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There was a time when the world asked ordinary men to do extraordinary things. - Band of Brothers
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Title: Band of Brothers

Release Date: 9 Sep 2001

Runtime: 1h

Genre: Drama, War & Politics

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Production Companies: HBO Films, DreamWorks Television, DreamWorks Pictures, BBC Television Centre, Playtone

Overview: Drawn from interviews with survivors of Easy Company, as well as their journals and letters, Band of Brothers chronicles the experiences of these men from paratrooper training in Georgia through the end of the war. As an elite rifle company parachuting into Normandy early on D-Day morning, participants in the Battle of the Bulge, and witness to the horrors of war, the men of Easy knew extraordinary bravery and extraordinary fear - and became the stuff of legend. Based on Stephen E. Ambrose's acclaimed book of the same name.

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Ratings

Average Vote: 8.6 (3615 votes)

Cast

  • Richard D. Winters: Damian Lewis
  • C. Carwood Lipton: Donnie Wahlberg
  • Herbert Sobel: David Schwimmer
  • David Kenyon Webster: Eion Bailey
  • Lewis Nixon: Ron Livingston
  • Ronald Speirs: Matthew Settle
  • Denver 'Bull' Randleman: Michael Cudlitz
  • Lynn 'Buck' Compton: Neal McDonough
  • Donald Malarkey: Scott Grimes
  • Eugene Roe: Shane Taylor
  • Joseph Liebgott: Ross McCall
  • William 'Wild Bill' Guarnere: Frank John Hughes
  • Charles 'Chuck' Grant: Nolan Hemmings
  • Burton 'Pat' Christenson: Michael Fassbender
  • John Martin: Dexter Fletcher
  • Frank Perconte: James Madio
  • Warren 'Skip' Muck: Richard Speight Jr.
  • Harry Welsh: Rick Warden
  • Joseph D. Toye: Kirk Acevedo
  • George Luz: Rick Gomez
  • Darrel 'Shifty' Powers: Peter Youngblood Hills
  • Robert 'Popeye' Wynn: Nicholas Aaron
  • Antonio C. García: Douglas Spain
  • Robert Sink: Dale Dye
  • Floyd 'Tab' Talbert: Matthew Leitch
  • Donald Hoobler: Peter McCabe
  • Roy W. Cobb: Craig Heaney
  • Norman 'Foxhole' Dike: Peter O'Meara
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