Five Came Back: Hollywood Filmmakers and World War II

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War Documentary hosted by Meryl Streep, published by Netflix in 2017 - English narration

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The extraordinary wartime experience of five of Hollywood's most legendary directors, all of whom put their stamp on World War II and were changed by it forever. Here is the remarkable, untold story of how five major Hollywood directors--John Ford, George Stevens, John Huston, William Wyler, and Frank Capra--changed World War II, and how, in turn, the war changed them. In a move unheard of at the time, the U.S. government farmed out its war propaganda effort to Hollywood, allowing these directors the freedom to film in combat zones as never before. They were on the scene at almost every major moment of America's war, shaping the public's collective consciousness of what we've now come to call the good fight. The product of five years of scrupulous archival research, "Five Came Back" provides a revelatory new understanding of Hollywood's role in the war through the life and work of these five men who chose to go, and who came back. Five acclaimed contemporary directors--Francis Ford Coppola, Guillermo del Toro,Peter Greengrass, Lawrence Kasdan and Steven Spielberg--tell the story of five legendary Hollywood filmmakers who enlisted in the armed forces to document World War II. Accompanying contemporary commentaries the story is told through the interwoven experiences of five legendary filmmakers who went to war to serve their country and bring the truth to the American people: John Ford, William Wyler, John Huston, Frank Capra, and George Stevens. Based on Mark Harris' best-selling book, "Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War." Directed by Laurent Bouzereau ; Amblin Television, Scott Rudin, IACF Productions, Passion Pictures, Rock Paper Scissors Entertainment and Netflix Studios Production

[edit] The Mission Begins

As World War II begins, five of Hollywood's top directors leave success and homes behind to join the armed forces and make films for the war effort.
The series explores the backgrounds of the five directors at the beginning of conflict and their motivations for supporting the war effort, focusing their contributions to World War II. John Ford, William Wyler, John Huston, Frank Capra, and George Stevens are examined respectively by filmmakers Paul Greengrass, Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola, Guillermo del Toro, and Lawrence Kasdan. In the first episode, John Ford's "The Battle of Midway" was approved directly by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, while Frank Capra was struggling to finish "Why We Fight."

[edit] Combat Zones

Now in active service, each director learns his cinematic vision isn't always attainable within government bureaucracy and the variables of war.
In episode 2, the directors learn their vision for the films is not always permissible by the U.S. government. Wyler is shocked by the racism he encounters against African American soldiers and refused to make a film recruiting black soldiers. Meanwhile, the films' racist depiction of the Japanese versus human depiction of the Germans causes worry for the War Department, which at that time planned to redistribute the Japanese-American population from internment camps into towns across the United States.

[edit] The Price of Victory

At the war's end, the five come back to Hollywood to re-establish their careers, but what they've seen will haunt and change them forever.
The five directors, John Ford, William Wyler, John Huston, Frank Capra, and George Stevens, return to Hollywood after the war, but are forever haunted by what they saw. Ford goes on a drinking bender after filming the carnage at D-Day. Stevens is wholly unprepared for the horrors he will see at Dachau and realizes he is not there to film propaganda, but that his mission will be to collect evidence of crimes against humanity. Wyler has lost his hearing during the war and fears that his career is over. Huston chronicles soldiers suffering post-traumatic stress in his film "Let There Be Light," only to have it later censored by the American government.

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Video Codec: x264 CABAC High@L4.1
Video Bitrate: 2 932 Kbps
Video Resolution: 1920x1080
Display Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Frames Per Second: 23.976 fps
Audio Codec: AC3
Audio Bitrate: 384 kb/s CBR 48000 Hz
Audio Streams: 6
Audio Languages: english
RunTime Per Part: 59 min 31 s - 1 h 9 min
Number Of Parts: 3
Part Size: 1.46 GB - 1.58 GB
Source: WEB DL (Thanks to STRiFE)
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