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War and Remembrance - Volume 1 - Parts 1-7 | 
| Actors: Robert Mitchum, Jane Seymour, Hart Bochner, Victoria Tennant, Polly Bergen
Studio: Mpi Home Video
Category: DVD
List Price: $89.97
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Rating:  61 reviews
Sales Rank: 32492
Format: Box Set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd, Miniseries, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), German (Original Language), Hebrew (Original Language), Japanese (Original Language), Russian (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 6
Running Time: 810 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 1.1
MPN: MPID7647D
ISBN: 0788606115
UPC: 030306764795
EAN: 9780788606113
ASIN: B0002TW73W
Theatrical Release Date: November 13, 1988
Release Date: August 31, 2004
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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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
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| Customer Reviews: Read 56 more reviews...
 I loved this show-I would recommend this to everyone to see.A+ April 7, 2009
Roberta
All the stars did a remarkable job.
This is a show everyone should see.
The only thing was it left us wondering how Natalie and the baby got out of the concentration camp.
Otherwise it was very well done.
War & Remembrance - Volume 1 February 9, 2009
Mr. R. T. Muir
The very best War Film I have ever watched . Same review can be said for
War & Remembrance Volume 2 . Also The Winds of War, which I have also purchased .
Review of War and Remembrance Vol 1 January 5, 2009
Sea Spook (Castroville, TX USA)
Superlative acting by all of the leading characters. Graphic and realistic protrayal of the Holocaust in all its horror along with the humanizing touch showing the impact on a specific family. This is, along with Vol 2 and the Winds of War, are a must-see for everybody as a reminder of the horrors of war and the incredible heroism and endurance of those who fought to survive and bring down the Nazi war machine. No reasonable and intelligent person can deny the Holocaust and its cost after viewing this. In Blu-Ray? I wonder.
War and Remembrance August 23, 2008
Moejo (Virginia)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Great continuance of The Winds of War. The whole series is a can't miss.
Sad, exciting, frightening but true August 13, 2008
Lotte (Baltimore, MD USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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 Poland even when faced with danger. I thought she played it very well. I also liked the first Aaron Jastro much better than the 2nd, and thought Jan Michael Vincent was perfect as Briny, whereas the 2nd Briny was dull. If he had played Briny in the beginning, I would have been pretty mad at her for not choosing Slote. As it was I was routing for Briny.
Robert Mitchem was too old for the part in both series, imo. But he said very little. Most of his lines were one liners, and very short clipped sentences. "I'd say so" "Could be" "It's possible" etc. He really had very little to memorize.
I don't have the 2nd W&R on DVD. I have it on Video, and the whole story begins at Part VIII when Natalie and her Uncle are already in the concentration camp. That puzzled me. The whole series about them in Europe and Paris, and the frantic escape from the Nazi who was insisting that Aaron do radio broadcasts for the Nazis was completely omitted on the video. I had never played the 2nd Video, but had taped it from TV, therefore after I got the WoW on DVD, I pulled out the Video of W&R and I was totally confused thinking a whole year had been omitted, which it obviously was. The reason I wanted to read the DVD review of W&R was to see if that part was included. From what I can gather from the reviews, it seems that it was. I'm glad it's all together again, even though I'm sorry the cast was changed. It's a great story, and now I hope to buy the DVD's of W&R.
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