Read out the infamously unbreakable Enigma code machine created and used by the German forces during World War II - fascinated at how Alan Turing and his staff at Bletchley Park cracked the code - but seeing one of the actual machin...

Were Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks successful in their return to World War II with the new HBO miniseries, The Pacific?

As Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg seek to remind us this week with The Pacific, another large-budgeted, ten-part HBO miniseries, World War II was truly the United States' greatest war — but has it inspired the best movies? We w...

Anyone willing to pony up their e-mail address can watch the first episode of HBO's Hanks and Spielberg–produced World War II drama for free — but just the first episode. They're hoping you'll get hooked and pay to see the rest. [HB...

Last night HBO rolled out their new mega-miniseries The Pacific, about Americans fighting in the Pacific theater of World War II. We had high hopes. Were we let down? More » ...

Last night HBO rolled out their new mega-miniseries The Pacific, about Americans fighting in the Pacific theater of World War II. We had high hopes. Were we let down? More » ...

(E01) Just as Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks collaborated with HBO in 2001 to bring us the European World War II epic 'Band of Brothers,' they've joined forces again to take us to the other side of the war with 'The Pacific.' Anoth...

While I was in New Orleans earlier this month, I went to a premiere screening of the first episode of The Pacific sponsored by the National World War II Museum. Tom Hanks, introducing the episode, said that the challenge in this min...

World War II mini-series debuts tonight.

THE MUDVILLE GAZETTE: Prelude to The Pacific. “What better way to prepare for a miniseries about the Pacific theater in World War II than watching an original propaganda film used to inform the troops and the American public on th...

It isn’t necessarily true in historical circles, but the Pacific campaign during World War II has mostly received short shrift from popular culture, as well as popular histories. Now HBO is going to remedy that shortcoming with a gi...

Conservatives won't be frustrated by this new HBO miniseries about World War II. ...

Like "Band of Brothers" nine years ago, HBO's World War II miniseries "The Pacific" is a massive achievement.

A documentary approach to Anne Frank’s life and diary; and a novel about Jewish refugee children during World War II.

This Sunday on HBO comes a television event that a great many people have been waiting years to see. In 2001, Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks collaborated on a 10-episode miniseries -- "Band of Brothers" -- following the trials and t...

I’m not going to go on a rant about Tom Hanks recent remarks about why we fought the Japanese during WWII, but I do have a comment or two to make.  He said: Back in World War II, we viewed the Japanese as ‘yellow, slant-eyed dogs’ t...

The actor's recent comments on World War II in the Pacific were ahistorical and ignorant. ...

From Victor Davis Hanson: Much has been written of the recent Tom Hanks remarks to Douglas Brinkley in a Time magazine interview about his upcoming HBO series on World War II in the Pacific. Here is the explosive excerpt that is mak...

If you watched the ten brutal episodes of HBO's Band of Brothers--in which war was not glorious but miserable, and death sudden and ignominious--you were probably not thinking that there was an even uglier side to World War II that ...

To mark the upcoming premiere of the World War II drama The Pacific and honor those who served in the war, HBO and a nonprofit group brought 250 veterans to the WWII memorial in Washington. The 10-part miniseries from Tom Hanks and ...