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Saving Private Ryan  

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  • Film directed by Steven Spielberg, 1998 Steven Spielberg's Academy-Award winning film is a fictional story of honor, decency, and courage set against the 1944 Allied invasion of Normandy. Saving Private Ryan and its bloody depiction of the landings on Omaha Beach in the opening sequence typified a new era of combat film, offering a gritty, realistic, and personalized view of combat that represented a stark contrast to Darryl F. Zanuck's treatment of the D-Day invasion, The Longest Day (1962). [Source: Encyclopedia of War & American Society; Saving Private Ryan]

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