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Saving Private Ryan is a 1998 Academy Award-winning film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Robert Rodat.

This film is particularly notable for the intensity of the scenes in its first thirty minutes, which depict the Omaha beachhead assault of June 6, 1944 in often graphic detail. Thereafter it is settles into the fictional tale of the search for a paratrooper of the United States 101st Airborne Division.

Spielberg later pursued his interest in the liberation of Europe with the television mini-series Band of Brothers which he co-produced with Tom Hanks.

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