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

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)

Trailer

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