but what you hear, the film's sweeping musical score is the latest genius from composer hans zimmer.to the beach, picking up the sand, seeing the misery on that beach. you have to get a movie under your fingers. simple as that. >> the german found inspiration fris escaping germans. jewish mother escaped the germans in 1939. was it personal? >> yes because i approached it at first of course as somebody who wouldn't be here had my mother not escaped the germans. >> did you think about your mother. >> very much. >> the 59-year-old zimmer has scored nearly 150 movies. >> every job starts the same way. either see a director or get a phone call and somebody says i want to tell you a story. >> his story began in frankfurt, germany as a kid had two weeks of piano lessons that's it. ♪ video skilled the radio star ♪ >> played in the 70s in the hit "video killed the radio was the first music video ever played on mtv. >> for me it was the way to good into combining visual and music. this is going to be where i want to go. ♪ >> his hollywood catalog includes hits like "gladiator", 14 years of the

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it was the first time most heard from hans zimmer.an one for "the he's won four grammys and two golden globe awards. his latest "dunkirk" was top in the box office for the last two weekends. we share behind the scenes of the movie maestro. >> reporter: the movie "dunkirk," it's the latest genius from composer hans zimmer. >> i wrote by going to the beach, picking up the sounds, seeing the misery of that beach. you have to get the movie under your fingers. it's as simple as that. >> reporter: to score, he found inspiration in his own past. dunkirk is a movie about people escaping germans. your mother escapes the germans. was it personal? >> yes. wouldn't be here had my parents not escaped the germans. >> did you think about your mother? >> all the time. >> and how desperate she must have been. >> no, no, no. very much. >> reporter: the 59-year-old zimmer has scored nearly 50 movies. >> every job starts the same way. i'm a theater director and i get a phone call, i want to tell you a story. >> reporter: his story began in frank further,

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hans zimmer music is brilliant. it's a beaut brute phil film. >> it came out in 2014.for this movie. >> i don't mind saying that. he knows. >> next up, apollo 13. >> take look. >> yes! i agree. >> this is the crew of the apollo 13 wishing everyone back on earth a pleasant >> houston, we have a prob em. >> one of the most iconic lines ever. ron howard by the way cool side note here. two things. ed harris obviously in this movie. >> right. >> did you know that he also played john glenn in the right stuff. >> yes. >> and he was mission control the voice in gravity. >> that i did not know. >> that's really cool. >> how many times tom hanks said that line, like how many different ways. >> love to ask him that. i would love to. ron howard put his actors in reduced graph vat aircraft he could create the weight lessness. >> that's not the actually line that said in history. the historical houston, we had had a problem. >> i didn't know that. >> i'm just telling if you want to be historically correct. >> top three. number three, roll it. >> not creators of the biggest smash of