Band of Brothers Filming Locations Then and Now
Band of Brothers was a ground breaking mini-series from Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks released on HBO in 2001. Filming took place mostly in England during 2000 and one of the locations that features heavily in Episode 1 and 3 is the village of Hambleden in Buckinghamshire. Hambleden was used to represent the village of Albourne in Wiltshire, the wartime home of the Band of Brothers prior to their jump into the Netherlands for Operation Market Garden.
In this episode of WW2 Wayfinder, I travel to Hambleden and look at the locations used during the filming of Band of Brothers, and talk through some of the key scenes an travel around the area to find more notable locations used in the filming of Band of Brothers.
This is the second in my Then and Now series looking at filming locations for WW2 related films and series so I hope you enjoy this look at Band of Brothers and the filming locations!
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Great video!
The actor next to Donny Wahlberg at the gate appears to be Sergeant Grant – Nolan Hemmings.
I also proudly possess an original copy of a BoB episode script, by the way.
The two camera crew in your photo are, operator Chris Plevin and 1st. AC Alex Howe… They are still working hard to this day and we all have great memories of working on the show. So glad that the series is still held up as one of the greats. The main base for the show was the old De Havilland factory in Hatfield, same place as used in Saving Private Ryan. Sadly mostly all gone for industrial buildings and housing. Most of the exterior set builds were on the old airfield site and the main set was reconfigured from a Normandy French town through to eventually a German town as the show progressed. Lots of locations around Hertfordshire, Hatfield and old Welwyn. Some of the final episode was shot around Interlaken, Switzerland.
Just rewatched the series
This is brilliantly done, really enjoyed it. The drone shots really help make sense of the orientation of everything, with lovely close-up detail too. Must have been great for such a big fan as yourself to see all those spots in person.
Great video.
Don't know if you saw it but Time Team did a dig at Aldbourne to find evidence of the Nissen huts etc. Tim Matthews who played Penkala appears in it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_RRt6B-dxY
Great video thanks. Some irrelevant information is Jon Lord of Deep Purple is buried in the church yard, whilst the Stag was made famous when David Cameron left without one of his children.
i used to work around hambleden quite frequently, it was well known through the grapevine that hambleden was widely used in TV/ film, in little britain there’s a scene where Davith walks down the main street, also nearby sleepy hollow was filmed, midsummer murders and not too far away is the windmill from chitty chitty bang bang. down the hill from the windmill is the vicar of dibbley’s church.
while watching BOB a while later i recognised hambleden in the back ground of those scenes! got very excited 😅
This guy is great. Love his enthusiasm and delivery. Thanks pal!🥃
Excellent presentation. Liked, subscribed, and rang that bell.
Great video! I know Hambleden very well (I was there yesterday!) and it is a truly beautiful place. Thanks also for confirming the location of the stable scenes. I had always suspected it was Colstrope Farm but everybody I asked about it, just stared at me blankly! On which subject, the owner is currently restoring the grade II listed stable blocks and outbuildings as they were in a poor state of repair. So they should remain recognisable as a BoB location for many years to come. Hambleden village is frequently used as a film location and the porta cabin and vehicles in the field at 20:22 were left over from a major film production which was in the process of demobilising when you visited.
Well done Sir, really liked the comparison's striking village beautiful thanks again 👍
Very interesting and so nice to see not much has changed. Im actually pretty local to these villages and one of my mates lived in Ramsbury and another in Hungerford
Always wanted this video to be made, and here it is
Some of the original stable billets are in an indoor museum display in Taccoa, Georgia, not to far from Curahee.
Beautiful village, I'll have to watch BOB again, been a while since I've seen it 🤝
I'm really enjoying watching your before and after photo scene's from "Band of Brothers".
Great video. I want them to make another series similar to BOB. So many interesting stories to tell.
This is brilliant iam a big fan of the series and was a driver in France for the 2014 band of Brothers reunion so meet a lot of them so seeing this it's great well done you always put so much into your films .many thanks.
Look at 'Going to the movies' on saving Private Ryan,, he seems to have done some good work.
di nonton sampe berapa kali pun series ini tak pernah membosankan.
What a beautiful place this small village is. I really love these location walkdowns. I did this recently for the GOT locations in Northern Ireland. It is surprising how much a film crew can make out of a relatively small area and make it appear in the movie as if they had travelled the world for these location. Really great video you made here.
Another great one! Thank you. There are a few scenes that I’ve always wondered about when I watch the show. The scene when the guys were playing basketball in Aldbourne and Randleman throws the basketball off the back of the jeep. It was just such a funny scene. It really makes you realize that these were just kids. I’ve always wondered if that was an ad Lib. And I always thought that Alton More and Malarkey were genuinely surprised to see that truck come around the corner. They seemed genuinely surprised, and it appeared so real to me. And I always took the elderly gentleman who Winters “captured” to be a veteran of WW1. I think that was the reason for the respect and the tip of the cap from Winters. Maybe I’m reading too much into those scenes and it was just good acting.😂
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Lipton is with Floyd M. Talbert, portrayed by Matthew Leitch.