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Gunfire sound effects were recorded from actual gunfire with live ammunition fired from authentic pe [...]	D
Mel Gibson and Harrison Ford were both considered for the role of Captain Miller, before Steven Spie [...]	D
At the time of filming the Omaha Beach scene, Spielberg's film crew was neither able to procure nor [...]	D
During the ending sequence when Upham emerges from hiding, he speaks in German without subtitles. Ro [...]	D
The only Best Picture Oscar nominee that year to be nominated for Best Sound Effects Editing.	D
Steven Spielberg claimed that he considered the film a passion project as a gift to his aging father [...]	D
During the landings at Normandy, many DUKW amphibious trucks were used in the actual operation. Howe [...]	D
Capt. Dale Dye (USMC Retired), the film's military advisor, makes an appearance as a War Department [...]	D
Foley artist Jana Vance dislocated three ribs while lugging heavy gear and military boots for a scen [...]	D
Captain Miller is seen removing the trigger groupings of the M1 Garand rifles and throwing them away [...]	D
Body Count: 255.	D
In 2007, the American Film Institute ranked this as the #71 Greatest Movie of All Time. This was one [...]	D
Many veterans of D-Day congratulated director Steven Spielberg on the film's authenticity, as did Ja [...]	D
Robert Rodat's script was bought by producer Mark Gordon, who liked the story but only accepted the [...]	D
After completing this movie, Steven Spielberg was inspired to create the video game Medal of Honor ( [...]	D
Filming switched from England to Ireland after the British Ministry of Defence declined to provide t [...]	D
All the principal actors, except for Matt Damon, underwent several days of grueling army training. D [...]	D
Tom Sizemore wrote the stand-off scene between his character Horvath and Reiben when the latter trie [...]	D
The Battle of Ramelle at the end of the film was based on a battle that actually took place three da [...]	D
Tom Hanks claimed shooting the film was a "tactile experience" for everyone involved during a recent [...]	D
Before the details of the Niland brothers of New York in WW II, including three who took part in D-D [...]	D
In Max Allan Collins's novelization of the screenplay, Ryan calls his wife "Alice" in the final scen [...]	D
Steven Spielberg personally held and operated the camera for many shots during the Omaha Beach battl [...]	D
During the Omaha Beach sequence, Steven Spielberg employed three different perspectives: Capt. Mille [...]	D
Capt. Miller's hand is often shown shaking throughout the film. Parts cut from the original script s [...]	D
In the D-Day landing sequence, there are anti-landing obstacles all along the beach. One type, nickn [...]	D
For the death of Pvt. Fallon, stuntman Marc Cass performed an industry first; a sideward air-ram exp [...]	D
Billy Bob Thornton turned down the role of Sergeant Horvath, because he did not want to film the Nor [...]	D
Filming began on June 27, 1997 and ended on August 27, 1997 after 61 days of filming, two months of [...]	D
Steamboat Willie is the man seen catching and throwing back a grenade hurled at him by American troo [...]	D
Tom Hanks celebrated his 41st birthday in 1997, when the movie was in principal photography during a [...]	D
Matt Damon ad-libbed the story he tells, towards the end of the film, about spying on his brother in [...]	D
Included among the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die," edited by Steven Schneider.	D
Til Schweiger turned down the role of "Steamboat Willie" because he feared he would be typecast by i [...]	D
Christopher Eccleston turned down a role in the film.	D
As is often the case with war movies, an intensive 10-day boot camp was implemented by the productio [...]	D
Two of the landing craft used in the Omaha Beach scenes were actually used in World War II.	D
The Department of Veterans Affairs set up a special 800 number to help the hundreds of former soldie [...]	D
During the Omaha scene over 40 gallons (151 liters) of fake blood was used.	D
Just after the scene where Capt. Miller "recruits" Upham for the mission, there is a short scene tha [...]	D
The script went through over ten revisions, changing many things from the original draft. The list o [...]	D
At the rally point, Wade tells Reiben to smell a wounded trooper's leg to find out if it's "south of [...]	D
Included among the American Film Institute's 2001 list of the top 100 Most Heart-Pounding American M [...]	D
The role of Private Caparzo was written just for Vin Diesel, after Steven Spielberg saw Diesel's ind [...]	D
This film heavily influenced the WW2 PC game Medal Of Honor Allied Assault.	D
Robert Rodat pitched his idea to producer Mark Gordon, who pitched the idea to Paramount. There was [...]	D
Saving Private Ryan was the subject of controversy when ABC planned to air the movie uncut on Novemb [...]	D
Selected as the opening film at the 55th Venice Film Festival in 1998.	D
The opening Omaha Beach sequence used up 17,000 individual bullet squibs.	D
Max Allan Collins wrote a novelization about this movie that has Tom Hanks as the leading man. Years [...]	D
When Captain Miller blindfolds the German prisoner aka 'Steamboat Willie', Private Jackson is tying [...]	D
Clifton Collins Jr. was a finalist for the role of Upham.	D
Was nominated for 11 Academy Awards, and it would end up winning five. They were more on the technic [...]	D
In three different years 2001, 2002, and 2004 , ABC aired "Saving Private Ryan on Veteran's Day. Not [...]	D
Some viewers have questioned why the Nazis would kill cows while they occupied France, as there were [...]	D
Dale Dye has a cameo where he talks about how the 101st Airborne has been scattered across Normandy. [...]	D
Scott Frank and Frank Darabont did uncredited script doctor work on the screenplay. The former's wor [...]	D
During the bridge battle, a Tiger tank is seen covered in Zimmerit, a defensive substance designed t [...]	D
Steven Spielberg made incredible decisions on the fly, putting the camera up to each scene and deter [...]	D
This film losing out to Shakespeare in Love (1998) for Best Picture Oscar is often named as one of t [...]	D
The two "German" soldiers who are shot trying to surrender were speaking Czech. They were saying, "P [...]	D
Caparzo's bloodied V-Mail letter reveals that his parents lived on West 112th Street in New York Cit [...]	D
Unable to shoot at Omaha Beach, Steven Spielberg shot on location on the east coast of Ireland, at C [...]	D
The term "FUBAR", referred to several times in the film, stands for "Fucked Up Beyond All Recognitio [...]	D
In the last scene, where old Ryan is in the cemetery, there is a cross behind Miller's, with a black [...]	D
The landing at Normandy at the start and the battle to defend Ramelle at the end both run about 25 m [...]	D
Final film of Kathleen Byron.	D
At the radar site when Reiben, Mellish and Jackson are pointing their weapons at Steamboat Willie he [...]	D
Steven Spielberg: [Fathers] In Neuville, a father pleads with the soldiers to take his kids with the [...]	D
Military historian and author Stephen Ambrose, at a special screening of the film for him, had to as [...]	D
Michael Madsen was offered the role of Sgt. Horvath. He turned it down, recommending his friend Tom [...]	D
Edward Norton was offered the role of Private Ryan but turned it down to work on American History X [...]	D
When Mrs. Ryan goes to the door to greet the military car pulling up to her house, then collapses on [...]	D
The fictional town of Ramelle was actually an enormous indoor movie set built in the British Aerospa [...]	D
The CGI technique used at the epilogue to transform young Ryan (Matt Damon) in old Ryan (Harrison Yo [...]	D
Adam Goldberg previously appeared in "La vita Ã¨ un sogno (1993)," as did Marissa Ribisi, the twin [...]	D
Janusz Kaminski: The film's cinematographer appears as a documentary filmmaker.	D
One of the very last films to be released on laserdisc in November 1999. Laserdiscs ceased being man [...]	D
The opening scene of the Omaha Beach attack was used for EA's Medal of Honor (1999)'s opening missio [...]	D
There is also a novel to this film by Max Allan Collins. In it, Pvt. Reiben gives Cp;l Upham the nic [...]	D
This is the last film edited on a non-digital editing system to win an Academy Award for editing.	D
Ethan Hawke was strongly considered for the role of Private Ryan.	D
Inspired by the true story of the Niland brothers. Sgt. Frederick "Fritz" Niland was in the 501st Pa [...]	D
When casting his film, Spielberg said he wanted to cast actors who would look the part. Specifically [...]	D
The names Reiben Edward Burns reads off the dogtags are all friends of Burns.	D
Features two actors who have played the role of Tom Ripley, protagonist of Patricia Highsmith's "'Ri [...]	D
The flag with four blue stars at the Ryan farm was a very common way of showing a family's involveme [...]	D
Upham's shoulder patch, a blue and grey "yin yang" symbol, identifies him as a member of the 29th U. [...]	D
The film was banned in Malaysia, as Steven Spielberg refused to cut the violent scenes.	D
In Neuville, Wade the medic sadly tells a story about how his mother would return early from work an [...]	D
Some viewers commonly mistake "Steamboat Willie" for the Waffen SS soldier who stabbed Mellish as (w [...]	D
The input of Industrial Light & Magic was significantly downplayed so as not to make the film appear [...]	D
Every single person who inherits Caparzo's letter up until the final battle dies. Caparzo himself (s [...]	D
When they visit the mother of the four soldiers, the camera pans over a photo of the brothers with a [...]	D
The cast endured a grueling, week-long course at boot camp instructed by technical advisor Dale Dye. [...]	D
Edward Burns and Vin Diesel both at one point attended Hunter College in New York.	D
Jackson uses two scopes (Ureti 8x scope on the left, M73B 2.5x scope on the right) and swaps between [...]	D
Tom Sizemore turned down a role in Terrence Malick's La sottile linea rossa (1998), which is also se [...]	D
Forty barrels of fake blood were utilized in the opening battle scene.	D
When Captain Miller tells the rest of the unit what he does for a living back home, his speech was m [...]	D
When Steven Spielberg won the Academy Award for Best Director for this film, he began his speech wit [...]	D
In the German-dubbed version, one of the actors, who was a German veteran of the Normandy invasion, [...]	D
Steven Spielberg considered casting Matt Damon after viewing his performance in Il coraggio della ve [...]	D
The United States Marine Corps plays sound effects from the Omaha Beach landing scene over loudspeak [...]	D
The "Bixby Letter," which is featured prominently, was actually inaccurate. The War Department incor [...]	D
The special-effects team rigged the actors' rifles with special sensors that sent a signal to explod [...]	D
Joshua Jackson auditioned for the role of Wade.	D
The second part of the film (Ryan's story) strongly resembles the German war film Il ponte (1959), i [...]	D
On D-Day, the anti-landing obstacles made out of long poles pointing at an angle (officially called [...]	D
Tom Hanks urged Steven Spielberg to include the moment Captain Miller shoots German soldiers while f [...]	D
The "famous" soldier who during Omaha Beach landing removes his helmet after to receive one shot to [...]	D
According to the opening title card and the cross on a grave at the end of the movie, the events dep [...]	D
The Omaha Beach scene was filmed at Curracloe Beach in Ireland, as filming at Normandy was not an op [...]	D
Upham only fires his rifle once, which was a kill shot. While he was made into an ammo runner he did [...]	D
This was the first movie to be rated NC-17 in Singapore. Due to the nature of the violence of the mo [...]	D
Harrison Young, who was cast as the elder Ryan due to his striking resemblance to Matt Damon, was 68 [...]	D
According to the script, the German soldier who Upham shoots at the end of the film is indeed "Steam [...]	D
Steven Spielberg cast Matt Damon as Private Ryan because he wanted an unknown actor with an All-Amer [...]	D
Aside from all the intensive exercises, the actors' boot camp involved camping in soaking wet condit [...]	D
Capt. Miller's team runs into the first, wrong Pvt. Ryan one hour into the movie, and finally finds [...]	D
Jackson has a bruise on his thumb that was a common injury during WWII from soldiers' thumbs getting [...]	D
These Are the Real Brothers Behind 'Saving Private Ryan'.The 1998 movie "Saving Private Ryan" is one [...]	D
Michael Bay turned down directing the movie because he "did not know what to do with it."	D
The Omaha Beach scene cost $11 million to shoot, and involved up to 1,000 extras, some of whom were [...]	D
Writer Robert Rodat first came up with the film's story in 1994, when he saw a monument dedicated to [...]	D
The Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial is featured in the beginning of the film. A World War II [...]	D
Sgt. Horvath tells his men to space out on the beach landing because "five men is a juicy opportunit [...]	D
Tom Sizemore was battling drug addiction during production. Steven Spielberg gave him an ultimatum t [...]	D
The siege in the village of Ramelle was filmed on a set created on a disused airfield in Hatfield, E [...]	D
Steven Spielberg cited Dr. Strangelove: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb as a maj [...]	D
The recreation of the D-Day landings were scheduled to be filmed at Horden Beach in County Durham an [...]	D
At one point, a senior medical officer is shot with the bullet going through his canteen, water star [...]	D
Steven Spielberg is on record as saying that even if the film had received an NC-17 rating, he would [...]	D
This is one of three movies nominated for Best Picture in 1999 to take place during World War II. Th [...]	D
In an earlier draft of the script, Miller's squad takes Steamboat Willie with them and camps out for [...]	D
Most combat officers were in their late 20s or early 30s by the time of Normandy with everyone under [...]	D
Jackson's perfectly-aimed hit on the sniper was achieved with a shot-through eye appliance that was [...]	D
The movie features four actors who were also directors: Tom Hanks, Edward Burns, Adam Goldberg, and [...]	D
Ted Danson: This film resurrected his career as Cin cin (1982) had been off the air for five years, [...]	D
The "Bixby Letter", read by Gen. George C. Marshall at the end of the movie, which reads in part: "T [...]	D
Barry Pepper is actually left-handed in real life just like the left-handed sniper he plays in the f [...]	D
Out of the eight men sent to find Private Ryan, only two survive in the end: Private Richard Reiben [...]	D
The Omaha Beach scene was shot in the south of Ireland, in an area called Curracloe.	D
Garth Brooks turned down the role of Pvt. Jackson.	D
Italian censorship visa # 92988 delivered on 23 October 1998.	D
Tom Hanks revealed that the film captured only a fraction of Omaha Beach's importance "We were inter [...]	D
Vin Diesel was paid $100,000 for the role of Private Caparzo, when he was still a little-known actor [...]	D
According to Tom Hanks the decision to film the assault on the machine gun nest through the perspect [...]	D
Originally, Steven Spielberg envisioned the film as being like a "Boy's Own Magazine" adventure. How [...]	D
Some critics complained that the scene where the Rangers are throwing mortar rounds by hand at the G [...]	D
The first of three movies in which Matt Damon plays a character in need of being rescued. The others [...]	D
After taking the machine gun nest on their way to Ramelle, Pvt. Mellish is singing Billie Holiday's [...]	D
Voted #2 in "The top 20 war films as voted for by the British Forces" 2008 poll, by British Forces B [...]	D
After contacting the downed glider pilot Tom Hank's squad heads to Rimmel. The next shot shows a squ [...]	D
Real amputees were used for the shots of people with limbs missing. However, Bryan Cranston, who pla [...]	D
Although Steven Spielberg reduced the color saturation by 60% for artistic reasons, both major Ameri [...]	D
The half-track German motorcycle Miller calls a "rabbit" (its Allied nickname) is a Kleines Kettenkr [...]	D
This was pitted against La sottile linea rossa (1998) at the Oscars and among war movie buffs. This [...]	D
Steven Spielberg requested that no one gain admittance to the movie once it had already begun, just [...]	D
Ryan and his three brothers initially enlisted in the same unit; they were split between different u [...]	D
To achieve his unique "look" for the film, cinematographer Janusz Kaminski adjusted his film shutter [...]	D
This film is in the Official Top 250 Narrative Feature Films on Letterboxd.	D
David Nevins character in I cannoni di Navarone (1961) and Tom Hanks character have the same name, J [...]	D
One of Quentin Tarantino's favorite war movies.	D
Neil Patrick Harris was considered for the role of Pvt. Ryan.	D
Tom Hanks himself remembers the strong emotions everyone felt during production, and recalls feeling [...]	D
As the German soldier stabs Mellish to death, he says, "Gib' auf, du hast keine Chance! Lass' es uns [...]	D
Capt. Miller uses an M1A1 Thompson submachine gun. Sgt. Horvath uses an M1 carbine, Reiben uses a Br [...]	D
The Battle of Ramelle never took place in real life: the town and the battle were both fictional. A [...]	D
The Omaha Beach scene was depicted with so much accuracy to the actual event that the Department of [...]	D
Ranked #8 on the American Film Institute's list of the 10 greatest films in the genre "Epic" in 2008 [...]	D
Excluding the opening scene where he appears as an unidentified elderly man, the title character Pvt [...]	D
Cinemas were instructed to up the volume when they showed the film, as the sound effects play such a [...]	D
Lieutenant Colonel Anderson is talking on the phone discussing about getting tanks inland to help th [...]	D
During the scene where the soldiers start rushing through Omaha Beach, the camera begins following C [...]	D
The Omaha Beach scenes were shot in continuity and Steven Spielberg allowed the camera operators to [...]	D
Ranked #10 on the American Film Institute's 100 Most Inspiring Movies of All Time (2006).	D
Local reenactment groups, such as the Second Battle Group, were employed as extras to play German an [...]	D
In the montage of military clerks at the War Department communications office typing letters notifyi [...]	D
Steven Spielberg donated an undisclosed amount of money to build a theater at America's National D-D [...]	D
The film was blocked by the Censor Board of India for too much violence. The Board demanded cuts tha [...]	D
There are a few hints that Captain Miller drops as to what his occupation was before the war and whe [...]	D
Typically, a movie camera's shutter is set at a 180-degree angle. However, cinematographer Janusz Ka [...]	D
There is a close-up of a map in a scene where Capt. Miller's hand is holding a compass and shaking. [...]	D
The scene where Capt. Miller (Tom Hanks) is firing his Colt 1911 at the tank coming across the bridg [...]	D
For the initial battle scenes in the sea, spare ammunition carried by the actors was made from wood, [...]	D
After reading the dog tag with the name "Rienne", one soldier asks what it is and gets the response, [...]	D
The first independent film by "DreamWorks Pictures" to receive a Best Picture Oscar nomination.	D
Pvt. Jackson killing the German sniper by firing a shot through the man's scope and into his eye was [...]	D
When Miller spares Steamboat Willie, he states to his men about his justified merciful act by saying [...]	D
Voted #1 greatest war film in UK's Channel 4 poll in 2005.	D
For its first airing on Dutch television, the network had announced it would split the movie in two [...]	D
Sgt Horvath takes a chew of tobacco the first time we see him on D-Day when they're on the landing c [...]	D
A co-production of DreamWorks and Paramount Pictures, with DreamWorks handling the North American re [...]	D
During their night in Neuville, Upham is surprised when Capt. Miller identifies a quote from Ralph W [...]	D
Paul Giamatti says "The streets have been quiet for about 45 minutes" around the 45-minute mark in t [...]	D
Barry Pepper improvised the line "God gave me a special gift, made me a fine instrument of warfare".	D
During the landing at Normandy, a soldier is shown praying, in Latin, The Act of Contrition. Transla [...]	D
When the camera shakes during explosions, Steven Spielberg used drills attached to the side of the c [...]	D
Ironically Vin Diesel plays the first of the team to die, as he's now notorious for being so insecur [...]	D
The actors all had to undergo an intensive pre-shoot six-day boot camp during which all but one of t [...]	D
The showpiece is the landing at Omaha Beach in Normandy for the D-Day scene. It's the second scene o [...]	D
The white stripes on the backs of some US helmets indicate higher-ranking soldiers. A vertical strip [...]	D
When using the field radio on the beach, Capt. Miller says something that sounds like "Cadaff, Cadaf [...]	D
Graffiti on the wall of a ruined French village in Neuville reads, 'PÃ©tain est un traÃ®tre' (P� [...]	D
Jeremy Davies and Matt Damon share the same birthday October 8th, a year apart in age.	D
In one scene, Upham is laughed at for writing a book about "the bond of brotherhood that develops be [...]	D
The first DreamWorks Pictures film to cross the $100 million mark.	D
The highest- grossing film of 1998 in the US. It was also the last R-rated film to lead the yearly b [...]	D
Spielberg put it best during his keynote address on the 149th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address: [...]	D
Caparzo's letter acts as a motif, symbolizing how the soldiers honor their dead despite how many die [...]	D
In 2006 Tom Hanks was inducted into the US Army's Ranger Hall of Fame as an honorary member, largely [...]	D
The events from Omaha Beach to the battle at Ramelle take place over the course of a week from June [...]	D
During the beach scene, Capt. Miller encounters a soldier clutching a typewriter and tells him to "t [...]	D
The squad of actors famously went through a grueling week of training with technical advisor Dale Dy [...]	D
President Abraham Lincoln received a letter from the governor of Massachusetts asking him to express [...]	D
Thomas Haden Church screen tested for the role of Sergeant Horvath.	D
An alternate ending was filmed in which Lt. Col. Anderson (Dennis Farina) arrives and sees Miller's [...]	D
The uniform Barry Pepper wears as Pvt. Jackson under his field jacket is different from his squad-ma [...]	D
The Omaha Beach battle was filmed in sequence over a four-week period, moving the action up the beac [...]	D

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