Band of Brothers
Directed by:
Richard LoncraineScreenplay:
John OrloffCinematography:
Remi AdefarasinComposer:
Michael KamenCast:
Damian Lewis, Neal McDonough, Scott Grimes, Frank John Hughes, Donnie Wahlberg, Ron Livingston, Kirk Acevedo, Matthew Settle, Richard Speight Jr., Nicholas Aaron, Philip Barantini, Alexis Conran (more)VOD (3)
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D-Day. A swarm of planes packed with tense paratroopers cross the English Channel into French airspace. The planes run into intense German flak, and disoriented pilots are forced to drop the troops indiscriminately in the Normandy countryside. Landing in a field, Winters finds he has lost his rifle and supply bag. He teams up with a private from another company, John Hall, and sets out to find their units. During the night they link up with a few more soldiers, and ambush a horse-drawn German supply convoy — their first enemy encounter. Regrouping in a nearby town, Winters runs into Easy's Lt. "Buck" Compton, who tells him that Lt. Meehan is unaccounted for — which puts Winters in charge. His orders are to lead an attack on a nearby cluster of German artillery pieces endangering the seaborne infantry at Utah Beach. Winters deploys a small group on the entrenched enemy positions, and eventually takes four artillery pieces in succession, disabling them with TNT. The euphoria is tempered, however, when Winters finds Hall dead, killed by machine-gun fire. The mission is successful, but Winters has lost his first man as acting company commander. (Home Box Office)
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I think I have never seen such a high-quality and realistically shot film or TV episode about the first day of the invasion of Normandy. True, the creators could naturally focus only on small units and individuals, so they could pay much more attention to details, but even so, I have to say that I was absolutely thrilled. On the other hand, the official content of HBO Europe is a complete disaster. A swarm of planes is the third smallest combat unit. The smallest is, of course, one airplane, two airplanes surprisingly form a pair, and two pairs form a swarm (in an outdated tactic that disappeared at the beginning of World War II, swarms were formed by three airplanes). According to the author of the content, we were supposed to see four entire Dakotas. I was also intrigued by the cluster of German cannons, I really can't imagine such a tactical unit. And finally, I would be interested to know why the soldier has his face torn apart by grenade shrapnel due to machine gun fire. Great episode, poorly written content.
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