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  2. Saving Private Ryan - Wikipedia

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    Saving Private Ryan is a 1998 American epic war film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Robert Rodat.Set in 1944 in Normandy, France, during World War II, it follows a group of soldiers, led by Captain John Miller (), on a mission to locate Private James Francis Ryan and bring him home safely after his three brothers have been killed in action.

  3. Shaky camera - Wikipedia

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    Janusz KamiƄski, cinematographer for Steven Spielberg on 1998's Saving Private Ryan, used a traditionally shot scene of a modern-day cemetery to open the film. For the initial action sequence, he used the hand-held camera technique to depict the gritty intensity and brutality of the 1944 Normandy beach assault on D-Day , from the boat to the ...

  4. The Ghost of You - Wikipedia

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    It closely parallels the Omaha invasion scene from the movie Saving Private Ryan. Most of the video takes place at a USO dance where the band is performing, but, often switches over to a D-Day scene, in which the band members play as United States soldiers in fierce

  5. Don Pratt - Wikipedia

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    The incident was fictionalized as a scene in the film Saving Private Ryan, ... and Roderick de Normann, (2004). - D-Day 1944 - Voices from Normandy. - New York, New ...

  6. Talk:Saving Private Ryan/Archive 1 - Wikipedia

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    Saving Private Ryan is a film heavy on sentimentalism and a desire to show how courageous the 'greatest generation' were - it has a tone that goes beyond telling the story of a small group of men. Some recognition of the tremendous sacrifice of Commonwealth troops and others would not have been impossible to put into the film, even if it was no ...

  7. LCVP (United States) - Wikipedia

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    The use of these boats during the D-day invasions at Normandy is shown in the feature films The Longest Day and Saving Private Ryan. The boats were also used in a scene during the 1985 film Invasion USA, [42] in which communist guerrillas land on a Florida beach.

  8. Curracloe - Wikipedia

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    Ballinesker Beach and Curracloe Strand, Ballinesker, were used for the filming of the D-Day sequence in Saving Private Ryan, due to similarity to Omaha Beach in Normandy. [3] [4] Filming began 27 June 1997, and lasted for two months.

  9. The Magnificent Eleven - Wikipedia

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    16th Infantry Regiment of the 1st Infantry Division moving towards the D-Day Beach taken by Capa The iconic photo Face in the Surf : American GI moving toward Omaha Beach taken by Capa First five images of Capa's The Magnificent Eleven. The Magnificent Eleven are a group of photos of D-Day (6 June 1944) taken by war photographer Robert Capa.