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Genre | Documentary |
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Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War by Mark Harris |
Directed by | Laurent Bouzereau |
Narrated by | Meryl Streep |
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Distributor | Netflix |
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Original network | Netflix |
Five Came Back is an American documentary web series that is slated to be released on Netflix on March 31, 2017. It is based on a book of the same name by journalist Mark Harris. The series will explore the experiences of five U.S. film directors (John Ford, William Wyler, John Huston, Frank Capra, and George Stevens) and their frontline work during the Second World War. The three-part series will draw on over 100 hours of archival footage, and will be narrated by Meryl Streep.Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola, Guillermo del Toro, Paul Greengrass, and Lawrence Kasdan will all discuss the impact and legacies of the five aforementioned directors.