Following streaming records, the acclaimed war series Masters of the Air concluded with its 9th episode on Friday, March 15, 2024. So that saying goodbye to the bomber pilots and their life-threatening missions isn’t too difficult, Apple TV+ is also releasing an additional film together with the series finale that provides even deeper insights: the documentary The Bloody Hundredth.
The war film for the war series: The Bloody Hundredth deepens the true story behind Masters of the Air
Even if Masters of the Air is not scheduled to have a second season, The Bloody Hundredth offers viewers the opportunity to watch something else deeper into the true background of the US pilots in the Second World War. Although the war series is based on the non-fiction book of the same name * by Donald L. Miller, it remains a fictionalized story that could not depict everything.
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1 hour documentary uses exclusive archive material and interviews from survivors to focus on the real-life pilot role models of Gale Cleven (Austin Butler), John Egan (Callum Turner), Harry Crosby (Anthony Boyle) and Robert ‘Rosie’ Rosenthal (Nate Mann) and explains, why the loss-making 100th bomber group was called the “Bloody Hundredth”.
Watch the trailer for the war film addition The Bloody Hundredth here
The Bloody Hundredth – Trailer (English) HD
After Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg In Masters of the Air, as with the previous war series Band of Brothers and The Pacific, they were once again significantly involved as executive producers, and they are even in the documentary actively involved: Spielberg appears in front of the camera in interviews to show his knowledge of history, and Tom Hanks takes on the role of the narrator of The Bloody Hundredth in the English original.
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