Band of Brothers — Season 1
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Season 1

Band of Brothers

There was a time when the world asked ordinary men to do extraordinary things.

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Sep2001
Season 1

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Band of Brothers (2001), Season 1 — HBO's ten-episode war drama you can watch online on iFILM. Easy Company's story opens at Camp Toccoa, Georgia, where Lt. Sobel drives his paratroopers up a hill called Currahee until they despise him — and until they're the sharpest rifle company in the 101st Airborne.

The season moves in sharp jumps: a midnight drop into Normandy on D-Day, street fighting for Carentan, Operation Market Garden across the Dutch lowlands, and then weeks in frozen foxholes outside Bastogne with no ammo resupply and no winter gear. No single soldier carries the show — Winters, Speirs, Doc Roe, and a dozen others rotate as narrators, each episode handing the camera to whoever the war is testing that week.

Produced by Spielberg and Hanks, adapted from Stephen Ambrose's oral history built on veterans' own accounts, it set the benchmark for prestige war television. Each episode opens with real Easy Company survivors on camera — the weight of that framing only grows as the season reaches Germany. Stream Band of Brothers Season 1 all episodes online on iFILM.

Season 1

10 episodes

  • Currahee
    S1·E1

    Currahee

    September 9, 2001 · 74 min

    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.

  • Day of Days
    S1·E2

    Day of Days

    September 9, 2001 · 52 min

    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.

  • Carentan
    S1·E3

    Carentan

    September 16, 2001 · 66 min

    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.

  • Replacements
    S1·E4

    Replacements

    September 23, 2001 · 60 min

    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.

  • Crossroads
    S1·E5

    Crossroads

    September 30, 2001 · 56 min

    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.

  • Bastogne
    S1·E6

    Bastogne

    October 7, 2001 · 68 min

    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.

  • The Breaking Point
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    The Breaking Point

    October 14, 2001 · 73 min

    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.

  • The Last Patrol
    S1·E8

    The Last Patrol

    October 21, 2001 · 59 min

    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.

  • Why We Fight
    S1·E9

    Why We Fight

    October 28, 2001 · 59 min

    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.

  • Points
    S1·E10

    Points

    November 4, 2001 · 63 min

    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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