Band of Brothers

My favorite mini-series, this is a very strong story, especially when you realize that the characters shown here are real people and that they were involved in the creation of this masterpiece (you can even see and hear some of them in the beginning of the series). In all seriousness, I can't call 'Brothers in Arms' anything other than a masterpiece, it's more than just another World War II-themed project from the United States. It shows both the military action and the ordinary life of the soldiers of Easy Company. The project shows how war changes not only the world, but also the man, how it breaks him and uses him like a doll. 'Brothers...' clearly will not leave you indifferent, I was penetrated and worried about each of the characters, as a best friend.

Each episode is a separate episode, the place of which is a certain area, we see the battles taking place in a certain area of space, whether it is a small village or large urban areas, snow-covered forest or defenseless plain.

I would like to praise the technical side of the series: the camerawork, the music, the editing, the staging of the battles... Everything is of the highest level here, even now it looks very decent, despite the format of the series and the year of its release. Although there are special effects, they are used in all the right places and you do not pay much attention to them.

Here you can see young and, at the time of the mini-series release, little-known actors, such as James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Tom Hardy, Simon Pegg, who although they appear briefly, but it is still nice to see these already popular personalities in such a good project now. The main star here is Damien Lewis as Richard Winters, who the viewer can later see in 'The Forsyte Saga', 'The Heirs' and he will even make a cameo appearance for Tarantino in 'Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood," as Steve McQueen. Also an interesting fact is that the executive producers of the project are Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, who apparently became friends while working on 'Saving Private Ryan', so much so that they decided to do a conditional trilogy of TV series on military subjects ('Brothers in Arms', 'Pacific Ocean', which I will talk about a little later, and 'Masters of the Air' (apparently, 'Masters of Air'). Almost nothing is known about the third project, as it's still in development, but there was news last year that shooting is in full swing).

I especially like (if I may say so here) episode 6 'Bastogne', shown from the frontline medic and episode 9 'What We Fight For', when our protagonists find and see a concentration camp, exhausted Jews for the first time... All in all, I highly recommend watching all 10 episodes, this project really deserves your attention.