''There are events in history that show the dark side of humanity'' - HBO on Saving Private Ryan.

Rating: 9/10 (21 March 2020)

Saving Private Ryan is an outstanding War Movie directed by Legend Steven Spielberg back in 1998 starring: Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns and Vin Diesel.
It's a story about a platoon of men in US Army Ranger Battalion assigned to the search & rescue mission in Normandy France after D-Day landings (D-Day plus 3). The mission is a man. A 101st Airborne paratrooper named James Francis Ryan of Iowa who parachuted and got lost in Combat somewhere in Normandy France. From Bloody Beaches to the battered French Towns movie is just awesome.
The selected group of men out on the mission to find Ryan face danger, death and destruction every minute n hour facing the Germans. Movie also depicts what men go through during Combat in Wartime. Movie highlights the brutalities and harsh realities of war and brotherhood of men during combat.
Movie opens at Bloody Omaha beach Operation Overlord and ends with gruesome firefights with Germans in a small bombed out French town. Every scene is gripping from beginning to the end portraying the punishing monstrosity in battlefields of Normandy.
Story - Mission is to find a missing Airborne paratrooper of 101st Airborne division 506th outfit whose brothers were KIA in combat and has been ordered to be searched by a rescue party and send him home before he is harmed amidst the chaos of war. SPR is basically inspired from the vintage classic drama movie 'The Fighting Sullivans' which is the story of 5 Sullivan brothers who fought n died against the Japanese in the Pacific.
The Movie is also inspired by 4 American Brothers who fought in the Pacific Africa Italy and Normandy.
But like SPR there are many other untold stories of Normandy landings on D-Day 6th June that just need to be told. There is one moving scene in the film that touches my heart. The scene of the mother of 4 brothers who receives the telegram from the army of her 3 sons killed in combat while the other is missing in Normandy. These things happen to every family during Wartime be it any country. losing loved one's in war is painful and depressing be it a son husband or father. War is a living he'll. Who knows it more than a soldier. The world has still not learnt any lessons from WWII and evil Nazis who are a warning from history.
Winds of War, War & Remembrance, Battle of Britain, Sink the Bismark, Tora Tora Tora, Pearl Harbour, From Here to Eternity, Midway, Von Ryan's Express, In Harms Way, The Longest Day, Das Boot, The Enemy Below, Schindler's List, Holocaust, Wallenberg: A heroes Story, The Diary of Anne Frank, The Sound of Music, Operation Crossbow, The Thin Red Line, Stalingrad, Enemy At The Gates, Patton, Guns of Navarone, The Great Escape are some of the other War time greats and a must watch. Most are War time action n drama period classic war films based on WWII.
But no war movie in the past can match the brilliance excellence and master work of legendary Hollywood Director Steven Spielberg. Movie won Oscar for best Cinematography. This is the best WWII action War movie ever made by Hollywood. Opening scary combat scenes in Omaha Beach are terrible and bloody. MG-42, 34 roar with heavy MG fire, mortar artillery shell explosions along-with brutal gory war scenes.
After watching the movie SPR my eyes were full of tears and i was moved. War is hell and civilians don't realize what men and women in uniform go through. Since WWII many War Veterans in America suffer from PTSD.
My suggestion to all is to view - Band of Brothers HBO 10 part TV miniseries which is another true WWII war story of 101st US Airborne Div. Based on the true story of Lt. Richard Winters and his men. It's a true war story just like The Pacific HBO Miniseries 2010.