War and Remembrance Concluded – DVD Extras

War and Remembrance Concluded – DVD Extras.

All extras (except for the trailers – a waste of time and space IMO) are included here. For those who routinely disregard extras, I think you might want to make an exception in this case. There has never been any film or miniseries with quite the scope and depth of this one, and some of the information is fascinating. Of particular note is the lengths gone to ensure historical accuracy for the Holocaust scenes. Most were filmed on exact location, using buildings recreated to the exact specifications of the real ones. Most chilling is the train trip into Auschwitz, because this was the first movie in film history allowed to film there by the Polish Government. The director made use of many survivors to create the selection scenes, and these survivors have testified to the fact that the filmed sequence is EXACTLY what occurred to prisoners brought into the camp. This final torrent contains:

• Two features on the making of the general series
• A feature on the music
• Director’s commentary on key scenes
• A special presentation by Robert Mitchum made for ABC television back in 1988