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someone gave this series one star?
What the heck? Someone actually gave this series one star? I think he was just trying to be different, or an idiot. I've seen many many war movies, including classics like "the Longest Day". But "Band of Brothers" is at the very top of my list. It was so good, that by episode 5, I wanted to stop watching the series for a while, because I wanted to savor the moment like enjoying a great wine, because I knew I would never see a war series or a war movie that good again. Authentic? You can't get any more authentic than getting the information from interviews and diaries from the veterans themselves. Buy this DVD set!!!

Not enough good things can be said about this miniseries
The first episode in this HBO miniseries premiered on Sunday, September 9, 2001, and I think all of us watched the next eight episodes with a different outlook. This isn't so much a movie as it is an experience. You really get to know the men of Easy Company. You're with them through basic training, through D-Day, through the drive to Berlin, and even after the war ends on April 7, 1945. You come to care about them, which is a damn rare thing to say about most American films today! Watching the firemen and policemen on 9/11 and seeing our troops in Afghanistan gave this movie a new relevance. They were no different than the men who joined the army in 1941, ordinary men who did extraordinary things. In watching this movie, I felt I was celebrating our heroes of today as well as those of sixty years ago. Any one of us can rise to the challenge before us and be heroes, whether we think we can or not. "Band of Brothers" reinforces that message, and that's why it's worth watching over and over again. P.S., don't forget to read the book!

A Good Look at Combat in World War II
Band of Brothers is a very good look at what soldiers went through in world war II. It focues on Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne. Unlike the book, it focuses on many of the people in the company, from the Lieutenants to the private.

Episode One is a kind of drama comedy type thing. It begins with the company training in Camp Taccoa with their first CO, played by David Schwimmer from Friends. It follows them from here to the take off of the 101st to Normandy.
The second episode takes place in Normandy. It begins with great special effects of the landing in the company. From there it shows the handful of the E Company men that came down in the right place take some artillery enplacments.
The third episode is on the of the first episodes to focus on mainly one man. The company is still in Normandy and forming up. Albert Blithe, a private, is the main guy in this one. He is a coward and it shows how he overcomes his fears. Also in this episode the company takes Carentan and a ridge. They then return to England.
Episode four is the drop into Holland. E Company takes part in Operation Market Garden. Bull Randlemen is the main guy in this one, is a Sergeant who has many replacements to handle.
Episode Five is in Holland as well. We focus on the current Captain of the comapany in this one and see a platoon take dike.
Episode six is one of the most terrifying episodes there is. It is in Bastogne in the battle of the bulge where the 101 is surrounded. Medic Eugene Roe is the focus in the this one where we see how bad the casualties were in this battle and the sacrafices of the medics and women volunteers in the war.
Episode 7. This one is the most sad one of the ten. We see many people we like die in shellings and a man break. The company takes a village.
Episode eight. Tom Hank's son is in this one as a replacment Lieutenant who becomes friends with a private in the company. The company is ordered by regiment to go across a river they are watching to take prisoners in a patrol.
Episode nine. Easy Companys in Germany and some men who are out on patrol find a concentration camp. In this episode you will see many men who look so hardended by combat but that the concentration camp is too much from them.
Episode ten. Easy Company takes Hitler Eagles Nest in this one and goes to Austria where they live a dream life. But they dont enjoy this too much because the division is going to Japan.
Overall this is one miniseries and war movie you have to see.

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