"the best
miniseries in the history of television"
Chicago Sun Times
BAND OF
BROTHERS
Award-Winning
10-Part Landmark Miniseries Based on the Stephen E. Ambrose Best
Seller Will Make its Basic Cable Network Premiere on The History
Channel.
Begins Sunday,
April 11 at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT running consecutively through Monday,
April 19 at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT with an encore presentation beginning
Monday, April 26 at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT continuing every Monday at 9:00
p.m. ET/PT through June 28 at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT
New York, March
4, 2004: BAND OF BROTHERS tells the story of Easy Company, 506th
Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division, U.S. Army. Drawn from
interviews with survivors of Easy Company, as well as
soldiersí journals and letters, BAND OF BROTHERS chronicles
the experiences of these young men who knew extraordinary bravery and
extraordinary fear. They were an elite rifle company parachuting into
France early on D-Day morning, fighting in the Battle of the Bulge
and capturing Hitlerís Eagle's Nest at Berchtesgaden. They
were also a unit that suffered enormous casualties, and whose lives
became legend. BAND OF BROTHERS begins Sunday, April 11 at 9:00 p.m.
ET/PT running consecutively through Monday, April 19 at 9:00 p.m.
ET/PT with an encore presentation beginning Monday, April 26 at 9:00
p.m. ET/PT continuing every Monday at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT through June 28
at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT on The History Channel.
The History
Channel will present BAND OF BROTHERS in a wide screen format with
limited commercial interruptions. This marks the first time that BAND
OF BROTHERS will air on any US television network other than
HBO.
BAND OF
BROTHERS: CURRAHEE
Sunday, April
11th from 9:00 p.m.-10:25 p.m. ET/PT
In Toccoa, Ga.,
1942, a disparate group of young men begins voluntary training to
become members of one of America's newest military regiments -- the
paratroopers. Under the harsh leadership of Lt. Sobel (David
Schwimmer), members of the newly formed Easy Co. go from green
civilians to some of the Army's most elite soldiers. As training
progresses, a rivalry flares between Sobel, whom the men despise, and
Lt. Winters (Damian Lewis), a junior officer who's earned the respect
and admiration of the company.
BAND OF
BROTHERS: DAYS OF DAYS
Monday, April
12th from 9:00 p.m.-10:10 p.m. ET/PT
On June 6,
1944, D-Day, planes with thousands of paratroopers cross the English
Channel to France, where they come under heavy fire. None of the men
land where they expected to, and many lose their weapons and supplies
in the drop. Winters links up with solitary soldiers, and they set
off to find their units. Winters (Damian Lewis) is later chosen to
lead an attack on a fortified German artillery position; the mission
is successful, but Winters, now acting company commander, loses his
first man.
BAND OF
BROTHERS: CARENTAN
Tuesday, April
13th from 9:00 p.m.-10:20 p.m. ET/PT
Two days after
D-Day, Easy Co, is sent to take the town of Carentan, engaging in a
successful battle that results in several casualties. Some soldiers,
including Pvt. Blithe (Marc Warren), have a difficult time adjusting
to combat. After 36 days in Normandy and several fierce battles, Easy
returns to England, but their celebrations are short-lived, as news
comes that they're moving out again.
BAND OF
BROTHERS: REPLACEMENTS
Wednesday,
April 14th from 9:00 p.m.-10:15 p.m. ET/PT
Due to heavy
casualties, a group of fresh paratrooper replacements joins Easy Co.
in time for a massive drop into German-occupied Holland for Operation
Market-Garden. While met with no resistance in Eindhoven, Easy and a
cluster of British tanks are repelled from a nearby town by a
superior German Force, sustaining many casualties as they retreat.
The Allied plan to enter Germany through Holland and end the war
before Christmas fails.
BAND OF
BROTHERS: CROSSROADS
Thursday, April
15th from 9:00 p.m.-10:10 p.m. ET/PT
Winters (Damian
Lewis) leads a risky mission on a Dutch dike, resulting in a
resounding victory, for which he is promoted to Battalion Executive
Officer. Dissatisfied with his new, largely administrative job,
Winters is concerned about the leadership of the three companies he
now commands. After a weekend pass to Paris, news arrives of a
massive Axis effort in the Ardennes Forest, threatening to break the
Allied lines. Easy Co. races in to hold the line, ill-equipped for
the bitterly cold weather and the entrenched battle
ahead.
BAND OF
BROTHERS: BASTOGNE
Friday, April
16th from 9:00 p.m.-10:20 p.m. ET/PT
In the dead of
winter, in the forest outside of Bastogne, Belgium, the men of Easy
Company struggle to told the line alone while fending off frostbite
and hunger, having arrived with no winter clothes and little supplies
and ammunition. Medic Eugene Roe (Shane Taylor) is overwhelmed, on
edge and close to combat exhaustion when he finds friendship with a
Belgian nurse. Easy Co. spends a miserable Christmas in the trenches,
and receives the news that the German armyís demand for
surrender was met with Gen. McAuliffe's defiant answer:
"Nuts!"
BAND OF
BROTHERS: THE BREAKING POINT
Saturday, April
17th from 9:00 p.m.-10:25 p.m. ET/PT
Having 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 (Peter O'Meara), about whom Winters (Damian Lewis) can do
nothing. Easy takes Foy, but at an enormous cost.
BAND OF
BROTHERS: THE PATROL
Sunday, April
18th from 9:00 p.m.-10:15 p.m. ET/PT
Easy 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
prisoners. Lt. Jones (Colin Hanks), fresh from West Point and eager
for combat experience, volunteers to lead. While successful, the
mission costs another paratrooper's life, prompting Winters (Damian
Lewis) to ignore the order to send a second patrol the next
night.
BAND OF
BROTHERS: WHY WE FIGHT
Sunday, April
18th from 10:15 p.m.-11:25 p.m. ET/PT
Easy 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.
BAND OF
BROTHERS: POINTS
Saturday, April
19th from 9:00 p.m.-10:15 p.m. ET/PT
Once home to
the top officers of the Third Reich, Easy Co. enters the Bavarian
town of Berchtesgaden, and captures "Eagles Nest," Hitler's
mountaintop fortress. Facing imminent deployment to the Pacific
Theater, the men compare their ìpointsî to see who has
earned enough to go home. However, the Japanese surrender ends the
war. A closing vignette tells what happened to the men of Easy
Company after they returned home.
BAND OF
BROTHERS, which premiered on HBO on September 9, 2001, was the
recipient of six Emmy Awards (nominated for 19), one Golden Globe
Award (nominated for three), a Peabody Award, and a WGA Award and
also was named AFI Movie or Miniseries of the Year for 2002. The
young cast included Donnie Wahlberg (Dreamcatcher, Sixth Sense and
TV's Boomtown), Ron Livingston, who was nominated for a Golden Globe
for BAND OF BROTHERS (Adaptation, TV's Sex and the City), David
Schwimmer (TVís Friends), Neal McDonough (Minority Report,
Star Trek: First Contact and TV's Boomtown), Damian Lewis
(Dreamcatcher), Matthew Settle (U-571, I Still Know What You Did Last
Summer), and Frank John Hughes (Catch Me If You Can and Bad
Boys).
BAND OF
BROTHERS is produced by Band of Brothers Ltd. in association with
DreamWorks and Playtone; Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg served as
executive producers; Stephen E. Ambrose, Gary Goetzman of The
Playtone Company and Tony To are co-executive producers.
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