HBO Home Entertainment have recently released two of the greatest TV Mini Series of all time together as one box set and we’ve been given the chance for one lucky person to win one. Band of Brother and The Pacific, Produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks are two of the most real series you could ever watch. If you’ve never seen them, you simply must. You can order your copy here or scroll down for your change to win a copy.

Get ready for the ultimate gift this Christmas as the award winning BAND OF BROTHERS and THE PACIFIC, are both released together in a stunning DVD and Blu-ray limited edition gift set for the first time ever on 7 NOVEMBER 2011 from HBO HOME ENTERTAINMENT.

Ten years after Band of Brothers first came to our screens, this beautifully packaged limited-edition gift set includes every visually stunning and heart-pounding episode, along with the exclusive to the gift set bonus disc of the never seen before 60-minute documentary “Called to Service” and hours of special features and comes in a fold-out collector’s piece.

“Called to Service” includes historian interviews and reunites veterans from Easy Company (European front) and the 1^st Marine Division (Pacific theatre) in a conversation revealing their experiences after World War II. Organised in a four-act structure, the documentary captures how these soldiers re-acclimatised to normal life and the transitions these men went through coming back home.

These two critically acclaimed 10-part miniseries, both filmed nearly a decade apart, have won multiple awards between them including fourteen Emmys^®, a Golden Globe^® and a Peabody. Individually they are two of HBO’s biggest selling titles and still prove popular amongst fans and newcomers alike.

BAND OF BROTHERS

Based on the bestseller by Stephen E. Ambrose and made up of an all-star cast including Michael Fassbender (X-Men First Class, Inglorious Bastards), Damian Lewis (Your Highness, The Escapist) and Scott Grimes (Robin Hood, E.R), the epic 10-part miniseries Band of Brothers tells the story of Easy Company, 506th Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division, U.S. Army.

Drawn from interviews with survivors of Easy Company, as well as soldiers’ journals and letters, Band of Brothers chronicles the experiences of these men who knew extraordinary bravery and extraordinary fear. They were an elite rifle company that parachuted into France early on D-Day morning, fighting in the Battle of the Bulge and capturing Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest at Berchtesgaden. They were also a unit that suffered vast casualties, and whose lives became legend.

They were ordinary men, swept up in the most extraordinary conflict in history.  With the eyes of the world upon them, they found their greatest source of strength in one another.

THE PACIFIC

The ten-part adventure tracks the intertwined real-life journeys of three U.S Marines – Robert Leckie (James Badge Dale), Eugene Sledge (Joe Mazzello) and John Basilone (Jon Seda) – across the vast canvas of the Pacific Theatre of World War II. From the very first scene witness the reality of war with disorientating and historical accuracy, set against a breath-taking and often harrowing backdrop. The series follows these men and their fellow comrades from their first battle with the Japanese on Guadalcanal, through the rain forests of Cape Gloucester and the strongholds of Peleliu, across the bloody sands of Iwo Jima and through the horror of Okinawa, and finally to their triumphant but uneasy return home after V-J Day.

Costing an incredible $200m to create, THE PACIFIC is a cinematic blockbuster for the small screen, representing a revolution in television and further cements HBO’s position as a pioneer of innovative and challenging programming.

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With second directorial effort Larry Crowne due for release on the 1st July (he plays the titular lead character too), Tom Hanks is certainly intent on keeping busy for the foreseeable future.

Alongside a TV adaptation of the Neil Gaiman novel American Gods, The Hollywood Reporter brings news that Hanks and Gary Goetzman (his partner in Playtone Productions) are looking to get an adaptation of popular US toy, Major Matt Mason, off the grounds and into the cinemas, via 3D.

Major Matt Mason (an action figure introduced onto the market by Mattel in 1966) was an astronaut who lived and worked on the moon. Sounds like a flimsy premise, but with word that Hanks is hoping to blast-off for the stars with his Forrest Gump director, Robert Zemeckis, onboard (from a script by the actor and Band of Brothers/The Pacific collaborator, Graham Yost) you can bet this will be nothing less than spectacular.

Wonder if Zemeckis’ Flight (which was intended to be his first live-action venture since 2000’s Castaway) will still roll into production before this?

World War II has to be one of the most cinematically well-chronicled periods of history there is, dwelt on by big-name directors such as Steven Spielberg and Clint Eastwood as well as smaller scale film-makers alike. We have had action movies, romances and opinion-pieces set during the Second World War, from the perspectives of nigh on everyone involved. It is therefore to be commended that director Nicolas Steil has found a fresh angle from which to broach this endlessly fascinating and shocking moment in history. Setting the film in his native Luxembourg, Steil dramatises the country’s Nazi occupation and its effect on Luxembourg’s denizens.

Opting for a less bombastic approach than, say, Saving Private Ryan, Steil instead directs a relatively slow paced narrative in which we watch our pacifist protagonist’s struggle for survival. The son of a disgraced and deceased collaborator, François (Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet) leaves university for fear that he might soon be drafted into the German army. A deserter, he is escorted by an old family friend to the relative safety of a nearby iron mine. Forced to co-habitate underground with a forever squabbling group of réfractaires, François is soon victim to pidgin politics and ostracised on account of his bourgeois background and burgeoning affair with a collaborator’s wife.

Shot in a muted fashion, the scenes washed out and fittingly bleak, The Undercover War does not pander to Hollywood cliché, which might dictate a set-piece skirmish or unrealistically happy ending. While it may be slow paced, its meandering nature does little to disengage audience involvement. The environment is hauntingly real, as we see the consequences of war not only in a novel setting, but also with a refreshing honesty. That said, the film is incredibly episodic in nature, each new scene distractingly separate from the last. This disjointed structure is inevitable as Stiel attempts to do in 97 minutes what Spielberg’s Band of Brothers only managed in ten instalments; the narrative apparently skipping entire scenes to fit its insufficient theatrical running time.

Nevertheless, this is as unique a World War II movie as you are ever likely to encounter, well worth your time and patience as its haunting story unfolds without haste or contrivance. The central performance from Leprince-Ringuet carries the film competently while a series of beautifully acted supporting characters set about stealing The Undercover War’s many individual scenes, their respective arcs enhanced perfectly by a ghostly piano-centric score.

****~ (4/5)

From May 2007 to July 2008 Battle Company of the 173^rd Airborne Brigade was stationed deep in the remote Korengal Valley of Eastern Afghanistan.  The soldiers of Second Platoon established and peopled a fifteen man outpost at this, one of the most treacherous postings of the war.  To date close to fifty American soldiers have lost their lives in the Korengal.  Second Platoon, in common with so many before them, sustained casualties among their number.  Shortly before filming officially began they lost their medic PFC Juan Restrepo.  They named the outpost in his memory.  The extraordinary record of that time, shot by journalists Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger, became the documentary Restrepo.  Restrepo is their story in their words.

Although barely acknowledged by the outside world, at the height of the Afghan conflict the Korengal Valley was recognised to be the deadliest place on Earth. By the end of 2007 nearly a fifth of the combat in Afghanistan was staged on her ridges and outcrops.  Restrepo sets its unflinching sights on one strategic outpost deep in the heart of the deadly valley.  Between them Tim and Sebastian made ten helicopter trips into the Korengal beginning in June 2007, a month after Second Platoon had arrived.  They dug in with the platoon, manning the exposed position and capturing the boredom, humour and utter hopeless terror of daily life on the rocky OP.

Eating, sleeping and surviving alongside the soldiers, Junger and Hetherington shadowed their every move, doing everything short of returning enemy fire.   Three months after the end of deployment they reunited with the unit at its base in Vicenza, Italy.  Using two Veri-Cams, a light and sound package and two cameramen, they conducted a series of interviews with their principle characters.  Initially intended as an underscore for the vérité, these interviews instead became an integral part of the project and ultimately gave Restrepo some of its most affecting footage.

My first naive reaction to Restrepo was one of shock at how incredibly young the boys on screen were.  Traces of teenaged acne still clung to clenched jaw-lines as they spoke aloud the most adult issue of all – that of their own mortality.  The survivors of this contemporary Band of Brothers have lived through a war far beyond the Imagineering of any Spielberg/Hanks collaboration and hindsight imbued their memories with a haunting honesty and level of introspection that will stay with me for some time.

Both Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington are experienced at combat reportage and with Restrepo they have combined their narrative and photographic skills to devastating effect.  The final result is an immersive, living, breathing, flick book of the unpalatable reality of warfare that snatches you into the action and refuses to let you exhale.  Lacking the traditional documentary trappings of narration, outside opinion or political rhetoric, the film simply and powerfully proffers the experience of war through the eyes of the men who wage it.

Despite critical parallels being drawn with The Hurt Locker, Restrepo has far more in common with the terrible intimacy of Samuel Maoz’s Lebanon than with the Yankee Doodle blandness of Kathryn Bigelow’s Oscar winner.  The poignancy of the film is a testament to the bond its makers forged with Second Platoon and to their unprecedented access.  The disbelief as a beloved member of the unit is lost and the desperate grasp for the reassurance of a quick passing is captured with the same respect and lack of judgement as a chant for sheer bloody revenge.  Some are shown praying for fallen colleagues, others chose to stand silent close by.  Could you/would you pray?  Perhaps, but you surely would not chose to worship in a place that would make a man of faith question the very existence of God.

Half these boys don’t yet need to shave every day.  All of them no longer sleep easy at night.  The American military has not seen the like of the fifteen months of fighting they lived and died through since vets returned from Vietnam.  A young Specialist, Pemble, is observed drawing the Korengal Valley over and over again.  As a child he was forbidden to own a squirt gun shaped like a turtle because of the violence it symbolised.  At OP Restrepo he bore a full arsenal every day.  He sends home the pictures of the deadly valley, “The only thing I know how to draw” by way of explanation of where he has gone and what he has seen.  A part of him will never return.

The intention of this film was to deploy its audience with Second Platoon and to submerge them in their war.  It utterly succeeds. Restrepo held my emotions and my attention in white knuckle grip and did not yield until long after the credits rolled.  Visceral, brutally honest and heartbreakingly real, Restrepo is a remarkable piece of filmmaking and an absolute must see.

Restrepo is released in the UK on 8th October

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Yesterday HeyUGuys dedicated itself to the celebration of The Pacific – the HBO companion piece to the critically acclaimed World War II series Band of Brothers.

With its debut on UK screens last night we wanted to get your reactions on what you thought, whether you’ve never seen Band of Brothers, or if you’re a huge fan of the Steven Spielberg/Tom Hanks produced series let us know.

You can see all of our coverage listed below and there’s much Pacific goodness to indulge in, including interviews, Q&As, reviews and images as well as a few pieces of info about the rest of the series to come.

• Here’s our review of the first episode,
• A few excellent images from the series,
• An exclusive Q&A with Director Tony To,
• A comprehensive exclusive interview with special effects supremo Joss Williams, who also worked on Band of Brothers,
• A UK trailer for the series,
• A nicely bizarre piece on a screening of The Pacific with President Obama,
• And a featurette and images from the series.

Will The Pacific have the same impact as Band of Brothers? We certainly think so – time for you to tell us what you thought in the comments below…

Today has officially been designated Pacific Day on HeyUGuys.  With good reason – 9pm tonight sees the UK episode one and two debut of HBO’s The Pacific on Sky Movies Premiere and Sky Premiere HD!  Last week we had the opportunity to watch these episodes at BAFTA and take part in a Q&A with director Tony To and cinematographer Remi Adefarasin in order to bring you an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at this epic television event.

The Q&A, chaired by Adrian Wootton, is embedded below.  The sound quality is not ideal and you may need to turn down the volume for our questions as we were sitting rather close to the mike.  However, it does make for fascinating listening to hear these talented men speak with such heart about their commitment to the project.  The Pacific was filmed in its entirety in Australia and series producer Tony, also one of its six directors, was present for the whole ten month shoot.  Remi was one of the show’s two cinematographers, alongside Stephen F Windon, and also spent months overseas.  Both men spoke with passion and conviction about the project and their respect for the true stories they were entrusted with telling was evident throughout.

The overriding message that came across to us was that the production team had determined to tell personal stories – to maintain the intimacy of the individual experience of the lesser known Pacific front of the war, rather than taking a broad overview of its history.  To this end both spoke about the importance of things happening “to the men” and not “for the camera.”  If an explosion went off in the periphery of a shot, rather than being beautifully aligned front and centre for the viewer, well so be it.  If a perspective was required from inside a foxhole and the actor was dug in deep, well then the camera man had better start digging!  There was a real emphasis on physical as well as emotional truth.  As far as possible the sets were real, every stone and blade of grass placed there for veracity.  In some cases the set designers painstakingly building two and three acre jungle scenes for the actors to work in.

Having watched episodes one and two and enjoyed the Q&A we were then granted an exclusive glimpse of an action filled airfield scene from a later episode on which both men had collaborated.  It was a breathtaking spectacle, made more dramatic by the knowledge that everything we saw had been experienced by the actors – there was no CGI here.

We caught up with Tony To and his wife Gina at the after party.  Here they spoke more personally about how imperative it was that these stories not die with the veterans who lived through them.  Gina To talked about the privilege of taking the Band of Brothers vets and their wives to France for a break before they previewed the series at Normandy.  She remembered one of the wives remarking that her husband had never spoken of the experiences Tony and his team had captured onscreen.  Gina and her husband were all too aware that in the ten years since Band of Brothers many of these extraordinary men had passed on and they wanted The Pacific to stand as a memorial to their stories and their sacrifice.

We also spoke with Sky’s Programme Information Editor Chris Prince who gave us an exclusive insight into what viewers can expect from the later episodes.  Because The Pacific might initially appear a more acquired taste than Band of Brothers we were keen to know how the story would develop.  Chris was able to assure us that, as impressive as the action in episodes one and two may be, the human stories become equally compelling.  He particularly lauded the tipping point the series reaches after a period of R&R in episode three: as malaise sets in the tone alters dramatically and Leckie and his brothers in arms are hurled headlong into a hellish conflict Chris described as “relentless stuff you’ve never seen on screen before!”

When The Pacific begins on Sky Movies Premiere tonight HeyUGuys urge you to unplug the phone and take time out to discover the remarkable story of the 1^st Marine Division for yourselves.

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Band of Brothers is rightly regarded as a high point in television drama, and the ten episode mini series is as impressive today (particularly on the blu-ray version) as it was nine years ago. With the series beginning tonight on Sky Movies today is The Pacific Day on HeyUGuys, and we’ve got something very special for you.

A few weeks ago we met something of a legend in the special effects industry, a man whose credits include two Indiana Jones films, Sleepy Hollow and Sweeney Todd for Tim Burton, The Bourne Ultimatum and Green Zone as well as both Band of Brothers and its companion piece The Pacific. This is the man who built Willy Wonka’s Chocolate River, and the man whom Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg called on to produce the crucial special effects for their new series.

Joss Williams has an impressive  IMDb page and his work with Paul Greengrass, Tim Burton as well as Spielberg and Hanks charts a very interesting course of three decades at the forefront of a ever changing industry. Not cowed by the surge of CGI and visual effects, Williams’ positive and professional attitude is one borne out of a dedication to use both practical, in-camera effects with the enhancement that post production CGI can achieve.

Detailing his work on The Pacific and Band of Brothers Williams talks about the changes to the process in the nine year interim, and there’s a very special behind the scenes look at the aforementioned Chocolate River constructed for Tim Burton and his 2005 version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

He also talks about his next project, the Martin Scorsese directed The Invention of Hugo Cabret.

Our thanks to Joss for taking the time to speak with us. The Pacific is on April the 5th on Sky Movies HD.

In 2001 a ten part HBO miniseries event instilled in millions a renewed respect for and awareness of the extraordinary sacrifices made by a generation of men little more than half a century before.  That series was Band of Brothers, the compelling story of parachute infantry unit Easy Company and their role in the European front of WWII.  The award-winning show, and its big screen predecessor Saving Private Ryan, reinvigorated stories, now more familiar from text books and exam papers, by breathing life into the history and giving names to the heroes who lived and died through it.

But the Second World War was fought on two fronts, and the second – The Pacific – is one we are less familiar with.  Now, nearly ten years after the success of Band of Brothers, executive producers Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg and Gary Goetzman intend to set that right.  Their brand new miniseries The Pacific shadows the intertwined journeys of three men of the 1^st Marine Division – Robert Leckie (James Badge Dale), Eugene Sledge (Joe Mazzello) and John Basilone (Jon Seda).  Their war takes place in the heart of the Pacific Theatre of Operations, from the Marines’ first battle with the Japanese on Guadalcanal, into the rain forests of Cape Gloucester and the strongholds of Peleliu.  The story treks across the bloody sands of Iwo Jima, and through the horror of Okinawa before their triumphant but uneasy return home after V-J Day.

The miniseries is based, in part, on the memoirs of Leckie and Sledge, as well as on original interviews conducted by the filmmakers and other source material.  It is not an easy watch.  Unlike Band of Brothers we have few points of reference for the images with which The Pacific confronts us.  There has been something of a common language used for war films since Saving Private Ryan and indeed that unflinching and bloody viewpoint is here but there are few similarities beyond the superficial.  The terrain is as unfamiliar as the tactics of the enemy and we learn the hazards at the shoulders of the men themselves.  Each Marine has a unique and distinct experience of his own war, the stories do intersect at times but the common narrative thread of Band of Brothers is absent here.  To approach the show expecting a follow-up would be to do it a huge disservice.  The scale of the story and the multiple strands of the plot reflect the complexity of this other war – a world away from Europe – which encompassed most of the Pacific Ocean and its islands.

In the morning light, after a great battle on Guadalcanal, a young Marine stands and stares at the bodies tumbled across the ground before him.  The rising sun dances over the tips of the bullets on the ammo belt flung over his shoulder until they resemble a necklace of teeth, prehistoric, each one a life – a potential kill.  It is a breathtaking moment.  Elsewhere a Father entreats his son not to enlist, fearful not that he may die, but that something in him will never return if he lives.  From extraordinary panoramas of fighting ships to the claustrophobia of the foxhole and the roulette-random quirks of fate, the series walks alongside these men and lives, bleeds and dies with them.  It is an astonishing achievement and truly compelling viewing.

Initially less accessible than Band of Brothers perhaps, the series utterly justifies the investment you will make in its ten part odyssey.  Just 24 hours after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour, Congress issued a formal declaration of war against the Empire of Japan and the United States officially entered World War II.  The ranks of the Marine Corps more than tripled as patriotic young men flooded enlistment offices determined to do their part.  To these young men the islands where their war would take place would have been nothing more than specks on a map.  Many of them never saw American shores again. The debilitating environment, as much an enemy as the Japanese themselves, is eloquently depicted.  The heat, the claustrophobia, hunger and exhaustion represented as a heartbreaking matter of fact.  The brutality of the Japanese too is revealed to us as the Marines experience it, shock by shock and horror by horror.

This is not to say that The Pacific attempts to make heroes of the Marines who fought there.  Within two episodes it has been made perfectly clear that, though there may be acts of great heroism, there are few heroes on either side in this war.  It presents an “under the helmet” look at the theatre of war from deep upstage.  There is no wider discussion of war as concept or metaphor and, though the timing of this series makes parallels with the invasion of Afghanistan inevitable (and poignant), there are few truisms here.  There is entertainment yes, startling battles, explosions and violent bloody combat.  Beyond that though there is a very contemporary human story.   By episode four the true emotional impact is realised through the eyes of one of our main protagonists and with episode five, the assault on Peleliu, the Marines’ real descent into hell begins.  Indeed episodes five and six present the most relentless depictions of battle yet to be realised on screen.  Yet there is a reverence and intimacy with which The Pacific confides its truths which renders even the most horrific moments mesmerising.

While at the time the stories of these men made headlines, those legends faded with the newsprint long ago.  It is appropriate that they be retold because theirs are the true biopics.  These men didn’t make music or movies, they made sacrifices.  They made history.

The Pacific debuts in the UK on Sky Movies Premiere & Sky Premiere HD tonight at 9pm

Sky Movies HD have released a new trailer for The Pacific, the follow-up to the awesome mini series, Band of Brothers. It’s not so much a sequel but has the same driving force in Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg behind it. It’s on tonight so don’t miss out!

The series has been filmed completely in high definition and cost around $200 million which is nearly double what Band of Brothers was estimated. The Pacific focuses around three main characters, Robert Leckie (James Badge Dale), Eugene Sledge (Joe Mazzello) and John Basilone (Jon Seda).

There’s no exact release date as yet but we know it’s going to be around Easter. We were lucky enough to go and see the first two episodes and you will NOT be disappointed. Check out the trailer below or head over to a previous post where we have some great photos from the series.

Details on why the US went to the Pacific:

On 8^th December 1941, just over 24 hours after the Japanese surprise attack on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbour, Congress issued a formal declaration of war against the Empire of Japan.  For a decade, tensions had been mounting between Japan and the US, as the Japanese expanded their conquest of a large region including much of China and Southeast Asia.  As a result of the bombing of Pearl Harbour, the United States officially entered World War II, already in its third year of being waged by countries of the Allied powers, including the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, China, Canada and Australia, against the Axis powers of Japan, Germany and Italy.

Practically overnight, military recruiting offices across the United States were jammed, as thousands of Americans rushed to enlist in the armed forces.  Many of those young men chose to join the Marine Corps, which saw its ranks more than triple in the six months following Pearl Harbour.

The Pacific tracks the three entwined, real-life journeys of Leckie, Sledge and Basilone and their fellow Marines over the vast landscape of the Pacific in World War II.  The mini-series follows them from their first battle with the Japanese on Guadalcanal, through the rain forests of Cape Gloucester and the strongholds of Peleliu, across the black sand terraces of Iwo Jima and through the horror of Okinawa, and finally to their triumphant but uneasy return home after V-J Day.

It’s been nine years since Band of Brothers redefined the television mini series with its cinematic storytelling and producing partners Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks have reunited with many of the crew of Band of Brothers to bring the story of the U.S. Marine Corp in the Pacific Theater of Operations in the new ten part series The Pacific.

To celebrate this highly anticipated series reaching UK shores HeyUGuys is bringing you a series of articles and reviews on The Pacific, including an exclusive interview with Special Effects Supervisor Joss Williams.

The series begins tonight on Sky Movies at 9pm so to get you in the mood keep an eye on HeyUGuys throughout the day and let us know what you think of The Pacific.

Click here to go to all of our Pacific coverage so far.

A few weeks ago, I posted some images from the The Pacific, which is the follow-up to the Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg produced series, Band of Brothers. In that post, I mentioned that ‘the lucky dabbers at Sky Movies had been lucky enough to see the first two episodes’ from the new 10 part mini-series. We,, I am now one of those lucky dabbers as I got to see it a couple of weeks ago and suffice to say, those of you who liked Band of Brothers and Saving Private Ryan will NOT be disappointed.

Today we’ve been sent a new featurette which shows some snippets of interviews from the cast of the new series and also some great new images. There’s still no exact release date for when The Pacific will air in the UK but we know it’ll be around Easter and it’ll be on Sky Movies HD. The HD is important and this show has been completely filmed in HD and this is why the new series looks so great.

The Pacific’s three main characters are James Badge Dale, Jon Seda and Joseph Mazzello. Check out the shots of them below the new featurette.

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You may have seen quite a few months ago I posted a trailer for the follow up to the Steven Spielberg & Tom Hanks’ produced epic mini series called ‘Band of Brothers’ (which if you haven’t seen you MUST). The new show is entitled ‘The Pacific’ and follows the Pacific Fleet’s journey through the 2nd World War. The trailer was leaked to the Internet so disappeared from everywhere pretty sharpish.

Well, good news today as a new official trailer has now been released by HBO. Band of Brothers in my opinion is one of the best mini series ever made. The accuracy, the acting, the suspence and production was just mind blowing and I cannot wait to see this follow up.

So, without further ado, here is the trailer for The Pacific

*** Update***

I just found out that in the UK, Sky Movies HD have bought the rights to air the new series. It’s going to premiere in the UK Spring 2010.

Here’s the synopsis:

“Made up of 10 episodes and produced by Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg and Gary Goetzman, the creative team behind the Emmy-winning 2001 HBO miniseries Band of Brothers, The Pacific tracks the intertwined odysseys of three U.S. Marines ““ Robert Leckie, Eugene Sledge and John Basilone ““ across the vast canvas of the Pacific. The extraordinary experiences of these men and their fellow Marines take them from the first clash with the Japanese in the haunted jungles of Guadalcanal, up the black sand terraces of Iwo Jima, to the triumphant, yet uneasy, return home after V-J Day.“