Its most dew-lit, soft-focus episode, 'Points', contains within it two of the harshest incidents in the entire show, one of which resonates deeply with its fans' contemporaneous experiences in America's current wars. Its greatest single episode, 'Bastogne', is a love story without romance, a Christmas story with no holiday, told almost until the end with no score whatsoever. This is despite, or due to, the fact that BoB, as its fans affectionally call it, is hardly obviously sentimental. It went to war with the servicemen in Iraq and Afghanistan, who perhaps saw in its depiction of brotherhood a cohesion and moral certainty their own experiences lacked an inspiration to live up to.
Premiering the Sunday before the 9/11 attacks, it, much like its contemporary the Lord of the Rings trilogy, wove itself into the new reality of the 21st century, embedded deeply into anyone who saw it, either on HBO or to a far greater extent on digital disc afterward. 1:17:32 Season Only 11 Episodes.īy shanghaijim 'Band of Brothers' is the ne plus ultra of contemporary takes on World War II and has influenced countless works in the decade since it aired. Executive produced by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg. One particularly powerful segment features Company vets William Guarnere and Edward 'Babe' Heffron revisiting the scene of the brutal Battle of the Bulge. Combined with the words and memories of the former soldiers is rare and archival film footage and photos that bring to vivid life the incredible achievements of Easy Company, from its boot camp origins in 1942 to their D-Day surge and later offensives in Germany and Belgium. 1:02:11 $4.99 101 TV-PG Closed Captioning Video We Stand Alone Together: The Men of Easy Company This companion documentary to HBO's acclaimed World War II miniseries 'Band of Brothers' tells the story of Easy Company through recent interviews with some of the actual veterans. 58:08 $4.99 10 TV-MA Closed Captioning Video Points In the concluding episode of this acclaimed miniseries, Major Winters (Damian Lewis) leads Easy Company into the Bavarian town of Berchtesgaden-once the home of the Third Reich's officers-and receives orders to take the abandoned 'Eagle's Nest,' Hitler's breathtaking mountaintop fortress.
58:56 $4.99 9 TV-MA Closed Captioning Video Why We Fight Arriving in Germany to very little resistance, the men discover an abandoned Nazi concentration camp still filled with emaciated prisoners.
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