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Five Came Back
- 15
- TV series
- 2017
- 1 season
- Netflix
- Documentary
- War & Politics
7.2 TMDB worldwide · 75 ratings
Story
Five acclaimed contemporary directors tell the story of five legendary Hollywood filmmakers who enlisted in the armed forces to document World War II.
About the show
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.
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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.
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Star cast
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Behind the camera
- Executive producers
- Jason Sterman, Scott Rudin, Angus Wall +9 more
- Music
- Jeremy Turner, Thomas Newman
Seasons
Ended 2017 · 1 season · 3 episodes
