ThedevilChoose When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Cooktopi The acting in this movie is really good.

Aiden Melton The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

jameswilliams784 This is probably the last of the great epic mini series, they just cant afford to make something this epic anymore. I loved this series better than its prequel The Winds of War, but both were great shows. This is basically the story of the Henry and Jastrow families and how they are affected by WWII. War and Remembrance starts off with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. It goes through all the major events of both the War in Europe and the Pacific. Robert Mitchum plays Victor Henry, a naval officer who manages to get himself into major situations in both theaters of the war. Mitchum does a great job in this story. I think the star of this story is Victoria Tennant. She plays Pamela Tuksburry who is a romantic interest for Victor Henry, despite the fact he is married. Wont give away the story but suffice to say she does an outstanding job in both The Winds of War and War and Remembrance. Jane Seymour also does an outstanding job in War and Remembrance, she plays Natalie Henry, wife of Victor Henrys son Bryon who is a submariner. Natalie is trapped in Europe and she is Jewish, the niece of Aaron Jastrow a famous American Jewish Author. Natalie went to Europe to try to get Aaron out of Europe and ends up being trapped. If you have a chance to watch this series do, it is fantastic.

bkoganbing Herman Wouk's succeeding epic to his The Winds Of War comes to the small screen as a splendid epic and an object lesson in what the mini-series is all about. War And Remembrance is big and sprawling with a lot of impressive spectacle, but the characters that Wouk created of the Henry and Jastrow families will live on for some time in your memory after seeing this film.In The Winds Of War we see the marriage of Robert Mitchum as naval captain Victor 'Pug' Henry and wife Polly Bergen start cracking at the foundation as Mitchum is charmed by British correspondent Victoria Tennant and Bergen first with Peter Graves and later with Michael Connors is becoming a rebound catch. It's the strain of separation with those high level assignments that career officer Mitchum gets in both of the series and the long separations.The Henrys have three children all caught up with the war effort. But Hart Bochner as younger son Byron has to fight his war in the Pacific with the anxiety of his wife and young son caught behind enemy lines. Bochner is married to Jewish Jane Seymour and their child's first years are spent as the Nazis overrun Europe.Why are they there and why doesn't she leave? She has family there particularly her aged uncle John Gielgud won't leave his life of scholarly comfort in Italy. Gielgud is a cultural Jew who cannot grasp the danger she's in. Seymour stays and tries to persuade him to go. Most who watch War And Remembrance are aware of the narrative of events in World War II and can appreciate how Gielgud consistently makes the wrong decisions every time. For younger viewers it will be a moving revelation.The twin themes of battlefield courage and the courage of the civilians in Europe are beautifully and tightly woven into alternative themes. The action in this film is global from the Pacific War to the plight of those specially chosen victims by Hitler for extinction. Before Steven Spielberg gave us Schindler's List the experience of the concentration camp is beautifully realized in War And Remembrance with Seymour and Gielgud and the rest around them. Ralph Bellamy and Robert Hardy who played Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill in other projects bring a nice familiarity with the historical characters here. Steven Berkow is frightening as Adolph Hitler and Hardy Kruger is brilliant as the doomed Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.War And Remembrance and its predecessor The Winds Of War are great dramas both and invaluable historical tools for studying the World War II years.

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.

possumopossum Only Dan Curtis with his genius for horror could portray the holocaust for the horror that it actually was. Watching this series can give one nightmares, and they can be more frightening because this all actually happened. Never before or since have I seen such gruesome details about what went on in places like Auschwitz and Thereisenstadt.I loved the documentary style in which they told this story. The only thing I didn't like about this series was that the bombing of Hiroshima seemed to be glossed over in the end. It was like an "Oh, by the way..." thing. A brief comment about the war being over, and on to look for the kid. Such an important moment in the movie--and history--deserved more attention than it got. But I guess at that point, they were in a hurry to finish the thing because it was eighteen hours long as it stood. Except for the hurried ending, it was a great series.