
18+Season 1
There was a time when the world asked ordinary men to do extraordinary things.
Synopsis
Band of Brothers (2001), Season 1 — watch online on iFILM: ten HBO episodes tracing Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, from a Georgia boot camp to the final days of World War II. Produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, drawn from Stephen E. Ambrose's book and interviews with the men themselves.
The season opens in Toccoa, where Captain Sobel's brutal, often unfair training fuses the company together even as it drives a wedge between him and his officers. Then Normandy. The night jump before D-Day scatters the men across darkened French fields, the commanding officer is killed before he hits the ground, and Lieutenant Winters has to improvise command from the first minutes. Episode by episode the series turns a different lens on the war: Doc Roe working through frozen Bastogne with almost no supplies, Private Blithe gripped by anxiety he cannot shake after Carentan, Webster returning from a hospital to cold shoulders from men who bled through Bastogne without him, Winters haunted by a German teenager he shot at a crossroads.
The camera refuses to heroicize — it watches ordinary men cope with impossible circumstances, which is what makes this season hold up. Stream Band of Brothers Season 1 online on iFILM.
10 episodes
S1·E1Currahee
Easy Company is introduced to Captain Sobel, who has the group undergo hard and unfair training. As a result, Sobel comes into conflict with his men, including Richard Winters, his executive officer. The company is shipped to England to prepare for D-Day.
S1·E2Day of Days
Easy Company lands in Normandy, scattered all across and away from their drop zone. 1st Lt. Meehan, commander of Easy, is killed when his plane suffers a direct hit and 1st Lt. Winters must take command and 1st Lt. Speirs is introduced.
S1·E3Carentan
Easy Company are sent to liberate the French village of Carentan, where they lose several men in heavy fighting. The episode focuses on Private Albert Blithe, who struggles with crippling anxiety following the battle.
S1·E4Replacements
With the addition of many new men, Easy Company heads to Holland to participate in Operation Market Garden and prepare an Allied route into Germany, but they meet stiff German resistance.
S1·E5Crossroads
Winters writes a report on the challenge of an unexpected resistance to a German attack, and is haunted by his conscience after shooting a teenage German soldier. Operation Pegasus is depicted. Easy Company is called to Bastogne to repel the sudden German counterattack.
S1·E6Bastogne
Easy Company experiences the Battle of the Bulge and have to hold ground near Bastogne while running low on ammunition and other supplies. The episode focuses on medic Eugene "Doc" Roe as he helps out his fellow soldiers where he can, while also scrounging for medical supplies, of which the Company is dangerously low.
S1·E7The Breaking Point
Easy Company battles near Foy, Belgium, losing numerous men. In the episode, the actions of 1st Lt. Norman Dike, the Company's commander, are examined and questioned. Serving as narrator is 1st Sgt. Carwood Lipton, who attempts to keep the morale of the men up as they endure their trials in the forest near Foy.
S1·E8The Last Patrol
Easy Company is in Hagenau in Feburary, 1945, where they prepare for a night patrol mission to capture German prisoners. The patrol includes one veteran who is despised for missing Bastogne and a new lieutenant fresh out of West Point.
S1·E9Why We Fight
As the Allies move into Germany and the war comes closer to an end, disillusionment and anger set in for Easy Company--until they stumble onto a concentration camp abandoned by the German military.
S1·E10Points
As the Germans surrender, it appears that that the hard days for Easy Company are over as they are stationed in Austria. But they soon learn that those solders without enough service points will be sent to fight in Japan.
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