Extras who appeared in HBO's Band of Brothers talk about what it took to fill the background of one of television's most expensive war productions, shot on sets built in Hatfield, England. The film follows the people who never got a line or a credit but spent weeks in wool uniforms and mud, standing in for the soldiers of Easy Company during battle scenes and long days of waiting between takes. Interviews cover the physical grind of the shoot, the historical research some extras did on their own to understand the men they were representing, and the friendships that formed on set over months of shared discomfort. Rather than focus on the show's stars or its directors, the camera stays with the people usually left out of the story entirely, asking what it means to spend a production standing in the middle distance of someone else's war. It is a small, specific record of the labor behind a familiar screen image.