Saving Private Ryan (2000, VHS)

Saving Private Ryan was the most honored film of 1998 and winner of five Academy Awards Produced and directed by Stephen Spielberg (Vietnam Veteran). Tom Hanks as Capt. John Miller Matt Damon as Pvt. Ryan Tom Sizemore as Sergeant Horvath Saving Private Ryan (1998) This is by far the best and most graphic war film to date. The movie opens with the invasion of Normandy, June 6th, 1944. The landing craft hits the beach and THE TROOP DOOR FALLS OPEN! The landing craft was directly in front of a German fortification manned by German machine gunners. The German fortifications open up with...

I have finally decided to review my favorite movie, Saving Private Ryan. This movie was release in 1998 and received five Academy Awards including Best Director for Steven Spielberg. Tom Hanks and Matt Damon star is this movie, with Hanks playing the Captain sent to rescue Private Ryan who is played by Damon. Saving Private Ryan takes place during World War II and is based on a true story. While it is not a true story, its historical accuracy and outstanding acting makes it a compelling war movie. Awards Saving Private Ryan received many awards. Along with the five Academy Awards, this...

Considered to be one of the greatest yet horrific wars of the 20th Century, World War II was a huge conflict between the Allies that consisted of many countries led by the U.S., Great Britain, and Russia and on the other side were the Axis led by Germany, Japan, and Italy. From 1939 to 1945, it was a war that costed millions of lives and helped change the outcome of world power as the Allies defeated the Axis. Since then, stories about WWII emerged from books to movies were popular ones like The Dirty Dozen and Samuel Fuller's The Big Red One revealed the chaos that is war. In 1998, two films.

Part One: The Movie If 1993's Schindler's List was Spielberg's soul-searching and ultimately redemptive examination of why we fought the war (the movie graphically shows the Third Reich's true nature as an evil regime), then 1998's Saving Private Ryan is the emotional bookend that depicts the sacrifices made by citizen-soldiers who put their lives on hold -- and often lost them -- to save the world from becoming a charnel house ruled by Adolf Hitler and his Axis partners. It is a powerful if viscerally graphic film that has, in retrospect, reawakened our nation's interest in World War II and..