Academy Award winners Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg teamed up with two all-star casts to create each of the sprawling, epic-length World War II miniseries featured in this double-header. First on the bill is 2001's Band of Brothers. Adapted from the bestseller of the same name by Stephen Ambrose, it tells the story of the U.S. soldiers assigned to Easy Company, 506th Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division, U.S. Army. This was a crack squad of some of the most gifted men in the U.S.A.F., who parachuted into France on D-Day morning, fought in the Battle of the Bulge, and captured Hitler's Eagle's Nest at Berchtesgarden. Stars include Damian Lewis, Ron Livingston and Matthew Settle. Next in the set is 2010's follow-up, The Pacific. It recounts the experiences of three U.S. enlistees -- Eugene Sledge (Joe Mazzello, Robert Leckie (James Badge Dale) and John Basilone (Jon Seda), as they make their way across the harrowing Pacific Theater of World War II - with stops in Guadalcanal, Cape Gloucester, Peleliu, Iwo Jima and Okinawa.
Customer Rating
5
AWESOME WAR FOOTAGE
on November 27, 2011
Posted by: Pittsburghfan99
from McMechen, WV
The Pacific series by itself I would rate it 3-4 stars. Very good movie and cinematography. The Band of Brothers is my all-time favorite war movie or series. It follows Easy company, 2nd battalion, 506th Parachute regiment of the 101st Airbourne Division. From basic training and jumping into Normandy to the end of the war including taking Eagle's Nest(Hitler's prized getaway). It includes interviews from some of the men portryed in the movie which will touch your heart. Both are wonderful and will show you how strong and willful people can be, and how strong of unity and love for one another these men had for each other. Plus can you go wrong having Steven Spielberg and Tom hank as Executive Producers.