Tom Hanks has been wrestling with why he keeps turning to the Second World War for "poetry, solace and enlightenment".
The actor took on his first project about the historical conflict back in 1998, when he was cast in Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan.
Since then, Hanks has produced war miniseries Band of Brothers, The Pacific and Masters of the Air, as well as starring in naval war thriller Greyhound.
He can next be heard narrating The History Channel documentary World War II with Tom Hanks, and opened up to The Hollywood Reporter about how he's become associated with projects about the Second World War.
"I've been wrestling with this just recently. I've been asking myself at night time, in those moments of the soul, why do I keep turning to it again and again for that combination of poetry and solace and enlightenment?"
