The Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg-produced World War II drama followed the brigade known as 'The Easy Company' and featured Damian Lewis, Rob Livingston and Michael Fassbender.
On June 6, 2001, HBO staged a premiere at Utah Beach in Normandy, France, flying media, cast and crew and about 50 Easy Company veterans and their families to the spot where the vets had parachuted in on D-Day. “It’s surreal. It is powerful emotions,” Hanks toldat the premiere. “You can ask these guys, ‘What were you doing right about now 57 years ago?’ They were probably storming enemy guns. Death and destruction and stench was all around them, and it had only just started for them.
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