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Band of Brothers

TV·2001–2001·1 season, 10 episodes·HBO·Drama, Action, War·59m·9.0

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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.

Highest-rated episodes all ranked

  1. 01Band of Brothers S01E09Why We FightS01E09 · 9.4Easy Co. finally enters Germany, to surprisingly little resistance, and has a chance to relax for the first time in a long time. A patrol in a nearby forest discovers an abandoned Nazi concentration camp, still filled with emaciated prisoners. The local citizenry, unbelievably disavowing knowledge of its existence, is made to clean it up, as the news arrives that Hitler is dead.
  2. 02Band of Brothers S01E07The Breaking PointS01E07 · 9.1Having thwarted the Germans at Bastogne, the exhausted Easy Co. must now take the nearby town of Foy from the enemy. Several are killed and wounded in fierce shelling, compounded by the incompetence of their commander, Lt. Dike, about whom Winters can do nothing. Easy takes Foy, but at an enormous cost.
  3. 03Band of Brothers S01E02Day of DaysS01E02 · 9.0Easy Company lands in Normandy.

Castfull cast & details

Damian LewisDamian LewisRichard D. WintersRon LivingstonRon LivingstonLewis NixonDonnie WahlbergDonnie WahlbergC. Carwood LiptonScott GrimesScott GrimesDonald G. MalarkeyShane TaylorShane TaylorEugene G. RoeMichael CudlitzMichael CudlitzDenver (Bull) RandlemanRoss McCallRoss McCallJoseph D. LiebgottJames MadioJames MadioFrank J. Perconte

Episodes by season

Season01Episode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode10Episodes2001Aired 8.7Season avg
  1. S01E01Band of Brothers S01E01CurraheeSeptember 9, 2001 8.3Easy Company undergoes training at Camp Toccoa.
  2. S01E02Band of Brothers S01E02Day of DaysSeptember 9, 2001 9.0Easy Company lands in Normandy.
  3. S01E03Band of Brothers S01E03CarentanSeptember 16, 2001 8.6Easy Company fights in the Battle of Carentan.
  4. S01E04Band of Brothers S01E04ReplacementsSeptember 23, 2001 8.4Replacements join Easy Company. The company parachutes into the Netherlands as part of Operation Market Garden.
  5. S01E05Band of Brothers S01E05CrossroadsSeptember 30, 2001 8.5Winters writes a report on the challenge of an unexpected resistance to a German attack.
  6. S01E06Band of Brothers S01E06BastogneOctober 7, 2001 9.0In the dead of winter, in the forest outside of Bastogne, Belgium, the men of Easy Company struggle to hold the line alone while fending off
  7. S01E07Band of Brothers S01E07The Breaking PointOctober 14, 2001 9.1Having thwarted the Germans at Bastogne, the exhausted Easy Co. must now take the nearby town of Foy from the enemy. Several are killed and
  8. S01E08Band of Brothers S01E08The Last PatrolOctober 21, 2001 8.5Easy Co. arrives in the Alsacian town of Haguenau near the German border, and are ordered to send a patrol across the river to take enemy pr
  9. S01E09Band of Brothers S01E09Season's bestWhy We FightOctober 28, 2001 9.4Easy Co. finally enters Germany, to surprisingly little resistance, and has a chance to relax for the first time in a long time. A patrol in
  10. S01E10Band of Brothers S01E10PointsNovember 4, 2001 8.4Once home to the top officers of the Third Reich, Easy Co. enters the Bavarian town of Berchtesgaden, and captures "Eagle's Nest," Hitler's

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