Kattiera Nana I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Mjeteconer Just perfect...

Steineded How sad is this?

Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!

SnoopyStyle Poland surrenders to Germany in 1939. Jews are forced into the Warsaw ghetto. Adam Czerniakow (Donald Sutherland) is the head of the Jewish counsel and Kazik Rotem (Stephen Moyer) is his driver. Tosia Altman (Leelee Sobieski) is able to pass for Aryan and sneaks out to trade for food. Mordechai Anielewicz (Hank Azaria) fails to escape to Palestine and decides to stay for the fight. Yitzhak Zuckerman (David Schwimmer) is his best friend and Zivia Lubetkin (Sadie Frost) is his girlfriend. Calel Wasser is a Jewish policeman in the ghetto. Czerniakow struggles to save lives in the impossible position and Anielewicz berates him for co-operating. As Jews are deported to Treblinka, Czerniakow commits suicide and Anielewicz organizes the resistance. Dr. Fritz Hippler (Cary Elwes) is a German propagandist who made "The Eternal Jew". Major-General Jurgen Stroop (Jon Voight) takes over the operation to clear out the ghetto.This is quite a production for network TV. It's very high quality. There are a couple of questionable scenes where accuracy is concerned. There are some top-notched actors led by the great Donald Sutherland. I could probably do without Schwimmer. Still, it's great for what it is.

Nicholas Barrett "Uprising" is an epic that deserves the widest possible audience among those who care to watch more about the lives, destiny, fate and remarkable bravery of Jews under Hitler's monstrous III Reich. The film also helps to remedy misconceptions about Jewish history.I rate it alongside Polanski"s "The Pianist", also set in the Warsaw Ghetto, Stephen Daldry's "The Reader" and "Amen" by Costa-Gavras, to name but three. But the latter films deal more with the plight of Jews as victims of the Nazis and moral issues evoked by the horror of the death camps, while this movie focuses on a less well-known but tremendously heroic aspect of the war in Eastern Europe, in which Jews refused to submit to the slaughter.At a length of almost three hours and with a superb ensemble cast, "Uprising" recounts the story of the armed insurrection against German invaders by Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto that began in April 1943, from its inception months earlier to the ruthless crackdown - by means of weapons, gas and even water - that put an end to the main insurgency but not Jewish resistance.Those hours never drag. We are shown a realistic treatment of daily life and death, conflict and mass destruction in the Ghetto. We follow the debates and acts of the Jewish Resistance Movement, particularly once it learns for sure that the hundreds of thousands of deportees from the Ghetto are being transported not to labour camps but to their extermination. "Uprising" also gives the viewpoint of those, including Jewish community leaders, who refused to back armed insurrection on practical or moral grounds.The first time I watched the movie I gave it an 8/10, but have upped that score to a 10/10, for all its minor flaws, upon "going to source" for a while and discovering how much writer Paul Brickman and director Jon Avnet shared a commitment to accuracy, down to small details.It's hard to know whether they told the truth about the love affairs that bonded some of the Jews in heart and spirit, but no matter. Such relationships are among the many things that give depth and humanity to the film, along with family ties and grief, and like dilemmas faced by collaborators and some of the Jewish police who served as puppets of the occupants.Two or three people change sides, including a black marketeer and brothel owner who comes to play an important role, and they are tested according to a code laid down early in the film as a deceptively simple classroom debate on the possibility of being a moral person in an immoral world. We see what the leader of the Jewish community does on being ordered by the Germans to put children on the trains, we see the director of a Ghetto orphanage confronted by more kids than he can afford to take in, we see a woman tied with ropes to a chimney pot so that she can swing round and around on a rooftop to hurl Molotov cocktails down on troops marching into the Ghetto along with a Tiger tank, we see the daily struggle for food and we see courageous expeditions outside the walls and barbed wire to obtain guns, ammunition and explosives and to inform the Allies about the death camps.Most surreal of all, we see Fritz Hippler, the filmmaker ordered by Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels to make a hateful movie on "The Eternal Jew", in action several times shooting the violence of the Uprising, to the chagrin of German generals confounded by the astounding initial success of the Jewish resistance decimating their troops in a well-planned surprise attack.Critics in other posts have accused the film of being unfair to the so-called "Aryan" Poles in Warsaw, claiming that they are portrayed as anti-Semitic, but this is not evident. True, some Poles are shown up as cowards living a life in fear, but others maintain safe houses outside the Ghetto for the Jewish resistance, which also gets support from the like of railway workers. However, the Polish national resistance rejects pleas from Jews for more weapons. Their arguments for denying help may seem spurious with historical hindsight, but they are tactical ones, which leave us to decide whether there is underlying prejudice.What has long intrigued me has been the fiercely combative spirit of the Israeli people - despite the loss of six million lives and the tremendous scars borne by countless others after the Holocaust - that played a part in the swift and sometimes bloody foundation of Israel in Palestine, in political haste soon after World War II. This strength of will strikes me as being rooted in more than a fight to rebuild and maintain a Biblical homeland. In saying that, I equally fiercely refuse to bear either with Zionist extremists or their foes. But to watch "Uprising" is to help right a historical wrong that presents Jews as being the perpetual victims of persecution down the centuries, who never organized themselves and fought back.In Warsaw, they did rise up and the film testifies to the way in which a deep-rooted, shared faith underpins such action, however hopeless it may seem. The insurrection was inevitably crushed, but when the film ends, we learn that afterwards, for all the might of the Wehrmacht behind them, German soldiers were too scared to enter the Ghetto at night for fear of "Jewish ghosts". Is it possible that the state of Israel has survived in part due to the persistence of ghosts?

Melissa Bellais Of course there is some historical inaccuracy, in fact Kazik was only 19 when he was on the ghetto uprising, 12 years younger than Stephen Moyer when they filmed the movie, but that does not change history, I think Moyer's performance was brilliant and very moving. The uniforms were not suited? They speak English, German or Chinese, yes, if one begins to look in detail obviously you will find several errors. The film features the Polish people as anti-Semitic? There are probably people who do not understand the historical moment, the terror they lived in the occupied nations, and it's very easy to judge, I would not dare to accuse the Polish people in general; Poles also were brutally persecuted like no other occupied nation, Poland was the first country that fought against Hitler's invading forces and did not receive any support from England, France or Russia, yes there were people who collaborated with the Nazis in the occupied nations, but there were great individuals who put their life in danger to help the Jews, Gypsies, Communists, some have been recognized throughout history, some have not, but I don't think that's important. I have read this episode of the Holocaust many times, as the topic has always fascinated me, I'm not Jewish, or Polish, or even know people who have been directly affected by this heinous episode of history. I am a 30 years old Venezuelan and Catholic woman, and when I started studying the history of the WWII and the Holocaust in particular was only 9 years old and I could never understand how so few could bring so many to their knees, it was mathematically impossible for me to understand, still is, only the terror inflicted by the assailant, only the systematic annihilation first psychological and then physical of an entire people can explain such passivity. First time I heard of the Warsaw ghetto uprising I was about 12 years old and I had not access to internet so research became quite difficult, I found Leon Uris's Mila 18 by accident and became obsessed with the story, since then I've watched documentaries, I've read books, I've seen interviews and all that I could review that describes this event, because during the 6 years of the war for whatever reasons the Jewish people seemed to accept his fate with absolute submission and this was the only testimony to the contrary, this group of fighters just decided that would not die without a fight and that is admirable. The film makes propaganda for the Zionist movement, it is a fact that Mordechai Anielewicz, Yitzhak Zuckerman, Zimcha "Kazic" Rotem, Zivia Lubetkin, and many of the rebels were Zionists, that was their prerogative and it's pointless to discuss how good or bad of this movement; the film portrays them as heroes, they were definitely heroes, they were the voice of the people who refused to accept their fate that is quiet heroic. At the end there were 34 fighters left who were hiding in the forests and joined the resistance, Tosia Altman, who escaped died two weeks later at the hands of the Gestapo. This film is a testimony, quite in tune with reality, of the courage of a group of ordinary people who lived in a dark moment in history and responded as heroes. I highly recommend it.

Philip Van der Veken WWII, and the Holocaust in particular, is a very interesting subject. There has probably never been more interest from the public towards everything that concerns this war, which started already more than 65 years ago. Every week new books, documentaries,... are published with new theories, with evaluations of some important (often Nazi) personalities, with information about the concentration camps,... Because most of the survivors have already died or will die soon, the stories of the last eye-witnesses will get lost if not registered on tape or camera. But all these stories are also a good base for movies and mini-series like this "Uprising"."Uprising" tells the story of the Nazi oppression of the Jews in the Ghetto of Warshaw and their rebellion against it, which started in 1943. It all begins in 1939 with the growing list of prohibitions and regulations leading to the virtual imprisonment of about half-a-million Polish Jews in an old district of Warsaw. Their daily struggle against hunger and disease is made even worse when the Nazis demand for "deportations to the east". Many begin to suspect that the deportation of these groups of laborers are actually camouflaged mass murders and at the end of 1942 they start to realize that they are all doomed. They decide that, if they have to die, they better die in honor by taking up the arms against their oppressors. They start building hidden shelters and bunkers in the basements and cellars of the buildings, often with tunnels leading to other buildings and start collecting arms and ammunition for the battle which will begin on 19 April 1943...Even though I must say that overall I liked the series, I can't say that it was always very convincing. There were a couple too many problems with it that really bothered me. One for instance is the way all the people are depicted. The heroic Jews don't have to expect any help from the arrogant and anti-semitic Polish Catholics who know exactly what is going on, but don't care. The Poles only want to help when offered enormous amounts of money and even then are very reluctant. In reality the Poles also suffered a lot under the German oppression and without their help there would probably never have been a Jewish Uprising. And no, I'm not a Pole myself, so I'm not saying this to justify my people's actions, it's just the way it was.Another thing that I really didn't like was the use of the languages. The Germans speak English most of the time, except for when they are giving some short orders, than you'll hear them talk German. The producers and director have to make a choice, either they all speak German or English, but not a mix of the two. And about the language I also have another remark. Can someone please tell me why those purely American actors, who all know how to speak normal English, speak with that funny, but also incredibly annoying accent? Do they really believe I will not recognize Leelee Sobieski, David Schwimmer,... when they talk in a slightly different way? I'm not asking that they speak Polish, I'm sure they can't, but don't make a fool out of yourself by trying to convince people that you are talking another language, just by adding such an accent, it can never work...Still, even though the series isn't always historically accurate, uses a range of annoying accents and is too stereotypical when it comes to the roles of the different people, not everything about it was that bad. The acting for instance is good. In my opinion this was the best role I've ever seen Leelee Sobieski play and all the other actors did a nice job too. I certainly liked Jon Voight as Major General Jurgen Stroop, but it is Cary Elwes, who played Fritz Hippler (the director of "Der Ewige Jude" or "The Eternal Jew"), who certainly deserves to be mentioned as well.All in all this isn't a bad series. If you try to see it as a drama based on actual events, rather than to see it as a 'documentary reconstruction', than you certainly should be able to enjoy it. There are some nice action scenes, some good acting and other interesting features. You just will have to try to see past some major flaws... I give this series a score between 7/10 and 7.5/10.