Netflix - Five Came Back Hollywood Filmmakers and World War II (2017) Part 3 The Price of Victory

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.

Part 3 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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