Title: The Winds of War
Genre: War & Politics, Drama
First aired: 1983-02-06
Creator: Dan Curtis
Cast: Robert Mitchum, Ali MacGraw, Jan-Michael Vincent, John Houseman, Polly Bergen, Lisa Eilbacher, David Dukes, Chaim Topol, Ben Murphy, Peter Graves, Jeremy Kemp, Ralph Bellamy, Victoria Tennant, Wolfgang Preiss, William Woodson, Dragomir Stanojević, Günter Meisner, Elke Sommer, Elizabeth Hoffman, Charles Lane, Joachim Hansen, Howard Lang, Sky du Mont, Alexander Kerst, Rainer Penkert, Ferdy Mayne, Anton Diffring, Werner Kreindl, Reinhard Kolldehoff
Overview: The Winds of War is a 1983 miniseries that follows the book of the same name by Herman Wouk. Just as in the book, in addition to the lives of the Henry and Jastrow families, much time in the miniseries is devoted to the major global events of this period. Adolf Hitler and the German military staff with the fictitious general von Roon as a major character is a prominent subplot of the miniseries. Winds of War also includes segments of documentary footage narrated by William Woodson to explain major events and important characters. According to the DVD-featurette "From Novel to Television," The Winds of War became a smashing television success, and a US national television event as never seen before. It was followed by a sequel War and Remembrance in 1988, also directed by Dan Curtis.
