Adapted from Stephen Anbrose’s bestseller, the series follows the men of Easy Company, 101st Airborne Division, from their training in Georgia during the spring of 1942, to the D-Day invasion, the horrendous Battle of the Bulge, the liberation of the concentration camps,  and the final victory in 1945. In great detail ( 10 episodes) the series develops the feelings, emotions, and heroics of these ordinary soldiers who lived and died while defeating the tenacious German army. The title of the film is from Shakespeare’s “Henry V,” when the monarch exhorted his exhausted men to rise and fight before the big battle:

“We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;