Band of brothers
2001 / directed by Steven Spierberg & Tom Hanks / TV drama ( not movie )
10 Stories of E( easy ) commpany belongs to 101 American airborne division
Battle situation is south of England ( facing to operation Normandy as one of invadion forces ),coast of Normandy( north of France ), Holand , over Rhein river , west of German in 1944-1945 ,second World War.
This TV drama contains interviews of a few real members of 101 airborne division as prologue , These old men are survivers through that days and talk about their memories about their fighting days , slowly and realistic touch , as if realy standing now in that days . talks about comradeship , cross firing , the enemy German souldiers , meaning of mission , meaning of life . It’s sounds like a fantazy but never fantazy but real history we find it.
Each of the stories lasts about 1 hour . So totaly 10 hours ! It’s impossible to describe realistic mood about that historical days under movie circumstance . Because only 2 or 3 hours is not enogh to describe “band of brothers”
we can be brought to the trance into the nightmare throghout these 10 stories.

War movies made in post real WWⅡ about 1950-60’s are easy to get today. Because their copyrights are timeover, so many cheap DVD discs on sale , we can see them in our city today. But these old movies made by low technique, without SFX( special effect ) so we cannot feel their reality , in spite of the staff of them probably knew real war . But recently the technique of making movies has developed unbelievable level especialy Spierberg works in hollywood. From the standpoint of militaly maniac eyes , in this TV drama , we can see many kind of Armored Fighting Vehicles . For example strumgeschutz, Jagdpanter( in action! marvelous! ) , M4 sharman tanks with short cannon type . In America , There are many military collectors , and I hear that they offer to supply their collection with pleasure , when big movie project running.

I cannot forget the words of real 101airborne div. .This old soldier said like this meaning , not exactly the same words but like this.
“ I was born in small town. In my hometown , three men committed suicide in that days because they couldn’t go war.
Age is different from today.”

(rewrited from my note)