The Pacific

"Hell was an ocean away."

7.8(2,404 votes)

2010 - 2010

60m per episode

Ended1 Season10 Episodes

DramaAction & AdventureWar & Politics

Track the intertwined real-life stories of three U.S. Marines – Robert Leckie, John Basilone, and Eugene Sledge – across the vast canvas of the Pacific Theater during World War II. A companion piece to the 2001 miniseries Band of Brothers.

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Show Details

Created by:

Bruce C. McKenna

Network:

HBO

Country:US

Languages

Original:en

Spoken:

English

Seasons

Miniseries

10 episodes

7.6

2010

Cast

James Badge Dale

Robert Leckie

Jon Seda

John Basilone

Joseph Mazzello

Eugene Sledge

Ashton Holmes

PFC Sidney Phillips

Jacob Pitts

PFC Bill 'Hoosier' Smith

Rami Malek

PFC Merriell 'Snafu' Shelton

William Sadler

Lt Col. Lewis 'Chesty' Puller

Jon Bernthal

Sgt. Manuel 'Manny' Rodriguez

Matt Craven

Dr. Grant

Noel Fisher

Pvt. Hamm

Caroline Dhavernas

Vera Keller

Brendan Fletcher

Bill Leyden

Reviews

GenerationofSwine

10/10

Well, it is no where as good as Band of Brothers, but the focus is too different. It doesn't stay on a single company and because of that, you kind of don't get what you expected... ...and what you expected is Band of Brothers in the Pacific theater and, well, without the same company to follow through the war, it doesn't give you that feel of brotherhood that made Band of Brothers so loved. However, you do get a sense of how brutal it was, much more so than the European theater. And that is another source of complaints. People thought it was carnage candy when, the Pacific was actually just carnage. So, really, its a misunderstood cousin.

1/12/2023

8.6

Band of Brothers

2001

Drawn from interviews with survivors of Easy Company, as well as their journals and letters, Band of Brothers chronicles the experiences of these men from paratrooper training in Georgia through the end of the war. As an elite rifle company parachuting into Normandy early on D-Day morning, participants in the Battle of the Bulge, and witness to the horrors of war, the men of Easy knew extraordinary bravery and extraordinary fear - and became the stuff of legend. Based on Stephen E. Ambrose's acclaimed book of the same name.

7.9

Generation Kill

2008

The first 40 days of the war in Iraq as seen through the eyes of an elite group of U.S. Marines who spearheaded the invasion along with an embedded Rolling Stone reporter. A vivid account of the soldiers and of the forces that guided them in an often-improvised initiative.

7.8

Masters of the Air

2024

During World War II, airmen risk their lives with the 100th Bomb Group, a brotherhood forged by courage, loss, and triumph.

6.8

The Stand

1994

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8.3

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

2005

Four egocentric friends run a neighborhood Irish pub in Philadelphia and try to find their way through the adult world of work and relationships. Unfortunately, their warped views and precarious judgments often lead them to trouble, creating a myriad of uncomfortable situations that usually only get worse before they get better.

8.2

Rome

2005

A down-to-earth account of the lives of both illustrious and ordinary Romans set in the last days of the Roman Republic.

8.0

Generation War

2013

Five young German friends promise to meet again after WW2 ends, but soon their naive wishes of peace and happiness will become a long and tragic nightmare.

8.3

Life

2009

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7.1

The Liberator

2020

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8.2

The Vietnam War

2017

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8.3

Long Way Round

2004

In 2004 Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman embarked on an epic challenge to bike 20,000-miles across 12 countries and 19 time zones in just 115 days. Watch as two friends ride around the world together and, against all the odds, realize their dream.

6.9

The Forgotten Army