War · Drama · History
American
1998 · Directed by Steven Spielberg · 169 min
June 1944. After the Normandy landings, a US Army captain and a small squad of Rangers are sent across hostile French countryside on an unusual order: find one paratrooper and get him out of the war. Steven Spielberg's film pairs brutal combat realism with a quiet question about what a single life is worth.
Why it matters in cinema history
A defining American war film of the late 1990s. It brought Vietnam-era frankness about violence back to the Second World War, a conflict Hollywood had long portrayed with more restraint and reverence.
Watch with intention
Watch how the film makes you feel the soldiers' limited view, never the general's overview, and how that shapes your sense of what the mission means.
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