Alicia I love this movie so much

SoTrumpBelieve Must See Movie...

Ariella Broughton It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

Beulah Bram A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

David Wunische Be forewarned, War and Remembrance leaves little to the imagination. Due to the subject matter, this is a hard series to watch about one of the most disturbing events in world history, the Nazi death camps of world war two. Atrocities committed by mankind that should never happen but have and probably will again. War is to be expected but the murder of millions can never be justified by a civilized people. This series is a stark reminder that the depravity of mankind has no limits. This is the best reenactment of some of our darkest days. Remembrance, is a good name for it. Very well done and I highly recommend seeing it.

slabihoud Sequels are always looked upon with mistrust. Too often when something good and successful gets prolonged it turned out that the producer just wanted to milk a worthy cow dry. In this case we can easily say that this follow-up to "The Winds of War" is as good as the book is following its predecessor. (And I read both books.)Many but not all of the original cast repeated their roles. Most notable changes are the switch of Natalie Jastrow/Henry from Ali MacGraw to Jane Seymour and for Byron Henry played by Jan-Michael Vincent to Hart Bochner. While MacGraw and Vincent were arguably not the best choice in the first place, they both have strong personalities and this fits perfectly to the respective characters they played. In replacing them with Seymour and Bochner both lack the necessary headstrong appearance and consequently both performances seemed to be toned down.The other replacements are John Gielgud for John Houseman as Aaron Jastrow, somehow an improvement I must say, Gielgud plays the author more convincingly. The inimitable Robert Morley replaced Michael Logan as Alistair Tudsbury and is perfectly cast in that role.Another improvement is Steven Berkoff as Hitler. Berkoff is especially good and scary when he gets in one of Hitler's notorious fits! In „The Winds of War" the German dubbed version shown on TV in German speaking counties and on the DVD for that market had Hitler almost completely eliminated because Günter Meissner made him appear like a cartoon character. These cuts and some others are quite obvious and so severe that this version of "The Winds of War" consists of only five instead of seven episodes! I suppose that the TV station who payed for the dubbing eliminated some of the anti-German scenes in order to make the series more acceptable to the German audience. When I realized this I bought the original DVDs to see the whole thing.Sharon Stone came in to take over the role of Janice Henry but the role doesn't offer much for her.Most actors who stayed on from „The Winds of War" are great to see again and have been well chosen in the first place. Robert Mitchum does his best considering him being much too old for the role. But he has the right dignity and that makes him convincing. Except for his scenes with Victoria Tennant, who is great by the way, but one asks himself how she could fall in love with such an old and unromantic chap like Mitchum.But for one there would definitely be no good replacement imaginable, and that is Polly Bergen as Rhoda! She is perfect in the role, fits very good as Mitchum's good-natured but silly wife and is also convincing when unfaithful. You can feel how much she is torn between her role of wife, mother and lover.Overall WAR continues perfectly where WOW ended and as the story gets grimmer so does the series. Even compared with what is possible to show on TV nowadays the visual brutality and shocking images of the concentration camps is sometimes unbearable. How daring must theses scenes have been in the 80s? More than once I asked myself, how did they film this? I felt pity with the actors and extras for being in such gruesome scenes!One of the most surprising things about both WOW and WAR is that every now and then familiar faces pop up but they all fit well into the story rather than distract you. Today many international TV productions are squeezing actors of different nationalities into one show to please the involved production companies. The result is almost always disaster. Mainly because US actors play Brits while Germans play Austrians and British actors do French roles and so on. Everything looks and sounds fake and that is exactly what it is. In WOW and in WAR Germans play Germans, Americans play Americans and British play British subjects, only now and than one might have to make an amendment (think of Jeremy Kemp as Von Roon), but most of the time the actors know whom they are to portray.Of course many of the special effects in the battle scenes cannot deny their age, scenes involving ships and submarines do fare worse the aviation stuff. But the blending with obvious original material works very well and gives the whole series the necessary factual background.Definitely worth watching!!!

bluesman-20 War and Remembrance picks up after where the Winds of War left off. It's late dec.1941 and captain Victor "Pug " Henry fights to get the command of a battleship. and he receives the U.S.S. Northhampton. The beginning of War and Remembrance shows the Allies getting involved in the war and the early losses. It also depicts two major story lines which are both powerful. One is the effect the war has on a military family and the battles they fought. And the other is the Final solution as it effects the Jews . It pulls no punches. It tells no fairy tales it hits you where you live. The Story is powerful and the acting is superb. If you liked The Winds of War you'll like War and Remembrance. But in my mind the Winds of War is the superior of the two. War and Remebrance has the same power. It seeks to tell simply the main story of World War II using the two main families the Henry's and the Jastrow"s and thru them we see the horrors of war. The loss of a son. The persecution of the Jews and the hate that drove men to commit horrors in the names of their country. My one simple complaint is that there simply is not enough of Robert Mitchum in this one. If Winds was Pug's Story then War is Pug's sons story. Byron steps out of the supporting cast and takes center stage. Hart Bochner takes over the role the Jan Michael Vincent did in Winds and makes it his own. Compelling TV at its best.

merdiolu If you want to measure how much television production and mass entertainment has regressed over 20 years you should check "War and Remembrance" and compare it with trash aired on television and theaters right now. Characters straight from Herman Wouk's original novel are dramatic , have feelings , fears , struggles , personal agonies , accomplishments and failures. They are real as much as they can be in fact too real in stark horrific reality of wartime. We see two families Henry's , Wastrows and people around them living , struggling , trying to survive and move on in these extraordinary conditions of greatest war mankind ever made. Meanwhile we witness main events and personalities of war , battles , diplomatic events etc. And yes best produced holocaust scenes ever made in television. Horror of what Nazis had done to Jews , Slavs , Gypsies , Communists and other undesirable minorities were sampled and brought to screen with dramatic acting , intense detailed production values. I fact same high production value standards is in entire miniseries itself. From cold bitter merciless concrentation camps to wartime America , from occupied France to Germany to naval battles at sea everything has an authentic look of 1940'es. It is very informative in historical sense.Although characters are depicted like in novel not all characters are well written ( both in novel and in miniseries ) Romance story of Captain Pug Henry with Pamela Tudsburry who is half his age is very unconvincing and compared with stark brutality of what Jastrows enduring at hands of Nazis it is just pointless and trivial. Same thing can be said for Polly Bergen's character , Rhode Henry , Pug's drunk wife and her relationships and manners in comfortable US. Instead they could give us some more battle scenes and other stuff about war and contribitions of characters. Fortunetely rest of casting and character writing is very very good. Jane Symour and John Gielgund are just awesome as Aaron and Natalie Jastrow , Jews who are trying to survive in Nazi occupied Europe. Hart Borchner is also giving a good performance as US submarine officer Byron Henry who is trying to reach his wife Natalie and his child trapped in Europe. Victoria Tenant , Robert Morley are not bad either. Rest of cast and supporting characters are also showing very admirable performances. Stefan Berkoff as Adolf Hitler is quite entertaining to watch for example.....