Band of Brothers

[MississippiBoy]

If you haven't seen this mini-series yet, you MUST. It was something HBO put out I think back in 2001 or so. Some friends of ours bought it on DVD, so we spent all weekend watching it. It's 10 episodes long, so it's close to 10 hours total.
It's the story of Easy Company, 506th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, from WWII. They interviewed everybody from that unit that was still alive, and re-inacted their whole experience, from training in Georgia, to D-Day in Normandy, to the Battle of the Bulge, to the German surrender.
To get an idea about what this whole series is like, picture the opening scene from Saving Private Ryan, where Tom Hanks is helping storm Omaha Beach on D-Day, and make it last about 9 1/2 hours. The other 1/2 hour will be the backstory on how they got to be where they were.
They show parts of the interviews of the surviving mambers of Easy at the end. That, to me, was the most touching part of the whole thing. What they went through from June 1944 till January 1945 still affects them to this day. Only 8 months of their lives, and 60 years later, many of them still ended up in tears trying to talk about it.
I highly recommend it.
Oh, and if this was a movie, it would be rated R for language and violence, so it's not for the kids. Adults only.