DVD Capsule Review

Band of Brothers (2002)

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'BROTHERS' IN ARMS The boy soldiers of ''Band'''s Easy Company

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Rated: Unrated; DVD Release Date: Nov 05, 2002; With: Mark Huberman, Damien Lewis and Richard Speight Jr.

By Marc Bernardin

Marc Bernardin

As tired as I am of the ''Greatest Generation'' marketing campaign, I was suitably Brokaw-ed by the heroic exploits of Easy Company, a unit of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment that jumped into the fire at Normandy, cut the hedges in Holland, endured the frozen hell of the Battle of the Bulge, and captured Hitler's Eagle's Nest. Executive-produced by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, the 10-episode Band of Brothers follows those men -- those boys -- as they made history happen. Overshadowed in its first airing by 9/11, ''Brothers'' now makes for perfect marathon DVD viewing.

Though it loses focus when it strays from tracing Dick Winters (Damian Lewis) as he climbs up the chain of command, it's still a moving document of men under fire. Among the supplements -- including actor Ron Livingston's video diaries, a making-of, and some episode-specific text guides -- the one worth watching is the doc ''We Stand Alone Together: The Men of Easy Company,'' featuring interviews with some of the surviving soldiers. If it doesn't put a lump in your throat, you need to have your throat checked.

Posted Nov 05, 2002

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