George Washington - The Complete Miniseries - Digitally Remastered

I recently purchased this Digitally Remastered Video. It is excellent. The package contains three (3) DVD, and it is the complete George Washington Mini-Series, both the 1984 and 1986 productions. It includes the early life of George Washington, the Revolutionary War, and also FORGING OF A NATION. So the entire mini-series is all contained in this one package.PART ONE, which is on two discs, is the entire 1984 Series ends with the End of the Revolutionary War in 1783. George Washington resigns his commission and the Continental Army is disbanded. George & Martha Washington return to their home at Mt. Vernon, Virginia. George Washington attends to his plantation in this phase of his “retirement.”The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union was the first constitution of the United States. It was drafted by the Second Continental Congress from mid-1776 through late-1777, and ratification by all 13 states was completed in early 1781. Under the Articles of Confederation, the central government's power was kept quite limited. The Confederation Congress could make decisions, but lacked enforcement powers. Implementation of most decisions, including modifications to the Articles, required unanimous approval of all thirteen state legislatures.Although in a way, the Congressional powers in Article 9 made the "league of states as cohesive and strong as any similar sort of republican confederation in history,” the chief problem with the new government under the Articles of Confederation was, in the words of George Washington, "no money." The Continental Congress could print money; but, by 1786, the currency was worthless. (A popular phrase of the times chimed that a useless object or person was .. “not worth a Continental,” referring to the Continental dollar.) Congress could borrow money, but couldn't pay it back. No state paid all their U.S. taxes; Georgia paid nothing, as did New Jersey in 1785. Some few paid an amount equal to interest on the national debt owed to their citizens, but no more. No interest was paid on debt owed foreign governments. By 1786, the United States would default on outstanding debts as their dates came due. James Madison angrily questioned whether the Articles of Confederation was a binding compact or even a viable government. Congress was paralyzed. It could do nothing significant without nine states, and some legislation required all thirteen. In 1789 a new Constitution was ratified with a strong central government, and George Washington was sworn in as the first President in May 1789.THUS WASHINGTON WAS BASICALLY INVOLVED IN FARMING FROM 1783 UNTIL 1789, OR ABOUT 5 OR 6 YEARS. PART TWO, OF THE MINI-SERIES WAS AIRED IN 1986, and begins when the Constitution was approved. PART TWO was called, GEORGE WASHINGTON-FORGING OF A NATION, and it is the series that was aired in 1986. I was surprised that Forging of a Nation was also included as Disc 3 in this package. Disc 3 concludes when George Washington completes his second term of office and when he and Martha leave Philadelphia and return to Mount Vernon.I am a student of history, and I find this mini-series to be historically accurate, for the most part. There are many emotional parts in the videos, and the digital remastering was done very well.

I really enjoyed this docu-drama of the USA's founding father, general, and president of the USA. I just wish they carried it out for his entire life (from birth to death). But it is definitely worth the watch. The people who portrayed these iconic historical figures did a marvelous job. I felt like I was there in the time period with them.

I have long loved colonial American history and I remember watching this series when it originally aired when I was in elementary and junior high. I loved it so much I remember reading Flexner's book, upon which this series is based, and writing a book report on it in 8th grade. I was completely moved then and having viewed it last week for the first time since the late 80's (VHS finally gave out about that time) I can whole heartedly say it is just as beautiful, wonderful and of extremely high quality as it was so many year ago,I have been waiting for about 20 years for this to come to DVD! I can't thank TGG DIrect and Amazon for working together with MGM to get this finally put on DVD! It truly has been digitally remastered to a stunning degree and it IS finally the complete series (Part I "George Washington" on two discs and Part II "George Washington:Forging of a Nation" on one disc). The images are crisp and clear, the sound is great, the colors are truly vibrant and the complete quality is excellent. Amazingly it doesn't seem dated which is a testament to the quality and timelessness of the production. I fully agree that Barry Bostwick and Patty Duke were made for these monumental rolls and they handle them with masterful skill. The film series is truly beautiful, moving, heart wrenching, exciting, tender and full of spirit. The producers effort to not only follow Flexner's ground breaking and award winning historical masterpiece book extremely close but to also to include, and actually listen to, him in so many aspects of the production has made this series is a wonderful survey of Washington's life, both personal and professional, as well as a powerful comprehensive dramatization of the blood, sweat, tears and whole hearted sacrifice it took to make this nation breathe.It is among my most prized possession in my DVD collection, so much so that I am buying a back up copy as soon as I finish this review in case anything should happen to the original.. THANK YOU TGG DIRECT, AMAZON & MGM! Keep up the great work!

Part One is very very good, covering his work for the British fighting the French and his part in the American War of Independence. Very well staged battle scenes with good technical accuracy. His personal and family life are also well covered. I missed this series first time around. Barry Bostwick's performance was criticised by some of the media at the time but I thought he was very good.Part Two, which covers his Presidency, is not so good, most concerned with political intrigue and one minor rebellion easily dealt with. Despite this criticism I still recommend this mini series on the quality of Part One alone.

Waited many years to get this the acting of Trevor Howard as Lord Fairfax was memorable a great actor but underated

I ENJOYED THIS DVD VERY MUCH. THE ACTING IS EXCELLENT AND THE PACE GOOD. WELL WORTH BUYING.

Waited long time for the DVD to be released didn't disappoint three decades later