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Band of Brothers Aired From September 09, 2001 – November 04, 2001  On HBO.

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Band of Brothers is an acclaimed 10-part television miniseries set during World War II, co-produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks. The miniseries first aired in 2001 on HBO and still runs frequently on different TV channels around the world.

The miniseries centers on the experiences of Company E ("Easy Company") of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, U.S. 101st Airborne Division and one of its lieutenants, Richard Winters, from Easy's initial training, through the American airborne landings in Normandy, Operation Market Garden, the Battle of Bastogne and on to the end of the war. It is based on the book of the same name written by historian and biographer Stephen Ambrose.

The events portrayed in the miniseries are based on Ambrose's research and recorded interviews with Easy Company veterans. Some literary license has been taken with the episodes, and other reference books will highlight the differences between recorded history and the film version. All of the characters portrayed in the miniseries are based on actual members of Easy Company; some of them can be seen in prerecorded interviews as a prelude to each episode. (Their identities, however, are not revealed until the close of the finale.)


List of Actors and their roles:
    * Damian Lewis as Major Richard Winters (1918–), born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania
    * Ron Livingston as Captain Lewis Nixon (1918–1995) born in New York City, New York
    * Matthew Settle as Captain Ronald Speirs (1920–2007), born in Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K.
    * David Schwimmer as Captain Herbert Sobel (1912–1987), born in Chicago, Illinois
    * Rick Warden as First Lieutenant Harry Welsh (1918–1995), born in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania
    * Neal McDonough as First Lieutenant Lynn "Buck" Compton (1921–), born in Los Angeles, California
    * Donnie Wahlberg as Second Lieutenant C. Carwood Lipton (1920–2001), born in Huntington, West Virginia
    * Ross McCall as Technician Fifth Class Joseph Liebgott (1915–1992), born in Michigan
    * Frank John Hughes as Staff Sergeant William "Wild Bill" Guarnere (1922–), born in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
    * Scott Grimes as Technical Sergeant Donald Malarkey (1921–), born in Astoria, Oregon
    * Rick Gomez as Technician Fourth Class George Luz (1921–1998), born in Rhode Island
    * Eion Bailey as Private First Class David Kenyon Webster (1922–1961), born in New York, New York.
    * James Madio as Technician Fourth Class Frank Perconte (1917–), born in Joliet, Illinois
    * Michael Cudlitz as Sergeant Denver "Bull" Randleman (1920–2003), born in Rector, Arkansas
    * Dexter Fletcher as Staff Sergeant John Martin (1922–2005), born in Columbus, Ohio
    * Shane Taylor as Technician Fifth Class Eugene "Doc" Roe (medic) (1921–1999), born in Bayou Chene, Louisiana
    * Matthew Leitch as Staff Sergeant Floyd "Tab" Talbert (1923–1982), born in Kokomo, Indiana
    * Dale Dye as Colonel Robert F. Sink (1905–1965) Lexington, North Carolina
    * Nicholas Aaron as Private First Class Robert " Popeye" Wynn, (1921–2000), born in South Hill, Virginia
    * George Calil as Sergeant James H. "Mo" Alley, Jr.,(1922–), born in Mount Ida, Arkansas
    * Kirk Acevedo as Staff Sergeant Joseph Toye (1919–1995)
    * Richard Speight, Jr. as Sergeant Warren "Skip" Muck (d. 1945)
    * Peter McCabe as Corporal Donald Hoobler (d. 1945)
    * Robin Laing as Private Edward "Babe" Heffron (1923–)
    * Ben Caplan as Corporal Walter "Smokey" Gordon
    * Stephen Graham as Private Myron 'Mike' Ranney
    * Marc Warren as Private Albert Blithe (1923–1967)
    * Peter Youngblood Hills as Staff Sergeant Darrel "Shifty" Powers (1923–)
    * Mark Huberman as Private Lester "Leo" Hashey (1925–2002)
    * Tim Matthews as Corporal Alex Penkala (d. 1945)
    * Michael Fassbender as Sergeant Burton P. " Pat" Christenson (1922–1999)
    * Doug Allen as Private Alton Moore (1920–1958)
    * Nolan Hemmings as Sergeant Charles E. "Chuck" Grant (1915–1985)

    * Matt Hickey as Private Patrick O'Keefe (1926–2003)
    * James McAvoy as Private James Miller (d. 1944)
    * Tom Hardy as Private John A. Janovec (d. 1945)
    * Stephen McCole as First Lieutenant Frederick T. 'Moose' Heyliger (d. 2001)
    * Simon Pegg as First Sergeant William Evans (d. 1944)
    * Kieran O'Brien as Private Allen Vest (1925–2001)
    * Douglas Spain as Corporal Antonio C. Garcia (1925–2005)
    * Rene L. Moreno as Corporal Joseph Ramirez
    * Jamie Bamber as Second Lieutenant Jack E. Foley (1922–)
    * Philip Barrantini as Private Wayne A. "Skinny" Sisk (1922–1999)
    * Craig Heaney as Private Roy Cobb
    * Rocky Marshall as Private Earl "One Lung" McClung (1923–), born in Inchelium, Washington
    * Jason O'Mara as First Lieutenant Thomas Meehan III (1921–1944)
    * Peter O'Meara as First Lieutenant Norman Dike
    * Colin Hanks as Second Lieutenant Henry Jones
    * Iain Robertson as Private George Smith
    * Bart Ruspoli as Private Edward Tipper

Episode Guide

Adapted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Band_of_Brothers

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1. Currahee

The story begins on July 1942 Easy Company, 506th Battalion, 101st Airborne Corps arrive in Camp Toccoa in Georgia, under the supervision of Company leader, Captain Herbert Sobel.

2. Day of Days

June 6th 1944: D-DAY Easy Company are dropped behind enemy lines in Normandy ahead of the Allied Assault on Utah Beach. However the paratroopers are scattered across the battleground. Winters finds himself landing in enemy territory losing his weapons and finding himself armed only with his bayonet knife. Soon Winters finds himself reunited with members of Easy Company who are scattered across the area. Winters and his small group of members of Easy Company as well as members of the 82nd Airborne arrive at a makeshift centre where Winters finds himself forced to command his team once it becomes apparent that Easy's C.O. has been killed in the drop. Winters is given the task of destroying a German Garrison which contains 4 artillery guns attacking the troops now landing at Utah Beach. Easy Company take on the Garrison in what is now an text book operation, and are able to take out the German defenses while suffering a loss of 2 officers. Finally the members of Easy Company, most of whom are still scattered across the area, relax and get a moment of rest before they move out.

3. Carentan  

7th June-12th July 1944 Pvt. Albert Blithe is among those the 82nd and the 101st Airborne divisions who were dropped into Normandy on D-Day. Easy Company is then given the objective of taking the town of Carentan. Carentan must be controlled by the Allied Forces in order for armor, men, ammo and vehicles from Omaha and Utah beaches to link up and move inland, eventually to get to Germany. Easy Company manages to take the town, but suffers casualties from German machine gun, sniper and mortar fire. After successfully capturing the town, Easy Company must hold the line and protect Carentan from any German counter-offensive, which is expected because Carentan was as important to them as it was to the Allies. Blithe finds himself on the front line having to confront his own fears about killing another man, and being killed himself.

4. Replacements  

September 1944: New, younger officers arrive at Easy Company and the 506th Regiment to replace those soldiers killed in the Normandy and France operations. Fresh from jump school, the new green officers are thrown into the chaos of Operation Market Garden where the largest airborne drop took place in an effort to end the war by Christmas 1944. Intelligence tells them that the German forces consist only of the old and the Hitler youth. This of course turns out to be wrong and the Allies march into one of the costliest battles of the second World War. In September 1944, the Allied forces were dropped behind enemy lines in Holland and were told to take the towns of Eindhoven, Nijmegen and arnhem. Easy Company's task was to take the town of Eindhoven and then hold out until the 30th Tank Corps arrived.

5. Crossroads  

October-December 1944: Captain Richard Winters is promoted and finds himself removed from commanding Easy Company who he begins to miss. Being stuck behind the desk makes Winters miss his days leading Easy Company into battle. As the clean-up operations after the failure of Operation MARKET GARDEN begin, Easy Company is given the task of knocking out an German stronghold at a crossroads and also an rescue mission to recover an stranded British airborne group. Easy Company then return to Moumelon for some R&R, Winters gets 48 hours leave in Paris and Easy Company enjoy an movie which is interrupted by Easy Company's new CO Lieutenant Dike who informs that an German offensive has begun in the Ardennes and Easy Company is to move out. Upon arrival at Bastogne Easy Company finds themselves face to face with retreating Allied troops telling stories of an German offensive like no other and has cut the allied forces in two. With no ammunition and no resources Easy Company are told to hold the line no matter what. To make matters worse an US officer tells them that the Germans have flanked them and they are now isolated.

6. Bastogne  

Bastogne is the Battle of the Bulge, Hitler’s last offensive of the war, which Hitler designed and planned to have a perfect outcome for him. He planned to surround our troops in the Ardennes forest, to cut them off from supplies, and trap them in the cold and snow during the coldest part of the year. The men went into Bastogne knowing they were short of supplies, food, and ammo. They lacked winters clothing, and the medic, Eugene Roe, didn’t even have enough medical supplies, and has a hard time getting them. But the men know that they are paratroopers- they were trained to be surrounded, and that is how they fight best.

7. The Breaking Point  

January 1945 - Easy Company is entrenched along the outskirts of the German held town of Foy. Before Easy Company and others make their assault on the town, the company must survive the constant shelling. Joe Toye returns to the company but is wounded when the German Shelling begins, during a break, Guarenere helps him to a foxhole but more shelling injures them both. Buck Compton witnessing the carnage snaps and falls apart. During another attack, Luz witnesses Muck's and Penkala's death as their foxhole takes an direct hit. When the time comes for Easy to make their push, Dike, Easy Company's CO, freezes in battle and the company is slaughtered. Winters orders Lt. Speirs to go in and relieve Dike of command, Speirs proceeds to take command and then runs through the German lines to contact the other division and then runs back through them, a true Easy Company CO has finally arrived.

8. The Last Patrol  

After surviving the horrors of Bastogne, an battered Easy Company is holed up in Haguenue. Where new Lt. Hank Jones arrives and immediately volunteers for an patrol mission to capture German prisoners. Meanwhile Webster returns to Easy Company after being wounded in 'Crossroads' and finds himself an outsider because of what Easy Company suffered in Bastogne. Jones and Webster join the patrol mission but are in serious danger along with the others once they are told not to carry any helmets or anything that might slow them down.

9. Why We Fight

As Easy Company enter Germany itself they find themselves confronted with the horrors of the holocaust as members of Easy Company stumble across an Nazi Concentration camp.

10. Points

Easy Company enters Berchtesgarden, site of Hitlers Eagle Nest and the believed hold out of the Nazi administration. As the second world war comes to an end, the members of easy company find themselves faced with the prospect of going home or being shipped off to japan and the only difference is only a few points on their service record.

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