|
|
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780794203283
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
ISBN: 0794203280
Label: Lance Entertainment
Manufacturer: Lance Entertainment
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Lance Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 11, 2003
Running Time: 390 minutes
Sales Rank: 104194
Studio: Lance Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: January 16, 1983
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
It's easy to stay glued to all 390 fascinating minutes of this 1981 television series, which concentrates, in great detail, on an agonizing decade in the political life of Winston Churchill. Ousted in 1928 from his powerful position in Britain's Conservative government, Churchill (Robert Hardy) assumes--for the first of many times to come--that his career is over. But a pattern emerges: Churchill, the maverick defender of Britain's empire, is pressed back into service only to be attacked for unpopular views about the King's abdication and Hitler's threat. Time and again Churchill is banished, but this sprawling drama provides much colorful detail about the great man's trips to America (what a sight: Churchill in Monument Valley), his passion for his family, and his prescient drive to complete a historical tome before 1939--the year he becomes Prime Minister. Hardy is superb; excellent support comes from, among others, Eric Porter as Neville Chamberlain. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Great Biography of a great man
This is a DVD version of an older PBS biography. I wore out my VHS version years ago. If you love Churchill you will enjoy this professional biography of him.
Rating:  - 20th century's greatest man
this is a a wonderful story about an incredibly great man.....ruined by poor sound quality.
Rating:  - Fascinating but Flawed
This series held my interest from beginning to end. How could it miss with such a monumental protagonist and absorbing subject matter. I especially liked Nigel Havers as Randolph, and the actors who played Stanley Baldwin, Ramsay McDonald, and Clement Atlee. I am afraid that I am less enthusiastic about Sian Phillips, who always plays Sian Phillips, and who, in my estimation, managed to make Clemmie rather unpleasant (as unpleasant as Phillips, appropriately, made Livia Augusta in "I Claudius."). ... Read More
Rating: - Full justice to the character
I bought this DVD because I have always admired this great man, Sir Winston Churchill. Having read several books about him and having been enamored by his famous one-liners, both inside and outside of parliament, I wanted to get a "feel" for the person. Let me tell you that this DVD did precisely that. The fact that the focus is on the decade of 1929-1939 when Churchill was believed to be politically inconsequential makes this very interesting becaue it builds up the case for the "delicious" outcome ... Read More
Rating: - Intriguing
This is an excellent insight of the pre-war Churchill and his rise through a political elite that was determined to marginalize him. Robert Hardy is superb as Churchill. Neville Chamberlain is portrayed as a man who seems lost in an astounding socialistic dream world while perilous events in Europe threaten England's very survival.
Two cautions: A background knowledge of British politics would be helpful in understanding the full cast of characters and events, especially in the somewhat ... Read More
|
|
