Outstanding performances by ensemble actors who were trained in a "boot camp" atmosphere for their role. We are grateful for your interest in our programming, and apologize for any inconvenience the defective materials may have caused. The use of interviews of actual Easy Company members to open the episodes, telling their memories of the actual battles and their thoughts and emotions. Some of them are identified in the final episode. It is a brilliant scene because you know that the American generals (and British and Canadian and New Zealand) and their colonels and captains gave similar speeches to their own armies, and Easy Company's men heard it from their bosses. But that would be cliched. All you would need to complete the cliche would be a band. For the audience to hear it from a German general raises that moment from the cliched to the specific (of the place and time) and the universal (of the statement being offered). It's a powerful scene, in a powerful mini-series, and the timing of its appearance on HBO -- during and after 9/11, was a source of strength and inspiration to Americans during an agonizing moment in their history.

The aerial and seaborne armada heading for Normandy under the Kamen music...I remember the great CBS reporter and commentator Andy Rooney, in his essay on D-Day, writing about how that invasion was not about achieving glory or conquest, but simply an effort to free a continent from it enslavers and return it to its rightful owners, and thus, one of the most unselfish acts in history. When I think of that phrase, the immense effort behind it, and the immense sacrifice to achieve it, and see that scene, I'm moved to tears. If the items were authorized to be distributed by HBO, we will replace your merchandise upon receipt of the defective pieces. Unfortunately, we cannot replace or return counterfeit materials, nor any products damaged through the fault of the consumer. I'd like HBO to please send me disc two of Band of Brothers on bluray. My Band of Brothers/The Pacific gift set contained a duplicate of disc three and is missing disc two. What can I say, except for just WOW! Band of Brothers is probably one of the greatest documentaries/films/shorts/whatever you want to call it that I have ever seen. I wish that my schools would have taught me some of this stuff growing up because I would have found class a whole lot more interesting. The hell that these guys in Band of Brothers and the Pacific is just mind numbing, and as I have always felt, we should be treating out Vets with a whole lot more respect than they get. These are the heroes of America and who keep us going and who have built us up, and they deserve A LOT more. The "Why We Fight" episode, in which the Easy Company guys come face-to-face with the true horror of Hitler's regime and the task of defeating him hits home -- to most GIs, even paratroopers, it was a dirty and tough job to be done, not a moral crusade. Entering those camps changed all that, and the Americans understood what the war was about -- it was more than the phrase that is taken from the Frank Capra films. "Why We Fight" is for a strong moral reason.Selected items are only available for delivery via the Royal Mail 48® service and other items are available for delivery using this service for a charge. Tom Hanks and Stephen Spielberg, as executive producers, and the cast and crew did a tremendous job of recreating the American paratrooper experience in World War II. The use of Ron Livingston's character as an intelligence officer (and therefore, a "know-it-all") to provide the linking information about strategy and the progress of the war.

The dessicated color, which is similar to that of the US Army Signal Corps color footage of the time, along with hand-held camera work, which puts the viewer directly "in" the battle scenes. Unlike "The Longest Day," these battles are neither "clean" nor distant. You're right there in the gore, and there's a lot of it.As for these aging men of the real company -- I will never forget how they were specially honored and recognized at the 2002 Emmy ceremony, and am grateful to have had the privilege to meet and dine with the family of one of them -- Wild Bill Guarnere. A scene near the very end -- and I apologize for the spoiler -- in which a surrendering German general asks permission to say farewell to his troops. We see exhausted and surrendering German soldiers, battered by war, listening to their general. He gives a speech, which Gottlieb translates into English, and you suddenly realize that the German general's speech could apply to the guys in Easy Company, or any other American combat unit -- or a British unit...or a Canadian unit...or a New Zealand unit...an Australian unit...a Soviet unit...just about any military unit in World War II (or many other wars), with the certain exception of such sadists as an SS Einsatzkommando, Japan's Unit 731, or the Dirlewanger Brigade...he is giving a benediction to all the kids who get conscripted into and caught up in their country's wars, and suffer and endure.