Stephen
the best tv miniseries i wathched was the lonesome dove, some of these seemed to last forever.
Answer
Using IMDB.com, you can get a lot of information. First, highest rated mini-series, popular enough to get at least 5000 votes, in English language:
1.Band of Brothers (2001 Mini-Series) 9.5/10 137,034
2.Pride and Prejudice (1995 Mini-Series) 9.0/10 35,080
3.From the Earth to the Moon (1998 Mini-Series) 8.9/10 5,852
4.I, Claudius (1976 Mini-Series) 8.8/10 7,195
5.Spartacus: Gods of the Arena (2011 Mini-Series) 8.7/10 47,457 (I don't own a copy on DVD)
6.Generation Kill (2008 Mini-Series) 8.6/10 22,203
7.Jesus of Nazareth (1977 Mini-Series) 8.6/10 7,970 (I don't own a copy on DVD)
8.Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (2008 Mini-Series) 8.5/10 25,138
9.Lonesome Dove (1989 Mini-Series) 8.5/10 11,173
10.John Adams (2008 Mini-Series) 8.5/10 13,526
11.North & South (2004 Mini-Series) 8.5/10 11,478 (British, not US Civil War)
12.Black Mirror (2011 Mini-Series) 8.4/10 11,509 (I don't own a copy on DVD)
13.Battlestar Galactica (2003 Mini-Series) 8.4/10 28,875
14.Long Way Round (2004 Mini-Series) 8.3/10 5,091 (I don't own a copy on DVD)
15.Roots (1977 Mini-Series) 8.3/10 7,032 (I don't own a copy on DVD)
16.The Pacific (2010 Mini-Series) 8.2/10 41,366
17.State of Play (2003 Mini-Series) 8.2/10 5,018
18.The Lost Room (2006 Mini-Series) 8.2/10 17,242
19.Jane Eyre (2006 Mini-Series) 8.1/10 9,469
20.The Pillars of the Earth (2010 Mini-Series) 8.1/10 15,179
21.Angels in America (2003 Mini-Series) 8.0/10 18,713
22.Hatfields & McCoys (2012 Mini-Series) 8.0/10 11,438 (I don't own a copy on DVD)
All should be excellent if you get a chance to watch them.
Run time:
1. Centennial (1978 Mini-Series) 7.6/10 The economic and cultural growth of Colorado spanning two centuries from the mid-1700s to the late-1970s. With: Raymond Burr, Barbara Carrera, Richard Chamberlain Action | Adventure | Drama | Romance | Western 1256 mins.
2. Baseball (1994 Mini-Series) 8.0/10 A documentary on the history of the sport with major topics including Afro-American players, player/team owner relations and the resilience of the game.
With: John Chancellor, Daniel Okrent, Ossie Davis Documentary | History | Sport 1140 mins.
3. Cold War (1998 Mini-Series) 6.7/10 A 24-part series which deals with the relations between the United States, the Soviet Union and their respective allies between the end of World War II to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Dir: Tessa Coombs With: Kenneth Branagh, Anatoli Dobrynin, Robert McNamara Documentary | History 1120 mins.
4. Ren jian si yue tian (2000 Mini-Series) 6.8/10 Dir: Yah-Ming Ding With: Lei Huang, Rene Liu, Xun Zhou Drama | Romance 1100 mins. Country: Taiwan Language: English | Mandarin
Also Known As: April Rhapsody Filming Locations: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
5. The Unknown War (1978 Mini-Series) 6.2/10 Documentary film history of the Nazi-Soviet conflict in world War II. Dir: Isaac Kleinerman, Roman Karmen With: Burt Lancaster Documentary 1040 mins.
6. The Winds of War (1983 Mini-Series) 7.7/10 In the late 1930s, world politics begin to head in a dangerous direction. In Europe, Germany expands etc. With: Robert Mitchum, Ali MacGraw, Jan-Michael Vincent Drama | Romance | War 883 mins.
7. Taken (2002 Mini-Series) 7.7/10 Taken spans five decades and four generations, centering on three families: the Keys, Crawfords, and Clarkes etc. With: Dakota Fanning, Matt Frewer, Emily Bergl
Drama | Sci-Fi 877 mins.
8. Amerika (1987 Mini-Series) 5.9/10 America has been bloodlessly taken over by the Soviet Union, leading to slave-labor camps for some etc. With: Kris Kristofferson, Robert Urich, Wendy Hughes
Drama | Fantasy 870 mins
So "Centennial" at 1256 minutes spanning 21 hours plus commercials, is the longest shown on IMDB.
Using IMDB.com, you can get a lot of information. First, highest rated mini-series, popular enough to get at least 5000 votes, in English language:
1.Band of Brothers (2001 Mini-Series) 9.5/10 137,034
2.Pride and Prejudice (1995 Mini-Series) 9.0/10 35,080
3.From the Earth to the Moon (1998 Mini-Series) 8.9/10 5,852
4.I, Claudius (1976 Mini-Series) 8.8/10 7,195
5.Spartacus: Gods of the Arena (2011 Mini-Series) 8.7/10 47,457 (I don't own a copy on DVD)
6.Generation Kill (2008 Mini-Series) 8.6/10 22,203
7.Jesus of Nazareth (1977 Mini-Series) 8.6/10 7,970 (I don't own a copy on DVD)
8.Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (2008 Mini-Series) 8.5/10 25,138
9.Lonesome Dove (1989 Mini-Series) 8.5/10 11,173
10.John Adams (2008 Mini-Series) 8.5/10 13,526
11.North & South (2004 Mini-Series) 8.5/10 11,478 (British, not US Civil War)
12.Black Mirror (2011 Mini-Series) 8.4/10 11,509 (I don't own a copy on DVD)
13.Battlestar Galactica (2003 Mini-Series) 8.4/10 28,875
14.Long Way Round (2004 Mini-Series) 8.3/10 5,091 (I don't own a copy on DVD)
15.Roots (1977 Mini-Series) 8.3/10 7,032 (I don't own a copy on DVD)
16.The Pacific (2010 Mini-Series) 8.2/10 41,366
17.State of Play (2003 Mini-Series) 8.2/10 5,018
18.The Lost Room (2006 Mini-Series) 8.2/10 17,242
19.Jane Eyre (2006 Mini-Series) 8.1/10 9,469
20.The Pillars of the Earth (2010 Mini-Series) 8.1/10 15,179
21.Angels in America (2003 Mini-Series) 8.0/10 18,713
22.Hatfields & McCoys (2012 Mini-Series) 8.0/10 11,438 (I don't own a copy on DVD)
All should be excellent if you get a chance to watch them.
Run time:
1. Centennial (1978 Mini-Series) 7.6/10 The economic and cultural growth of Colorado spanning two centuries from the mid-1700s to the late-1970s. With: Raymond Burr, Barbara Carrera, Richard Chamberlain Action | Adventure | Drama | Romance | Western 1256 mins.
2. Baseball (1994 Mini-Series) 8.0/10 A documentary on the history of the sport with major topics including Afro-American players, player/team owner relations and the resilience of the game.
With: John Chancellor, Daniel Okrent, Ossie Davis Documentary | History | Sport 1140 mins.
3. Cold War (1998 Mini-Series) 6.7/10 A 24-part series which deals with the relations between the United States, the Soviet Union and their respective allies between the end of World War II to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Dir: Tessa Coombs With: Kenneth Branagh, Anatoli Dobrynin, Robert McNamara Documentary | History 1120 mins.
4. Ren jian si yue tian (2000 Mini-Series) 6.8/10 Dir: Yah-Ming Ding With: Lei Huang, Rene Liu, Xun Zhou Drama | Romance 1100 mins. Country: Taiwan Language: English | Mandarin
Also Known As: April Rhapsody Filming Locations: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
5. The Unknown War (1978 Mini-Series) 6.2/10 Documentary film history of the Nazi-Soviet conflict in world War II. Dir: Isaac Kleinerman, Roman Karmen With: Burt Lancaster Documentary 1040 mins.
6. The Winds of War (1983 Mini-Series) 7.7/10 In the late 1930s, world politics begin to head in a dangerous direction. In Europe, Germany expands etc. With: Robert Mitchum, Ali MacGraw, Jan-Michael Vincent Drama | Romance | War 883 mins.
7. Taken (2002 Mini-Series) 7.7/10 Taken spans five decades and four generations, centering on three families: the Keys, Crawfords, and Clarkes etc. With: Dakota Fanning, Matt Frewer, Emily Bergl
Drama | Sci-Fi 877 mins.
8. Amerika (1987 Mini-Series) 5.9/10 America has been bloodlessly taken over by the Soviet Union, leading to slave-labor camps for some etc. With: Kris Kristofferson, Robert Urich, Wendy Hughes
Drama | Fantasy 870 mins
So "Centennial" at 1256 minutes spanning 21 hours plus commercials, is the longest shown on IMDB.
Next Xbox or PlayStation?
Q. when is the next ine going to come out and should i wait to buy a ps3 or 360 until another one of those consles come out?
Answer
PS3 is supposed to have a 10 year life cycle, but the industry, and everyone is predicting is that we will see the next PS around 2014-2015. The next XBox will come out much sooner, as the XBox 360 is already maxed out in terms of graphics and physics, it will probably be released around 2010-2011. My advice, grab a PS3. I have a 360, PS3, and Wii and the PS3 has become my main platform for gaming. My brother plays the 360 while I play the PS3 and Wii.
EDIT: To counter the post under me, Major Nelson is in charge of XBL and is in charge of PR. He would never say that the next XBox is coming out soon, but here is the evidence:
http://www.videogamesblogger.com/2007/03/13/next-xbox-720-to-launch-in-2011-2012-according-to-microsoft.htm
A Microsoft DEVELOPER said that they are already working on the next XBOX, and here is one more thing:
http://www.gamezine.co.uk/news/formats/xbox360/rumour-project-phoenix-xbox-720-and-x-engine-$1306788.htm
Basically, MS ran a couple of job listings a while ago stating that they needed people experienced with gaming hardware in order for their next console codenamed Phoenix. The original idea was for it to be 10 years, but because Blu-Ray beat HD-DVD, the XBox is now behind the PS3 in terms of graphics and what the 360 can do in terms of physics and AI. The hardware is basically the same, but the DVD-9, that the 360 uses has 9 gigs of space, while Blu-Ray discs, what the PS3 uses, has 50 gigs of space. Because of that devs can put more things on the PS3 than the 360. Here is proof:
http://www.totalvideogames.com/GTA-IV/news/Further-GTA-IV-Details-Unearthed-11032.html
Rockstar, the developer behind GTA IV, said that they had to "dumb-down" GTA IV in order for it to be equal on the PS3 and the 360 because of the lack of disk space on the 360. They originally had a much bigger game planned, but when they approached MS about making GTA IV multi-disc, they said no way, thus we got the gimped, but still good, version of GTA IV.
In summary, because the PS3 has a next-gen disc format (Blu-Ray) while the 360 relies on DVD, we will see the next XBox much sooner than anyone thinks.
Yet another EDIT:
The 360 had better exclusives until 2008. The PS3 has fantastic games like Killzone 2, InFamous, Uncharted, Uncharted 2, Ratchet and Clank, LittleBigPlanet, and SOCOM. They have games like Heavy Rain, God Of War III, and MAG (256 player FPS game) coming out in 2009. The 360 has great games like Gears Of War 1 and 2, Halo 3, and Forza 2, but their exclusives list is becoming SHORTER as time goes on. The only thing they have going for them is Halo 3: ODST and Halo: Reach. IMO, MS is relying on Halo WAY to much, and it will bite them in the ass.
In terms of games, the 360 has a bigger library right now, but the PS3 will have a bigger and better library after 2009.
PS3 is supposed to have a 10 year life cycle, but the industry, and everyone is predicting is that we will see the next PS around 2014-2015. The next XBox will come out much sooner, as the XBox 360 is already maxed out in terms of graphics and physics, it will probably be released around 2010-2011. My advice, grab a PS3. I have a 360, PS3, and Wii and the PS3 has become my main platform for gaming. My brother plays the 360 while I play the PS3 and Wii.
EDIT: To counter the post under me, Major Nelson is in charge of XBL and is in charge of PR. He would never say that the next XBox is coming out soon, but here is the evidence:
http://www.videogamesblogger.com/2007/03/13/next-xbox-720-to-launch-in-2011-2012-according-to-microsoft.htm
A Microsoft DEVELOPER said that they are already working on the next XBOX, and here is one more thing:
http://www.gamezine.co.uk/news/formats/xbox360/rumour-project-phoenix-xbox-720-and-x-engine-$1306788.htm
Basically, MS ran a couple of job listings a while ago stating that they needed people experienced with gaming hardware in order for their next console codenamed Phoenix. The original idea was for it to be 10 years, but because Blu-Ray beat HD-DVD, the XBox is now behind the PS3 in terms of graphics and what the 360 can do in terms of physics and AI. The hardware is basically the same, but the DVD-9, that the 360 uses has 9 gigs of space, while Blu-Ray discs, what the PS3 uses, has 50 gigs of space. Because of that devs can put more things on the PS3 than the 360. Here is proof:
http://www.totalvideogames.com/GTA-IV/news/Further-GTA-IV-Details-Unearthed-11032.html
Rockstar, the developer behind GTA IV, said that they had to "dumb-down" GTA IV in order for it to be equal on the PS3 and the 360 because of the lack of disk space on the 360. They originally had a much bigger game planned, but when they approached MS about making GTA IV multi-disc, they said no way, thus we got the gimped, but still good, version of GTA IV.
In summary, because the PS3 has a next-gen disc format (Blu-Ray) while the 360 relies on DVD, we will see the next XBox much sooner than anyone thinks.
Yet another EDIT:
The 360 had better exclusives until 2008. The PS3 has fantastic games like Killzone 2, InFamous, Uncharted, Uncharted 2, Ratchet and Clank, LittleBigPlanet, and SOCOM. They have games like Heavy Rain, God Of War III, and MAG (256 player FPS game) coming out in 2009. The 360 has great games like Gears Of War 1 and 2, Halo 3, and Forza 2, but their exclusives list is becoming SHORTER as time goes on. The only thing they have going for them is Halo 3: ODST and Halo: Reach. IMO, MS is relying on Halo WAY to much, and it will bite them in the ass.
In terms of games, the 360 has a bigger library right now, but the PS3 will have a bigger and better library after 2009.
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