Band Of Brothers (DVD 2002)

Wow, has it really been this long? 2002? I remember vivdly sitting up every night, waiting for the weekly edition of BoB to come on, transporting me right back into the csarily real realms of WW2, warts and all. The tales of bravery, tragedy, heroism, cowardice, the battle against evil, but more importantly for the guys on the ground - survival. The ending scenes I shall never forget...
I highly reccomend this! and its on 6 dvds too! Bargain.

Band of Brothers, is just the perfect series having to do with World War II. Produced by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, directed by Phil Alden Robinson ("The sum of all fears") and Richard Loncraine ("Gathering storm"), starring Damian Lewis ("Dreamcatcher") and Ron Livingston ("Office Space"), this is the ultimate dvd for your collection.
It is the story of Easy Company of the 101st Airborne of the United States Army, and their amazing achievemnts between 1942 and 1944, in other words until the fall of Nazi Germany.
The series are based on the excellent book by Stephen Ambrose, and will remind you a lot "Saving Private Ryan". In the box set, you will find six discs, the five first of which contain ten episodes, which are the following:
1) Currahee
2) Day of days
3) Carentan
4) Replacements
5) Crossroads
6) Bastogne
7) The breaking point
8) The patrol
9) Why we fight
10) Points
The last disc, contains all the extras: a) an eighty - minute documentary named "We stand alone together", b) "making of" (thirty minutes), c) a TV spot for car company Jeep, and d) a very interseting "who is who" section".
Movie: 5/5
Extras: 5/5
Sound (Dolby 5.1): 5/5
Picture (1.78:1 widescreen): 5/5
Overall: 5/5
I would absolutely recommend you this dvd. Very nice, -and with historic importance- selection for your collection.

Band of Brothers follows the fortunes of Easy Company in WWII from initial training through the trauma of battle, all the way to victory in 1945.
I have been hoping that this was coming out on DVD - I watched the whole series on BBC2 and was completely engrossed by the story, the production, the acting and the sound. I have seen many war films (from Apocalypse through Full Metal Jacket to Saving Private Ryan) and can honestly say that I have never been so moved by a film of any genre. This was the first time that the real horror of fighting a war has sunk in.

The combination of its length (c.10hours?) and its engaging script meant that you develop a deep understanding of the characters and the hell they had to go through (coupled with the knowledge that it is based on true events). The relationship that you as the viewer build with the members of Easy is intense - you really feel the extent of their loss as slowly their numbers reduce.

This is not so much a movie as a insight into history - it should be seen by everybody as a reminder of what these and other soldiers go through in the middle of a war. It's realism is astonishing (not that I've ever been unfortunate enough to witness the real thing).

I am hoping they come up with the goods on DVD (proper 5.1 soundtrack and plenty of additional scenes) - I'm sure that a 'Director's Cut' could take it past 12 hours, each one of which I would be happy to see again and again. The interviews with the surviving members of Easy Company were incredibly moving and served as a reminder that you were in fact watching real life and not just a throw-away two hour slice of entertainment.

Much praise is heaped upon crap Hollywood blockbusters. This is what I call quality film entertainment, however (as far as I have heard) it has remained largley low key.

Love the characters you get to know espeically captain Winters.
basically you follow a bunch of rookie recruits in the paratroopers section from trianing right through til the end of the war with all there missions in between.
the effects and batlles scenes are absolutley BRILLIANT
you will love ever minute of these episodes BUY IT NOW GUARANTEED WINNER!

Five bars aren't enough to rate this DVD!
It starts with recruit preparation of the boldest USA soldiers, The Paratroops (with no disregard meant to the other Men and Women who fought for freedom during this conflict). These elite soldiers had a less then 50% chance of surviving. They were all volunteers.

It focuses on Easy Company, a platoon commanded by Captain Winters and their journey on occupied Europe, which started on D-Day and ended on V-Day.
All characters are based on real Men, whom give their testimony just before any episode starts, and further on the special features DVD.

Every scene is so intense that makes you gasp. It's an about 10 hours of epic History, masterly dramatized. If you are interested on WWII, you have to have this, and after you've seen it, War and your perception of it wouldn't be the same. Propaganda WWII Hollywood movies will just seem that afterwards: propaganda!

Spielberg's best of the best technical expertises. Without the lame vein to make you cry at the end, instead a cruel true vision of war and the Men and Women within. Millions of Men, Women, and Children unfortunately died on both sides, to reinforce this, in my opinion, is never too much, in order to keep us wake and prevent it from happening again. It's not the bravado, the medals, the daring, the boldness; instead is the necessity, the fear, the willing to endure and see another day, the pure luck or bad luck, the friendship, the love or hate, dying or living. All in the name of duty, all in someone else's name and very, very, few times in the name of justice, as the Allies Forces during this conflict fought.

Not enough words or images can give you the pain and hardness, the courage to do what had to be done, the friendship that kept them alive, and everything else those Men had to endure during WWII conflict, but "Band of Brothers" is as close as it can get to show you that.

I leave here my deepest and most considerate homage to all Men and Women, also their families, whom fought, died in and lived this monstrous war, in order to liberate us all, even today. As Leonidas and their Spartans saved Democracy, so have this Men and Women done the same and much, much more. They must never be forgotten.
From the bottom of my heart, thank you so much.