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  • Netflix
  • Mar 31, 2017
  • Netflix
  • Mar 31, 2017

Summary Narrated by Meryl Streep, the three-part documentary based on Mark Harris's 2014 book about filmmakers experiences in and after World War II focuses on Frank Capra, John Ford, John Huston, George Stevens and William Wyler with interviews from Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola, Guillermo del Toro, Paul Greengrass and Lawrence Kasdan.

  • Netflix
  • Mar 31, 2017
  • Netflix
  • Mar 31, 2017
Five Came Back
Season 1
Season Premiere: Mar 31, 2017
Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 13 Critic Reviews
81
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 19 User Ratings
7.2
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Summary Narrated by Meryl Streep, the three-part documentary based on Mark Harris's 2014 book about filmmakers experiences in and after World War II focuses on Frank Capra, John Ford, John Huston, George Stevens and William Wyler with interviews from Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola, Guillermo del Toro, Paul Greengrass and Lawrence Kasdan.

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Universal Acclaim Based on 13 Critic Reviews
81
92% Positive
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8% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Universal Acclaim Based on 13 Critic Reviews
81
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8% Mixed
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91
Mar 31, 2017
It’s a vital account of understanding the medium that affects us all, be it film, television, or whatever we watch in the future. Remember the past to prepare for the future. Lucky for us, Five Came Back makes the process enthralling.
By Ben Travers FULL REVIEW
90
Apr 3, 2017
Superb. ... The three episodes of Five Came Back run a little over three hours total, but the time goes by like a shot.
By Stephanie Zacharek FULL REVIEW
83
Mar 24, 2017
A fascinating, thorough history lesson that overcomes its early hiccups to tell a stirring tale well worth a binge.
By Shirley Li FULL REVIEW
80
Apr 3, 2017
The three-hour-plus documentary is thorough, thoughtful and authoritative, an experience that honors the multiple complexities of this situation and, best of all, helps us feel what these directors felt as they went forward into what was very much terra incognita.
By Kenneth Turan FULL REVIEW
80
Mar 30, 2017
Five Came Back aspires to the grandness of a ’40s Hollywood production, with its star lineup, Ms. Streep’s narration, the kind of period animation that adorned Capra’s epic “Why We Fight” and Thomas Newman’s heroic music--which is a bit, shall we say, insistent. But overall, the series is much like its story: mythic, adventurous, romantic. And real.
By John Anderson FULL REVIEW
80
Mar 24, 2017
A somewhat choppy but unavoidably fascinating documentary about five major Hollywood directors. ... Each modern helmer was assigned one of the five veterans, a ploy that succeeds more often than not by virtue of the professional expertise and personal sympathy brought to bear on what their forerunners went through.
By Todd McCarthy FULL REVIEW
60
Apr 3, 2017
A glossy, if somewhat snooze-inducing Netflix miniseries.
By Peter Debruge FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 19 User Ratings
7.2
68% Positive
13 Ratings
21% Mixed
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11% Negative
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21% Mixed
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