Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Plustown A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Fulke Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

cougarblue-696-806128 Casting Mitchum was the worst possible choice the producers could have made. In each scene in which Mitchum appears, your eyes immediately notifier your brain that something is very wrong here, RM was 25 years too old to play the part. And with Mitchum and his sunken, hound dog face, age could not be erased through makeup or some other miracle the make up people dreamed up. Mitchum was regarded as "the worst pain in the ass, we have ever worked with" by many of his co-stars, his directors and producers. You might say that he paid the producers back double for handing him the role. I didn't find Polly Bergen convincing, her talent runs quite shallow when playing a character through such a long period of time and in so many changes. With so many 1 hour segments (44 minutes w/o ads) you have to be pretty disciplined to devote the time to see each in order. There is some review of the previous segment but not enough to catch you up if you missed one. It's very worth seeing, but be prepared to shake your head at Mitchum's miscasting.

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.....

gfhaskins714-1 I doubt anyone could afford to produce this miniseries today. I saw it when it first aired and I watched it again this month on DVD and it is amazing how well it holds up. The only possible improvement would be to the special effects in the naval battle scenes because of how far we've come in 20 years with CGI graphics; but that's it! This is a masterpiece and I include the "Winds of War" in that category. The attention to detail of the period, the vehicles, costumes, locations, and interiors just take your breath away.The cast was superb and right down the line. I can't think of a weak link among them. I did see a comment here about Robert Mitchum being a "lazy" actor in this role as "Pug" Henry but I think he played it just right. He was first and foremost a dedicated military man, not a Lothario. For an interesting contrast to his on-screen relationship with Polly Bergen as his wife Rhoda Henry, you should see the chilling dynamics between the two in 1962's "Cape Fear". By any measure Mitchum was a great actor.Although other actors in this miniseries have more on-screen time than does Mitchum, Mitchum is clearly the anchor. And, although the performances throughout the entire cast were stellar, I have to mention that John Gielgud's Aaron Jastrow was absolutely brilliant. John Houseman, who played Jastrow in "Winds of War" was magnificent in his own right but John Gielgud made Jastrow his own in a way that I doubt even Houseman could match.There are very few guarantees in life but "War and Remembrance" is worth every viewing minute. Just be sure to watch the "Winds of War" first.

tedg I really hate TeeVee. I hate how it has changed news into the most trivial of snips, how it it has transformed politics into the manipulation of narrative, and how it has made it commonplace for advertisers to assault our deepest senses. But most of all, I curse it for the way it drags on film, real film. The very existence of TeeVee means that we are trained differently than we might allow ourselves to be. But when we have a "major" film event and it uses TeeVee conventions, its particularly repellent.Pop music is what it is because of the accident of how the market has evolved to make money from it. You have to buy an artifact to "own" the music. At least that used to be the case, and even today that model is still clung to by the "music business." Because the idea is not to provide music, but to sell artifacts, the music is perturbed. It has developed into a form that suits the market: so many seconds, so few hooks, so much personal charisma or charm. The result is that what we carry in our heads as melodies are little sales viruses that crowd out the transformative power of real music.TeeVee is worse, because it digs semantically deeper.The commercial compact with theatrical film is rather straightforward: if something is attractive enough, I will pay. Then I will enter a space designed to eliminate everything but the film. I will engage in a shared world with the filmmaker. During that uninterrupted time, we engage in the long form, something unique, something special, something powerful enough to change lives. I decide what is attractive, what tradeoffs I wish to make and to some extent when.TeeVee is a different contract. They're interested in attracting me not so I can see the primary narrative, but all sorts of inserted side narrative designed to convince me to buy something. The purpose is not to be whole, singly engaged. In fact it is the opposite, to be serially interrupted. So TeeVee never engages in the long form proper. Instead it builds on small episodes. It gives the illusion of the long form by stringing episodes together and having some large container. That large container in the original soap opera are grand sweeps of human interaction: betrayal, scheming, justice. In this case, that is enhanced by large sweeps of war that surround this, provide some notion of flow, and even plot devices that allow tragedy and separation. But its still a soap opera. Its still chunks, little chinks to go between ads and slightly larger chunks to be consumed in an evening. Oh, you may get involved in various characters, but you'll more likely be involved in the accounting process, simply keeping track of who that was that now reappears, and what story they are re-igniting for a little flash before jumping to the next.If you are like me, you use film as a tool for life; you use narrative and explorations of it as part of a rich adventure with people who can make stories that weave with selves. Its a gift, the biggest we have as humans. If so, if you feel this way. If you depend on art. Then you will be disgusted by the TeeVee travesties of the long form that are shaped only by the crassest of market forces.This is the first "big" miniseries production, and it is a template for many others that followed. Its probably no worse than many others, but it should be reviled because it was the first. It set the template for all that follow, that allow you to sit and go nowhere with the illusion of motion and with your wallet in your hand.Ted's Evaluation -- 1 of 3: You can find something better to do with this part of your life.