Band of Brothers (Original Soundtrack)

Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks have produced an epic 10-part World War II mini-series in association with HBO.

Band of Brothers is a true story adapted from the best selling book by Stephen Ambrose and will be screened on TV1 in early October until the end of November 2001.

Band of Brothers tells the story of Easy Company, 506th Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division, US Army.

Starting with their rigorous training in Georgia in 1942, it recounts the achievements of the elite rifle company, which parachuted into France early on D-Day morning, fought in the Battle of the Bulge, and captured Hilter's Eagle's Nest at Berchtesgaden. Drawn from hours of interviews with survivors, as well as soldiers' journals and letters, Band of Brothers chronicles a unit that took 150 percent casualties and became true heroes.

Band of Brothers was an enormous project, with a budget of around seventy million pounds, a nine-month shooting schedule, a speaking cast of 50 and no less than 2000 extras. DreamWorks used Hatfield Studios as the logistical base, the old 800-acre British aerospace compound where Saving Private Ryan was filmed. Villages and towns in Belgium, Holland and France, as well as a training camp in Georgia, had been meticulously recreated on the airfield under the £10 million construction budget. Apart from a fortnight of filming in Switzerland, the entire series was shot in Southern England.

Grammy award-winning composer, Michael Kamen (Mr. Holland's Opus, Lethal Weapon, X-Men, and Frequency), has written a dramatic and stirring large scale orchestral work with choir.

Kamen's music captures both the epic tragedy of WWII and the intimate tone of comradery among men.