Five Came Back (2017)
- Directed by
- Laurent Bouzereau
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- United States
- Length
- 1 season, 3 episodes
- Rated
- TV-MA
- Rating
- 7.2 of 10 from 73 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This documentary profiles five famous Hollywood directors who made propaganda films for the U.S. government during World War Two. Modern filmmakers discuss how the war changed each director's work and legacy.
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What happens
Five Came Back is an American documentary based on the 2014 book Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War by journalist Mark Harris. It was released as a stand-alone documentary in New York and Los Angeles, and as a three-part series on Netflix, on March 31, 2017. The documentary focuses on five directors – John Ford, William Wyler, John Huston, Frank Capra, and George Stevens – whose war-related works are analysed by modern filmmakers, respectively Paul Greengrass, Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola, Guillermo del Toro, and Lawrence Kasdan. The series received critical acclaim and was nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards, winning Outstanding Narrator for Meryl Streep's performance. On February 9, 2021 Netflix added all of the propaganda movies featured into a new series called Five Came Back: The Reference Films. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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