I live in the US but have the Region 2 DVD which runs at 175 minutes instead of the 120 minutes like the ones sold here. I wanted this movie so badly I took a chance on e-bay a few years ago and bought it from someone in the UK. Guess what? It works great on my DVD player. Apparently, if you are lucky, you can get a DVD player that plays the Region 2 DVD's. My DVD player is a JVC that I bought at Circuit City a few years ago. I was so glad because I couldn't stand the thought of getting the watered down version.
Viewer Reviews Thank-you Amazon for this review system. I was tempted to buy this once I found it online and I decided for sure I will not. I cannot believe in addition to changing the made-for-TV mini-series title from Children of the Dust they also edited it down to nothing. There is a reason it was a mini-series! There is to much character development to do and it was nice to see the plot cover such a long period of time. I loved it on TV when I was 16, had a friend record it on their VCR (ours was broken at the time) and she was trying to edit out the commercials and ended up missing a main scene! So even my recording (also done off a channel with poor reception so there is snow in the recording) is as terrible as this DVD sounds! :( To bad with some big names in it that this was never given proper archive recording (full version on DVD).
