The Pacific: Complete HBO Series [Blu-ray]

Executive produced by Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg and Gary Goetzman, The Pacific is an epic ten-part miniseries from HBO and the team that made Band of Brothers.The Pacifictracks the intertwined real-life stories of three U.S Marines, RobertLeckie, John Basilone and Eugene Sledge across the vast canvas of thePacific Theater during World War 2. The miniseries follows these menand their fellow Marines from their first battle with the Japanese onGuadalcanal, through the rain forests of Cape Gloucester and thestrongholds of Peleliu, across the bloody sands of Iwo Jima and throughthe horror of Okinawa, and finally to their triumphant but uneasyreturn home after V-J Day.The Pacific is primarily based on two memoirs of US Marines, Eugene Sledge's With The Old Breed: At Peleliu And Okinawa and Robert Leckie's Helmet For My Pillow. The series also draws on Eugene Sledge's China Marine and Chuck Tatum's Red Blood, Black Sand, as well as original interviews conducted by the filmmakers.