Movies like Saving Private Ryan
12 films like Saving Private Ryan (1998), Flags of Our Fathers, Bridge of Spies, True Grit among them. They're picked by what the story is about and what each shares with Saving Private Ryan: its director, cast, franchise or setting.
1998 · 169 min · Drama, War. Following the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose comrades have been killed in action.
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Flags of Our Fathers
Also dramaThe life stories of the six men who raised the flag at the Battle of Iwo Jima, a turning point in World War II.
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Bridge of Spies
Also directed by Steven Spielberg · Also stars Tom HanksDuring the Cold War, an American lawyer is recruited to defend an arrested Soviet spy in court, and then help the CIA facilitate an exchange of the spy for the Soviet captured American U2 spy plane pilot, Francis Gary Powers.
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True Grit
Also stars Matt DamonA stubborn teenager enlists the help of a tough U.S. Marshal to track down her father's murderer.
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The Great Raid
Also drama and warTaking place towards the end of WWII, 500 American Soldiers have been entrapped in a camp for 3 years. Beginning to give up hope they will ever be rescued, a group of Rangers goes on a dangerous mission to try and save them.
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We Were Soldiers
Also dramaThe story of the first major battle of the American phase of the Vietnam War, and the soldiers on both sides that fought it, while their wives wait nervously and anxiously at home for the good news or the bad news.
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Rules of Engagement
Also drama and warAn attorney defends an officer on trial for ordering his troops to fire on civilians after they stormed a U.S. embassy in a Middle Eastern country.
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The Post
Also directed by Steven Spielberg · Also stars Tom HanksA cover-up spanning four U.S. Presidents pushes the country's first female newspaper publisher and her editor to join an unprecedented battle between press and government.
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The Terminal
Also directed by Steven Spielberg · Also stars Tom HanksAn Eastern European tourist unexpectedly finds himself stranded at JFK airport and must take up temporary residence there.
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War Horse
Also directed by Steven SpielbergA young farm boy enlists to serve in World War I after his beloved horse is sold to the cavalry. His hopeful journey takes him out of England and onto the front lines as the war rages on.
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The Catcher Was a Spy
Also drama and warFormer Major League Baseball player Moe Berg goes undercover in World War II Europe for the Office of Strategic Services.
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Pearl Harbor
Also dramaA tale of war and romance mixed in with history. The story follows two lifelong friends and a beautiful nurse who are caught up in the horror of an infamous Sunday morning in 1941.
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Catch Me If You Can
Also directed by Steven Spielberg · Also stars Tom HanksBarely 17 yet, Frank is a skilled forger who has passed as a doctor, lawyer and pilot. FBI agent Carl becomes obsessed with tracking down the con man, who only revels in the pursuit.
