Band of Brothers

2001 "Ordinary men. Extraordinary times."
9.4| 11h45m| en
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Drawn from interviews with survivors of Easy Company, as well as their journals and letters, Band of Brothers chronicles the experiences of these men from paratrooper training in Georgia through the end of the war. As an elite rifle company parachuting into Normandy early on D-Day morning, participants in the Battle of the Bulge, and witness to the horrors of war, the men of Easy knew extraordinary bravery and extraordinary fear - and became the stuff of legend. Based on Stephen E. Ambrose's acclaimed book of the same name.

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Moustroll Good movie but grossly overrated
Glimmerubro It is not deep, but it is fun to watch. It does have a bit more of an edge to it than other similar films.
Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.
Erica Derrick By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.
adrianzoto Listen to me....right now. I dont care if this was made 17 years ago.... if they made a second season of this i would be all over it. This might be the greatest 10 episode series i have ever watched. For 2001 the effects and visuals were fantastic! The uniformes and gear and weapons and patches and just everything were all spot on. Even if you DO NOT like war movies i can PROMISE you that you will like this. I understand movies like Saving Private ryan, blackhawk down, and fury were all great movies. But im not a war movie person as much as i like action, war movies dont rub me the right way they are usually slow.... i liked this series so much i have already watched it a few years back and i finally found the whole collection again and im going to rewatch it. Great series!
bgar-80932 The show set out what it meant to do I believe which is show what one particular actual company had to endure during WW2. It showed all the things they went through. The waiting times, the bad officers, the grunts perspective as well as good men rising through the ranks. What I thought it best illustrated is how pointless and miserable it was to be a grunt. You just do whatever you are told and try not to die even when half the time your mission is completely pointless. The one area that didn't land to me was the attachment to the characters. I really only ever liked the two men who worked together at the end after the war, the red head officer and the dude who was in office space. Other than that the characters were too in and out due to injury, death, or just non-focus on the character to truly make me care for them. I cared for them because it was a true story but not because what was on the screen. The last few episodes had emotional moments that did land when they liberated a concentration camp and when the actual men talked about the men who passed in the war and didn't get to have after war lives. They told what some of the men did or were doing after the war and just trying to get through life and then some of them talked about their friends they lost. Seeing some of these men break down or get close legitimately made me cry and feel bad for not loving the show. I almost just wanted to watch a documentary of them telling their stories telling the good, the bad, and the ugly of the war rather than watch this show but I'm sure that would be way too hard for them. True heroes.
yk_patel It is so real that you feel you're there with these heroes in the war! What they did in Bastogne is unbelievable. Now that I've watched it, I feel that what we call problems are nothing. Evolution of Major Winters is amazing. The way he matured with getting more power to himself is really inspiring. This series, Saving Private Ryan and Dunkirk are things would wanna watch if you really wanna know what it means to go through war.
cinemajesty Television Review: "Band of Brothers" (2001)When an heart-bursting opening montage underlined with emotional peaks of a memorable score by composer Michael Kamen (1948-2003) and overlayering credits exposing Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg as the driving force since their highly-acclaimed collaboration in the production of "Saving Private Ryan" to further exhibitions on international movie screens in season 1998/1999 comes this inofficial successor in shape of a 10-part mini-series distributed by high-end quality entertainment-providing television broadcaster HBO (Home Box Office), picking up storywise in the decisive D-day momentums of World War II in season 1944/1945, when trained and motivated "Easy Company" of the U.S. military airborne division must jump and parachute into hostile region of Northern France to push through Eastern frontier toward Nazi-occupied Netherlands, when already Episode 3 named after the French city of "Carentan" directed by Mikael Salomon, known for photographing "The Abyss" (1989) for director James Cameron, mounts up suspense-levels to the maximum in undeniable ultra-realistic war-combat bullet-shooting as grenade-throwing action scenes, which are fulfilled with an sufficiently-rated 12.5 Million U.S. Dollar production costs per episode.The mini-series "Band of Brothers" that marks still an ultimate high-pitch of combining historical education, motion-picture thriller moments with stage-theater-class drama in order to become a television show for the ages, which must be seen in retrospective to share for future generations of human beings, who will mainly receive their daily dosage of knowledge through digitized screens of an self-fulfilled internal empire of unlimited mental compositions. This exceptional television show maintains its values over the years in any exhibition format due to an fluent story-arc of feavor-pitching "Easy Company", recommended to be watched within a day; starting from being trained in boot camp labors of another abuse instructor, here portrayed by slightly miscasted, yet drama-triggering actor David Schwimmer as drill sergeant H.B Sobel, over Platoon-leading, focus-pushing through territories of war sergeants Richard D. Winters and Lewis Nixon, performed by unmasking actors Damian Lewis and Ron Livingston, whos portrayals make any spectator witness emotional states of war-motivated stormtrooping into battle of hornet-nest-spreading bullets and their ricochets in a rural village landscape of Center-European small towns to frozen besieged hide-outs between pine-wood-trees in an 2nd peak at Episode 6 "Bastogne" directed by David Leland, known for co-writing "Mona Lisa" (1986) directed by Neil Jordan; to entire annihilated personal visions by main-character-witnessing working camps in haunting WW2-horror-exposures; desaturated piles of white-powdered corpses confront audience with means of war, when cinematography by Remi Adefarasin captures constant motion-picture-quality; indulging on immersive shot-outs in shutter-angle-switching in-camera visual effects in favor for mainly hand-held states of full-contact camera operation.The Ten, fully-interweaved, Episodes of "Band of Brothers", which are based on an historical-accurate book by historian and U.S. Presidents Eisenhower as Nixon biographing author Stephen E. Ambrose (1936-2002), lives from its diversive episode structure, where each episode delivers with arresting tones of emotional deprivations as combat-action-portrayals of last in differing directorial visions ranging from Richard Loncraine (Episode 2) over Tom Hanks (Episode 5) to David Frankel (Episode 7 to Episode 9) in order to feel the pleasure of living through another day in a Post-War-World by the end of revisiting "Band of Brothers" on another watch in a row, when the world premiere date of Episode 1 and Episode 2 on a casual U.S. sunday of September 9th, 2001, recalls close-by New York days of contemporary horrors in international terrorism for improving life conditions in a globalized world.© 2018 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)