The Pacific

Another team up of Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg creates the miniseries, The Pacific. If you watched Band of Brothers like I did and thought that the horrors of war couldn't get any worse, then you have to watch The Pacific to be proven wrong. The Pacific makes painfully clear in its early episodes, the Marines that it follows had no idea what they were getting into. They were in the Pacific region to take out the Japanese enemy that attacked Pearl Harbor. That was a simple fact and that was all that they knew. The miniseries is very depressing actually. Much of the time the soldiers are drenched in rain, dying of sickness rather than wounds and when they did fight it was devastating situations. The creators of this miniseries didn't shy from showing really depressing realities about the war in the Pacific in World War II. At the end of Band of Brothers their was a happier note, but at the end of The Pacific you are left depressed and upset. The show is fantastic but it is difficult to watch. War is nothing to take lightly, it is shows like this that make us cringe, but we need to face reality sometime. 
Another Warning: Disturbing Content may be in here.