Following the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action.Following the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action.Following the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action.
- Won 5 Oscars
- 79 wins & 75 nominations total
Max Martini
- Corporal Henderson
- (as Maximilian Martini)
- Director
- Writer
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- TriviaThe Omaha Beach scene cost $11 million to shoot, and involved up to 1,000 extras, some of whom were members of the Irish Army Reserve. Of those extras, 20-30 of them were amputees, issued with prosthetic limbs, to play soldiers who had their limbs blown off.
- GoofsThe driver's viewport on a Tiger I featured 6 layers of armored glass, as well as another sheet just behind them. These systems would have prevented Captain Miller from simply sticking his submachine gun up to the port and spraying the inside of the driver's compartment with bullets.
- Quotes
[weakly mutters something after being mortally wounded]
Private Ryan: [leans in closer] What, sir?
Captain Miller: James, earn this... earn it.
- Crazy creditsThere are no opening credits after the title is shown.
- Alternate versionsIn the German-dubbed version of the movie, they were unsure how to distinguish dialog between the German and the American soldiers, since they would all be speaking German. In the end, they decided to address all the American soldiers by their English titles, such as "Sergeant" and "Captain".
- ConnectionsEdited into Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity (1999)
Featured review
The first 23 minutes of this film is rated at a 12.
My good friend and I took our sons, 17 at the time, to see this in a theater. I am a senior military officer who experienced combat in 1967 - 68 - 69. We wanted the boys to see the horror of war, the slaughter.
I have had to pack up the personal effects of my comrade to send back to his mother after he was killed in the Viet Nam war. Those of you who have not done this cannot even comprehend.
After the opening combat scenes the film was an 8. Well done.
War is hell and to those of us who have been there ... well I don't know what to say.
Neither of our sons joined the military ... thank God.
My good friend and I took our sons, 17 at the time, to see this in a theater. I am a senior military officer who experienced combat in 1967 - 68 - 69. We wanted the boys to see the horror of war, the slaughter.
I have had to pack up the personal effects of my comrade to send back to his mother after he was killed in the Viet Nam war. Those of you who have not done this cannot even comprehend.
After the opening combat scenes the film was an 8. Well done.
War is hell and to those of us who have been there ... well I don't know what to say.
Neither of our sons joined the military ... thank God.
- j-a-julian
- Dec 30, 2019
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Official sites
- Languages
- Also known as
- Rescatando al soldado Ryan
- Filming locations
- Production companies
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Box office
- Budget
- $70,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $217,049,603
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $30,576,104
- Jul 26, 1998
- Gross worldwide
- $482,352,390
- Runtime2 hours 49 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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