Band of Brothers

Created by Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg · 2001–2001 · English

With Damian Lewis, Ron Livingston, Scott Grimes

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What it is

Across ten episodes, Easy Company of the 101st Airborne trains in Georgia, parachutes into Normandy on D-Day and fights through Holland, the siege of Bastogne and Germany, as far as Hitler's mountain retreat at Berchtesgaden. Richard Winters, who rises from lieutenant to major, is at its centre, and each episode opens with the real veterans remembering.

Why it matters

Made by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg after Saving Private Ryan, it brought a film's budget and scale to television, at $125 million, and won the Emmy for best miniseries. It set the measure for the prestige television miniseries that followed.

Watching it

Length: about 11 hours.

Where to watch

Streaming on

HBO Max

In the US, as of 28 October 2026. Streaming data from JustWatch.

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Saving Private Ryan · Steven Spielberg · 1998
In Film
Spielberg and Hanks used their Second World War film to inform the miniseries, which took its visual cues, much of its crew and its military adviser Dale Dye.
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