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About TV mini-series
Genres miniseries, drama, historical, war
Created by Tom Hanks
Written by Tom Hanks, Stephen E. Ambrose
Starring Simon Pegg, Tom Hardy, Michael Fassbender, David Schwimmer, James McAvoy, Jimmy Fallon, Dominic Cooper, Andrew Scott
Music Michael Kamen
Length 1 seasons, 10 episodes, 60 min each
Network HBO
Country United States
Links TMDB · IMDb · Letterboxd · Wikipedia · Wikidata
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