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The Winds Rise: In April 1939 Commander Victor 'Pug' Henry and his wife Rhoda set sail for Europe where he is to take up his post as a Naval Attache at the US Embassy in Berlin. Aboard ship, they meet General Von Roon and Pamela Tudsbury, who is travelling with her journalist father. Their youngest son Byron is travelling around Europe while oldest son Warren is also in the Navy learning to become an aviator; daughter Madeleine is left on her own in New York and as soon as her parents leave, starts looking for a job. In Italy, Byron meets the lovely Nathalie Jastrow who is living with her uncle Aaron. At the end of August 1939 she decides to visit her boyfriend, Leslie Slote, at the US Embassy in Warsaw and Byron decides to tag along.
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It features Robert Mitchum, Ali MacGraw, Jan-Michael Vincent, John Houseman, Topol, Ben Murphy, and Jeremy Kemp.
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The Winds of War is a 1983 US television drama romance WWII mini-series. Set against the backdrop of world events that led to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour in 1941, Victor "Pug" Henry is a career naval officer who, along with his family, learns to navigate the waters of such dangerous times.