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Five Came Back
2017 · TV series · documentary · 1 season
Five acclaimed contemporary directors tell the story of five legendary Hollywood filmmakers who enlisted in the armed forces to document World War II.
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If you're interested in WWII and film history, I recommend "Five Came Back" by Mark Harris.
"In Pictures at a Revolution, Mark Harris turned the story of the five movies nominated for Best Picture in 1967 into a landmark work of cultural history, a book about the transformation of an art form and the larger social shift it signified. In Five Came Back, he achieves something larger and even more remarkable, giving us the untold story of how Hollywood changed World War II, and how World War II changed Hollywood, through the prism of five film directors caught up in the war: John Ford, William Wyler, John Huston, Frank Capra, and George Stevens."
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18114047-five-came-back
Also made into an excellent, 3-part documentary:
https://instantwatcher.com/title/80060406