"This epic-length box set brings into a single collection three of the most acclaimed miniseries of the 1980s and 1990s, adapted from John Jakes's trilogy of bestsellers: North and South (1985), North And South, Book Two (1986) and Heaven and Hell: North and South, Book III (1994). The programs, set in the Civil War Era, relay tumultuous events from the lives of two families, The Mains and The Hazards - clans once closely intertwined but now irreparably separated (on geographic and ideological grounds) by the scourge of war. The all-star cast includes such notables as Kirstie Alley, Hal Holbrook, Lesley-Anne Down, Lloyd Bridges, James Stewart, David Carradine, Anthony Zerbe, Rip Torn and Billy Dee Williams."