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Season 1 – Band of Brothers

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This series, originally broadcast on HBO, tells the story of Easy Company, 506th Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division, U.S. Army. Based on interviews with survivors of Easy Company, as well as soldiers' journals and letters, this 10-part series chronicles the experiences of these young men who knew extraordinary bravery and extraordinary fear. Based on the book written by Stephen Ambrose.
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Band of Brothers offers a visceral, intense look at the horrors of war -- and the sacrifices of the millions of ordinary people who served.

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Andrew Ryan Globe and Mail 03/11/2020
The battle scenes are spectacular, although wincingly graphic at times. Go to Full Review Gary Kamiya Salon.com 08/14/2018
It wants to occupy a kind of middle ground, somewhere between the sobriety of documentary and the daring of great feature-filmmaking. Go to Full Review Alan Sepinwall Newark Star-Ledger 08/14/2018
The brilliance of Lewis in this is that he finds a way to make the ordinary aspects of Dick Winters seem extraordinary, rather than trying to play him as an overtly extraordinary man. Go to Full Review Jana Monji Age of the Geek 06/21/2024
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This series is both sensitive and simplistic and its variations on Whiteness while okay in 2001, in 2024 reminds one of all the stories of minorities that were left out of the narrative of World War II. Go to Full Review Sean Axmaker Stream on Demand 09/08/2023
It won six Emmy Awards (out of nineteen nominations) and is, simply put, one of the most powerful and captivating portraits of men in war ever put on screen. Go to Full Review Jared Canfield Screen Rant 08/14/2018
Band of Brothers is HBO at its very best. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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Jared P. @Lunchbox_Trucker Feb 17 Finished this series for the first time about a week ago, and it's hands down one of the best series I've seen! I love basically anything to do with WW1 and WW2, and being a series it can get into a lot more than a movie can. Classic! See more Jason S @Sandman80 Jan 31 The best ever TV series. I watch it at least once a year. It is a timeless production. See more Magnus A @RT19500319 Jan 27 So well made. Drama is set against interviews with the soldiers of Easy Company so BoB treads an interesting line between drama and non-fiction. It's like all the younger male actors of a generation (very white men) are in this, many US players and a lot of British actors, all playing US paratroopers - some now leading actors. Excellent script, brilliant acting, first class direction, editing and post production. A very ambitious and hugely expensive production which works on every level. Excellent! See more Braden H. @MoneyManHan Jan 16 Beautifully done. Truly one of the greatest miniseries ever made. See more Thomas H. @Hitman777gb Dec 5 One of the best series ever made See more Hc N @RT04263181 Nov 4 A well researched series about the war, seen from the non-heroic gritty side of the US GIs in the war, each episode zooming in on a theme or incident (and often one of the persons too), going from the airborne part of the invasion of Normandy until the Germans capitulate. They have softened up on Webster’s account (Parachute Infantry), for instance the killing of unarmed German soldiers (which in the book are teenagers slowly killed and one of them praying and crying waiting for executions), but they keep such details as the DUKW (the amphibious “Duck”) driving through Germany (which is kind of ironic in a sense). And they made Webster far more sympathetic than he is in his own autobiography. Overall a great series, but with a few melodramatic scenes and sometimes it feels like the story wants to drive a point home at the expense of the (very good cast of) characters. See more Read all reviews
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Damian Lewis

Richard D. Winters

Ron Livingston

Lewis Nixon

Donnie Wahlberg

Carwood Lipton

Scott Grimes

Donald G. Malarkey

Doug Allen

Alton M. More

Peter Youngblood Hills

Darrell "Shifty" Powers

Episodes

Episode 1 Aired Sep 9, 2001 Currahee A rivalry blazes between Lt. Sobel and a junior officer who has earned the respect of the men in Easy Company. Details Episode 2 Aired Sep 9, 2001 Day of Days Thousands of paratroopers cross the English Channel to France on D-Day; Lt. Winters leads an attack on a fortified German artillery position. Details Episode 3 Aired Sep 16, 2001 Carentan Easy Company sustains casualties while waging battle in Normandy; Pvt. Blithe has trouble adjusting to combat; the company returns to England. Details Episode 4 Aired Sep 23, 2001 Replacements A fresh group of paratroopers joins Easy Company shortly before it parachutes into German-occupied Holland; the company has to retreat when it meets a superior force. Details Episode 5 Aired Sep 30, 2001 Crossroads Winters leads a dangerous mission on a Dutch dike; although ill-equipped, Easy Company races to help hold the Allied line in the Ardennes Forest. Details Episode 6 Aired Oct 7, 2001 Bastogne Easy Company spends Christmas in the trenches while trying to hold the line in the forest outside Bastogne, Belgium. Details Episode 7 Aired Oct 14, 2001 The Breaking Point After taking Bastogne, Belgium, the company moves on to the town of Foy, where many lives are lost as a result of Lt. Dike's incompetence. Details Episode 8 Aired Oct 21, 2001 The Last Patrol Lt. Jones leads a patrol across a river to take enemy prisoners, but the loss of a paratrooper leads Winters to refuse to send another patrol the next night. Details Episode 9 Aired Oct 28, 2001 Why We Fight Easy Company enters Germany and discovers an abandoned Nazi concentration camp occupied by emaciated prisoners, just as the local citizens learn that Hitler is dead. Details Episode 10 Aired Nov 4, 2001 Points After capturing Eagle's Nest, Hitler's mountaintop fortress, the men of Easy Company face deployment to the Pacific. Details

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Season Info

Director
Mikael Salomon, David Frankel, Richard Loncraine, Tom Hanks, David Leland, David Nutter, Tony To
Executive Producer
Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks
Screenwriter
Erik Jendresen, Erik Bork, Graham Yost, John Orloff, E. Max Frye, Bruce C. McKenna, Tom Hanks, Phil Alden Robinson
Network
HBO
Rating
TV-MA
Genre
History, Drama, Action, Adventure, War
Original Language
English
Release Date
Sep 9, 2001