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"War and Remembrance" (1988) More at IMDbPro »

• The 1492 page script included 2070 scenes and 358 speaking parts. 757 locations across the world and employing more than 44000 actors and extras.
  
  
• Costing over $110 million, it was, at the time, the most expensive mini-series ever.
  
  
• Brian Blessed said on a UK chat show that he was initially offered one of the Auschwitz roles but turned it down as he thought it would be too depressing.
  
  
• Steven Berkoff, who played Adolf Hitler, is Jewish.
  
  
• Paramount, who financed 'The (1983) Winds of War', passed on financing this sequel, so ABC paid for it.
  
  
• When the series was shown on the ITV network in the UK in the late-1980s, several of the graphic concentration camp scenes were shown out of sequence. This was to ensure they were transmitted after the 9.00pm "watershed". There is an unwritten rule that potentially "offensive" images are never shown before this time.
  
  
• Geoffrey Beevers was cut out of this film.
  
  
• John Dehner's final movie.
  
  
• President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill are played in this film by Ralph Bellamy and Robert Hardy, respectively. Both actors had played those roles in other films as well. Bellamy not only played the role in 'The Winds of War (1983)', but also in Sunrise at Campobello (1960). Hardy previously played Churchill in 'Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years (1981)' and 'The (1988) Woman He Loved'. He would also subsequently play the part in Bomber Harris (1989).
  
  
• Howard Caine's final project.
  
  
• Final TV project of Harold Kasket.
  
  
• John Gielgud takes over the role of Aaron Jastrow from John Houseman. Gielgud was one of several actors who passed on the role of the law professor in The Paper Chase (1973) before Houseman was cast.
  
  
• Sir John Gielgud worked 8 months on this project.
  
  
• The scenes at Hitler's Reich Chancellery in Berlin were actually shot in and around the Hofburg Palace in Vienna.
  
  
• E.G. Marshall previously played General Dwight D. Eisenhower in Ike (1986) (TV).
  
  
• Pat Hingle served in the Navy, in the Pacific Theater, which means he served under the command of Admiral Halsey, who he plays in the film.
  
  

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