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The Breaking Point

Episode aired Oct 14, 2001
TV-MATV-MA
1h 9m

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9.4/10

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Easy Company remains in the Ardennes Forest preparing for an inevitable attack on German forces in the town of Foy. However, morale is low due to cold weather, constant shelling, poor leader... Read allEasy Company remains in the Ardennes Forest preparing for an inevitable attack on German forces in the town of Foy. However, morale is low due to cold weather, constant shelling, poor leadership, and numerous casualties.Easy Company remains in the Ardennes Forest preparing for an inevitable attack on German forces in the town of Foy. However, morale is low due to cold weather, constant shelling, poor leadership, and numerous casualties.

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9.4/10

8.2K

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- David Frankel
- Stephen Ambrose(based on the book by)
- Graham Yost
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Donnie Wahlberg in Band of Brothers (2001)

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Trivia
The artillery shelling that Easy Company endured in this episode included air bursts in the trees. The special effects to make this realistic were quite complicated and were detailed in a complete article about the series in TV Guide at the time of its original airing.

Goofs
During scenes with Dick Winters, he is seen sitting under a canopy and surrounded by sandbags. The truth is there were no sandbags and canopies in Bastogne. He was dug in and sleeping in foxholes like the rest of the 101st Airborne. (He is actually in a bombed out structure, and what appear to be sandbags are the stones of the walls.)

Quotes
C. Carwood Lipton: [Voiceover, during Speirs' rush across enemy lines in Foy] At first the Germans didn't shoot at him. I think they couldn't quite believe what they were seeing. But that wasn't the really astounding thing. The astounding thing was, after he hooked up with I Company, he came back.

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Main Theme
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Composed by Michael Kamen
Performed by The London Metropolitan Orchestra

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10/10

The greatest episode of TV ever produced

It's that simple, this is the most heart breaking, awe inspiring, visually stunning and downright astonishing episode of television ever created. A genuine masterpiece from minute one all the way until the end.

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