spielberg and hanks know their stuff when it comes to WWII, I wish they would make more movies/shows
I cherish the memories of a question my Grandson asked me the other day when he said... "Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?"Grandpa said "No, but I served in a company of heroes."
watching it as I type this.Gota be @ my 6th time i've watched it.My ALL TIME fav. bit is the way Stephen Ambrose ended it. Major Dick Winters is talking about a letter Sergeant Mike Ranney wrote him.One of the most powerfull things I have ever viewed.I don't think it will matter HOW many times I watch the Band of Brothers, I will tear up on that scene.
They are doing another WW2 show, this time it takes place in the Pacific theater, it's gonna be on HBO, It's called "The Pacific".http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0374463/
THE PACIFIC is produced by HBO Films in association with Playtone and DreamWorks Television. The production is based at Melbourne Central City Studios in Melbourne, Victoria, with filming taking place in and around Melbourne, where U.S. troops camped in 1943, and multiple locations in Far North Queensland. Kary Antholis, senior vice president, HBO Films, is the executive in charge of the project. THE PACIFIC is scheduled to debut on HBO in 2009. The miniseries tracks the intertwined odysseys of three U.S. Marines - Robert Leckie (played by James Badge Dale), Eugene Sledge (Joe Mazzello) and John Basilone (Jon Seda) - across the vast canvas of the Pacific. The extraordinary experiences of these men and their fellow Marines take them from the first clash with the Japanese in the haunted jungles of Guadalcanal, through the impenetrable rain forests of Cape Gloucester, across the blasted coral strongholds of Peleliu, up the black sand terraces of Iwo Jima, through the killing fields of Okinawa, to the triumphant, yet uneasy, return home after V-J Day.
