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Article: VIDEO AMERICAN 'BAND' GET CLOSER TO EASY COMPANY WITH DVD EXTRAS.(U)(Review)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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- November 5, 2002
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Byline: Rob Lowman Entertainment Editor
THE 10-HOUR HBO miniseries ``Band of Brothers'' cost a television-record $120 million to film. The World War II exploits of Easy Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, as they fought across Europe from D-Day to beyond VE-Day were painstakingly re-created in this monumental series, which was produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks.
In a making-of documentary that is part of the six-disc DVD release of ``Band of Brothers,'' a number of the actors and those behind the scenes discuss the efforts that went into giving the series a realistic look in the three years of filming - from putting the actors ...