Band Of Brothers

This is the great T.V series following a company (easy company) of American soldiers from the 506th parachute infantry regiment during the second world war. The series is split into ten parts Currahee End of days Carentan Replacements Crossroads Bastogne The breaking point The last ...  Read the complete review

OK, think of your favourite war films. You know the type, Saving Private Ryan, Full Metal Jacket, even classics like Memphis Belle. Then, combine that with a 10 episode TV series, one of the biggest TV budgets of all time, and Stephen Spielberg in the director's chair, and you have Band of Brothers. This is not a series for the faint-hearted, blood and ammunition are expended in equal measure, and both are shown in brutal detail. Band of Brothers revolves around Easy company, one of the US parachute regiments involved in the invasion of Normandy, and follows them throughout the war until Hitler's suicide, and the company's return from foreign soil. Each ...  Read the complete review

Watching the lives of a whole company of heroes. The Band of Brothers miniseries was produced by HBO and was first run in September 2001. The miniseries is based on the book by Stephen Ambrose and follows Easy Company , a company in the 2nd Battalion in the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, assinged to the famous 101st Airbourne Division. The beginning episode starts at Easy's training camp, Camp Toccoa in Georgia. From the very start this series oozes quality the way in which scenes are filmed and acted is just superb. The first 2 episodes focus just on Easy Company's training in preparation for the D-Day invasion to try and defeat Hitler's Nazi Germany, in ...  Read the complete review

This is story of "Easy Company" an American parachute regiment. It tracks their journey through the Second World War. From the companies it's very uneasy training under the watchful eye of their unreasonable commanding officer played by David Schwimmer right up to the end of the war in Europe. Every episode starts with the actual war veterans speaking candidly to the camera about the events which you are about to see unfold. This bit of every episode brought a lump to my throat and a tear to my eye. It seemed to make me proud of all the brave men who were prepared to go and fight for all of our freedom. You follow them all ...  Read the complete review

This ten-part TV series, supposedly the most expensive one ever made, tells the gripping story of a company of men in the US Parachute Regiment during the Second World War. Although called 'Easy Company', these men have it anything but easy as they find themselves taking part in some of the most famous and brutal episodes of the European War. The series starts with the men in training back in the United States, before we follow them through D-Day, Operation Market Garden, the Battle of the Bulge, the invasion of Germany, the liberation of a concentration camp and the final victory in Europe. The series was produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom ...  Read the complete review