Band of Brothers is a war movie that follows the United States 101st airborne division, Easy Company, during World War II. It is a 10 part series that follows all of the battles and traumatic events that took place within easy company on the western european front. As you go along in the series you get to know certain characters (all the characters are based off of real life people) better and become connected to them.
It starts off in the middle of training with their less than likelable company leader. He treats them horribly and makes them work harder and more often than any other company in the division. And on top of all that he shows horrible leadership skills and the men are afraid that if he leads them into battle, he will get them all killed. They are thrilled though to hear that he no longer will be their leader and now have a new person to lead them into battle.
It next shows all the men ready to make the jump on D-Day. As the movie progresses Easy company goes into many battles. We see men die and get injured. Each episode for the most part has 1 character that it really follows closely and you get to see what each soldier had to go through. You get to see the war not only from the eyes of a regular soldier, but also from a company leader, a medic, a soldier who others lost respect for and had to gain it back, and also from replacements trying to fit in with the others.
Band of brothers is by far the best movie/series that I have ever seen. It shows all of the events that the soldiers had to go through and how much courage they had to have. It also gets us to connect on some level with the characters and essentially feel what they feel during all of this. I believe that this series depicts the war very well and I can say I have a lot more respect for those WWII veterans because of it.
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