Band of Brothers , 10 - episode TV series , describing the U.S. 101st Army Airborne Division troops E with the true story of their participation in the first day of the mission of the Allied offensive , and the subsequent war in Europe as a whole . The entire film is a change from the best-selling book by Stephen Ambrose . "Band of Brothers " sent to the sympathy of the artist on the bottom of the soldiers of war , admiration and appreciation to the audience's thoughts and feelings given the role , which along with the role to savor all the brotherhood in the Drill-down picture of the battlefield , on the one hand, the audience to be attracted to return to the depths of history together with the role , the other hand, moved by an audience watching .