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I am 84 years old, I lived through this series. I remember the radio and Newspapers and News at the Movies. Parts of War & Remembrance (black & White are real captured films). There is so much truth in the story line (behind the Henrys), I believe every person under the age of 60 should pick a couple of days, sit down and watch this series. It is History. some so factual (they are the black & white cuts from captured film). They will make you look away. The Henrys, show how difficult it was for some to get home. How difficult for those of us who stayed behind and how hard it was to balance war we could not see with the truth of death in the thousands. This Is NOT a movie for young children 10/12 maybe . If you did not live through it, you owe it to yourself to know something about the price paid for that flag. Read full review
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The character empathy developed in :The Winds of War" is diminished by changes in the actors/actresses who played them. Jane Seymour has always left me cold. aaron Jastrow is a pompous old fool whose stubborn vanity leads them into peril. Natalie has more devotion to her blind stubborn uncle than she does to her husband and child.Polly Bergen is terrible throughout the whole thing. Robert Mitchum, although rather stiff, is fairly beleivable. Pretty good war scenes. It's amazing this whole thing could have ever happened. It repeated itself 40years later in Sarajevo and the forces are present for it to happen again today.
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After buying and viewing Winds of War, I bought War and Remembrance 2 thinking it was the whole set, so I went back and bought 1 afterward. I liked Winds of War very much and read the book after seeing the mini-series. I then read War and Remembrance, too. War and Remembrance is also very well done and I believe even more dramatic than Winds of War; this may be because of the increasingly grim subject of WWII and the Holocaust. Although the performances in Winds of War were very good all around, I feel the performances by Hart Bochner (Byron Henry) and Jane Seymour (Natilie Jastrow) were more accurate and moving than that of Jan-Michael Vincent and Ali McGraw in the same roles. If you liked Winds of War, you'll like this one, too.
I am actually shocked at the quality of this purchase. Cost $50.00 as opposed to $250.00 to $300.00 and more for American versions. There are no issues. The dvd's are in English. They are just as good as the American origianals. The purchase took only one week from Taiwan. I am very pleased.
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This is the first half (6 two-hour episodes) of the sweeping mini (maxi?) series about the mythical Henry family as they go through World War II, The Patriarch "Pug" is played brillinatly by the great Robert Mitchum is his final great performance. Other excellent performances by John Houseman, Jane Seymore, and Ralph Bellamy are featured. The global sweep and mutiple facets of this global tragedy are shown from the Naval battles to the horrors of Auschwitz. It is perfectly adapted from the book written by the redoubtable Herman Wouk. I recommend it highly
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