WATCH: Netflix releases 1st trailer for ‘Five Came Back’ WW2 docu-series
“Five Came Back”, a documentary series narrated by the legendary Meryl Streep, will air on Netflix on Mar. 31, 2017.
Adapted from Mark Harris’s 2014 bestseller, “Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War” is a three-part Netflix docu-series exploring the impact of and relationship between Hollywood and the Second World War.
The series follows the careers of five filmmakers who served in the war and then returned to show their experiences to the public: John Ford, William Wyler, John Huston, Frank Capra and George Stevens.
Directors such as Steven Spielberg (also an EP on the series) and Francis Ford Coppola are among the interviewees, while the documentary was directed by Laurent Bouzereau. JB