20 Most Intense TV Scenes Ever

3. The Liberation - Band Of Brothers

Band Of Brothers Liberation
HBO

One of the shows where you could point to an alarming number of moments of intensity, Band of Brothers' greatest came in the episode Why We Fight, saving its biggest moment for the ninth episode long before Game of Thrones trademarked the idea.

While the series depicted the horrors of war, it was mostly from the headspace of the Allied soldiers, which meant we experienced what they did, and didn't see the full extremes of the Nazi regime.

That is, until the soldiers come across something in the woods, and there's that fleeting moment of questioning before the true evils are revealed. The discovery of the camp, with dozens of prisoners near death and many more already dead, is as harrowing a moment as has been committed to screen, the almost unimaginable scale of human suffering laid bare for all to see.

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