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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: MPI
EAN: 0030306787398
Format: Box set, Color, NTSC, Full Screen
Label: MPI HOME VIDEO
Manufacturer: MPI HOME VIDEO
Number Of Items: 13
Publisher: MPI HOME VIDEO
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 28, 2008
Running Time: 1500 minutes
Sales Rank: 1868
Studio: MPI HOME VIDEO
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Available together for the first time.
Winner of Emmy, Director s Guild, and Golden Globe Awards!
Starring Robert Mitchum, Jane Seymour, and Sharon Stone.
Filmed on location in ten countries, this extraordinary production is the largest and most ambitious undertaking in television and motion picture history. Featuring an all-star cast and spectacular reenactments of the Allied invasions at Normandy and the Philippines, Herman Wouk s classic novel is brought to life in an award-winning mini-series that vividly recreates one of history s most unforgettable chapters. This deluxe boxed set contains the entire epic story of WAR AND REMEMBRANCE all fourteen parts, over 25 hours long on 13 discs!
Includes bonus audio CD of the War and Remembrance soundtrack music
Includes bonus interviews and commentary with actors and production personnel, War and Remembrance A Living History featurette, documentaries The Making of War and Remembrance and War and Remembrance Behind the Scenes , and The Music of War and Remembrance featurette.
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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.
This half--11.5 hours--aired on ABC in May 1989, six months after the first half. Unfortunately there is no kinetic battle sequence like the first half's Midway clash to absorb the viewer. Director Dan Curtis relies more on newsreel footage (and the sometimes heavy-handedness of narrator William Woodson) to cover large events. To compensate, the filmmakers give inordinate screen time to the conspiracy to kill Hitler (Steven Berkoff) by his inner circle. Like in Herman Wouk's novel, Hitler's decision to eliminate the Jews is the backbone of the entire series and the film's steely reenactments of these events--an amazing achievement for network television--is quite harrowing. Authenticity (filming at Auschwitz) plus ace performances (Seymour has been rarely better, Gielgud is outstanding) combine for a powerful statement, although the whole production is sometimes weighed down by the soap-opera elements of the Henrys' lives. The original Winds of War miniseries had a higher caliber cast, which is missed here. However, a few actors shine in their atypical performances, including Barry Bostwick (who tied with Gielgud for the Golden Globe) as a flamboyant submariner and David Dukes as a desk side attaché who reaches new depths in the war. Although admired and very watchable, the series did not impact the industry as much as its predecessor or sweep the award circuit as other miniseries (Roots, Holocaust, etc.) did, although it did take home the Emmy for Outstanding Miniseries.
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Awesome History in entertainment form
I had read all three books and had the Winds of War DVDs, when I finally got the W&R complete set, I'm glad I waited for it to be in a complete set, this is a wonderful history lesson of WW11 that we should never forget, the magitude is truly awesome, filmed in 10 countries, the story of the Henry family is also good, the stars did an outstanding job, these DVDs capture the flavor the the times & people, yes, it is very long, but the War was very long and covered so much of the world, in ... Read More
Rating: - Completion of Winds of War epic
War and Temembrance satisfies the thirst for additional information rising from the initial encounter with a diversified and complete family, each member of which carries a type of person who had to find a way to survive from each of the situations inherited from an undersireable but impossible to avoid war. While it is evident that "Pug", as head of household and jack of all trades, going much further than a high Navy officer exists and keepts the variable elements of his household in a common ... Read More
Rating: - War and Remembrance - The Complete Mini-Series
I consider War and Remembrance to be an Outstanding mini-series and I am absolutely delighted with it. The last disc of my set, however, was defective and I requested a replacement disc. I was told that the entire set had to be replaced, so I sent the entire set back and received a replacement set. The last disc of the replacement set works perfectly. Unfortunately, I have not replayed the entire series again, so I don't know if the other discs are okay and won't know until I play the entire ... Read More
Rating: - Great continuing story
Ends the story. Great. Now you can buy the whole set, starting with Winds of War.
Rating:  - Good Sequel, not Great
After 18 hours of "Winds of War (WW)," it's hard to be brief about the 30-hour sequel, "War and Remembrance (W & R)." Both works were written by Herman Wouk and directed by Dan Curtis. Other reviewers have been so critical of the sequel, mainly with cast changes, that you find yourself dwelling on faults. But the fact is WW was finished in 1983; W & R was produced 5 years later. So the two works couldn't really use the same cast.
To begin with, criticism of "W & R" seems ... Read More
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