Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD EAN: 0030306764894 Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Miniseries, NTSC 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: 690 minutes Sales Rank: 10133 Studio: Mpi Home Video Theatrical Release Date: November 13, 1988
Amazon.com: The second half of this massive miniseries covers events from the last two years of World War II with members of our fictitious family--the Henrys--scattered throughout the world. Pariah 'Pug' Henry (Robert Mitchum) visits Russia and England as an advisor--and proposes to his much-younger lover, Pamela (Victoria Tennant)--before retuning to the Pacific theater to join his son Byron (Hart Bochner), a submariner, in battling the Japanese. Meanwhile, Byron's wife, Natalie (Jane Seymour), and her uncle (John Gielgud) continue their harrowing plight, starting in the 'Paradise Ghetto' and leading to the Auschwitz concentration camp.
The 7-DVD set contains an informative booklet, a CD soundtrack, and a disc of extras. Dan Curtis makes comments over 70 select minutes of the series (shown out of context), hitting the highlights of filming, a nice way of letting the filmmaker talk without searching for the commentary throughout the various discs. There's a new 30-minute feature combining new and old footage on the making of this massive production, and a 15-minute featurette on composer Bob Cobert. --Doug Thomas
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Rating: - Realistic view on our history
I was impressed by historic quality of this DVD. The timeline is precise and the story values the truth as much as possibly could be achieved. The holocaust is terrible part of our history, but must never be forgotten. Furthermore is a good thing to see how world democarcy has been preserved, people died for a simple thing called freedom. It should be mandatory to watch for everyone! A guy from the Netherlands
Rating: - War and Remembrance Vol 2
The whole miniseries is one of the best I've ever seen. Robert Mitchum is fantastic, as usual.
Rating: - this movie wowed me.
Such a huge undertaking, making this movie about WWII. I believe it had over 20 hours of recorded video. I missed this miniseries when it was televised in the late 80's. I was busy with children, but, so happy to be able to watch it now.
Rating: - A brilliant and satisfying conclusion.
I found this final series exciting and deeply satisfying. The previous two parts (Winds of War, and part one of this) called very strongly for completion, and that is what we have here... IN SPADES! I found the same wonderful sense of historical perspective that I noted in my review of part one... I felt I had got an overall grasp of the essentials of a very important and complex period, but also, that I had seen, spelled out in graphic detail, the results of the concentrated arrogance, stupidity, and self-indulgence that the Nazi ideal foisted on this suffering planet during that time. Nothing in my life so far had prepared me for the absolute horror revealed in this coverage... and nothing, I am sure, will ever allow me to forget it... which is really good. This lesson in the consequences of selfishness comes at an opportune time. The sections on Theresienstadt and Auschwitch, were particularly forceful - the sheer ... Read More
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