It’s evident that Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks both have a tremendous amount of respect for the American soldiers who served in World War II.
After their work together on the Academy Award-winning war film Saving Private Ryan, Spielberg and Hanks worked together to produce the game-changing HBO miniseries Band of Brothers.
The ten-episode “event series” had the scope and scale of a Hollywood blockbuster, and featured an astounding accuracy to historical detail.
Band of Brothers told a disturbing, yet ultimately inspiring story of the Infantry Regiment known as “Easy Company” during several critical overseas battles in Europe throughout the conflict; while Band of Brothers showed a chapter of American heroism during the war, it wasn’t the full story.
Hanks and Spielberg showed an even darker side to the conflict with HBO’s The Pacific, a similar historical series that examined the Pacific Theater era of World War II.
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