My son Matthew | D DAY Conneaut Lake, Ohio.

Saving Private Ryan

Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan (1998) was the first war film that put the viewer into the battle. You felt the measure of their sacrifice. I was in my early 20’s when I saw it, and I went back to theater to see it 3 more times. It kicked of my fascination with WW2 and War history in general.

[My son Matthew is only 8, so he’ll have to wait a few more years to see it. However, Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk(PG-13) is mild on the violence…