Fall of Eagles
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Movie Reviews of Fall of Eagles
Movie Review: Questions Regarding this DVD Set....
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm writing this question in hopes that someone out there has already seen this soon-to-be-released US version. Last year, I bought the British version of this DVD, plus a universal DVD player, because the British version wasn't compatible with my first DVD player. The British version said in very small print that part of one episode about the Romanovs is missing from the BBC's archives and consequently not included on the British DVD. I was wondering whether the missing footage (I think it was called "Dearest Nicky") has now been found, and will it be included on the US release of this fine series? Like all of you, I watched it many years ago, was enthralled, and am anxious to have the entire series on DVD in Region 1 format. I just now checked the Amazon.co.uk site, and it says that the total length of the British version is 690 minutes. The forthcoming USA version quotes 710 minutes, which I'm taking as a good sign, if accurate. Can anyone out there please verify that the US version will have the complete series with nothing missing, plus hopefully some extra material, such as a "making-of" featurette, interviews with cast, etc. ....?? Many thanks for reading such a long message!! :-)Movie Review: Great drama and painless history.
Summary: 5 Stars
Excellent & erudite scripts, that follow the historical facts closely. Superb costume and sets. Each episode explores a single set of personalities or a particular key event. Cumulatively, the episodes make the audience recognize that such a system and inept set of people can only lead to disaster and failure. Each episode's personalities fit the descriptions of these people by their contemporary observers. Particularly good in elucidating obscure but important trends, for example,the Lenin episode that depicts the internal maneuvering among the various factions and key figures of the early Russian/Communist movement. The actors have been well chosen to fit the historical personalities. The actor playing Czar Nicholas does a particularly good job portraying the weak and vacillating personalities of the Czar and his self indulgent wife. As you watch more episodes ( there are 11), the pieces fit together well to create a sense of impending and inevitable disaster consequent to the hereditary aristocrat society, and that led to World War I and the fall of the failed royal houses and their associated houses. Well worth the price.Movie Review: The decisions that shaped the 20th Century
Summary: 5 Stars
When one dovetails the Second World War and the ensuing Cold War into the unresolved conclusion of the First World War, it isn't hard to come to the realization the events depicted here shaped all our lives, and continues to. The Fall of Eagles thoroughly evokes the tragedy that was the First World War, illustrating a momentous conflict in which none of its combatants ever wanted to be there in the first place. In the second to last episode, the Kaiser bellows at his chancellor the folly of speeding the exiled Bolsheviks secretly through Germany so they might take control of Russia and pull out from the war, "We'll be replacing an enemy for a monster!", and sighs the decision will one day be rued by future generations of Germans. And Eastern Europe at the very least, he might have added.
When we follow the ripples of the events described in Fall of Eagles, it is dumbfounding.
Outside of the excellent performances and script, what really delivers are the sets, which are very believable, especially the monarch's grand living spaces.
Movie Review: Why WWI was fought.
Summary: 5 Stars
I finally put together the reason for WWI. I always thought it was a war that was totally without reason but never figured out why it happened. Now, thanks to this show, I found it why. It still is a war that was totally without reason, much like the war in Iraq.
All about greed, power, alliances, breaking apart countries and taking a part of each, etc. Leave it to the BBC to produce a historical series that takes itself seriously and sticks to the facts, so much so, that my brain was about to explode from trying to keep track of the machinations, the doublecrossing, doubledealing, lies, etc. that ended up in the loss of millions of innocent lives being lost over nothing except power of nations. (What else is new?)
I've read books on WWI but this just put it all together. The acting was brilliant as well as the script. Some of the scripts were written by Jack Pulman who also wrote I, Claudius.
Absolutely riveting. Keep some aspirin handy, though.
Movie Review: Not enough stars!
Summary: 5 Stars
I write this review as a person who is not knowledgeable about world history. Anything involving military history always goes way over my head. That's why I absolutely love this miniseries, and rate it at the all-time top of my personal list.
Whether or not it's all historically accurate or not, I can't say. But I have such a greater interest in this part of world history than before. It also is a joy to see wonderful acting, beautiful sets, beautiful costumes, all without a single word of profanity, no explicit sex, and only "historical" violence (via documentary footage) from WWI and "discussions," not re-enactments or visuals on the assassinations!
This is a wonderful miniseries for families with children above 12 years of age to watch together and learn something together.
A final plus is to see a younger Patrick Stewart as Vladmir Lenin!
Five Stars in not enough, but that's all they gave me to work with!