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- Director: Remi Adefarasin
Cast: Scott Grimes, Matthew Leitch, Damian Lewis
Production year: 2001
Band of Brothers is a television series about soldiers in the 101st Airborne Division, the American Easy Company during WW2, from the parachute landings in Normandy, France, Operation Market Garden to the battles of Bastogne and the end of the war in Germany. The film is based on the famous book of the same name by Stephen Ambrose. The film opens with interviews with veterans of Easy Company. They are the ones who are alive and tell us the hardships they themselves have experienced. However, the identities of these veterans are kept secret until most of the film, when the final interview with the names of the characters appears corresponding to the real soldiers. The film was directed by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg. The film revolves around the formation, development and combat of the 101st Infantry Corps of Easy Company during World War II.