
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…