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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD Brand: MPI EAN: 9780788606113 Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Miniseries, NTSC ISBN: 0788606115 Label: Mpi Home Video Manufacturer: Mpi Home Video Number Of Items: 6 Publisher: Mpi Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: August 31, 2004 Running Time: 810 minutes Studio: Mpi Home Video Theatrical Release Date: November 13, 1988 Sales Rank: 26421 MPN: MPID7647D
Product Description: Mini series Studio: Mpi Home Video Release Date: 08/31/2004 Starring: Robert Mitchum Hart Cochner Run time: 810 minutes
Amazon.com: The ambitious TV event War and Remembrance was the final opus in the golden age of the maxi-miniseries. This six-disc set offers the first half (seven episodes) of ABC's mammoth 30-hour production of Herman Wouk's bestseller--itself a sequel to the landmark Winds of War--mixing fictional and real characters around the events of World War II. It starts a week after the attack on Pearl Harbor and abruptly stops in July 1943 with the fall of Mussolini. Only half of the first series' lead actors return, including Robert Mitchum as the patriarch Captain "Pug" Henry. Although Mitchum is too old and less dashing than he should be, his presence is exactly what the series needs as it wavers between pop entertainment and a graphic look at the atrocities of war. The series' multiple storylines branch from the Henry family tree, from his sons' naval battles to his daughter-in-law's (Jane Seymour) harrowing flight through Europe with her famous father (John Gielgud), witnessing firsthand the collapse of European Jewish life in the grip of Nazi power.
Director Dan Curtis said that after The Winds of War, the opportunity to show the Jews' plight led him to take on another daunting production. He takes the viewer into Auschwitz with unflinching realism (producer and former internee Branko Lustig returned to the subject a decade later with Schindler's List) and is just as deft with a few massive battle sequences combining models with colorized footage. Sometimes the soap opera of the characters' affairs seems pretty sappy, especially with some uneven acting. The DVD set also contains two featurettes from 1988 and 2002. --Doug Thomas
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - War and Remembrance
Great continuance of The Winds of War. The whole series is a can't miss.
Rating: - Sad, exciting, frightening but true
I have the DVD of Winds of War, and differ from some of the other reviews in that I liked Ali McGraw better than Jane Seymore. Who else but a personality like hers would have run around in Europe and ... Read More
Rating: - Not very happy!
This shipment was received with the disk for Part I missing and a duplicate disk of Part V & VI. This was disappointing since I had just completed watching Winds of War and was ready to start War ... Read More
Rating: - war and remembrance 1 and 2
War and Remembrance - Volume 1 and 2 DVD Bundle
magnificent series,all the family loved the DVD's.
Rating: - Accessible history at its best!
I was enthralled with this from start to finish - I had loved THE WINDS OF WAR, but this was far, far better for me. The replaced characters in the cast seemed a distinct improvement - more likeable, less ... Read More
- War and Remembrance
- Not very happy!