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starring: Swayze, Read, Down, Carradine, All, Patrick Swayze

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Average Rating: Rating: - Best mini-series I have ever seen! I recently watched North and South, and I was swept away into a time period that is such an important part of our American history. I feel that we often forget about the way our country was once torn apart. This depiction of what the North and South were like in the mid 1800's was excellent. I enjoyed it immensely and enjoyed Book II as well. Rating: - Proof Positive that a Novel can Teach History What a great movie. Both North and South, Books 1 & 2, are the perfect compliment to the historical setting and diverse sentiment prior to and during the American Civil War. The original television miniseries departs a little from John Jakes' published work, but overall the epic makes for good watching. A great deal of the first movie was filmed almost exclusively in and around Charleston, SC. Bill Conti's musical score fits perfectly with production. When the series first aired in Autumn 1985, I was glued to the television set and raced back from military field assignments so as not to miss an episode. At the conclusion of the first miniseries I was overjoyed that there was a second series in production, which aired early in 1986. Do yourself a favor, add both sets of videos to your collection. Rating: - Great Mini-Series but C'mon Bring it on DVD This is one of those events which mixes great drama, sex appeal and down right fun on the small screen. After 17 years and 3 mini series with top calibre actors including James Read, Patrick Swayze, Wendy Kilbourne, Jonathan Frakes, Jimmy Stewart, Johnny Cash and Hal Holbrook, this mini-series helped bring back an interest in the Civil War. Shot on location throughout the real South, the story involves the relationship of two friends, one a Northern factory owner and the other, a Southern Plantation owner. The story has everything you want to keep you intrigued, greed, sex, action, comedy, history, friendship, deceit. Book 1 takes you through the friendship build up of Read and Swayze and the lead up to the Civil War. Book 2 takes us through the Civil War as Read and Swayze take sides against each other as opposing generals. The third book and the least entertaining was shot nearly 10 years after the second book and offers the reconstruction of the country and the expansion to the West. Most of the original cast is back minus Swayze who opted to stay away after he had a semi-successful big screen career going. Like I said, it is a great mini series and I hope that the powers that be will bring it out in a 3 volume set on DVD, it certainly deserves it.

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