Okay, it gets pretty sketchy trying to come up with pithy ways to work the word "binge" into the titles of these things and man, does this one show it... sheesh, I apologize. LOL!
I do recall bingeing this miniseries back in the Netflix DVD rental days about 15 years ago or so but I found it available on YouTube and figured I'd give it another go. Of course I'd also seen it during its original broadcast run on ABC back in February 1983 over the course of several nights with my fam on the living room TV on Pearl Street when I was 18. Winds of War was an epic TV event, like Roots and this other historical miniseries I posted about a couple years ago. It got a lot of hype and in my opinion it was well worth it as its production value still holds up in quality and sheer scope even today. Sure it's old fashioned and melodramatic by modern standards and, even for them days, extremely mono-racial (I think I saw only a handful of black people in the whole thing in tiny, walk-on 5-second, roles as servants). And the acting is a bit archaic in retrospect. But even then I hated Ali McGraw. Ugh! She fucking can't act! God she sucks so much, she almost ruins this whole show! Beside that, it's a good little nostalgic look at a very soap opera way of dealing with the outbreak of a world war. Kinda like nowadays in that respect though, I guess.
EDIT: After finishing this miniseries, the same YouTube channel, LionHeart FilmWorks, one of many YouTube channels I've found that are third-party providers of movies that somehow get to stay up despite what you'd think would be copyright restrictions, suggested an earlier miniseries Holocaust originally from 1978. I think I watched this when it was broadcast too, despite the fact I was only about 14 at the time. Very intense drama focusing basically one extended Jewish family throughout WWII. Early and awesome performances by Meryl Streep, Michael Moriarity and James Woods. Moriarity was especially powerful as we saw him slowly descend from a down-on-his-luck lawyer trying to provide for his family in tough economic times to a depraved and sociopathic, calculating SS officer overseeing the mechanics of "The Final Solution."