Martin Gilbert has done excellent work for Churchill.
I’ve found the traveling to and death camp scenes the most riveting of any other film. Very emotional.
if you haven’t already, do read the books. i worked for Little Brown in publicity at the time of their publications. Wouk is/was a master storyteller. they were giant bestsellers.
Concur strongly. The characters may be fiction but the intensity of the experiences are not. Incredible books and films.
I like similar books about places I have lived so I could better understand the local history as if it were a story. I loved Micnher’s Centennial because it was the history of my family. Moving to Colorado 120 years ago. Highly recommend if you want to “know” Colorado’s history. When were in Panama we read Michner’s Caribbean about the pirates, the sacking of Panama City. On weekends we would go diving at Portobello and Drake Island. I spent a weekend sailing at Nombre de Dios. To read 400 year old history about those places and visit them was incredible. Both great books if you haven’t read them. The made a TV series “Centennial”.
“I find this a timely series to watch even now and with our current Virus Crisis. Please feel free to comment, at least something else to talk about instead of the coronavirus”
I read and then watched both “Winds of War and ‘War and Rememberence”. Both were excellent mini series. And Yes, that is when America was ALL TOGETHER in winning the Second World War.
The books are better.
I love the books, read them several times. I also really like Hermann Wouk...
I had no idea anyone had made the books into video and now look forward to seeing them—thabk you :)
Without question, you are absolutely correct. Pug or Briney or Natalie are always preset at some critical and important event. The portrayal of bit player Franklin Roosevelt is especially interesting.
Both series are long because the war was both long and historically important
The Holocaust scenes in War and Remembrance are as disturbing as anything you’ll ever see. Kudos to ABC for allowing them to be shown at that time.
bkmrk - thanks.
They filmed one or both of these movies on the USS Alabama in Mobile. I was an extra and almost got in the movie but the camera panned too fast in one scene then I got bored and left. I could only watch Mitchum and Vincent film the same scene over and over for so long.
Thanks for reminding me. These are in the DVD cupboard, so I’ll bring them out!
I read the books again about four years ago. Great reads!
For more, read Strauss & Howe's book, "The Fourth Turning." There are even some free PDFs around, but the Kindle version is cheap.
There’s a series on PBS now called “World on Fire” which came across to me almost as a Brit-centric version of “War and Remembrance”.
But I was put off by the gay sub-plot, although I did like the scenes that were based in Poland.
(And the young actress in it, was in the great Polish movie “Warsaw 44” which is on Amazon Prime Video)
I found it majectic when I first read it.
But I found that the books were mired in their time and spoke, not like stories of the 40s and war,
but like stories of the forties told through the eyes of the sixties and sixties values.
The books didnt hold up for me.
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