Band of Brothers
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Band of Brothers

Network:HBO

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S01E10 - "Points"

Aired on Nov 5, 2001, 1:00 AM

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Drawn from interviews with survivors of Easy Company, as well as their journals and letters, Band of Brothers chronicles the experiences of these men from paratrooper training in Georgia through the end of the war. As an elite rifle company parachuting into Normandy early on D-Day morning, participants in the Battle of the Bulge, and witness to the horrors of war, the men of Easy knew extraordinary bravery and extraordinary fear - and became the stuff of legend. Based on Stephen E. Ambrose's acclaimed book of the same name.

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Status
Ended
Language
English
Runtime
60 min
Premiered
September 9, 2001
Ended
November 4, 2001
Schedule
Sunday at 8:00 PM

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Episodes (1 Season · 10 Episodes)

Currahee

Easy Company undergoes training at Camp Toccoa.

Sep 9, 2001

70 min

Day of Days

Easy Company lands in Normandy.

Sep 9, 2001

49 min

Carentan

Easy Company fights in the Battle of Carentan.

Sep 16, 2001

62 min

Replacements

Replacements join Easy Company. The company parachutes into the Netherlands as part of Operation Market Garden.

Sep 23, 2001

57 min

Crossroads

Winters writes a report on the challenge of an unexpected resistance to a German attack.

Sep 30, 2001

53 min

Bastogne

In the dead of winter, in the forest outside of Bastogne, Belgium, the men of Easy Company struggle to hold the line alone while fending off frostbite and hunger, having arrived with no winter clothes and little supplies and ammunition. Medic Eugene Roe is overwhelmed, on edge and close to combat exhaustion when he finds friendship with a Belgian nurse. Easy Co. spends a miserable Christmas in the trenches, and receives the news that the German army's demand for surrender was met with Gen. McAuliffe's defiant answer: "Nuts!"

Oct 7, 2001

60 min

The Breaking Point

Having thwarted the Germans at Bastogne, the exhausted Easy Co. must now take the nearby town of Foy from the enemy. Several are killed and wounded in fierce shelling, compounded by the incompetence of their commander, Lt. Dike, about whom Winters can do nothing. Easy takes Foy, but at an enormous cost.

Oct 14, 2001

60 min

The Last Patrol

Easy Co. arrives in the Alsacian town of Haguenau near the German border, and are ordered to send a patrol across the river to take enemy prisoners. Lt. Jones, fresh from West Point and eager for combat experience, volunteers to lead. While successful, the mission costs another paratrooper's life, prompting Winters to ignore the order to send a second patrol the next night.

Oct 21, 2001

60 min

Why We Fight

Easy Co. finally enters Germany, to surprisingly little resistance, and has a chance to relax for the first time in a long time. A patrol in a nearby forest discovers an abandoned Nazi concentration camp, still filled with emaciated prisoners. The local citizenry, unbelievably disavowing knowledge of its existence, is made to clean it up, as the news arrives that Hitler is dead.

Oct 28, 2001

60 min

Points

Once home to the top officers of the Third Reich, Easy Co. enters the Bavarian town of Berchtesgaden, and captures "Eagle's Nest," Hitler's mountaintop fortress. Facing imminent deployment to the Pacific Theater, the men compare their "points" to see who has earned enough to go home. However, the Japanese surrender ends the war. A closing vignette tells what happened to the men of Easy Company after they returned home.

Nov 4, 2001

60 min

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