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Saving Private Ryan 169 minutes, USA (1998), 15
Average user rating (4.5 / 293 votes)

Spielberg shockingly takes you into the heart of the D-Day landings action before following everyman soldier Tom Hanks on his Boy's Own mission into enemy territory

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Saving Private Ryan: The first 20 minutes of Saving Private Ryan is a visual assault, acclaimed as one of cinema's most accurate realisations of warfare. Captain John Miller (Hanks), a schoolteacher turned soldier, is among the US troops storming Omaha Beach on D-Day. Acting as the eyes of the audience, everyman Miller takes in the horrors of the experience: men maimed, deafened and terrified...
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