Great film overshadowed by Hollywoods failure to recognise others

Rating: 8/10 (7 April 2007)

First of all I would like to say, I thoroughly enjoyed this film, and historically it was right on the ball for the landings and the subsequent movement of the other American troops.
However, after doing a lot of research on D-Day, I was really disappointed in the way the filmmakers seemed to leave out important facts about the others who got involved in the war, primarily the British and the Canadians, who sent thousands of troops in to other beeches and didn't even get a mention. Another example of Hollywood feeding Americas "We single handedly saved the world" ego.
However, like I said, a fantastic film, great actors and a great pulsating story filled with some amazing war shots and some great dialogue between characters, "Earn it!".
Now i now this film was primarily about saving private Ryan and not so much about D-Day in depth, I think this is a fantastic opportunity for Hollywood to make an in-depth film about D-Day, by that I mean the intensive three year planning that had begun even before America joined the war, the RAF missions over Callais and other bluffs to make the Germans convicned the attack was coming there, even during the middle D-Day they were still convinced that another wave would hit elsewhere. And prehaps more about the thousands of paratroopers who took out the legendary Pegasus Bridge in the early hours of the morning to hold the entire post invasion operation together.
However, random tangent aside, I highly recommend this film to anyone who is interested in history, it is incredibly accurate in all the other area apart from where I mentioned.
I gave it 8 *