Holocaust -The Mini-Series-

Holocaust The 30th anniversary edition of Holocaust marks the first time this remarkable, nine-and-a-half-hour television miniseries has been released on DVD. Originally broadcast on NBC as part of an ongoing TV phenomenon in the 1970s called "The Big Event," Holocaust was an original stor...	Roots (Four-Disc 30th Anniversary Edition) Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 10/09/2007 Run time: 573 minutes Rating: Nr	The Devil's Arithmetic Executive producers Dustin Hoffman and Mimi Rogers present the truth of the Holocaust so a new generation can understand why it must never be forgotten. Kirsten Dunst plays Hannah, a modern teen more concerned with trends than history. During the traditional Passover dinner, she ...	Centennial: The Complete Series A remarkably ambitious and engrossing project, this 1978 television miniseries ran 26-and-a-half hours, cost a then-enormous $25 million, and involved 4 directors, 5 cinematographers, and somewhere in the neighborhood of 100 speaking parts. Based on James Michener's panoramic bes...	Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg On Schindler's List there were hundreds of names.On Raoul Wallenberg's there were tens of thousands."A film of epic ambitions" (The New York Times), Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg chronicles the last days of the war in Budapest. It is a moving and sensitive portrait of internationa...
Sophie's Choice The sunny streets of Brooklyn, just after World War II. A young would-be writer named Stingo (Peter MacNicol) shares a boarding house with beautiful Polish immigrant Sophie (Meryl Streep) and her tempestuous lover, Nathan (Kevin Kline); their friendship changes his life. This ada...	The Diary of Anne Frank George Stevens (Giant) directed this 1959 film adaptation of the hit play based on the writings of Anne Frank, the Jewish girl from Amsterdam who hid in an attic with her family and others during the Nazi occupation. As Anne, Millie Perkins is something of a milky eyed enigma and...	Billy Graham Presents: The Hiding Place Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 08/21/2008	The Pianist [HD DVD] Winner of the prestigious Golden Palm award at the 2002 Cannes film festival, The Pianist is the film that Roman Polanski was born to direct. A childhood survivor of Nazi-occupied Poland, Polanski was uniquely suited to tell the story of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish Jew and conce...	Uprising Originally broadcast in November 2001, this exceptional made-for-television film recalls Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan while forging its own distinct identity. It was the first American film to dramatize the Warsaw Ghetto uprising of 1943, during which an undergrou...

We have to remember
I saw the miniseries HOLOCAUST as a child. I couldn't believe that people could be so cruel. I never forgot it. I also remember the heroism. You know, it really is an uplifting film. I lent the tape to a teacher friend of mine, and her students got it. They asked questions. They wanted to learn more about this period in history. They wanted to know more about man's inhumanity to man. I'm going to keep lending that tape. I want people to learn.

I would give this ten stars if I could
Suspend your disbelief that one family could be involved in every major event of the Holocaust. The point is this is an outstanding mini-series with performances by actors that have gone on to become some of the best of their generation, most notably Meryl Streep. I first saw it as a TV mini-series and have revisited it several times in the intervening years. Each time I watch the series, I see new facets within the production that I did not focus on previously or come away with a clearer understanding of events during this horrific time period. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! My only complaint is that it had never been released on CD in the US. I would love to be able to adapt this mini series for classroom use.

Educational,thought-provoking
I watched the original series in 1978 when I was [...] ; it had a profound impact on my understanding of human atrocities and the depths of depravity. Interestly, I moved to Germany one year later and visited Dachau which forever seared visual images of remnant horrors that took place there and many concentration/death camps spread throughout Germany and other parts of Europe. Unbeknownst to me at the time, this movie and subsequent visit to Dachau, sparked an incredible thirst for historical knowledge and understanding surrounding WWII, Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler/Third Reich, anti-semitism, and racial-superiority/inferiority. As one who has spoken with Holocaust survivors and have lectured to a group on Yom HaShoah (Day of Remembrance)I realize the Holocaust encompasses a lifetime of study that proves to be significantly valuable to this present day and for the future. It is not enough to view this and simply say "aww, that's sad", rather should be a wake-up call for people to understand the Holocaust from a proper perspective as the same ideals, philosphies, rhetoric, values, beliefs, pseudo-science, and psuedo-religious mindsets that lead to and enabled such atrocities continue to thrive in modern societies throughout the world.

Great Educational Tool
We watched this film in a college Holocaust course and it covered all aspects of the Holocaust: perpetrators, bystanders, partisans, mentally handicapped, ghettos, concentration camps, and more. I highly recommend this movie even though it is long. All the students in my class couldn't wait to come to class to see what would happen next. Some very good actors not mentioned above such as James Woods and Merryl Streep.

THE HOLOCAUST
I watched this on network tv when it premiered. It's even harder to watch it today. With twenty years of ethnic cleansings, and smaller holocausts under our belts, one of the major themes of the story holds even truer. If we aren't very very careful any of us can become a killer.