Watch the trailer for Netflix’s WWII docu-series ‘Five Came Back’
SUMMARY
Netflix partnered up with huge modern directors to tell the story of five filmmakers who chose to put their careers on hold and serve in World War II.
Based on Mark Harris' best-selling book, "Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War," the new Netflix series "Five Came Back" is about five filmmakers (John Ford, William Wyler, John Huston, Frank Capra, and George Stevens) who served in the war, then returned to share what they learned with the world through their art.
With interviews by Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola, Guillermo del Toro, Lawrence Kasdan, and Paul Greengrass, and narrated by Meryl Streep, "Five Came Back" explores the role filmmakers have during tumultuous times.
"Americans did not realize the extent of the threat Hitler posed," narrates Streep.
The "five" created films that brought the reality of the war to the American people, and, in doing so, "changed the world."
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Watch the trailer below and get excited — "Five Came Back" comes to Netflix on March 31.
