Magnificent score!

Agreed. And the opening theme gets me misty-eyed, as well.

But this from the "trivia" section made me sad:

A federal jury in Los Angeles decided on 3 June 1991 that the "Winds of War" theme had actually been plagiarized from John Woodbridge, a professor of history at the Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Illinois, who had filed suit in 1986 claiming the theme was actually a song called "Sans Vous" ("Without You"), which he had composed in 1965.

On a lighter note, the only time the theme was used to comical effect was when Natalie and Byron got married, with all that paperwork! Take a listen if you didn't notice the first time...




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It's very good! It's memorable, haunting, and conveys the global sweep of the war. It evokes tragedies large and small, repeated a hundred million times over; simply unforgettable.

Dan Curtis also used Bob Corbert again for making the score of "Love Letter", an excellent Hallmark time travel TV movie with Campbell Scott and Jennifer Jason Leigh:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0140340/combined