Miracle of the White Stallions Arthur Hiller, 1963

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I don’t have any copyright. But this is such a nice experience of horses

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  1. At 9:21, we see the staple of all WW2 movies made in the 60s: A woman wearing fashions and hairstyles for the era in which the movie was made and not when it takes place. I never understood why movie studios did this until the mid 70s or so, I assume because the 40s look was too old fashioned looking then?

  4. Michael Strong
    5.25K subscribers I wanted to watch this movie yesterday, but my younger brother was against it, because I mentioned the Wehrmacht played a role in Operation Cowboy and also he told me to avoid watching World War 2 movies from 1960's mainly due to him thinking it has something to do with propaganda not to mention he believes that the Wehrmachct are noting more than Nazis loyalist and murderers… that sounds a bit harsh in my opinion… as I already did some further research on the subject, just in case. Turns out not all members of Nazis Germany at the time weren't all bad people.

    While it is true that many members of the SS were held responsible for deaths of innocents during World War 2, thousands of Germans and Austrians fled Nazi persecution and fought against Adolf Hitler, most importantly there were assasination attempts against his life by resistance members Claus von Stauffenberg, who during Operation Barbarossa attempted to kill Adolf Hitler by detonating an explosive hidden in a briefcase, however it failed due to the location of the bomb at the time of detonation, the blast only dealing minor injuries to Hitler. Operation Cowboy and the Battle of Castle Itter are proof the even in the last days of World War 2 the Americans and Germans can work together for noble cause to turn the tide against Nazis.

    The Battle of Castle Itter was fought on 5 May 1945, in the Austrian village of Itter in the North Tyrol region of the country, during the last days of the European Theater of World War II.

    Troops of the 23rd Tank Battalion of the 12th Armored Division of the US XXI Corps led by Lieutenant John C. "Jack" Lee Jr., a number of Wehrmacht soldiers led by Major Josef "Sepp" Gangl, SS-Hauptsturmführer Kurt-Siegfried Schrader, and recently freed French prisoners of war defended Castle Itter against an attacking force from the 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division until relief from the American 142nd Infantry Regiment of the 36th Division of XXI Corps arrived.

    The battle is one of two known times during the war in which Americans and Germans fought side by side, the other being Operation Cowboy, and the only known time where an active member of the Waffen-SS fought on the Allied side. Popular accounts have called it the strangest battle of World War II.

    That being said, I decided to ignore my younger brother's advice and decide to see and decide for myself if this movie "Miracle of the White Stallions" has to do with propaganda.

  11. Robert Taylor, the actor who portrayed Podhajsky, owned a ranch so he could actually ride a horse 🏇 which he seemed to do in some of the scenes – but it looks like they cut to professional riders for the specialized dressage scenes 🎬

  14. Классный фильм..жалко что не перевели.. некоторые сцены просто потрясные..а в особенности природа ❤

  21. Just imagine how CLOSE we were to picking up the newspaper way back then and reading about how the school was bombed and the horses killed, and seeing pictures of how it once WAS!
    1963 was less than 20 years after the war, not one of the horses in the film are still with us to-day.

  23. How come the actor playing Colonel Podolski, is not holding a german accent?? If there is anything that takes away a german war movie is an actor's who can stay in character!!!

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