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* CerebusRetcon: The "Christmas Truce" segment reuses the sight gag from Yarnhub's earlier music video for the song where ''Gefreiter''[[note]]Lance Corporal[[/note]] UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler tries to tattle on the truce to the German Army brass, [[TakeThat gets hit in the head with a football]], and then glumly refuses to participate. This time, though, his message actually does get through, and prompts the German general to command the artillery to resume firing, ending the truce.
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* CerebusRetcon: The "Christmas Truce" segment reuses the sight gag from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSUclZ6Ma28 Yarnhub's earlier music video for the song song]] where ''Gefreiter''[[note]]Lance Corporal[[/note]] UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler tries to tattle on the truce to the German Army brass, [[TakeThat gets hit in the head with a football]], and then glumly refuses to participate. This time, though, his message actually does get through, and prompts the German general to command the artillery to resume firing, ending the truce.truce.
* CompressedHair: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM9PuJxppdI "Lady of the Dark"]] segment depicts an Austro-Hungarian soldier pulling [[ActionGirl Milunka Savić]]'s hat off while fighting with her and being astonished when her long, feminine hair falls free ([[SamusIsAGirl having not realized she was a woman]]), which freezes him long enough for her to land a MegatonPunch on his jaw.
* CompressedHair: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM9PuJxppdI "Lady of the Dark"]] segment depicts an Austro-Hungarian soldier pulling [[ActionGirl Milunka Savić]]'s hat off while fighting with her and being astonished when her long, feminine hair falls free ([[SamusIsAGirl having not realized she was a woman]]), which freezes him long enough for her to land a MegatonPunch on his jaw.
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* YouHaveFailedMe: {{Defied}} by Sir Adrian, who tells his steward that he deliberately doesn't carry any weapon into battle except his walking stick on the grounds that he might be tempted to use a revolver on his own men. [[TruthInTelevision This line was taken from Sir Adrian's memoir almost verbatim.]]
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# "Christmas Truce": German and British soldiers on the Western Front hold an unauthorized HolidayTruce on Christmas Day, 1914.
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# "Christmas Truce": German and British soldiers on the Western Front hold an unauthorized HolidayTruce HolidayCeasefire on Christmas Day, 1914.
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[[caption-width-right:350:[-Front row: a British soldier, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milunka_Savic Milunka Savić]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_I_of_Belgium Albert I of Belgium]], a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stormtroopers_(Imperial_Germany) stormtrooper]], and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Black_Prince_(1904) Capt. T.P. Bonham]]-]\\
[-Back row: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Vazov Vladimir Vazov]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Johnson_(World_War_I_soldier) Pvt. Henry Johnson]], an ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpini_and_Mountain_Artillery_formations_in_World_War_I Alpino]]'', and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Carton_de_Wiart Adrian Carton de Wiart]]-]]]
[-Back row: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Vazov Vladimir Vazov]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Johnson_(World_War_I_soldier) Pvt. Henry Johnson]], an ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpini_and_Mountain_Artillery_formations_in_World_War_I Alpino]]'', and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Carton_de_Wiart Adrian Carton de Wiart]]-]]]
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The film begins in the fall of 1914 as King Albert I of UsefulNotes/{{Belgium}} leads what remains of his army in a desperate LastStand against the German invaders in the marshlands of western Flanders. A page from a letter he is composing blows loose and is lost, traveling through the rest of the film to form a FramingDevice connecting nine stories of what would tragically ''not'' truly be the War to End All Wars.
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The film begins in the fall of 1914 as King Albert I of UsefulNotes/{{Belgium}} leads what remains of his army in a desperate LastStand against the German invaders in the marshlands of western Flanders. A page from a letter he is composing blows loose and is lost, traveling through the rest of the film to form a FramingDevice connecting nine stories of what would tragically ''not'' truly be the War to End All Wars. Each of these stories is shown in a roughly five-minute-long segment in rough chronological order, set to a corresponding song from Sabaton's 2022 album ''The War to End All Wars''.
# "Race to the Sea": King Albert defends what's left of Belgium at the Battle of the Yser.
# "Lady of the Dark": Milunka Savić and the Serbian Iron Regiment hold the Austro-Hungarians at the Battle of Kolubara.
# "Christmas Truce": German and British soldiers on the Western Front hold an unauthorized HolidayTruce on Christmas Day, 1914.
# "Stormtroopers": The introduction of the German Imperial Army's ''Sturmtruppen''.
# "Dreadnought": HMS ''Black Prince'' runs afoul of the German High Seas Fleet around midnight shortly after the Battle of Jutland.
# "The Unkillable Soldier": Lieutenant Colonel Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart fights at the Battle of the Somme.
# "Soldier of Heaven": The White Friday avalanches on the Alpine front in December 1916.
# "Valley of Death": General George Milne tries in vain to dislodge General Vladimir Vazov at the Third Battle of Doiran.
# "Hellfighters": Privates Henry Johnson and Needham Roberts of the US Army 369th Infantry Regiment fight back against a German raid in the Argonne Forest.
In addition, "Versailles" plays over the end credits, while "The Red Baron" from Sabaton's previous album is [[SourceMusic heard on a museum employee's headphones]] during the epilogue.
# "Race to the Sea": King Albert defends what's left of Belgium at the Battle of the Yser.
# "Lady of the Dark": Milunka Savić and the Serbian Iron Regiment hold the Austro-Hungarians at the Battle of Kolubara.
# "Christmas Truce": German and British soldiers on the Western Front hold an unauthorized HolidayTruce on Christmas Day, 1914.
# "Stormtroopers": The introduction of the German Imperial Army's ''Sturmtruppen''.
# "Dreadnought": HMS ''Black Prince'' runs afoul of the German High Seas Fleet around midnight shortly after the Battle of Jutland.
# "The Unkillable Soldier": Lieutenant Colonel Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart fights at the Battle of the Somme.
# "Soldier of Heaven": The White Friday avalanches on the Alpine front in December 1916.
# "Valley of Death": General George Milne tries in vain to dislodge General Vladimir Vazov at the Third Battle of Doiran.
# "Hellfighters": Privates Henry Johnson and Needham Roberts of the US Army 369th Infantry Regiment fight back against a German raid in the Argonne Forest.
In addition, "Versailles" plays over the end credits, while "The Red Baron" from Sabaton's previous album is [[SourceMusic heard on a museum employee's headphones]] during the epilogue.
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* EurekaMoment: While agonizing over how to keep the Germans from finishing off the Belgian Army, King Albert accidentally knocks over a glass of water onto his battle map. This inspires him to order the Yperlee Canal locks opened and flood the area to block the German advance.
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* GiantWallOfWateryDoom: When the Belgians open the Yperlee Canal locks, the water level begins to rise ''just'' slowly enough for the Germans to have a MassOhCrap before the rapidly moving water sweeps them away.
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* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: King Albert of Belgium and his twelve-year-old son Leopold both fight on the front lines to [[YouShallNotPass hold the line at the Yser River]], and Albert personally shoots and kills a German soldier threatening Leopold.
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* MinorInjuryOverreaction: Well, [[DownplayedTrope "minor" only by comparison]]. In "The Unkillable Soldier", Sir Adrian stops near a British soldier clutching at a hand that's had the index finger shot off. Sir Adrian, in addition to sporting an eyepatch courtesy of an injury he sustained in Somaliland, gives the soldier a big grin and shows the him how ''his'' entire left hand is missing.
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* MinorInjuryOverreaction: Well, [[DownplayedTrope "minor" only by comparison]]. In "The Unkillable Soldier", Sir Adrian stops near a British soldier clutching at a hand that's had the index finger shot off. Sir Adrian, in addition to sporting an eyepatch courtesy of an injury he sustained in Somaliland, gives the soldier a big grin and shows the him how ''his'' entire left hand is missing.
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* FramingDevice: King Albert's letter, which blows loose from his writing desk at the start of "Race to the Sea" and is carried by various means to each new segment, zigzagging its way across Europe for the four years of the war until it arrives at a museum warehouse where it is lost for a hundred years.
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* MessageInABottle: A sailor on HMS ''Black Prince'' stuffs King Albert's letter into an empty rum bottle and corks it before the ship goes down. The current carries it back to France, where it's recovered by a soldier headed for the Battle of the Somme.
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* ShoutOut: The museum warehouse where King Albert's letter finally ends up is stacked high with boxes in a clear reference to the closing scene of ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk''.
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''[[https://movie.sabaton.net/ The War to End All Wars – The Movie]]'' is an AnimatedMusical film about UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, co-produced by animation studio Creator/{{Yarnhub}} and Swedish PowerMetal band Music/{{Sabaton}}. After a preview performance for the press, it began a limited series of showings from 4 to 19 November 2023 in history museums worldwide as part of Sabaton's "History Rocks" charitable initiative.
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''[[https://movie.sabaton.net/ The War to End All Wars – The Movie]]'' is an a [[AllCGICartoon CGI]] AnimatedMusical film about UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, co-produced by animation studio Creator/{{Yarnhub}} and Swedish PowerMetal band Music/{{Sabaton}}. After a preview performance for the press, it began a limited series of showings from 4 to 19 November 2023 in history museums worldwide as part of Sabaton's "History Rocks" charitable initiative.
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* CerebusRetcon: The "Christmas Truce" segment reuses the sight gag from Yarnhub's earlier music video for the song where ''Gefreiter''[[note]]Lance Corporal[[/note]] UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler tries to tattle on the truce to the German Army brass, [[TakeThat gets hit in the head with a football]], and then glumly refuses to participate. This time, though, his message actually does get through, and prompts the German general to command the artillery to resume firing, ending the truce.
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* StockFootage: Most of the "Lady of the Dark" segment is reused from Yarnhub's earlier music video for the song. Averted with the following "Christmas Truce" segment, which though using some of the same shots as their earlier "Christmas Truce" music video (notably Private UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler getting hit in the head with a soccer ball), was re-animated from scratch.
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* StockFootage: Most of the "Lady of the Dark" segment is reused from Yarnhub's earlier music video for the song. Averted with the following "Christmas Truce" segment, which though using some of the same shots as their earlier "Christmas Truce" music video (notably Private UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler getting hit in the head with a soccer ball), was re-animated from scratch.
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* StockFootage: Most of the "Lady of the Dark" segment is reused from Yarnhub's earlier music video for the song. Averted with the following "Christmas Truce" segment, which though using some of the same shots as their earlier "Christmas Truce" music video (notably Private UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler getting hit in the head with a soccer ball), was re-animated from scratch.
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* BlackComedy: The entire "Unkillable Soldier" sequence is played for slapstick humor as Sir Adrian strolls calmly and [[QuintessentialBritishGentleman very Britishly]] across no-man's-land armed with only a walking cane, while effortlessly beating the living daylights out of any German who comes anywhere near him.
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* BlackComedy: The entire "Unkillable Soldier" sequence is played for slapstick humor as Sir Adrian strolls calmly and [[QuintessentialBritishGentleman very Britishly]] across no-man's-land armed with only a walking cane, while effortlessly beating the living daylights out of any German who comes anywhere near him. {{Enforced}}: Joakim Brodén has commented in previous interviews how Sir Adrian's biography reads like a real-life comic book character, and the live-action music video for the song had a similar slapstick vibe.
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* SamusIsAGirl: An Austrian soldier knocks Milunka Savic's hat off and is astonished when the feminine long hair she'd kept tucked under it falls free.
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* SamusIsAGirl: An Austrian soldier knocks Milunka Savic's Savić's hat off and is astonished when the feminine long hair she'd kept tucked under it falls free.
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* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: Private Henry Johnson from the Hellfighters, Milunka Savic, and Generals Milne and Vazov get clips right before the end credits explaining what became of them after the war: Johnson died in poverty in 1929, posthumously receiving a Medal of Honor in 2015; Savic spent time in a concentration camp during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII and died of natural causes in 1973; while Milne and Vazov became good friends.
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* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: Private Henry Johnson from the Hellfighters, Milunka Savic, Savić, and Generals Milne and Vazov get clips right before the end credits explaining what became of them after the war: Johnson died in poverty in 1929, posthumously receiving a Medal of Honor in 2015; Savic Savić spent time in a concentration camp during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII and died of natural causes in 1973; while Milne and Vazov became good friends.
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* MinorInjuryOverreaction: Well, [[DownplayedTrope "minor" only by comparison]]. In "The Unkillable Soldier", Sir Adrian stops near a British soldier clutching at a hand that's had the index finger shot off. Sir Adrian, in addition to sporting an eyepatch courtesy of an injury he sustained in Somaliland, gives the soldier a big grin and shows the him how ''his'' entire left hand is missing.
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''[[https://movie.sabaton.net/ The War to End All Wars -- The Movie]]'' is an AnimatedMusical film about UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, co-produced by animation studio Creator/{{Yarnhub}} and Swedish PowerMetal band Music/{{Sabaton}}. After a preview performance for the press, it began a limited series of showings from 4 to 19 November 2023 in history museums worldwide as part of Sabaton's "History Rocks" charitable initiative.
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''[[https://movie.sabaton.net/ The War to End All Wars -- – The Movie]]'' is an AnimatedMusical film about UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, co-produced by animation studio Creator/{{Yarnhub}} and Swedish PowerMetal band Music/{{Sabaton}}. After a preview performance for the press, it began a limited series of showings from 4 to 19 November 2023 in history museums worldwide as part of Sabaton's "History Rocks" charitable initiative.
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''[[https://movie.sabaton.net/ The War to End All Wars -- The Movie]]'' is an AnimatedMusical film about UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, co-produced by animation studio Creator/{{Yarnhub}} and Swedish PowerMetal band Music/{{Sabaton}}. After a preview performance for the press, it began a limited series of showings from 4 to 19 November 2023 in history museums worldwide as part of Sabaton's "History Rocks" charitable initiative.
The film begins in the fall of 1914 as King Albert I of UsefulNotes/{{Belgium}} leads what remains of his army in a desperate LastStand against the German invaders in the marshlands of western Flanders. A page from a letter he is composing blows loose and is lost, traveling through the rest of the film to form a FramingDevice connecting nine stories of what would tragically ''not'' truly be the War to End All Wars.
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!! Tropes:
* BlackComedy: The entire "Unkillable Soldier" sequence is played for slapstick humor as Sir Adrian strolls calmly and [[QuintessentialBritishGentleman very Britishly]] across no-man's-land armed with only a walking cane, while effortlessly beating the living daylights out of any German who comes anywhere near him.
* CreatorCameo: The members of Sabaton appear in the film several times as rank-and-file soldiers of various armies as well as voicing several characters. Frontman Joakim Brodén also appears AsHimself in the live-action epilogue.
* CurbStompBattle: The armored cruiser HMS ''Black Prince'' has a fatal encounter with the German High Seas Fleet on the morning of the Battle of Jutland, and is sunk with all hands by the far superior German dreadnoughts with almost no effort.
* DramaticIrony: In the epilogue of the film, the missing page of King Albert's letter is reunited with the rest of it (which a museum employee finds in the pocket of Albert's uniform while cleaning the exhibit) and delivered to Joakim Brodén. We are finally shown the text of part of the letter, which exhorts the reader to ensure that this be TheWarToEndAllWars--which, of course, it most certainly wasn't.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: At the start of "The Unkillable Soldier", Sir Adrian is shown playing darts and scores three bulls-eyes in a row despite having only one eye. During the song proper, he one-ups that by first killing a German airplane pilot with the rifle of a German infantryman he's fighting ''while the other man is still holding it'', then ''throwing a dart down the barrel of a German machine gun firing at him and jamming it!''
* OrchestralBombing: In several scenes, gunfire and artillery shots are timed to the drumbeats of the song in question.
* PapaWolf: King Albert's son, the young Prince Leopold, is only twelve and fighting with his father on the front lines. At one point in "Race to the Sea", a German soldier gets Leopold at gunpoint, only to be shot dead from behind by Albert himself.
* SamusIsAGirl: An Austrian soldier knocks Milunka Savic's hat off and is astonished when the feminine long hair she'd kept tucked under it falls free.
* SnowMeansDeath: The entirety of two armies are buried in an avalanche in the "Soldier of Heaven" sequence, triggered by a failed attempt by a soldier to shoot a rabbit for dinner. Only two Italian skiers, one of them guitarist Chris Rörland, manage to escape alive as the avalanche destroys every army position in its path.
* SourceMusic: A museum employee in the epilogue is shown listening to "The Red Baron" from Sabaton's previous album ''The Great War''.
* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: Private Henry Johnson from the Hellfighters, Milunka Savic, and Generals Milne and Vazov get clips right before the end credits explaining what became of them after the war: Johnson died in poverty in 1929, posthumously receiving a Medal of Honor in 2015; Savic spent time in a concentration camp during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII and died of natural causes in 1973; while Milne and Vazov became good friends.
* WorthyOpponent: After "Valley of Death", the narrator describes how much British General George Milne grew to respect his Bulgarian counterpart Vladimir Vazov while they were fighting, saying that he fought not just bravely, but gentlemanly. The WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue states that they became good friends after the war.
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''[[https://movie.sabaton.net/ The War to End All Wars -- The Movie]]'' is an AnimatedMusical film about UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, co-produced by animation studio Creator/{{Yarnhub}} and Swedish PowerMetal band Music/{{Sabaton}}. After a preview performance for the press, it began a limited series of showings from 4 to 19 November 2023 in history museums worldwide as part of Sabaton's "History Rocks" charitable initiative.
The film begins in the fall of 1914 as King Albert I of UsefulNotes/{{Belgium}} leads what remains of his army in a desperate LastStand against the German invaders in the marshlands of western Flanders. A page from a letter he is composing blows loose and is lost, traveling through the rest of the film to form a FramingDevice connecting nine stories of what would tragically ''not'' truly be the War to End All Wars.
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!! Tropes:
* BlackComedy: The entire "Unkillable Soldier" sequence is played for slapstick humor as Sir Adrian strolls calmly and [[QuintessentialBritishGentleman very Britishly]] across no-man's-land armed with only a walking cane, while effortlessly beating the living daylights out of any German who comes anywhere near him.
* CreatorCameo: The members of Sabaton appear in the film several times as rank-and-file soldiers of various armies as well as voicing several characters. Frontman Joakim Brodén also appears AsHimself in the live-action epilogue.
* CurbStompBattle: The armored cruiser HMS ''Black Prince'' has a fatal encounter with the German High Seas Fleet on the morning of the Battle of Jutland, and is sunk with all hands by the far superior German dreadnoughts with almost no effort.
* DramaticIrony: In the epilogue of the film, the missing page of King Albert's letter is reunited with the rest of it (which a museum employee finds in the pocket of Albert's uniform while cleaning the exhibit) and delivered to Joakim Brodén. We are finally shown the text of part of the letter, which exhorts the reader to ensure that this be TheWarToEndAllWars--which, of course, it most certainly wasn't.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: At the start of "The Unkillable Soldier", Sir Adrian is shown playing darts and scores three bulls-eyes in a row despite having only one eye. During the song proper, he one-ups that by first killing a German airplane pilot with the rifle of a German infantryman he's fighting ''while the other man is still holding it'', then ''throwing a dart down the barrel of a German machine gun firing at him and jamming it!''
* OrchestralBombing: In several scenes, gunfire and artillery shots are timed to the drumbeats of the song in question.
* PapaWolf: King Albert's son, the young Prince Leopold, is only twelve and fighting with his father on the front lines. At one point in "Race to the Sea", a German soldier gets Leopold at gunpoint, only to be shot dead from behind by Albert himself.
* SamusIsAGirl: An Austrian soldier knocks Milunka Savic's hat off and is astonished when the feminine long hair she'd kept tucked under it falls free.
* SnowMeansDeath: The entirety of two armies are buried in an avalanche in the "Soldier of Heaven" sequence, triggered by a failed attempt by a soldier to shoot a rabbit for dinner. Only two Italian skiers, one of them guitarist Chris Rörland, manage to escape alive as the avalanche destroys every army position in its path.
* SourceMusic: A museum employee in the epilogue is shown listening to "The Red Baron" from Sabaton's previous album ''The Great War''.
* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: Private Henry Johnson from the Hellfighters, Milunka Savic, and Generals Milne and Vazov get clips right before the end credits explaining what became of them after the war: Johnson died in poverty in 1929, posthumously receiving a Medal of Honor in 2015; Savic spent time in a concentration camp during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII and died of natural causes in 1973; while Milne and Vazov became good friends.
* WorthyOpponent: After "Valley of Death", the narrator describes how much British General George Milne grew to respect his Bulgarian counterpart Vladimir Vazov while they were fighting, saying that he fought not just bravely, but gentlemanly. The WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue states that they became good friends after the war.
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