We band of brothers

Hello. Having been recently posessed by an unstoppable urge to make a blog post (or 5), I thought I'd ask around to see how many of us are familiar with the HBO series "Band of Brothers", and what those so familiar think of it as an educational resource.

To put it succinctly B.O.B. is to super-high quality war tv drama what "Saving Private Ryan" was to war cinema; in fact there are many shared production credits, with Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg heading the bill once more. It follows a cast of characters (Easy Company) as they fight through the war, with every episode being preceeded by interviews with veterans of the company on the episodes' subjects. To sweeten the deal there is another series due to air in march called "The Pacific", made by the same people, which deals in (one can assume) similar assiduous detail for the Pacific theatre.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pacific_(miniseries)

The B.O.B. episodes are fairly long, which might dictate breaking them up if you wanted to show them, and fairly graphic at times, but do a really good job of personalizing the war in the european theatre, en mon avi. I would certainly consider them a potential resource going forward, but wonder what other people may think of them. Thanks.