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The first town the group comes to (the one where Caparzo is killed) they meet up with the Airborne t [...]
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At the end of the scene where medic Cpl. Wade is killed they show him lifting his body to bury him, [...]
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At the end of the movie after the soldiers have fallen back to the Alamo, Rieben and Miller are on t [...]
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When the 20mm Cannon opens up on the Americans climbing on the disabled Tiger, it is obvious that th [...]
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When Mellish and Hederson leave there initial machine gun position the belt of ammo is fairly short [...]
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Miller gets his hands covered in blood when he tries to heal Wade. After he dies, Miller reaches in [...]
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In the latter part of the movie, Capt. Miller uses the phrase "let's lock and load." Some have mishe [...]
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As Private Ryan is telling the story regarding his brothers, he says that that was the last night al [...]
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During the ambush of the German halftrack right before the squad meets Private Ryan, two soldiers fr [...]
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About 90 minutes in: After storming the MG position, the MG42 is smoking from firing, however both t [...]
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When the tank comes over the bridge, there's a helmet is lying beside Captain Miller's leg. In the n [...]
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The ground around the radar site where the soldiers attacked the machine gun nest is relatively flat [...]
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When the Captain in charge of the typing pool brings the three Ryan telegrams to his Colonel, the ma [...]
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When Miller's squad first enters the town of Neuville, Jackson's rifle has a short scope. When the s [...]
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Near the end of the movie there is a hand-to-hand combat scene which results in an American soldier [...]
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Pvt. Ryan incorrectly regarded the P-51 "Mustang" as Tank Busters, P-51 Mustangs are not effective a [...]
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When Miller first hits the sand at Omaha a mortar round blows up behind him. He kneels in the sand, [...]
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When the man is explaining the situation of the four brothers to the General, he says that the broth [...]
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While they are preparing to defend the bridge towards the end, Mellish tells Upham to be "Johnny on [...]
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In the scene where Jackson is firing from the bell tower, he fires 8 shots. The standard Springfield [...]
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In the movie, you'll notice that all member from the 101st Airborne Division have an Ace of Spades o [...]
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At the end of the Radar Station Battle, Miller is yelling for Upham to bring their gear. As told he [...]
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When Ryan helps Sgt. Horvath after he was shot while crossing the bridge, it shows Reiben in the bac [...]
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When the army car drives toward the Ryan farmhouse, the fields are brown. While Iowa farm fields are [...]
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When Wade is shot, Upham is running up the hill. When he comes through the smoke, Wades' shirt is be [...]
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In the final battle scene, Ryan informs Miller that they can use the mortar rounds like grenades. Ma [...]
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During the beach landing sequence we see what is left of Captain Miller's company fire up the German [...]
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During the sniper scene in the French village, Pvt. Jackson is preparing to make a shot against the [...]
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Several times when Corporal Upham is seen carrying .30 caliber ammunition belts just prior to and du [...]
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After the horrific D-Day scene, when Captain Miller gets his mission some days later, a panorama of [...]
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When the eight men are walking through the fields near the start, Caparzo has a cigarette. In some s [...]
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During the Ramelle battle, Cpl. Henderson and Pvt. Mellish are firing through a hole in the wall of [...]
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At the end of the movie, in the Omaha Cemetery scene where the old Ryan is reading Captain Miller's [...]
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At 1:23:18 of the film, there's a wide angle shot that shows the men crossing a field. There are eig [...]
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When Sergeant Horvath is explaining his opinion of the Ryan situation to Captain Miller near the end [...]
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After the squad reaches the crashed glider and Miller is shouting Ryan's name, the extras for the sc [...]
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In the scene where the two infantries are waiting by the bridge for the enemy, when Reiben, Upham an [...]
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During the Normandy invasion, Captain Miller is in water that looks as if it is high tide, and other [...]
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When the Rangers first meet up with US Paratroopers after destroying the Sd.Kfz 250 Half Track, CPL [...]
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Near the start, when Miller's men are walking through a field, and Jackson is talking about him and [...]
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When Pvt. Jackson is in the tower at Neuville he fires seven or more shots without reloading. His ri [...]
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In the scene in Ramelle, the sniper is taking out Germans from the bell tower and saying "Be my stre [...]
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When Mike crosses the bridge at the end he gets shot and is helped by a soldier. From the German vie [...]
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When Miller is fatally wounded, Reiben helps him over to where Sgt. Horvath is laying. Miller's body [...]
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Following the invasion, ammo boxes are shown being pushed by the waves. This, plus how high they sat [...]
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When Upham is yelling at the German soldiers to surrender at the end in one scene, there is an overt [...]
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In the final battle scenes the P-51's are supposed to be tank busters but none of them have any rock [...]
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When the 20mm opens fire on the Americans, they are standing on the Tiger tank, into which they had [...]
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In the final battle scene, where Jackson (the sniper) is in the tower you see him from the side view [...]
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When the old Ryan is walking along the rows of graves, you see that his jacket is blowing open again [...]
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During the scene where Horvath and the BAR are facing down, things are getting out of control with H [...]
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In the final graveyard scene, as picture rotates to show the elder Ryan looking at Captain Miller's [...]
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When Miller's men reach the town where the first Ryan is (the wrong one), Miller tells Ryan the bad [...]
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Captain Miller makes reference to '88s knocking out Sherman tanks. Americans did not call the M4 Med [...]
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In the last battle scene, Jackson is in the church tower and signals to Miller the direction, number [...]
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When Cpt. Miller picks up Cpl. Upham in the beginning of the movie, Upham says his German "is clean" [...]
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The American troops at Ramelle bridge are supposed to be fighting the 2nd SS Panzer Division. Two th [...]
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When the group tries to take the German radio tower, and the medic gets killed, the American hiding [...]
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When the soldiers are at the seawall during the D-Day scene Miller explains to Horvath that Dog 1 ex [...]
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At the end, the elder James Ryan is facing the camera with the channel in the background. Ryan's wif [...]
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In the scene where the American soldiers are about to ambush the Tiger tank, look at the empty belt [...]
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In the scene where the American troops are storming the German radar station, you can see a few dead [...]
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In the advertisement for "Suze: L'âme de l'estomach, " the last word is a combination of the Engl [...]
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Just before the final battle when Jackson is telling Miller about the number of incoming Germans usi [...]
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P-51s at end of movie have black and white checkered pattern on nose showing them to be from the 78t [...]
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When Miller's men and the other captain's men find the French family hiding in a partly destroyed ho [...]
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Throughout the movie American characters are shown saying "thunder" to identify friendlies, and wait [...]
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In the opening scene, where James Ryan and his family are walking along the clifftop path at the Nor [...]
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Ryan is said to be (more than once) in Baker (B) Company, 506th PIR, 101st AD. When Miller is callin [...]
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The typing pool scene, in which we first learn about Private Ryan, features vintage typewriters of v [...]
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During the Ramelle battle, Cpl. Henderson and Pvt. Mellish are firing through a hole in the wall of [...]
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Caparzo has died from the sniper bullet, when Miller's men are grouped around Caparzo's body, Horvat [...]
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Near the end, Mellish fires through the wall and kills a German. The blood then streams round the co [...]
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Just before the two American soldiers slap their grease coated "sticky bombs" on the passing German [...]
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Well after the beach has been secured and communication posts are set up where Upham is typing and M [...]
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Ryan and Miller have a moving dialogue. In the scene Ryan talks about the time his brother was tryin [...]
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In the Omaha Beach fight when the soldiers are ordered to gather more weapons and ammo, there is a m [...]
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Neuville, where the Miller squad is headed to try to save Private Ryan, is to the west of Omaha Beac [...]
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When Upham shoots the German soldier at the end of the movie, the latter can be heard falling down a [...]
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During the Rangers' charge up the hill to the radar site, the Rangers shout down to Upham that Wade [...]
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At the battle of Ramelle, Cpl. Henderson and Mellish cover the east flank in a building with a hole [...]
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During the battle in Ramelle, one of the 101st Airborne paratroopers attempts to place a sticky-bomb [...]
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In the scene near the end, when two soldiers are in a row boat packing a bag with explosives, in the [...]
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After the 20mm forces Miller, Ryan, and Reiben to relocate, is shows two paratroopers who survived t [...]
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When the paratrooper yells "there is a 20mm," just after they grenade the Tiger, there is only 1 par [...]
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After the last Tiger tank is destroyed in the final battle, Allied reinforcement troops arrive. Ther [...]
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In one scene, Miller, Ryan and Reiben are firing their weapons at the German 20mm cannon; the first [...]
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At the start of the movie on Omaha Beach, just before Captain Miller and the others clear the fence [...]
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In the opening sequence Cpt Miller is wading through the sea with another man. You can see an odd lo [...]
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During the Ramelle battle, the scene where Cpl. Henderson and Pvt. Mellish are upstairs and one shoo [...]
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During the last battle, Jackson and the paratrooper are in the bell tower. Just before they run out [...]
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In the scene where the medic gets shot, watch the shot where Upham brings the bags up to the injured [...]
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During the D-Day landing after Capt. Miller puts his helmet back on while in the water the leather c [...]
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Right after the paratroopers take out the self propelled gun with the Molotov cocktails, there are t [...]
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Close to the beginning when they are in a town, and the soldier sits on the ground or a plank, the c [...]
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During the Omaha beach scene, when Miller, Horvath and a few other soldiers are at the front of one [...]
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At the end of the film with the older James Ryan visiting Capt. Miller's grave, Ryan squares himself [...]
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The "tank traps" (actually designed to flip landing craft, when submerged) on Omaha are back-to-fron [...]
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If you look very closely during the Omaha beach scene at around 08:40, you will notice soldiers at a [...]
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When the Tiger tank, its treads blown off, targets the building near Ryan, Reiben scrambles to push [...]
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Before the American soldiers attack the half-track in the field we see Upham walking. Watch at his l [...]
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When Miller takes his last shot at the second Tiger and it explodes, it is very clear that the tank [...]
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When the Waffen SS unit attacks the town at the end of the film (Ramelle), the Germans use "allied" [...]
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During the Ramelle battle, Cpl. Henderson and Pvt. Mellish run out of ammo and hear someone walking [...]
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Near the beginning of the film where the typing pool is depicted, a Captain goes into the Colonel's [...]
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In the final battle, we see tanks with open roofs. While similar to the enclosed Panzer, these are i [...]
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In the last battle, Miller, Rieben and Ryan are crouching in a ditch, waiting for the Tiger tanks to [...]
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Right after Cpl. Wade dies, the unit has killed the Germans except for the one they eventually let l [...]
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At the end when Captain Miller has been shot and he pulls out his pistol in his final act of defianc [...]
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At the end of the movie, the second Tiger advances onto the bridge before being destroyed. It is ver [...]
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After the soldiers' initial disembarkment they are shown crouching in groups near the shore and late [...]
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In the closing battle of the film we see one of the American soldiers with an ammunition belt around [...]
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At the beginning of the movie during the invasion scenes, Captain Miller has his Captain's bars prom [...]
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The .30 caliber machine gun that Jackson and Parker use has a solid ammo-belt made of fabric, holdin [...]
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Although the United States Air Force did not become a separate service until September 18th 1947, th [...]
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During the beach assault, several medics and possibly a doctor are treating a wounded soldier in the [...]
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In the D-Day beach scene where Sgt. Horvath (Tom Sizemore) asks Pvt. Reiben (Edward Burns) where is [...]
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When the soldiers arrive at the 101st rally point, the same extra walks by, up to 4 times.
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Some of the paratroopers are shown wearing black jump boots. All Army paratroopers in WWII were issu [...]
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During Rieben and Horvath's heated dispute, the camera often moves to shots of Miller, Upham, Jackso [...]
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Throughout the film we see indications that someone has been shot when a puff of grey dust comes fro [...]
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In the field scene (before they meet the German APC), we can see the camera's square shadow on Corpo [...]
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When the machine gunner in the bell tower runs out of ammo, Jackson takes over sniping. The first Ge [...]
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Old Ryan visits the cemetery at the end of the movie. He stands opposite the cross on Miller's grave [...]
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When Mellish is being stabbed by the German soldier it is very apparent that the knife is being stab [...]
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General George C. Marshall is wearing General Staff lapel insignia. This is correct; there are photo [...]
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The US Army would never have allowed such a mission during World War II.
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When the unit finds the first Private Ryan, after he hears his brothers are dead, he leans towards h [...]
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As Capt Miller and his men assault a pillbox in the D-Day scene, they assemble behind a low wall at [...]
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Miller places his right hand on top of his left when he sits down with Ryan. His hands switch positi [...]
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After they find Private Ryan, Captain Miller and Sgt. Horvath are talking. From one angle, Horvath h [...]
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The river under the bridge (and all other shots) isn't flowing yet, it is quite shallow. In one shot [...]
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When running around the French village with the sniper shooting at them, a coiled rope falls from Hi [...]
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When the German tank gets blown up in the final battle, it is clearly mid-way across the bridge, yet [...]
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When Jackson is using hand signals to tell Captain Miller about the approaching enemy tanks, Miller [...]
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At the end of the movie the second Tiger approaches the bridge. the commander, who is sticking out o [...]
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When the ramp first drops on the landing craft, the first soldier we see gets shot in the head. The [...]
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In the Omaha landing, two soldiers are struggling with their equipment underwater, only to get hit b [...]
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Right after the soldiers make a run for the seawall in the D-Day scene, it shows a German machine gu [...]
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The Squad of Army Rangers are very highly skilled in Weaponry and the firing of these weapons, but w [...]
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The Tiger tanks portrayed in the movie are actually Soviet T-34s. The most obvious clue to this is i [...]
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When Hanks, Damon and company are retreating to the Alamo (across the bridge) the camera pans an ove [...]
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When they first enter the field hospital, look at the side of the glider. By the door, there is no d [...]
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After Mellish is yelling for Upham to bring him ammo in the building with the hole in the wall, the [...]
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Towards the end a soldier puts machine gun belts around his neck with the projectile pointing toward [...]
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In the final battle, Henderson and Mellish initially set up their .30 cal between some fallen boards [...]
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On the beach, a soldier with a B.A.R. puts his arm around Captain Miller's neck and says they don't [...]
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The landing scene shows the troops being put ashore from American LCVP-type landing craft. In fact, [...]
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When the soldiers are about to search through the Airborne's dog tags they head towards a single cra [...]
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When Upham and Mellish are conversing before the fight at Ramelle, Mellish is seen placing Mk. 2 Pin [...]
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Private Ryan tells a story of the last time him and his three brothers were together for the last ti [...]
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During the opening Omaha landing scene, the coxswain of the boat says, "Clear the ramp, 30 seconds! [...]
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After all the German troops have been shot that were revealed by the wall falling, one of the soldie [...]
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When Mellish is in the house with the other soldier, and the other soldier shoots at the wall, just [...]
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Right after the self propelled gun blasts the church tower, it goes to Miller in a hole along with R [...]
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Bullets do not move through the water in the way it is presented. The higher the velocity and the la [...]
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In the scene were the ATP is ambushed by the two groups of Americans we see Cpt. Miller take their r [...]
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Camera is reflected in the wet helmets of those on the left side of Miller's landing craft.
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During certain scenes in the movie, we see Jackson switching his Weaver M73B1 sniper scope on his M1 [...]
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When Reiben, Ryan, and Miller are in the ditch a side angle shows them all on the same frame, if you [...]
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Some of the ammunition cans were made after World War II; they have smooth sides instead of a recess [...]
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During the landing on Omaha Beach, rifles are shown wrapped in plastic bags. Such plastic bags did i [...]
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During the D-Day beach assault, German machine-gunners are shown firing continuous long bursts from [...]
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(at around 2h 0 mins) Miller and Ryan are having a conversation while awaiting the attack on the bri [...]
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In Neuville town, there is a car whose license plate number is 241 BG 50, where 50 is for French dà [...]
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Before seeing the radar site, there were 8 soldiers moving through the field instead of 7 who were s [...]
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In the scene when they defend the bridge in Ramelle there is a soldier who wants to attach a stick-b [...]
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When Upham is hiding behind a cow while his squad rushes the communication tower/bunker, he uses a s [...]
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When the American goes to sit down and hits a block of wood that hits a wall the wall falls down and [...]
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In the scene where Miller tries to persuade Ryan to go back home, watch their shadows on the bridge, [...]
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When Rieben is starting to tell the story about the lady back home before the final battle, the came [...]
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At end of the movie, Ryan squares himself at the foot of Capt. Miller's grave and salutes. The camer [...]
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In the scene where the American soldiers are in the village listening to the French music on the rec [...]
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When Captain Miller and his men decide to stay at the bridge after finding Private Ryan, all of the [...]
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In the scene in Ramelle, 5 or so guys climb onto a stopped tank and the 20mm gun opens fire on them. [...]
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During the final fight scene the German armour enters the town (a built up area) with open-topped AF [...]
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When CPT Miller is showing T/Sgt. Horvath the location of the German machine gun nest with the mirro [...]
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Shortly after medic Wade dies, there are two presumably dead German soldiers lying in the foxhole. T [...]
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At the beginning of the film when we see Tom Hanks below the big bunker, and he tells Jackson to get [...]
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In the final battle in the French Village, the Americans are attacked by two Tiger tanks, two Panzer [...]
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The driver's viewport on a Tiger I featured 6 layers of armored glass, as well as another sheet just [...]
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When Mellish and Henderson are fighting in the room in Romell, twice German Steilgrenates are thrown [...]
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In the final battle scene, a German tank destroyer, the Marder III, is seen shooting and taking out [...]
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If the oldest Ryan boy was the last to go off to boot camp, as related in James' story in Ramelle, t [...]
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In the final scene as Ryan is talking to Capt. Miller's grave the Purple Heart bar is in its correct [...]
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Close to the beginning of the film when the group are walking through a field where the sheep are, V [...]
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Jackson intervenes when Reiben and Horvath are having a dispute. From the camera angle when Jackson [...]
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When the big soldier is first seen approaching Cpt. Miller as he is calling Ryan, he is a few yards [...]
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When Upham is recruited by Captain Miller, Upham grabs his typewriter case and drops the case and th [...]
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When James Ryan destroys the SDKFZ251 with his bazooka, they identify it as belonging to the Reconna [...]
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Colonel Anderson refers to the Duplex Drive (DD) Sherman tanks as 'Dual Drive' (also incorrectly spe [...]
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When Corporal Upham is running ammunition to the gunners, cartridges are seen falling out of the bel [...]
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When the soldier attempts to place the first sticky bomb on the tank, he is wearing the khaki unifor [...]
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As Sgt. Horvath and the squad charge past the concrete bunker on Omaha Beach, no landing craft are v [...]
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In the scene where the wall falls over and the German soldiers are seen inside the building, right w [...]
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When Capt. Miller has just explained to Ryan that his comrades have come to take him back, Miller ta [...]
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In the beach scene, a GI takes a shot in the helmet, removes his helmet while he collects his sense, [...]
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During the beach scene, Miller is kneeling at the rear of a Belgian fence talking about the beach be [...]
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While stripping down to attack the radar site, Cpl. Upham is assisting Sgt. Horvath remove his backp [...]
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In the beginning of the film, as the family is walking along behind the old man, on the path to the [...]
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When the Tiger tank traverses its turret, you can hear a whine. While the Tiger's turret had hand cr [...]
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When Corporal Upham is watching the attack on the radar station through the scope, the scope turns i [...]
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When we first see Colonel Bryce, it's clear he is missing his left arm. But then later, when General [...]
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The actor playing the part of the deaf soldier knowing Private Ryan appears to be the same as the sc [...]
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In the opening scene, when old James Ryan's family is behind him in the wider shot, one of the three [...]
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When Miller and Ryan are talking outside a cafe (I think), Miller grabs a chair, sits down in front [...]
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In the scene where Jackson takes out the German sniper, we see the German sniper's point of view thr [...]
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Although the sniper Pvt. Jackson (Barry Pepper) is left handed, many lefties are ambidextrous. Peppe [...]
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In one of the end scenes, a German goes to shoot an American, who is on his knees, at point blank ra [...]
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When Caparzo is holding the little girl, he takes off his dog tags and puts them in her hand. While [...]
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In the beginning of the movie when attacking the German pillbox. The Germans are running out of the [...]
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After the radar site battle, Capt Miller's men are roughing up a surviving German soldier and pull t [...]
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Several close-up shots of the bullets used throughout the film show holes in the cases, so they are [...]
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When Capt. Miller requisitions Cpl. Upham from the map bunker, Upham clumsily tries to take his type [...]
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When the soldiers are getting ready for the final battle, Upham is shown to be standing right near t [...]
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When Reiben retuns after luring the Germans down the main street all the soldiers in the foxhole hav [...]
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When the two infantries are waiting for the enemy, Upham, Reiben and Horvath are sitting on some ste [...]
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During the climactic scene at the end of the movie, a P-51 Mustang drops a bomb on an advancing Germ [...]
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Immediately following Upham's plea to Miller after the attack on the machine-gun nest, there is a sh [...]
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When Upham is handed the .30 caliber ammo belt before the final battle, the direction the bullets ar [...]
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Before the last battle, the squad is listening to an Édith Piaf song "Tu es Partout", and Upham [...]
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During the last shot of the Tiger after Captain Miller is mortally wounded, modifications to the tan [...]
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Just before the church steeple gets blown up at the end, we see through the window looking down, and [...]
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In the scene where Tom Hanks releases the German POW, he ties a black blindfold around the prisoner' [...]
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Right after Capt. Miller regains his hearing at the end, he looks at the detonator lying in the midd [...]
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When the Americans arrive in the first village (the one where the family is marooned upstairs in wha [...]
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Near the end of the movie, before the attack, an American paratrooper is attaching the detonating co [...]
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Capt Miller receives the mission to find Private Ryan on D-Day +3 (June 9) he begins the mission and [...]
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After the Rangers break through the German lines at Normandy, Captain Miller delivers a message on t [...]
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The replica Tiger tanks were built from Russian T-34 medium tanks, as the road wheels are in a strai [...]
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In the final battle Captain Miller is shouting at Mike, who's slumped against the sandbags, dead. Th [...]
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Private Caparzo is played by the clearly biracial actor Vin Diesel. In the still segregated US Army [...]
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The German sniper is seen sticking his dominant eye to the scope. No battle hardened sniper would do [...]
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In the end scene, after the final battle, Reiben is seen calling for a medic to assist Miller. When [...]
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When Sergeant Horvath limps to get Upham from the stairs at the battle of Ramelle, the concrete stai [...]
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They did have black plastic canteen caps in WWII, made from a plastic like material called Bakelite. [...]
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After the five 101st. Airborne troops converge on the tank during the last battle, a German 20 Milli [...]
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It's commonly thought that only two or three tanks landed on Omaha Beach early on D-Day. At the east [...]
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As the opening D-Day invasion moves along more and more troops are making it onto the beach from the [...]
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When Capt. Miller informs Cpl. Upham he will join his squad, the nervous Upham knocks a German helme [...]
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Mandelsohn, the paratrooper with damaged hearing who is friends with Private Ryan, is referred to as [...]
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In the scene where they are looking for Ryan's dog tag, Doc comments they are laughing in front of a [...]
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As Upham and Mellish are loading ammo in preparation for the final battle, Upham (who is smoking) is [...]
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When first discussing Private Ryan staying or leaving the bridge, the shadow of Cpl. Henderson and C [...]
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The German Panzer (Panther) tank had a front main gun that fires 75mm shells with an barrel elevatio [...]
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When Mellish is in the fight to the death with the German, he pulls out his bayonet with an underhan [...]
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The motorcycle/sidecar combo Miller rests on is a 1963 Ural M63.
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Miller comes ashore and is just at the edge of the water on the beach when the movie is silent durin [...]
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At the end when Tom Hanks has just died, there is a distant shot of Ryan standing there in disbelief [...]
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After the skirmish at the radar site, Mellish tells Upham to ask "Steamboat Willie" if he was the on [...]
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When two surrendering German soldiers coming out from the trenches are killed just after the Omaha B [...]
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When Mellish is fighting the German soldier, he draws his knife in a forward grip. During the follow [...]
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When Miller's squad is having the standoff with the Germans in the first French village, one of the [...]
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During the final battle, as the American's are climbing up on the disabled Tiger Tank and they show [...]
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When the soldiers are trying to move up and deal with the machine gun nest in the D-Day scene, Capt. [...]
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Just before Captain Miller is debriefed by his commanding officer on Omaha Beach, there is an establ [...]
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During the scene where old man Private Ryan arrives at the American graveyard at the beginning of th [...]
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When Capt Miller and company arrive at Neuville, Capt Miller uses the challenge sign/countersign to [...]
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The waterproof bags holding rifles on D-Day were indeed some kind of clear plastic.
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In the D-Day scene when the soldiers have made it to the seawall, Miller twice tells a radioman to r [...]
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When Miller's men are about to take the bunker under the radar tower, they are kneeling on the groun [...]
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By the time Miller and his squad reach the area with the downed gliders, it is already D-Day plus fo [...]
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In the scene where all the 101st Airborne troops walk past as Rieben, Jackson, Mellish and Miller ar [...]
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When they go to find Private Ryan, there are eight of them; when they go to a French town and a soli [...]
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Miller uses the mirror to examine the machine gun nest and correctly states that there are two MG-42 [...]
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In the scene where the Americans are fighting the Germans in Remelle, there are two Tiger 1 tanks. I [...]
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When Capt. Miller is firing his M1911 pistol at the advancing German tank on the bridge, after his s [...]
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The "shaven" haircuts of the German soldiers in the movie are not typical of the day. The hair style [...]
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When the paratroopers prepares to grenade the Tiger, the commander pops up coughing with a bloody no [...]
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When Miller is wading ashore he comes to a beach obstacle and leans on it when the movie is silent d [...]
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In the Belltower in Ramelle where Jackson and Parker are shooting away, there is one scene where you [...]
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During the final battle at the bridge, right after Sgt. Horvath fires the bazooka for the last time [...]
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The phone cord in the Ryan farmhouse is coiled. Whilst most phone cords in 1944 were straight, the c [...]
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During the final battle, several of the paratroopers jump on the stopped Tiger tank. Lyle's position [...]
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When Jackson has been given the dog tags to search through he looks for a place to sit. In this scen [...]
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At the end when Ryan is looking at Capt. Miller, in the long shot the ground is wet and there is an [...]
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When the group of soldiers led by Captain Miller are in the village, and the soldier knocks the wall [...]
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In the preparation for the big battle in the village, the Americans count up on equipment left useab [...]
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When Capt. Miller talks to the pilot of the crashed glider telling his story the guy says he lost 22 [...]
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During the Normandy landing, a soldier has his right arm blown off, looks around for it and picks up [...]
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When Jackson tells Captain Miller the sniper is 450 yards away, it appears the church is much closer [...]
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Several flamethrower troops are depicted as being easily set on fire or exploding when their fuel ta [...]
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While stripping down to attack the radar site, Pvt. Mellish is seen removing his combat vest twice.
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When Miller is collecting Upham from the group of translators and map readers, Upham is so confused [...]
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On D-Day plus 3, when Captain Miller gets his assignment, a long tracking shot of the beach shows ob [...]
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Captain Miller states that he is from the 2nd Ranger Battalion, but they landed at Point du Hoc on D [...]
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After it shows Miller take a drink in the landing craft the camera moves back showing the soldiers i [...]
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During the battle of Ramelle, Private Jackson aims his rifle (at his own men) and although a gunshot [...]
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When Pvt. Jackson is preparing to engage the German sniper in the rainy sequence, he begins to adjus [...]
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When Pvt. Ryan is firing his M1 Garand during the German attack on the village, there is no recoil ( [...]
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When the Americans are defending the bridge, there's a scene where the guy with the M1 carbine is sh [...]
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In addition to the mistake of reversing the sign/countersign of "Flash/Thunder," the American soldie [...]
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When discovering that 3 of the 4 brothers were killed, it's stated that they were all in the same co [...]
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During the Ramelle battle, Cpl. Henderson and Pvt. Mellish are firing through a hole in the wall of [...]
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During the beach landing, several medics are tending a wounded soldier. The canteen of the medic on [...]
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In the scene where the soldiers are going through the dog tags to try and find Ryan, they all have t [...]
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As Jackson makes a run for the ditch to take out the machine gunner, he clearly passes the wall, in [...]
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The "Clear up/Clear down" call was not in use during the Second World War.
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