“One of the greatest scenes in television history” – historian raves about a series by Steven Spielberg

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A historian watched various films and placed them in a historical context, with a series by Steven Spielberg receiving particular praise.

Who is it about?

  • Daniel Robert Snow, better known as “Dan Snow” is an English historian.
  • Snow runs the History Channel and YouTube channel “History Hit”, on which he discusses and classifies historical events
  • At History Hit, Snow also occasionally talks about historical films and how accurately they are implemented
  • History Hit has around 1.27 million subscribers on YouTube. The channel’s videos regularly reach hundreds of thousands of views. The most watched video on History Hit has been seen 8.6 million times.

    • Which series does the historian rave about? Snow talked about D-Day films in a YouTube video from June 2024. He also talked about Steven Spielberg’s miniseries “Band of Brothers”, which was first broadcast in Germany in 2003 (US premiere was in 2001).

    The series covers the events of the Second World War between 1942 and 1945 from the perspective of a company of the US armed forces. This company landed in Normandy on June 6, 1944 and was thus part of D-Day.

    As the video progresses, Snow comes to a scene that he then praises. The events follow a small group of soldiers whose job it is to specifically eliminate German positions. They sneak through the terrain and fight their way to their enemy’s artillery positions in order to then destroy them.

    If you like Spielberg’s works, “War of the Worlds” is always worth a look:

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    “One of the best scenes in television history”

    What does the historian say about the scene? Dan Snow calls the scene “one of the greatest scenes in television history” and then explains that the scene is very historically accurate due to the soundscape, the role of the soldiers and the way the actors moved.

    I think that’s one of the greatest scenes in television history. They went to enormous lengths to make sure it was very accurate.

    The actors have had the kind of training, the tactical training that these men would have had. The sound design and the weapons are accurate. They fired World War II weapons to create an accurate soundscape. And it shows the importance of small units of well-trained and well-led men, all playing their part on D-Day.

    And it is the sum of all these small actions that resulted in D-Day being a success and the Allies suffering fewer casualties than they had feared when they reached the beaches.

    Historian Dan Snow on History Hit on YouTube

    It has long been known that Spielberg put the actors in Band of Brothers through rigorous training to prepare for the series. The training included typical aspects of soldier training such as a five-mile morning run, firearms drills, tactical maneuvers, simulated firefights and orienteering.

    You can read more about the training of Band of Brother from our colleagues at Filmstarts: “We have no more strength”: Steven Spielberg sent the actors of his war series through hell

    In addition to Band of Brothers, Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan is still considered one of the best and most historically accurate war films of all time. Tom Hanks, who played one of the main roles in the film, was one of the producers of Band of Brothers alongside Spielberg.

    Tom Hanks had to put in a lot of effort for his role in the film “Forrest Gump”. The famous scenes in the film in which he runs across the country were filmed for 27 days straight, reports the 68-year-old: Tom Hanks won an Oscar for running across the country: “We filmed for 27 days straight.”

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