Saving Private Ryan

Saving Private Ryan

1998

After the chaos of the D-Day landings at Omaha Beach, a U.S. Army captain leads a small squad deep into occupied France on a mission to find and bring home a paratrooper whose three brothers have all been killed in action. The film is bookended by harrowing, viscerally realistic combat sequences that redefined the war genre.

Director

  • Steven Spielberg

Cast

  • Tom Hanks
  • Edward Burns
  • Tom Sizemore
  • Matt Damon
  • Jeremy Davies
  • Adam Goldberg
  • Barry Pepper
  • Giovanni Ribisi
  • Vin Diesel
  • Ted Danson

Filming Locations

  • Curracloe Beach

    This was used as Omaha Beach where the opening 20 minutes of the movie were filmed.

  • Elstree Studios
  • Hatfield

    All of the scenes involving the street fighting in and around towns and the final battle scene where the main American force and aircraft attack the Germans were filmed here.