Band of Brothers
Bastogne
Season 1, Episode 6 · Aired 2001-10-07
Synopsis
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!"
In the series
This episode is part of Band of Brothers (2001) on HBO.
Easy Company from training grounds to the end of the Reich — war prestige perfected.
Key cast
- Damian Lewis as Richard Winters
- Ron Livingston as Lewis Nixon
- Donnie Wahlberg as C. Carwood Lipton
- Neal McDonough as Lynn 'Buck' Compton
- David Schwimmer as Herbert Sobel
- Kirk Acevedo as Joseph Toye