Brothers in Arms: True Stories of the 101st Airborne (2001)

It's fifteen minutes past midnight on June 6, 1944. A C-47 Dakota is just one of the Allied planes humming over the skies of Nazi-occupied France. Perched at the aircraft's open door is Captain Frank Lillyman, paratrooper pathfinder. His job? Light the way for the largest invasion in history. The aircraft jump light turns green and Lillyman leaps into the blackness over Normandy. From other invasion-stripped Dakotas, six thousand other paratroopers follow. Follow them through their dangerous stateside training sessions to the tension-filled moment of truth, D-Day. From that triumphant instant on, The Screaming Eagles become the "go to guys" in American warfare, playing key roles in World War II and Vietnam, where they are the last combat unit to leave that country.