Two movies arrived in the mail today for us from the Wal-Mart DVD club: Band of Brothers disc 3, and Band of Brothers disc 4.

Band of Brothers is an HBO miniseries about the US Army's Airbourne Paratrooper rifle division Easy Company, and their mission in WWII France during Operation Overlord.

It was produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, and based on the book Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne From Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest by Stephen E. Ambrose.

A lot of money was spent on sets, special effects, props, etc. in order to get a very realistic look.

There are 10 episodes, and on disc 1 and 2 there have been two episodes per disc, but there are 6 discs in the collection instead of 5, so maybe the last disk is a special 2 hour final episode.

HBO maintains a very informative and historically accurate site about the events portrayed in the series.

It has received a lot of awards and is highly rated. Very good and I highly recommend it.