After their transformative experience on 1998’s Saving Private Ryan, Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks found inspiration to continue their exploration of World War II in historian Stephen E. Ambrose’s best-selling book Band of Brothers, a recounting of the wartime experiences of the U.S. Army’s Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division.

The 10 episode limited series followed young American citizen-soldiers’ headlong rush through Basic Training and into the European Theatre’s D-Day, through the Battle of the Bulge, and all the way to the Eagles’ Nest—Hitler’s mountaintop fortress, this landmark series used long-format storytelling to immerse viewers in the lives of boys forged into men through the near-unfathomable crucible of a brutal war far from home.