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    The Treatment

    Mark Harris: Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War

    "The sixth character was alcohol," journalist Mark Harris says of "Five Came Back," about five directors who filmed from the WWII trenches.

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    By Elvis Mitchell • Nov 16, 2018 • 29m Listen

    *This episode originally aired on April 14th, 2014*

    Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War, is the untold story about how the war not only changed these filmmakers as people, but also changed the way they would make movies forever.

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