Pacific, The (TV Series)

Aroview: Searing, no-expense-spared follow-up to the Tom Hanks/Steven Spielberg-produced BAND OF BROTHERS shifts its epic perspective to the Pacific theatre of war, where the experiences of three newly enlisted marines are documented across such grueling battlegrounds as Guadalcanal and Iwo Jima.

A more involving character piece based on the memoirs of the central protagonists, this forgoes the conventional heroism and arousing combat sequences of the preceding WWII series to focus bleakly, and in the tradition of great anti-war dramas, on the pointlessness of war and its dehumanizing effects.