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The Pacific

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Season 0

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  3: Profiles of The Pacific: John Basilone

  Acquaint yourself with six of the real Marines whose lives are depicted in The Pacific, hear intimate accounts of their personalities and experiences, meet their surviving families and, in some cases, hear from the soldiers themselves.

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  4: Profiles of The Pacific: Eugene Sledge

  Acquaint yourself with six of the real Marines whose lives are depicted in The Pacific, hear intimate accounts of their personalities and experiences, meet their surviving families and, in some cases, hear from the soldiers themselves.

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  5: Profiles of The Pacific: Robert Leckie

  Acquaint yourself with six of the real Marines whose lives are depicted in The Pacific, hear intimate accounts of their personalities and experiences, meet their surviving families and, in some cases, hear from the soldiers themselves.

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  6: Profiles of The Pacific: Sidney Phillips

  Acquaint yourself with six of the real Marines whose lives are depicted in The Pacific, hear intimate accounts of their personalities and experiences, meet their surviving families and, in some cases, hear from the soldiers themselves.

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  7: Profiles of The Pacific: R.V. Burgin

  Acquaint yourself with six of the real Marines whose lives are depicted in The Pacific, hear intimate accounts of their personalities and experiences, meet their surviving families and, in some cases, hear from the soldiers themselves.

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  8: Profiles of The Pacific: Chuck Tatum

  Acquaint yourself with six of the real Marines whose lives are depicted in The Pacific, hear intimate accounts of their personalities and experiences, meet their surviving families and, in some cases, hear from the soldiers themselves.

• _{Thursday, February 25th, 2010}

  1: Making of The Pacific

  Behind the scenes of HBO's highly anticipated new World War II miniseries "The Pacific." This introductory 20-minute feature offers a behind the scenes look into the exciting upcoming mini-series, featuring interviews with the cast and crew and various pieces of footage from the series.

• _{Thursday, February 25th, 2010}

  2: Anatomy of the Pacific War

  Explore the historical influences and cultural perceptions that led to the merciless brutality in the Pacific theater of World War II.

• _{Thursday, February 25th, 2010}

  9: Profiles of The Pacific

  Delve into the lives of the real Marines featured in The Pacific: Chuck Tatum, Eugene Sledge, John Basilone, Robert Leckie, Romus Valton RV Burgin, and Sidney Phillips.

Season 1

• _{Sunday, March 14th, 2010}

  1: Part One

  In the immediate aftermath of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Marine Sgt. John Basilone prepares to ship out and confront the enemy somewhere in the Pacific, while budding journalist Robert Leckie enlists in the Marine Corps. Eugene Sledge, unable to enlist because of a heart murmur, says farewell to his best friend, Sidney Phillips, who is about to leave for boot camp. Exactly eight months after Pearl Harbor, the 1st Marine Division, including Leckie and Phillips, lands on Guadalcanal in order to secure its strategically vital airfield and prepare for the inevitable counterattack.

• _{Sunday, March 21st, 2010}

  2: Part Two

  Basilone and the 7th Marines arrive on Guadalcanal to reinforce Leckie and the rest of the 1st Marine Division as they continue to defend the crucial airstrip. Basilone plays a key role in repelling a nighttime Japanese attack, but suffers a frightful personal loss. After four months of continuous action, the exhausted and disease-ridden members of the 1st Marine Division are evacuated off the island.

• _{Sunday, March 28th, 2010}

  3: Part Three

  Physically and mentally debilitated after the four-month ordeal on Guadalcanal, Leckie, Basilone and thousands of their comrades land in Melbourne, where they are greeted by adoring crowds and viewed as the saviors of Australia. While his buddies carouse, Leckie becomes deeply attached to an Australian woman and her first-generation Greek family. Meanwhile, Basilone is awarded the Medal of Honor and is asked to return home to help sell U.S. war bonds.

• _{Sunday, April 4th, 2010}

  4: Part Four

  Finally enlisted as a Marine, Sledge trains for combat at Camp Elliott. The 1st Marine Division lands at Cape Gloucester on the Japanese-held island of New Britain. As Leckie and the other Marines battle the Japanese, they quickly realize that the more ominous enemy is the smothering jungle itself. Having survived Gloucester and stationed on the godforsaken island of Pavuvu, Leckie begins displaying the physical and mental effects of combat and is sent to a naval hospital on nearby Banika for psychiatric observation.

• _{Sunday, April 11th, 2010}

  5: Part Five

  Basilone’s celebrity grows as he travels across the country on the war bonds tour. On Pavuvu, Sledge, assigned to the 5th Marines, 1st Marine Division, is briefly reunited with Phillips and Leckie rejoins his company. Sledge then gets his first taste of combat as he, Leckie, and the rest of the 1st Marine Division meet fierce Japanese resistance while landing on the intricately and heavily defended coral island of Peleliu.

• _{Sunday, April 18th, 2010}

  6: Part Six

  Despite the suffocating 115-degree heat and a lack of clean drinking water, Sledge, Leckie and the other Marines confront the highly-fortified enemy as they attempt to capture the Peleliu airfield. After seeing his comrades badly injured, Leckie himself is wounded and evacuated from the island. Sledge witnesses the shocking truth about what is sometimes required to survive and fight another day.

• _{Sunday, April 25th, 2010}

  7: Part Seven

  The Marines, including the newly christened “Sledgehammer,” continue the battle of Peleliu against an enemy determined to fight to the last man. Devastated by the loss of a revered leader, and witnessing unimaginable barbarity on both sides, Sledge veers to the very edge of moral collapse. Their objective finally secured, the Marines return to Pavuvu fundamentally changed by their experience on Peleliu.

• _{Sunday, May 2nd, 2010}

  8: Part Eight

  Increasingly frustrated by his role campaigning for war bonds, Basilone convinces the Marines to allow him to train troops headed for combat. Transferred to Camp Pendleton, he enjoys a whirlwind romance with an initially reluctant female Marine, Lena Riggi. But the couple know they are living on borrowed time, as Basilone is soon to take part in the Marine landing on Iwo Jima.

• _{Sunday, May 9th, 2010}

  9: Part Nine

  After battling across the island of Okinawa for more than a month, Sledge and the rest of the 1st Marine Division are ordered to relieve an Army division that has been in combat against the most strongly defended Japanese position on the island. The primordial conditions and the moral dilemma posed by the presence of civilians put tremendous strain on the physical and psychological endurance of Sledge and the other Marines.

• _{Sunday, May 16th, 2010}

  10: Part Ten

  After the Japanese surrender, Leckie, healed from his wounds, leaves the hospital and returns home, while Sledge heads back to Alabama to be reunited with his family and Sid Phillips. Lena visits Basilone’s home and has an emotional meeting with his family. Leckie adjusts to post-war life by resuming his old job and starting a new relationship, but for Sledge, unsure why he survived the war seemingly unscathed, adjustment will require more time.