is company of heroes movie based on a true story

The film in an effort to reach out to a wider audience, should have toned down the profanity, which is heavy even for a modern PG-13 movie. Only cons I have are ones I had to nit-pick.

Beautiful Arizona scenery surrounds the key players and their fellow crew members as they battle an only-slightly-predictable threat. The movie focuses more on their lives and relationships than the actual firefighting, but it does contain a fair amount of action. The most efficient aspects of the film are the acting, storytelling, and cinematography. This is based on an actual crew, their lives and relationships with each other and their families, along with the work they bear, the hardships they endure, and the fires they face.

Hotshots also literally fight fire with fire, opposed to regular firefighters who fight fire with water. These men train for years and when they meet certain requirements, are given qualifications to be labeled as 'Hotshots,' which seems to be the equivalent of an actuary obtaining their Fellowship, or a boy scout achieving his Eagle Scout, or a junior varsity becoming varsity (or a varsity obtaining their Letter). Their primary goal is to save as much land and lives as possible, as well as homes, from massive fires. This is the story of a special group of trained firefighters in dealing specifically with forest/brush fires. Since it's nonfiction, I knew it wouldn't be your typical cookie-cutter type narrative, but I still expected it, and was blown away by the tragic events, and the extraordinary way it was presented on screen. I went into this movie only based on what I saw in the trailer. Not everybody has heard the true story this movie is based on.

Is company of heroes movie based on a true story