101st Airborne Division - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

  • 1949 movie Battleground followed the 327th Glider Infantry
  • 1956 movie Screaming Eagles depicted a small unit on D-Day
  • 1967 movie The Dirty Dozen, set in World War II sets the "Dirty Dozen" against the "best" of the 101st Airborne to prove their worth
  • 1977 movie A Bridge Too Far features the 101st Airborne
  • 1987 John Irvin movie Hamburger Hill, set in May 1969 during the Vietnam War
  • 1998 movie Saving Private Ryan's title character is a soldier in the 101st Airborne division. In addition, Miller's men encounter pathfinders from the 101st in a village
  • 1998 movie The Siege starring Denzel Washington has the 101st Airborne division occupying and sealing off Brooklyn under martial law
  • 2001 TV series Band of Brothers, chronicling the exploits of Easy Company, 2nd Battalion 506th PIR, 101st Airborne Division, in the Second World War in Europe from Operation Overlord through V-J Day.
  • 2002 video game Medal of Honor: Frontline.
  • 2003 television series The West Wing episode "Inauguration: Over There" has the 101st Airborne deployed alongside the 82nd Airborne Division to the fictional country of Equatorial Kundu to stop a genocide
  • 2003 video game Call of Duty, the player belonged to the division in the first campaign. Furthermore, the logo of the 'Screaming Eagles' appears in the loading screen
  • 2004 video game Conflict: Vietnam
  • 2006 the real-time strategy game Company of Heroes features Airborne troops who occasionally yell "screamin' eagles"
  • 2007 documentary movie I Am an American Soldier followed C co, 3 BCT during its tour of duty in Iraq in 2006.
  • 2007 video game Team Fortress 2's soldier class yells the words "Screamin' Eagles" occasionally on a taunt or critical hit
  • 2008 video game EndWar as a selectable battalion
  • 2010 movie Valentine's Day features Julia Roberts as a captain in the 101st Airborne Division
  • 2010 song Screaming Eagles of the Swedish Power Metal band Sabaton on their album Coat Of Arms goes about the 101st and the Siege of Bastogne
  • In the 2011 movie Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Major William Lennox tells the soldiers under his command to "notify the 101st Airborne. We need to hunt this thing down!" after Sentinel Prime violently takes the pillars from the NEST base in Washington D.C.
  • In the TV series Bones Seeley Booth is a former master sergeant of the 101st Airborne Division
  • The video game series Brothers in Arms
  • The books Soldiers for the Truth and About Face by Colonel David Hackworth
  • The books Band of Brothers by Stephen E. Ambrose and Biggest Brother by Major Dick Winters

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