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Saving Private Ryan (1998)

Author: Steven Spielberg
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Extended: CAPT, LT, WO2, SGT
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Director, Steven Spielberg. (169min)
Set in the first few days after the successful D-Day landings in Normandy, Spielberg’s award-winning film offers some intensely realistic depictions of late-Second World War combat, especially in the opening half hour sequence devoted to the Rangers’ landing at Omaha Beach. Loosely based on real events, the film has proven highly influential in shaping popular cultural views of American participation in the war and ‘the greatest generation’ who fought it. 

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