"Band of Brothers" Why We Fight (2001)

Director:

David Frankel

Writer:

John Orloff (writer)

TV Series:

"Band of Brothers" (2001)

Original Air Date:

28 October 2001 (Season 1, Episode 9)

Genre:

Adventure | Drama | History | War

Plot:

Plot Keywords:

WWII | Comradeship | Behind Enemy Lines | D Day | Concentration Camp

Cast

  (Episode Credited cast)

Nicholas Aaron	...	Pvt. Robert 'Popeye' Wynn
John Adams	...	Pvt. Andrews
Doug Allen	...	Sgt. Alton More
Eion Bailey	...	Pvt. David Kenyon Webster
Jamie Bamber	...	2nd Lt. Jack Foley
Philip Barantini	...	Sgt. Wayne 'Skinny' Sisk
Paul Bentley	...	Old German in Landsberg
Dean Blanke	...	German Grandson
Kristina Brändén	...	German Girl with Egg
George Calil	...	Pvt. James 'Moe' Alley
Michael Cudlitz	...	Sgt. Denver 'Bull' Randleman
Dale Dye	...	Col. Robert Sink
Michael Fassbender	...	Sgt. Burton 'Pat' Christenson
Dexter Fletcher	...	SSgt. John Martin
David Forest	...	Prisoner saying Danke
Rick Gomez	...	Sgt. George Luz
Scott Grimes	...	TSgt. Donald Malarkey
Tom Hardy	...	Pfc. John Janovec
Ben Hecker	...	German man in flat
Nolan Hemmings	...	Sgt. Charles 'Chuck' Grant
Matt Hickey	...	Pvt. Patrick O'Keefe
Mark Huberman	...	Pvt. Lester 'Leo' Hashey
Corey Johnson	...	Major Louis Kent
Malcolm Kaye	...	Prisoner with Janovec
Goran Kostic	...	Prisoner with Corpse
Robin Laing	...	Pvt. Edward 'Babe' Heffron
Martin Lawton	...	German Grandfather
Matthew Leitch	...	SSgt. Floyd 'Tab' Talbert
Damian Lewis	...	Maj. Richard D. Winters
Ron Livingston	...	Capt. Lewis Nixon
James Madio	...	Sgt. Frank Perconte
Christian Malcolm	...	MP at Lansberg
Ross McCall	...	Cpl. Joseph Liebgott
Hans-Georg Nenning	...	German Baker
Kieran O'Brien	...	Pvt. Allen Vest
Suzanne Roquette	...	German widow
Wil Röttgen	...	German officer in cart
Simon Schatzberger	...	Pvt. Joseph Lesniewski
Isabella Seibert	...	German girl in bed
Matthew Settle	...	Capt. Ronald Speirs
Douglas Spain	...	Pvt. Antonio Garcia
Anatole Taubman	...	Otto Herzfeld (as Anatol Taubman)
Shane Taylor	...	Cpl. Eugene Roe
Gertrude Thoma	...	German woman in flat
Donnie Wahlberg	...	2nd Lt. C. Carwood Lipton
Rick Warden	...	1st Lt. Harry Welsh
Peter Youngblood Hills	...	SSgt. Darrel 'Shifty' Powers

Series Cast

These people are regular cast members. Were they in this episode?

Matthew Faber
Ian Virgo	...	Soldier
Stephen Milton
Tom Hanks	...	British officer
Jack Gustav	...	German soldier
Paul Hornsby	...	German soldier
Jonathan Edwards Young	...	Lt. John Kelly
Kieran O'Donnell	...	German soldier
Chris Finch	...	German Soldier
Paul Sacks	...	Easy Company jeep driver
James Alley Jr.	...	Himself
Brendan Carr	...	German Soldier
Lynn 'Buck' Compton	...	Himself
James Embree	...	Easy Company sergeant (uncredited)
Brandon Firla	...	Lt. Brewer
Chris Geere	...	German Soldier
Lester Hashey	...	Himself
Philip Hayden	...	Corporal
Moose Heyliger	...	Himself
Bruce Lawrence	...	Medic (uncredited)
Joe Lesniewski	...	Himself
Ben Loyd-Holmes	...	Pvt Macintosh
Logan Marshall-Green	...	Captured German (uncredited)
Bill Maynard	...	Himself
Earl McClung	...	Himself
Dean Mitchell	...	American Soldier (uncredited)
Mark Oosterveen	...	Camp prisoner (uncredited)
John Perkins	...	German Soldier (uncredited)
Norman Campbell Rees	...	German prisoner (uncredited)
Paul Rogers	...	Himself
Mike Savva	...	Easy Company Officer (uncredited)
J.B. Stokes	...	Himself
Buck Taylor	...	Himself
Ed Tipper	...	Himself
Tim Wildgoose	...	Prisoner
Robert 'Popeye' Wynn	...	Himself
Joanna Gonet	...	Choir Girl #12

Runtime:

55 min (DVD version)

Trivia:

The music for the end credits in this episode are different and more somber than the other episodes, using a string only orchestra, rather than a full orchestra.

Goofs:

Factual errors: Two German children watch the parade of German POWs from a bridge and talk about the passing American armor. One of the children says "Schau mal, es hat da gerade ein Flugzeug abgeschossen", which means "look, a plane has just been shot" and is obviously not the case. The other child answers "Wow, cool!" which would definitely not be said by a five-year-old German in 1945.