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Band Of Brothers
2001
This 10-part HBO television miniseries focuses on Easy Company, a group of American soldiers in World War II, tracking their experiences from the beginning of boot camp to the end of the war. Anchored by actors Damian Lewis and Ron Livingston, the series gives detailed attention to their experiences as a group, as well as the .. Read more
| Starring | Damian Lewis, Donnie Wahlberg, Matthew Settle, Ron Livingston |
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| Director | Phil Alden Robinson, Richard Loncraine, Mikael |
| Genres | Drama, Television |
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73 out of 77 people found this review helpful
ABSOLUTELY STUNNING!
This series makes for superb viewing. It comes up with the trumps in every area: acting, characterisation, direction, production, cinematography, music, make-up, storyline, sound, props, the whole thing. This is a class production from beginning to end and I thoroughly recommend it. It will be remembered for many years to come as the series that, like 24, changed televsion for ever.
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24 out of 31 people found this review helpful
THE ULTIMATE TV SERIES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THIS IS DEFINATELY THE GREATEST TELEVISION SERIES EVER.
TO ALL THOSE WHO SAY IT GLORIFIES WAR YOU EITHER DIDN'T WATCH IT OR MUST BE SOME STUPID WAR MONGERING AMERICAN FOOL!!
IF YOU HAVE READ THE BOOK AS I HAVE YOU WILL ALSO REALISE HOW VERY WELL IT WAS MADE.
FANTASTIC,AWESOME,BRILLIANT-EVER Y SUPERLATIVE YOU CAN THINK OF -
20 out of 26 people found this review helpful
BAND OF BROTHERS PART 1
EXCELLENT!
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Most recent members' reviews (2)
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
PEERLESS!
It cannot be over stated. This series is the best mini series ever. Not just of the genre, but period!
It has everything, and every emotion of the viewer is tugged, but most of all it has realism. How horrible it must have been to have been in that war, any war! The final interviews with the old soldiers will stay in my head forever.
The juxtaposition of americans fighting germans on one hand and the realisation that they were all just blokes and could have been friends in different circumstances was explored very well and is very thought provoking.
The action was gritty througout and not for the feint hearted, but the feelings of comradeship and loss when their mates died, often in front of them, were brilliantly portrayed and very poignant.
In my view, every adult should watch this series and then maybe, people will realise that war is absolutely horrible on one hand, but also appreciate, on the other, that sometimes war is a necessary evil to rid the world of scum, such as Hitler's Nazi monsters.
Watch this series for a peerless viewing experience! -
3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Wonderfully stirring accounts that can't fail to move. The story is based on the book by Stephen Ambrose and tells of an American Airborne Divison, Easy Company, as they train for battle and then prepare the way for the Navy to invade on D-Day, by entering Occupied France in advance, to take positions and take out German guns. The drama is book-ended by actual accounts given by men who are obviously still choked by the memories of all that they did and saw in those years. Anyone watching, can't help but feel we owe these men a greater debt than can possibly be paid. Everyone should see this.
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73 out of 77 people found this review helpful
ABSOLUTELY STUNNING!
This series makes for superb viewing. It comes up with the trumps in every area: acting, characterisation, direction, production, cinematography, music, make-up, storyline, sound, props, the whole thing. This is a class production from beginning to end and I thoroughly recommend it. It will be remembered for many years to come as the series that, like 24, changed televsion for ever.
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24 out of 31 people found this review helpful
THE ULTIMATE TV SERIES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THIS IS DEFINATELY THE GREATEST TELEVISION SERIES EVER.
TO ALL THOSE WHO SAY IT GLORIFIES WAR YOU EITHER DIDN'T WATCH IT OR MUST BE SOME STUPID WAR MONGERING AMERICAN FOOL!!
IF YOU HAVE READ THE BOOK AS I HAVE YOU WILL ALSO REALISE HOW VERY WELL IT WAS MADE.
FANTASTIC,AWESOME,BRILLIANT-EVER Y SUPERLATIVE YOU CAN THINK OF -
20 out of 26 people found this review helpful
BAND OF BROTHERS PART 1
EXCELLENT!
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16 out of 16 people found this review helpful
The best TV series ever made. Absolute perfection.
I only saw a couple of the episodes of this when they were first aired really late in the evening on BBC 2 on a Wednesday night. Weird considering its the most expensive TV series ever made! I could tell it was good though and I was bought the box set of DVDs for Christmas.
But now, after watching all of the episodes, I honestly cannot recommend this highly enough.
The performances from the cast are outstanding, with Damien Lewis deserving a special mention as Dick Winters. Also the number recognisable actors who crop up in the show (Burger from Sex in the City, Lee from The Office, Simon Pegg from Spaced, Ross from Friends etc...) is unbelievable.
Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg were the executive producers (with Hanks also directing one of the episodes) and their influence shows. I have never seen a TV series with such a cinematic feel to it. The atmosphere throughout the whole series is awesome and really makes you feel a part of the action. The special effects are also brilliantly executed. They lend a real sense of what it must have been like. Some of the scenes in Austria are amazing and its impossible to tell if they were actually there or if was blue screened in afterwards.
Often after watching a film or TV series you realise how much more exciting they had to make it appear for the screen compared with the book. This just isn't the case with Band Of Brothers. Steven Ambrose's book is beautifully translated and the chosen actors fill their roles perfectly.
The way each show starts and finishes with short interviews with the surviving members is a really nice touch. You never find out who the interviewees are until the last episode, but you'll come away with nothing but respect and admiration for those men. Everyone one of them is a hero, but they all just say they were doing what they had to do.
The only negative thing I can find to say about Band Of Brothers is that if you rent it you'd better have a spare ?50 lying around. You'll buy the box set for yourself within days! -
15 out of 17 people found this review helpful
best of the rest
most probably the best war series i have ever seen
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21 out of 37 people found this review helpful
JiggaWhat?!
This film was...
wierd
not that war films are my peice of cake...
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13 out of 14 people found this review helpful
Thumbs Up
Although a glorifide Hollywood make up of WWII making America look as if they single handedly took on the whole world! (again!)
It was actualy very good, showing a good portrail of what it was like in WWII. Saving private ryan with more realism. Thumbs Up :) -
13 out of 14 people found this review helpful
Good and bad memories
Being 80 years old and a Normandy veteran, Band of Brothers lets me safely watch actions that I went through, but with the British Army, without even getting hurt.
I landed on the Normandy beaches at a seaside town called Lion-sur-mer. That then is when my experiences commenced.
The filming is so real and I would rate it at 10 marks out of ten. Any film by Spielberg has always been first class. I thoroughly enjoyed all the episodes. -
9 out of 9 people found this review helpful
Superb!
Simply the best war series I have ever watched.
You are led through an interesting yet sometimes heart breaking story of one company's part they played from the start to the end of the war.
Can't recommend enough, I'd give it 10 stars if I could! -
9 out of 10 people found this review helpful
WW2 seen through the eyes of Easy Company
Saving Private Ryan gave me my first realistic glimpse of what it must have been like fighting in WW2....
Similarly, this series, based on real people follows the tale of a squad of American paratroopers through their training in America to the defeat of Nazi Germany. For me it relates how real heroes are forged in the carnage of war and serves to remind just how much is owed to guys like this. The Spielberg/Hanks partnership brings the story to you like only they can.
Superb.
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