Two members of the National Symphony Orchestra helped separate fact from fiction in Amazon’s hit series.

Before the first image hits the screen, director Icíar Bollaín sets the ideological tone for Even the Rain: A title card dedicates the film to Howard Zinn, the leftist historian and activist. Resoundingly anti-corporatist, anti-imperialist, and anti-globalization, one suspects Zinn would have been a fan of the film had it been made a year earlier.