Tom Hanks looking serious as Captain Miller in Saving Private Ryan
In 1998, two war movies hit the big screen just five months apart from each other, and miraculously, they ended up being two of the greatest war movies of all time. War movies have been around as long as movies have. The genre may seem like a niche, but it is actually a major component in the world of movies. Movies about war shed light on true stories from human history, but they also bring up questions of morality, justice, and bravery.
Saving Private Ryan & The Thin Red Line Both Released In 1998 What Saving Private Ryan & The Thin Red Line Are About Close In July 1998, the Steven Spielberg war drama, Saving Private Ryan, premiered in theaters. The movie stars Tom Hanks as Captain John Miller, who leads a squadron of men behind enemy lines during World War II in order to find a soldier named Private James Francis Ryan, played by Matt Damon.
Many felt that Saving Private Ryan should have won the Academy Award for Best Picture, which ultimately went to Shakespeare In Love. A 2015 poll of the Academy revealed that many would change their vote By both premiering in 1998, Saving Private Ryan and The Thin Red Line were forced to be compared to one another.
*Availability in US Tom Hanks stars as Captain John Miller in Steven Spielberg's 1998 WWII film. Saving Private Ryan tells the story of Miller's command of a company of soldiers who risk their lives in an attempt to extricate Private James Ryan from the fighting in Europe, in order to spare his family from losing all of their sons after Ryan's brothers are killed in the war. Matt Damon, Edward Burns, and Tom Sizemore also star.
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