Five Came Back
They showed the war to the world.
The extraordinary story of how Hollywood changed World War II – and how World War II changed Hollywood, 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.”
Cast
Meryl Streep
Narrator (voice)
Francis Ford Coppola
Self
Steven Spielberg
Self
Paul Greengrass
Self
Guillermo del Toro
Self
Lawrence Kasdan
Self
John Ford
Self (archive footage)
William Wyler
Self (archive footage)
John Huston
Self (archive footage)
Frank Capra
Self (archive footage)
George Stevens
Self (archive footage)
Director
Images
Recommended
The Invisible War
Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
WWII From Space
To End All War: Oppenheimer & the Atomic Bomb
Last Days in Vietnam
Naqoyqatsi
A Gorilla Story: Told by David Attenborough
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
Love, Marilyn
Heart of a Dog
Audrey
Hell and Back Again
More Brains! A Return to the Living Dead
I Am Ali
The Untold History Of The United States
More like this
Path of Shadows
Paisan
They Came to Blow Up America
Birthday
Female Agents
The History in the Gaze
Brigadistas
Diameter of the Bomb
Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!
The Final Countdown
The Thin Red Line
The Tóth Family
Green Day: The Early Years
Flame & Citron
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
The Sun and Richard Lippold
Movie & TV metadata from TMDB. This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.