This was an excellent miniseries

I have always loved this miniseries, and I am also surprised there are not more comments. I agree about Palmer Kirby and Rhoda--they made me sick to my stomach. She was a whiny, ungrateful witch and Palmer was just boring. I never liked Sloate, either. But I loved Pug and Pamela, and Byron and Natalie, and the story was great. I have always been fascinated with WWII, and eat up movies and documentaries and books about that time period. This is a great depiction of that era.

Can anybody help me, I am trying to locate the DVD Box Set of the above as a present. I can only locate Region 1 box sets but I need it to play in the UK? Thanks

Excellent Miniseries. I zipped through the Pug and Rhoda scenes, but decided to see those again. Adds another layer to the older man in love with a friend's younger daughter.

Favorite Characters:

Byron Henry- rebel, later turned officer and devoted father.
Pug Henry- the patriarch, tough as nails, caring officer.
Natalie Jastrow-Henry- older wife of Byron, unabashed Jewish American, devoted to her uncle. Did irritate me that she did not leave Europe sooner.....
General Von Roon- adds wrinkle inside German High Command, duty bound officer, but gets in snipes against the Nazi regime.

i think it was outstanding on all fronts, yes Mitchum was too old but he acted superbly. my favorite parts were the newsreel scenes and the narration of William Woodson, I dubbed them all together on a separate tape and play them endlessly, tremendously entertaining. the Midway scenes were excellent, as was the bomb run over Berlin. I know the costs were astronomical, but wish there could've been more and a little less soap opera.

I just watched this mini-series a few months back. Yes I do agree it WAS an excellant mini-series when I first seen it as a kid. But now I feel the series has dated itself a bit with some of modern day 1980s hairdos and odd props, and melloncolly dialog. But it is still a good series.

Yes the Winds of War was an excellent Mini series. My only beef was that it was before VCRs so you had to make sure not to miss any episode.

I hope that you, Ms. Bergen, can read this; for your portrayal of "Rho" always is such a source of profound amusement--you really make me laugh at "Rho's" antics, and her early oblivion to the war's process. I love you soo much for it all--quite a contrast to your pairing with Bob in "Cape Fear"! Kisses not only to "My President", but to you too, Ms. Polly Bergen!!

I should think that if we met in real life, and my first reaction were to burst out laughing, I'd hope that you'd understand and share in my enjoyment. I'd probably laugh until the tears rolled down my cheeks!!

That's also my interpretation of "Rho", from reading the books as well. Interesting, isn't it??

For me, "Winds" is definitely the most interesting docudrama ever made about WW2. The whole concept of a low-key American officer stationed abroad as history unfolds, meeting the great world leaders of that era and having a hand in events, is highly intriguing ... and most of this before the U.S. is even directly involved in the war.