FACTORY SEALED North and South Time Life Collection Video VHS 12 Tape Set Patrick Swayze (1985).
This epic 12-part TV mini series had an all star cast that included Patrick Swayze, Kirstie Alley, David Caradine, Morgan Fairchild, Robert Guillaume, Johnny Cash, Hal Holbrook, and Lesley-Anne Down.
Story Synopsis
Based on John Jakes best selling novel this is the story of the friendship between two boys - George Hazard and Orry Main - that meet at West Point. George is from a wealthy Pennsylvania steel family and Orry is from a Southern plantation where his family keep slaves. In the years leading up to the Civil War their friendship is tested as their families interact and hostilities between the North and South increase. Notes: In the book Orry loses an arm during the Mexican war where he and George fight together but the in the TV version his injury is re-written as a limp.
This Emmy Award-winning powerful adaptation tells the story of the turbulent events and emotions that ignited the Civil War. In the tradition of "Gone With The Wind," this glorious epic focuses on the lives of two families who are geographically and ideologically placed on opposite sides of the war - The North and The South. The saga follows the families through their changing fortunes at home and the harsh realities of the battlefields until the South surrenders and the families are reunited in friendship. In the final installment, the story of the two families continues through Post-Civil War Reconstruction into pioneer Indian territories.