‘It’s one of the great scenes in TV history’: Here’s an expert’s take on Spielberg’s best series!

We’re not going to beat around the bush. Band of Brothers is simply a series about World War II in Europe, blessed with extraordinary resources: more than 10,000 extras, 500 actors and a budget estimated at $125 million.

With realistic battles, mostly filmed with a hand-held camera, it carries the DNA of Private Ryan’s survival, which was widely promoted in early June in the wake of the 80th anniversary of the Allied landings. June 6, 1944.

And for good reason: It’s produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks (who will also direct an episode). Broadcast in France several times (and for the first time in the summer of 2002), it was a huge success in France as well as in the United States, Great Britain, Italy and Germany.

American historian Stephen E. Based on the work by Ambrose (who died in 2002), the ten-episode series follows the gritty (and true) fate of Easy Company, a member of the 101st Parachute Division’s 506th Regiment, during his training. In the heart of Germany, to Hitler’s eagle’s nest in Bertschgaden.

Another Anglo-Saxon historian, Dan Snow, recently gave his take on the series History Hit Youtube Channel; Especially evokes the historical austerity of the brothers in arms that describes D-Day.

“I think it’s one of the great scenes in television history. They put the actors through the tactical training that these guys went through, the sound design and the weapons are top notch. They’re firing World War II guns. Create an accurate soundscape and show that they’re well-trained and well-directed.” The importance of the small parts of people who each played their part on D-Day and made up the sum of all these small “actions which meant that D-Day was a success and that the Allies suffered fewer casualties than they feared when they arrived on these beaches”.

Episodes 2 and 3 mention June 6, 1944 and the Battle of Normandy; “Jour D” and “Carentan” respectively. In Episode 2, Easy Company is (badly) dropped above the famous village of Sainte-mère l’église, before having to face a powerful German battery mounted near Brecourt Castle, which shoots down Utah Beach.

The episode “Carentan” takes place on June 12, 1944, when the Allies fought alongside the Germans for control of the strategically important city. It’s actually a crossroads/lockdown between Cotentin and Calvados.

Below, an excerpt from episode 3 and its violent clashes in the city of Carentan…

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