Easy Company Medic Eugene Roe: The Mini Series
Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks have produced an epic 10-part World War II mini-series in association with HBO. Band Of Brothers is a true story adapted from the best selling book by Stephen Ambrose. Starting in 1942, the story concerns the soldiers of Easy Company, 506th Regiment of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division. It begins with their rigorous training in Georgia, follows them as they parachute into France behind enemy lines early on D-day morning, and climaxes with their daring capture of Hitler's fortified mountain chalet, the Eagle's Nest retreat at Berchtesgaden, Bavaria.
Band of Brothers was an enormous project, with a budget of around seventy million pounds ($120 million), a nine-month shooting schedule, a speaking cast of 50 and no less than 2000 extras. DreamWorks used Hatfield Studios as the logistical base, the old 800-acre British aerospace compound where Saving Private Ryan was filmed. Villages and towns in Belgium, Holland and France, as well as a training camp in Georgia, had been meticulously recreated on the airfield under the ten million pound construction budget.
Apart from a fortnight of filming in Switzerland, the entire series was shot in Southern England.
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