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frank capra, john huston, william wieler, john ford, and george stephens, all joined us to document world a new netflix documentary series that tells their stories. it is adapted from mark harris' 2014 book of the same name. the director of the series is laurent buzureau. >> when i was working on the book, i became really interested in this era and in these world war ii movies. and when the book came out, i was surprised at the number of early readers who said to me, "it was fascinating to read about these documentaries. too bad most of them are lost." and i would say to them, are, the documentaries aren't lost. they all still exist. they're properties of the u.s. government." so i thought this is a real opportunity for us, as well as i could try to describe these films in a book, there's nothing like being able to show them to people. so that was the germ of the idea to make it a documentary. >> rose: and then the idea of to take five directors and explain each director. >> that was our director's big innovation. >> rose: tell me about it. >> i mean, we're trying to figure out a very inn

i remember john huston, the great director that preceded you, i think dick cavett asked him on the aire he's past his sex life, past liking food, he's breathing on an oxygen tank frankly. >> i saw him on a set. >> and he said what keeps you going? he said interest. >> yeah. >> i think it's great because that's probably a combination of you and einstein. it's curiosity that drives you to do these projects. >> it's been a great period in that way to be able to work on this. i did the beatles documentary that was out last year. that was fascinating. if learned a lot with that. and, you know, look, movies, television, what i internet has done, what technology has brought us is just a -- you know, this ability to really not play to a lowest common denominator broad appeal always, but to really be able to talk to people who are going to be interested in the subject that you want to work with. and it's really inspiring. so i'm finding it to be probably the richest, creative period of my life. >> i think it's great. i've watched the crown. i've watched night manager. i watched big little lies.