Band of Brothers: Disc 3 (2001)

Handling

PART 5 - CROSSROADS Winters leads a risky mission on a Dutch dike, resulting in a resounding victory, for which he is promoted to Battalion Executive Officer. Dissatisfied with his new, largely administrative job, Winters is concerned about the leadership within the three companies he now commands. After a weekend pass to Paris, news arrives of a massive Axis effort in the Ardennes Forest, threatening to break the Allied lines. Easy Company races to hold the line, though ill-equipped for the bitterly cold weather and the entrenched battle ahead. PART 6 - BASTOGNE In the dead of winter, in the forest outside of Bastogne, Belgium, the men of Easy Company struggle to hold the line alone while fending off frostbite and hunger, having arrived with no winter clothes, few supplies and little ammunition. Medic Eugene Roe is overwhelmed, on edge and close to combat exhaustion when he finds friendship with a Belgian nurse. Easy Company spends a miserable Christmas in the trenches, and receives the news that the German army’s demand to surrender was met with Gen. McAuliffe’s defiant answer: “Nuts!"