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)
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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)
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Fictional yes but combat authenticity was genuinely real.
21 years ago this movie was released and I finally watched it in 2019. I really struggled to watch and I cried and I wept through most of the movie. I did two tours in Nam. This movie was like being back in country. I will never watch it again. It's just eats my guts out.
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- Also known as
- Rescatando al soldado Ryan
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- Budget
- $70,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $217,049,603
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $30,576,104
- Jul 26, 1998
- Gross worldwide
- $482,351,251
- Runtime2 hours 49 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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