The Pacific

Veteran Sergeant John Basilone ships out soon after Pearl Harbor for Guadalcanal while other young enlistees are sent to boot camp.

Stars: James Badge Dale, Joseph Mazzello, Jon Seda
Director(s): Timothy Van Patten
Writer(s): Bruce C. McKenna, Robert Leckie, Eugene Sledge

Outmanned and with supplies low, Basilone and other marines on Guadacanal rally to repel superior Japanese forces.

Stars: James Badge Dale, Joseph Mazzello, Jon Seda
Director(s): David Nutter
Writer(s): Bruce C. McKenna, Robert Leckie, Eugene Sledge

After arduous months in Guadalcanal, exhausted marines are given rest and recreation in Melbourne, where they find the girls friendly and the beer cold.

Stars: James Badge Dale, Joseph Mazzello, Jon Seda
Director(s): Jeremy Podeswa
Writer(s): George Pelecanos, Michelle Ashford, Robert Leckie

After leaving Melbourne, the weather works against the leathernecks as Leckie falls seriously ill and Sledge gets assigned to New Britain.

Stars: James Badge Dale, Joseph Mazzello, Jon Seda
Director(s): Graham Yost
Writer(s): Robert Schenkkan, Graham Yost, Robert Leckie

Basilone's fame keeps him in the U.S. selling war bonds, Leckie rejoins his company, and Sledge is reunited with Phillips in Pavuvu.

Stars: James Badge Dale, Joseph Mazzello, Jon Seda
Director(s): Carl Franklin
Writer(s): Laurence Andries, Bruce C. McKenna, Robert Leckie

Water is in short supply and the stifling heat takes control on Peleliu as Leckie is wounded and evacuated.

Stars: James Badge Dale, Joseph Mazzello, Jon Seda
Director(s): Tony To
Writer(s): Bruce C. McKenna, Laurence Andries, Robert Schenkkan

Sledge finds the carnage and death of his companions on Peleilu increasingly difficult to bear as Basilone continues his bond drive in the States.

Stars: James Badge Dale, Joseph Mazzello, Jon Seda
Director(s): Timothy Van Patten
Writer(s): Bruce C. McKenna, Robert Leckie, Eugene Sledge

Frustrated with his bond selling tour, Basilone goes back to training troops and after marrying a pretty marine sergeant, leads his men at Iwo Jima.

Stars: James Badge Dale, Joseph Mazzello, Jon Seda
Director(s): David Nutter, Jeremy Podeswa
Writer(s): Robert Schenkkan, Michelle Ashford, Robert Leckie

The 1st Marine Division fight a determined Japanese force on Okinawa who prefer death to surrender and are indifferent to the lives of Okinawan civilians.

Stars: James Badge Dale, Joseph Mazzello, Jon Seda
Director(s): Timothy Van Patten
Writer(s): Bruce C. McKenna, Robert Leckie, Eugene Sledge

After V-J Day Leckie and Sledge return home and try to readjust to civilian life.

Stars: James Badge Dale, Joseph Mazzello, Jon Seda
Director(s): Jeremy Podeswa
Writer(s): Bruce C. McKenna, Robert Schenkkan, Robert Leckie