Another is when during D-day one of the soldiers meets a captured German P.O.W. This actually happened - except Compton's grenade hit him in the head. One is in episode 2, when Buck Compton kills a German by hitting him with a well-timed grenade that explodes on impact. But there are a few unbelievable but true events omitted or toned down to preserve suspension of disbelief.
UNSERE MÜTTER UNSERE VÄTER DISKUSSION KLASSE SERIES
Aluminum Christmas Trees: The series invests a lot of effort in being very very accurate.Alas, Poor Villain: David Schwimmer really makes you feel Sobel's pain when he loses Easy Company.Adaptation Dye-Job:The real Winters was blond.Neal McDonough played a district attorney in Boomtown, also set in Los Angeles.
For the trope, see Band of Brothers.Įxamples of tropes found in this miniseries: Some of the primary characters of the series are Major Dick Winters ( Damian Lewis), the unflappable leader, Carwood Lipton (Donnie Wahlberg), who steps in to hold the unit together during the Battle of the Bulge, and Captain Lewis Nixon (Ron Livingston), the sardonic and alcoholic intelligence officer. Just about every part of the series is spot on, and the actors look very much like the men they portray. Band of Brothers is almost universally acclaimed for its (often painfully) accurate recreation of war, and for examining the relationships between soldiers in an elite, all-volunteer unit. Starting with their training in 1942 to the end of World War II, it follows the same unit through D-Day, the battle of Carentan, Operation Market Garden, the Battle of the Bulge, the discovery of the Concentration Camps, the capture of Hitler's Eagle's Nest and finally the end of the war. It follows the men of Easy Company, 506th regiment of the American 101st Airborne Division. Band of Brothers is a 2001 mini-series, initially aired on HBO in ten, one-hour episodes.