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The Pacific

★ 8.3 147K votes 2010–2010 1 season · 10 episodes Ended HBO
War & militaryArmed conflict and the soldier's experience.This show: 10/10Graphic violenceExplicit, unflinching violence.This show: 9/10Event miniseriesPrestige limited television built as an event.This show: 9/10Real historyReal historical events and figures woven into the story.This show: 9/10GrittyRaw, unglamorous realism in both look and subject matter.This show: 9/10Emotionally heavyDemands real emotional stamina from the viewer.This show: 9/10Period pieceSet meaningfully in a past era.This show: 9/10Big-budget spectacleBlockbuster-scale production values.This show: 8/10
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Starring
James Badge DaleJoseph MazzelloJon SedaAshton HolmesJosh HelmanRami Malek
Starring
James Badge DaleJoseph MazzelloJon SedaAshton HolmesJosh HelmanRami Malek
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About

"War's cost told through exhaustion, not glory"

A ten-part HBO miniseries from the team behind Band of Brothers, following U.S. Marines through the brutal island-hopping campaigns of World War II's Pacific theater, drawn largely from real memoirs. It trades the earlier show's tight unit camaraderie for a grimmer, more fragmented look at combat's psychological toll, jumping between a few key men rather than one cohesive squad. The pace is heavy and deliberate, the violence unflinching, and the mood despairing rather than heroic. It rewards patience with some of the most visceral, unglamorous war filmmaking made for television.

Watch it for

the unflinching, immersive combat sequences that capture the sheer physical and mental toll of island warfare.

Maybe skip if

you want the tighter camaraderie and momentum of Band of Brothers rather than a bleaker, more fractured story.

Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.

All Seasons

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Miniseries2010
8.131K109h 2m
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1Guadalcanal/Leckie7.9
4K52 min
▶2Basilone8.2
3K50 min
▶3Melbourne7.4
4K56 min
▶4Gloucester/Pavuvu/Banika7.6
3K54 min
▶5Peleliu Landing8.1
3K49 min
▶6Peleliu Airfield8.5
3K50 min
▶7Peleliu Hills8.4
3K55 min
▶8Iwo Jima8.1
3K57 min
▶9Okinawa8.7
3K58 min
▶10Home8.2
3K61 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

James Badge Dale PFC Robert Leckie
Joseph Mazzello PFC Eugene Sledge
Jon Seda Sgt. John Basilone
Ashton Holmes PFC Sidney Phillips
Josh Helman PFC Lew 'Chuckler' Juergens
Rami Malek PFC Merriell 'Snafu' Shelton
Martin McCann Cpl. R.V. Burgin
Keith Nobbs PFC Wilbur 'Runner' Conley
Toby Leonard Moore Sgt. Stone
Tom Hanks Narrator

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