SUMMARY
Band of Brothers is a 10-episode HBO miniseries that follows “Easy Company,” a unit of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, from their training at Camp Toccoa to the end of World War II. The series is based on real-life events and personal accounts of surviving soldiers.
DETAILS
Cast:
Damian Lewis as Major Richard Winters
Ron Livingston as Captain Lewis Nixon
David Schwimmer as Captain Herbert Sobel
Donnie Wahlberg as Lieutenant Carwood Lipton
Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy, Tom Hardy (early roles)Details:
Genre: War, Drama, Action, History
Created by: Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg
Network: HBO
Episodes: 10
Based on: Band of Brothers (1992) by Stephen E. Ambrose
Release Date: September 9, 2001
Episodes:
- Currahee – The soldiers undergo intense training under the harsh leadership of Captain Sobel.
- Day of Days – Easy Company parachutes into Normandy on D-Day.
- Carentan – The soldiers fight to capture the strategic town of Carentan.
- Replacements – The company struggles with integrating new soldiers.
- Crossroads – Winters leads a successful assault but struggles with leadership decisions.
- Bastogne – The soldiers endure harsh winter conditions in the Battle of the Bulge.
- The Breaking Point – Heavy losses in Foy, Lipton rises as a leader.
- The Last Patrol – A dangerous nighttime mission in Haguenau.
- Why We Fight – Easy Company discovers a concentration camp.
- Points – The war ends, and soldiers prepare for post-war life.
