only person that can really judge you,
806
01:03:07,753 --> 01:03:10,189
is the one that's in your own bloody boots Bill.
807
01:03:15,561 --> 01:03:19,531
All I'm saying is that,
y'know those that know you they respect you.
808
01:03:19,631 --> 01:03:24,337
They know what you put on line.
I'm talking about, Peter and Jane.
809
01:03:27,205 --> 01:03:28,239
And me.
810
01:03:29,441 --> 01:03:32,577
Sometimes. When you're not being
a bloody pigheaded moron.
811
01:03:58,735 --> 01:04:00,203
Hurts doesn't it, Hawkin?
812
01:04:01,405 --> 01:04:02,405
Yes sir.
813
01:04:03,339 --> 01:04:04,707
The army doesn't tolerate insubordination,
814
01:04:05,375 --> 01:04:06,844
under any circumstances.
815
01:04:08,610 --> 01:04:12,348
I however, admire a man
who stands for what he believes in.
816
01:04:12,850 --> 01:04:16,351
Who doesn't leave a man
in the field to die, alone.
817
01:04:37,672 --> 01:04:39,341
You breathe a word of this to anybody
818
01:04:39,441 --> 01:04:40,942
and I'll have your guts for garters.
819
01:04:41,742 --> 01:04:43,945
And you'll be on latrine duty for a month.
820
01:04:45,513 --> 01:04:46,613
Yes s'arnt.
821
01:05:05,932 --> 01:05:09,302
- Hellfire say what he wants s'arnt?
- You'll see, soon enough.
822
01:05:10,970 --> 01:05:12,304
Think that'll work on the Germans?
823
01:05:12,404 --> 01:05:14,707
Not a chance. We've run out of sausage.
824
01:05:16,643 --> 01:05:17,676
Uh-huh.
825
01:05:20,646 --> 01:05:21,580
Sir.
826
01:05:22,614 --> 01:05:24,515
Ah. Thank you s'arnt. Carry on.
827
01:05:26,485 --> 01:05:27,453
All right chaps.
828
01:05:28,021 --> 01:05:29,888
Bit of R&R, before the final push.
829
01:05:29,988 --> 01:05:31,957
Haven't got the time for a, week in Bognor
830
01:05:32,057 --> 01:05:34,726
so uh, this will have to suffice.
831
01:05:34,827 --> 01:05:36,494
I think we're more the football type sir.
832
01:05:36,594 --> 01:05:37,695
Here.
833
01:05:38,730 --> 01:05:41,265
- W.G. Grace gave me that.
- W.G. who?
834
01:05:42,766 --> 01:05:45,570
- Greatest cricketer of all time.
- That good thing is it?
835
01:05:45,670 --> 01:05:47,940
Yes it is. You, wicket.
836
01:05:49,006 --> 01:05:50,842
Harold no smoking on the field of play.
837
01:05:52,944 --> 01:05:54,846
Alright just stand there, and catch it.
838
01:05:55,712 --> 01:05:58,615
Hawkin go long, George in.
Right, who wants to bowl?
839
01:05:58,715 --> 01:06:00,817
- What?
- He's asking who wants to lob a ball at CO.
840
01:06:01,650 --> 01:06:03,553
No, no!
841
01:06:06,057 --> 01:06:07,790
- I didn't mean it!
- Mail for Private MacDonald.
842
01:06:07,891 --> 01:06:09,358
- Which one?
- C.
843
01:06:09,458 --> 01:06:11,327
It's about damn time she wrote to me.
844
01:06:12,062 --> 01:06:15,297
Alright, George. You're in bat.
Try and use the right end.
845
01:06:16,699 --> 01:06:20,335
- Send it son, go on.
- Legs together George legs together.
846
01:06:23,005 --> 01:06:24,373
Ohhhhhh!
847
01:06:25,908 --> 01:06:28,811
That's it. Get it bowler,
get him out come on, get him out!
848
01:06:28,911 --> 01:06:32,915
Oh hahahahaha, well done.
849
01:06:33,015 --> 01:06:35,851
- Well that's it then, that's a quick game this cricket...
- Charlie!
850
01:06:37,786 --> 01:06:40,654
Charlie! Hey, Charlie!
851
01:06:44,758 --> 01:06:45,592
Charlie!
852
01:06:48,897 --> 01:06:50,532
Charlie! Hey!
853
01:06:56,370 --> 01:06:57,537
Charlie!
854
01:06:58,906 --> 01:07:01,341
- Charlie! no! Charlie!
- Out of my way! Out of my way!
855
01:07:01,441 --> 01:07:02,544
What the bloody hell are you doing man,
856
01:07:02,544 --> 01:07:04,477
get down! Get down!
857
01:07:05,678 --> 01:07:07,480
- Jesus Christ.
- No!
858
01:07:07,948 --> 01:07:09,315
Charlie! Charlie!
859
01:07:09,817 --> 01:07:12,052
No! No Charlie! Charlie!
860
01:07:31,871 --> 01:07:32,872
Charlie!
861
01:07:33,840 --> 01:07:35,106
No! Charlie!
862
01:07:59,729 --> 01:08:00,663
Oh Lord.
863
01:08:23,619 --> 01:08:24,753
My dearest Jane.
864
01:08:26,222 --> 01:08:28,757
I'm writing to you
with the heaviest of hearts.
865
01:08:31,492 --> 01:08:33,761
Last night our Charlie took his own life.
866
01:08:35,131 --> 01:08:37,465
Harold had warned me that
the men were close to breaking,
867
01:08:37,565 --> 01:08:40,635
but I wouldn't see it. I should have seen it.
868
01:08:41,937 --> 01:08:44,172
He had just received a letter
from Margaret Parish.
869
01:08:45,173 --> 01:08:47,042
It seems Ned had finally come home,
870
01:08:47,142 --> 01:08:49,044
and so she had called off their love affair.
871
01:08:50,543 --> 01:08:52,779
It's heartbreaking, what love can do,
872
01:08:52,880 --> 01:08:55,616
more powerful than anything
over here I could honestly say.
873
01:08:56,549 --> 01:08:58,986
Would you tell Charlie's mother
he died honourably?
874
01:08:59,086 --> 01:09:01,956
It would be much better coming
from you than a stranger in uniform.
875
01:09:02,656 --> 01:09:03,791
It's the least he deserves.
876
01:09:05,993 --> 01:09:08,661
Oh no, no.
877
01:09:08,761 --> 01:09:10,163
- I'm so sorry.
- No!
878
01:09:10,263 --> 01:09:11,197
I'm so sorry.
879
01:09:12,099 --> 01:09:13,767
Despite what has happened,
880
01:09:13,868 --> 01:09:15,068
the team is still working without rest.
881
01:09:16,236 --> 01:09:19,406
George is showing more strength
than I can imagine to carry on.
882
01:09:20,273 --> 01:09:23,509
We are near our end but...
mad as it seems,
883
01:09:24,510 --> 01:09:26,112
I'm not sure if I want it to stop.
884
01:09:26,212 --> 01:09:29,447
Because if I do, I don't know who I'll be.
885
01:09:30,015 --> 01:09:35,120
Part of me wants all this blood and terror,
because I know I can be of some worth in stopping it.
886
01:09:36,155 --> 01:09:39,656
And without it,
I'm just another man in a flat cap.
887
01:09:40,793 --> 01:09:45,064
But part of me knows my greatest achievement
lies at home with you and the life we had made.
888
01:09:46,831 --> 01:09:48,199
Maybe you were right all along.
889
01:09:49,133 --> 01:09:50,535
I'm just a bloody fool.
890
01:09:51,136 --> 01:09:53,237
All my love is with you and Peter.
891
01:09:54,005 --> 01:09:56,573
Yours forever. William.
892
01:10:08,251 --> 01:10:13,153
June 6, 1917. Eve of the attack.
893
01:10:15,658 --> 01:10:17,159
Weren't able to do an oxygen test.
894
01:10:18,228 --> 01:10:19,830
So we'll just have to go for it.
895
01:10:20,663 --> 01:10:22,565
That's all right, lads. I've got it sorted.
896
01:10:29,172 --> 01:10:31,974
- What's that?
- Apparently army's run out of canaries
897
01:10:32,074 --> 01:10:35,710
so I've had to improvise.
Say hello to Fielding Jr. here.
898
01:10:37,079 --> 01:10:39,949
- It looks dead.
- It's not dead, it's pissed.
899
01:10:40,648 --> 01:10:42,716
I gave tot of rum.
As long as we can see it breathing
900
01:10:42,817 --> 01:10:45,153
- it's all that matters.
- Fielding takes away our miners
901
01:10:45,253 --> 01:10:46,956
and we replace them with a pissed rat?
902
01:10:47,356 --> 01:10:48,555
Seems a fair swap.
903
01:10:50,258 --> 01:10:52,760
If you're quite
finished with the local wildlife.
904
01:10:54,129 --> 01:10:55,162
At ease, men.
905
01:10:57,799 --> 01:10:58,732
I'm very proud.
906
01:11:00,901 --> 01:11:02,602
Very proud of each and every one of you.
907
01:11:04,138 --> 01:11:05,006
Your belief.
908
01:11:06,374 --> 01:11:08,775
Your courage in the face
of great difficulty.
909
01:11:09,376 --> 01:11:11,744
You pretty much lived
your whole lives underground,
910
01:11:11,845 --> 01:11:13,678
out of sight, unrecognized.
911
01:11:14,782 --> 01:11:15,883
But tonight...
912
01:11:17,217 --> 01:11:18,584
...in a matter of hours...
913
01:11:19,919 --> 01:11:22,088
...thousands of our boys
will be torn to ribbons.
914
01:11:22,789 --> 01:11:23,891
Unless we set that bomb.
915
01:11:25,892 --> 01:11:28,061
This isn't about what
we can prove to the top brass.
916
01:11:30,063 --> 01:11:31,798
This is about what we can do for our men.
917
01:11:37,170 --> 01:11:38,137
Gentlemen...
918
01:11:39,637 --> 01:11:40,305
...tonight...
919
01:11:41,907 --> 01:11:43,076
...we may not make history...
920
01:11:45,310 --> 01:11:47,645
...but we'll certainly change
the bloody geography.
921
01:11:52,020 --> 01:11:53,222
George.
922
01:11:56,021 --> 01:11:57,022
Shorty.
923
01:11:59,857 --> 01:12:00,723
Harold.
924
01:12:09,731 --> 01:12:10,867
It's been a privilege.
925
01:12:11,668 --> 01:12:12,937
Thank you sir.
926
01:12:13,770 --> 01:12:15,005
I was wrong about you Bill.
927
01:12:16,005 --> 01:12:17,673
You're a fine soldier.
928
01:12:26,136 --> 01:12:29,835
03:00 AM.
Three hours before the attack.
929
01:12:41,396 --> 01:12:43,265
Hey. Time.
930
01:12:52,707 --> 01:12:54,876
Listen. They're close.
931
01:13:09,123 --> 01:13:10,191
It's Harold.
932
01:13:11,092 --> 01:13:12,993
Shorty I need you calm, right?
933
01:13:14,194 --> 01:13:15,061
Yeah.
934
01:13:17,398 --> 01:13:18,697
Bill we need more bags.
935
01:13:36,449 --> 01:13:37,850
Hey wait wait wait wait wait.
936
01:13:38,517 --> 01:13:40,986
Shorty you're imagining things,
snap out of it.
937
01:13:41,086 --> 01:13:41,921
Give me a sec.
938
01:13:57,302 --> 01:13:58,369
It's clear.
939
01:14:00,205 --> 01:14:01,172
George!
940
01:14:02,373 --> 01:14:04,163
Shhhhh...
941
01:14:06,978 --> 01:14:08,179
Pick yourself up lad.
942
01:14:19,156 --> 01:14:21,457
If we find a German tunnel
we've got to blow it, you know that.
943
01:14:21,557 --> 01:14:24,494
And what if one of their galleries
is next to the chamber?
944
01:14:24,595 --> 01:14:25,761
I need to see.
945
01:14:52,153 --> 01:14:53,054
Bill!
946
01:14:53,989 --> 01:14:55,490
Get your bloody arse back here.
947
01:15:07,401 --> 01:15:09,536
Seems to be heading a few degrees west.
948
01:15:09,637 --> 01:15:11,438
The chamber should be safe from the blast.
949
01:15:11,538 --> 01:15:13,374
Let's get the charges
and bring the whole thing down.
950
01:15:13,474 --> 01:15:14,775
- [German]
- Bill move shit!
951
01:15:48,341 --> 01:15:49,808
George!
952
01:16:25,208 --> 01:16:26,376
Get off me!
953
01:16:27,477 --> 01:16:28,845
What the bloody hell?
954
01:16:29,312 --> 01:16:31,614
- [...] the tunnel!
- Bill it's gone.
955
01:16:31,715 --> 01:16:33,349
It's gone, the whole thing came down.
956
01:16:35,385 --> 01:16:37,156
The chamber might still be intact,
let's get back to work.
957
01:16:37,156 --> 01:16:40,956
No no no it'll take hours to redig,
it's over Bill, forget it.
958
01:16:41,423 --> 01:16:43,125
The whole thing. Gone.
959
01:16:46,428 --> 01:16:47,596
Ohh the German tunnel.
960
01:16:50,998 --> 01:16:53,454
- Part of their tunnel runs right alongside ours.
- Whoa whoa whoa whoa.
961
01:16:53,454 --> 01:16:56,372
- No no no no! The chamber's collapsed!
- All we have to do is,
962
01:16:56,472 --> 01:17:00,108
find the right spot, break through,
we're right back there in the chamber!
963
01:17:00,208 --> 01:17:02,410
There are a load of bullets
that's going to disagree with that, Bill.
964
01:17:02,510 --> 01:17:05,880
The German procedure means they'll have
to scrap their tunnels, start a new one.
965
01:17:06,347 --> 01:17:08,883
- They'll expect us to do the same.
- No!
966
01:17:08,983 --> 01:17:10,884
It's a bloody suicide mission Bill,
you're own your own.
967
01:17:10,884 --> 01:17:13,287
- The time of attack's set in stone.
- No.
968
01:17:13,388 --> 01:17:16,890
At half past six our boys are going
to be charging straight to their deaths,
969
01:17:16,990 --> 01:17:18,258
unless we do this.
970
01:17:21,128 --> 01:17:21,996
No.
971
01:17:28,652 --> 01:17:29,535
Harry...
972
01:17:30,703 --> 01:17:35,608
...when you said I didn't have to come here
to prove myself, you were right.
973
01:17:37,543 --> 01:17:40,212
When you called me
a bloody pigheaded moron, you were right.
974
01:17:42,181 --> 01:17:45,217
Everyone of us is worth as much as any general.
975
01:17:45,317 --> 01:17:48,153
And I should have seen that years ago.
I'm sorry.
976
01:17:48,720 --> 01:17:51,424
But right now, we've got a simple choice to make.
977
01:17:53,292 --> 01:17:57,962
We either stay here do nothing give up,
because we think we might fail.
978
01:17:58,764 --> 01:18:01,566
Or we get back in there
and we do what we came here for.
979
01:18:02,500 --> 01:18:06,537
Not to be heroes, but because
it's the right thing to do.
980
01:18:10,508 --> 01:18:12,142
Let's get our bloody gear then eh?
981
01:18:15,212 --> 01:18:17,481
Georgie, you stay here.
982
01:18:18,348 --> 01:18:21,285
- I wrong to push you to do this.
- I'll be fine.
983
01:18:21,385 --> 01:18:23,353
Yeah you didn't look fine
when them Krauts jumped us.
984
01:18:23,454 --> 01:18:24,421
I'm sorry.
985
01:18:26,389 --> 01:18:27,457
I just couldn't.
986
01:18:28,292 --> 01:18:29,326
It won't happen again.
987
01:18:32,695 --> 01:18:33,996
We finish this together.
988
01:18:43,773 --> 01:18:45,474
At least someone's having a good time.
989
01:18:46,608 --> 01:18:50,710
05:00 AM. An hour before the attack.
990
01:19:39,325 --> 01:19:40,425
Shhhh.
991
01:19:58,210 --> 01:19:59,477
Ah!
992
01:20:04,516 --> 01:20:08,586
George, go back to breakthrough point
and stand lookout.
993
01:20:08,686 --> 01:20:10,254
Any activity let us know.
994
01:20:49,358 --> 01:20:50,259
Get the stuff.
995
01:21:00,569 --> 01:21:04,205
We got fifteen minutes to finish these connections
and then ten to get the hell out.
996
01:21:32,833 --> 01:21:36,436
- Bill...
- Where?
997
01:21:36,536 --> 01:21:37,704
Dunno, multiple points.
998
01:21:37,805 --> 01:21:38,671
Depth?
999
01:21:39,973 --> 01:21:42,809
- Above us I think.
- Then we proceed as planned.
1000
01:21:44,543 --> 01:21:45,410
Tell George.
1001
01:21:45,945 --> 01:21:47,713
Boy is on his own, we've got work to do.
1002
01:22:40,864 --> 01:22:42,331
Shh. Shh.
1003
01:23:13,361 --> 01:23:15,997
We don't have much time.
It's gonna fall.
1004
01:23:17,732 --> 01:23:18,665
It'll hold.
1005
01:23:19,867 --> 01:23:21,669
You two get the cable out.
1006
01:23:22,253 --> 01:23:23,604
Just got a few more to do.
1007
01:23:37,051 --> 01:23:40,320
Come to see how we win
a war like gentlemen, Jack?
1008
01:23:41,521 --> 01:23:43,455
Depends what you mean by gentlemen sir.
1009
01:23:51,798 --> 01:23:54,901
- How're we doing?
- Make sure the explosive's primed.
1010
01:23:55,001 --> 01:23:57,635
It has to go off at six thirty exactly, alright?
1011
01:23:59,105 --> 01:24:00,907
It goes off, no matter what.
1012
01:24:07,847 --> 01:24:09,647
- Go on.
- Bill...
1013
01:24:10,715 --> 01:24:11,850
...see you topside.
1014
01:24:40,509 --> 01:24:42,813
- What the hell you doing?
- German saw me I killed him.
1015
01:24:43,847 --> 01:24:44,882
I'm going to hell.
1016
01:24:47,683 --> 01:24:51,888
The whole world's gonna fall in on us
here George. I need you out of here, now.
1017
01:24:53,122 --> 01:24:55,992
- What about you?
- I've gotta stay and finish the wire.
1018
01:24:56,659 --> 01:24:58,460
Oh no. Bill.
1019
01:24:59,494 --> 01:25:01,897
Take this. This is our Peter's.
1020
01:25:02,564 --> 01:25:04,100
Now listen to me George, listen to me.
1021
01:25:05,067 --> 01:25:06,501
You're not going to hell.
1022
01:25:08,904 --> 01:25:10,005
You were just protecting us.
1023
01:25:12,706 --> 01:25:14,877
I should have protected your Charlie, I'm sorry.
1024
01:25:16,411 --> 01:25:19,680
Now here we are.
And if we don't get these bombs set off
1025
01:25:19,781 --> 01:25:23,418
this war'll go on and on,
before you know it our Pete will be Charlie's age.
1026
01:25:25,987 --> 01:25:26,855
I can't have that.
1027
01:25:32,060 --> 01:25:33,895
All this has to mean something.
1028
01:25:37,798 --> 01:25:39,733
Some light has to leave these bloody tunnels.
1029
01:25:40,566 --> 01:25:41,936
Alright?
1030
01:26:36,123 --> 01:26:37,487
Ah come on Bill.
1031
01:27:01,878 --> 01:27:02,745
Platoon!
1032
01:27:03,611 --> 01:27:05,747
Fix.. bayonets!
1033
01:27:19,527 --> 01:27:20,796
Shit! Shit!
1034
01:27:27,169 --> 01:27:28,170
He'll have done it.
1035
01:27:34,909 --> 01:27:36,011
No!
1036
01:27:57,629 --> 01:27:58,832
Ah!
1037
01:28:13,145 --> 01:28:14,279
Right.
1038
01:28:14,380 --> 01:28:15,513
Done.
1039
01:28:22,087 --> 01:28:23,688
What if Bill didn't make it?
1040
01:28:25,323 --> 01:28:26,523
He gave us his orders.
1041
01:28:30,660 --> 01:28:34,065
Oh Lord.
The shade on our right hand.
1042
01:29:09,065 --> 01:29:09,999
George!
1043
01:29:17,338 --> 01:29:19,041
I thought you'd bolted, son.
1044
01:29:26,314 --> 01:29:27,215
Bill?
1045
01:29:30,118 --> 01:29:31,219
He's dead.
1046
01:30:01,147 --> 01:30:02,681
Get to a medic.
1047
01:30:18,230 --> 01:30:20,765
Right. Come on lads.
1048
01:30:21,933 --> 01:30:22,801
Let's go.
1049
01:30:35,247 --> 01:30:37,248
This morning at 6:30 a.m., an explosion
1050
01:30:37,348 --> 01:30:39,649
the size of which
the world has never known,
1051
01:30:39,750 --> 01:30:41,318
punctured German lines at Messines,
1052
01:30:41,418 --> 01:30:44,889
allowing Allied troops to take
enemy trenches unscathed.
1053
01:30:44,989 --> 01:30:47,791
The blast, so giant it was felt
back in Downing Street,
1054
01:30:47,892 --> 01:30:51,361
was detonated through
underground bomb chambers dug...
1055
01:30:57,100 --> 01:30:59,736
I got the telegram yesterday,
there were no need to come.
1056
01:31:03,106 --> 01:31:04,374
May I, anyway?
1057
01:31:19,288 --> 01:31:21,723
There are things I'm supposed
to say in a situation like this.
1058
01:31:23,792 --> 01:31:24,760
Such as hero...
1059
01:31:26,494 --> 01:31:28,029
...selfless act...
1060
01:31:30,499 --> 01:31:31,934
...patriot.
1061
01:31:34,068 --> 01:31:35,403
But I'm not going to waste your time...
1062
01:31:35,503 --> 01:31:37,205
Because we already know who William was.
1063
01:31:37,939 --> 01:31:39,272
Didn't need a war to show it.
1064
01:31:40,341 --> 01:31:42,843
A medal is just a fancy
piece of costume jewellery.
1065
01:31:42,944 --> 01:31:44,844
And a letter from the King ain't worth...
Ears.
1066
01:31:47,347 --> 01:31:49,450
Isn't worth the horseshit it's written on.
1067
01:31:56,456 --> 01:32:01,895
I don't think I ever met, a more stubborn
pigheaded man than your husband,
1068
01:32:01,995 --> 01:32:02,829
Mrs. Hawkin.
1069
01:32:05,197 --> 01:32:07,166
And I don't think I've ever respected one more.
1070
01:32:11,804 --> 01:32:12,471
Ah!
1071
01:32:14,406 --> 01:32:15,474
I almost forgot.
1072
01:32:19,945 --> 01:32:21,981
This little chap went everywhere with your father.
1073
01:32:23,448 --> 01:32:26,952
It made him believe he could
achieve great things, and it did.
1074
01:32:27,920 --> 01:32:28,987
It did..
1075
01:32:30,121 --> 01:32:31,522
...save thousands of lives.
1076
01:32:33,091 --> 01:32:34,359
Because he was yours.
1077
01:32:36,961 --> 01:32:40,131
And now, he belongs back with you.
1078
01:32:53,143 --> 01:32:54,076
Peter.
1079
01:33:35,673 --> 01:33:38,533
The Messines explosion
was the most powerful ever recorded.
1080
01:33:38,574 --> 01:33:41,336
The British Prime Minister heard
the detonation from London, 225 km away.
1081
01:33:41,399 --> 01:33:43,655
The mines killed
more than 10,000 German soldiers.
1082
01:33:43,711 --> 01:33:46,622
The enemy camp was invaded
by the Allies in less than 35 minutes.
1083
01:33:46,692 --> 01:33:49,871
It was the very last tunnel of the Great War.
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