Saving Private Ryan [videorecording] / DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures present an Amblin Entertainment production in association with Mutual Film Company ; produced by Steven Spielberg & Ian Bryce and Mark Gordon & Gary Levinsohn ; written by Robert Rodat ; directed by Steven Spielberg.
Format:
[videorecording] /
Publisher:
Paramount Home Entertainment,
Copyright Date:
2010
Description:
2 Blu-ray Discs (169 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Title from container. Originally released as a motion picture in 1998. Special features: An introduction by director Steven Spielberg; "Looking into the past" featurette; "Miller and his platoon" featurette; "Boot camp" featurette; "Making Saving Private Ryan" featurette; "Re-creating Omaha Beach" featurette; "Music and sound" featurette; "Parting thoughts" featurette; "Into the breach: Saving Private Ryan" featurette; theatrical trailer (in HD); re-release trailer (in HD); "Shooting war:" WWII combat photographers, hosted by Tom Hanks. Tom Hanks, Edward Burns, Matt Damon, Tom Sizemore.
Contents:
Disc one. Feature film -- Disc two. Special features.
Summary:
A squad of American soldiers moves beyond the beach of the Normandy D-Day invasion. The men, then, embark on a dangerous special mission with Captain John Miller in charge. Miller must take his men behind enemy lines to find Private James Ryan, whose three brothers have been killed in combat. Faced with impossible odds, the men question their orders. Surrounded by the brutal reality of war, each man searches for his own answer.
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