The ideology of brotherhood is seen by soldiers putting their lives at risk to save others as is a underlying view of Spielberg's. His is also renowned for other Second World War films, Schindlers List being a very important to him. It's a powerful true-life story of a man who became the saviour of more than one thousand Jews in wartime Poland also used the ideology of brotherhood, banding together to survive. Steven Spielberg, an assimilated American Jew had never dealt with his ethnicity on film before, and critics, who never thought him so dark or wrenching, were floored by the results. Filmed in black and white, with deliberate lack of Hollywood' gloss, it earned Spielberg the greatest accolades of his career. .
The television series Band of Brothers has a massive emphasis on the representation of American soldiers. Based on a book by Stephen E. Ambrose named Band of Brothers, its narrative describes the experiences of members of an elite company from their start as raw recruits to battle hardened soldiers, and tells it from a very personal point of view. In the television series there is a reoccurring format, every episode having a lead character where the audience sees the war from their point of view. This way the audience gets to see very different representations. Recent war films such as Saving Private Ryan and also in the television series Band Of Brothers' have a mixture of races represented. Motion pictures reflect not simply the state of cinema but also the nature of their creators and the culture in which they are made. Thus is not surprising that war films, like other film genres, often have variations in different times and places. Janine Basinger, author of The World War Two Combat Film: Anatomy Of Genre', reveals among other details how Hollywood invented the squad or other military team which was supposed to reflect American ethnic and regional diversity; the wise cracker from Brooklyn to drawling Southerner and the Midwestern farm boy, the Protestant, the Catholic and the Jewish American.
