Loved Masters of the Air? Documentary About Show's Real-Life Prototypes Blows Up Apple TV Top

Summary:

• The finale of the Apple TV ’s big hit Masters of the Air comes accompanied by an hour-long documentary about the real events that the series portrays.
• The series’s plot follows the airmen of the 100th Bomb Group trying to destroy the nazi’s targets while also dealing with some personal challenges.
• The featured documentary contains interviews with real-life airmen that dive into more details about the actual events.

Though it may not come as an instant guess, Masters of the Air was inspired by a true story. The series starring Austin Butler, Callum Turner and Anthony Boyle came as the Apple TV original project and was released this January.

Two months later a companion documentary, The Bloody Hundredth, followed. And now it dominates Apple TV’s global top 10, outdoing Napoleon and Killers of the Flower Moon.

Masters of the Air essentially expresses one simple thought — nothing can be worse than a war. Dealing with daily intense battles and facing all kinds of danger, the airmen also have to face some challenges while trying to develop personal relationships.

In the documentary narrated by actor Tom Hanks, the real-life 100th Bomb Group’s pilots share their personal stories that were kept behind the company’s target mission to bring down the Nazis during World War II.

The Bloody Hundredth is a high quality deep-dive into the story that has already appeared in Masters of the Air — with some more details, but also generally implying that the viewer has come here after watching the series first.

The documentary’s narrated facts are cemented by interviews with those who saw everything with their own eyes and now confirm — yes, it is indeed true.

Thus The Bloody Hundredth somehow forms a peculiar interlacing with the series that comes as a balanced mix of the drama’s romanced plot and the documentary’s precision of the facts. Perfect combination, as it seems.