Band of Brothers

Band of Brothers (2001)

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Day of Days - S1-E2

Revealing mistake: During the battle to take out the 88s, the camera pans to Lt. Winters reloading his M1 Garand. If you look closely, you can see he is loading blanks into his weapon. (00:31:29)

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Carentan - S1-E3

Revealing mistake: When the guy shoots a bazooka into the building near the start, the outline of the hole that will be blown into the building is visible before it blows up. (00:15:40)

Ssiscool

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Carentan - S1-E3

Revealing mistake: When trying to take the warehouse, we see a German machine gun position in a lower window. Pay close attention to the brickwork below the window. There are several marks visible that all end up with a bullet hole in the middle of them, hiding the charge for the effect. (00:14:30)

Ssiscool

Carentan - S1-E3

Revealing mistake: When taking the town near the start, we see a German sniper get killed. However, pay close attention and you will see the smoke effect hits way above his head. (00:14:20)

Ssiscool

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Currahee - S1-E1

Visible crew/equipment: When Sobel is being tricked out in the field about cutting the fence, his wet helmet reflects what seems to be a camera or filming equipment that is not visible in the wide shots. (00:38:05)

Ssiscool

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Currahee - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: When Nixon and Winters are interrupted by Wells, Wells has his hands by his side in one shot and clasped together in front of himself in the next. (00:29:00)

Ssiscool

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Replacements - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: Just after the Sherman has knocked down the telephone pole we see two German guys up on a roof. In the long shot there is a bullet hole in the brickwork in front of them and in the close up it's gone. (00:34:30)

Ssiscool

Replacements - S1-E4

Factual error: Miller states he got a "Presidential Unit Citation" ribbon as part of the Normandy landings. However until Jan 1957, it was called a Distinguished Unit Citation. (00:07:30)

Ssiscool

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Carentan - S1-E3

Revealing mistake: When the men are discussing if Spiers actually shot the prisoners we see a shot of German being shot in the knee, In this shot you can see the outline of the squib pack used for the effect. (00:26:50)

Ssiscool

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Suggested correction: The cord doesn't have to be fully removed for it to work so showing it like that is not a mistake. The grenade will smoke quite a bit if the primer is ignited so even if the cord isn't fully removed they'll know quickly enough the pull was hard enough to ignite it.

lionhead

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Day of Days - S1-E2

Continuity mistake: Winters, just before the assault on the 88 Battery, holds up his hand to give a signal to the other members of the team. Camera cuts and he makes the signal again. (00:29:10)

Ssiscool

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Currahee - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: When Winters sees all the NCOs leaving the office, he has a pencil upright in his right hand in the one shot and lays down in his left hand in the next. (00:46:40)

Ssiscool

Richard Winters: That night, I thanked God for seeing me through that day of days and prayed I would make it through D plus 1. I also promised that if some way I could get home again, I would find a nice peaceful town and spend the rest of my life in peace.

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Trivia: 40 members of the cast had to go through a ten day bootcamp in which they were called by their roles in the series. Their boot camp instructor, Captain Dale Dye, was also in charge of doing the bootcamp for the main cast of Saving Private Ryan. Dye played the role of Colonel Robert Sink in the series, and a Colonel in the war department in the film. Dale Dye has also starred in, and been a military advisor on many other TV series and films for years, he's an extremely well respected man in the film industry.

Kelsey H.

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Replacements - S1-E4

Question: When Bull is hiding in the barn after being hit by shrapnel, he takes something from the end of his rifle and bites a big chunk off it and starts chewing. What is this?

Kara

Answer: He bit off a piece of a cigar.

Chosen answer: It's chewing tobacco.

Paul Plesser

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