Movies like Saving Private Ryan
If Saving Private Ryan's mix of self sacrifice, bravery and world war ii stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Saving Private Ryan's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Schindler's List
1993 · Directed by Steven Spielberg · 195 min8.6
Why you'll like itAlso directed by Steven Spielberg · Shares: world war ii · Also drama and history · From the same decade (1990s)
The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.
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Fury
2014 · Directed by David Ayer · 135 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: bravery, world war ii, 1940s · Also war and drama
April, 1945. As the Allies make their final push in the European Theater, a battle-hardened army sergeant commands a Sherman tank with a five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines.
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The Thin Red Line
1998 · Directed by Terrence Malick · 171 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii, us army, 1940s · Also drama and history · From the same decade (1990s)
The story of a group of men, an Army Rifle company called C-for-Charlie, who change, suffer, and ultimately make essential discoveries about themselves during the fierce World War II battle of Guadalcanal.
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Flags of Our Fathers
2006 · Directed by Clint Eastwood · 135 min6.8
Why you'll like itWith Barry Pepper · Shares: world war ii, 1940s · Also war and drama
There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945.
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The Big Red One
1980 · Directed by Samuel Fuller · 162 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii, omaha beach, us army · Also drama and war
A veteran sergeant of World War I leads a squad in World War II, always in the company of the survivor Pvt. Griff, the writer Pvt. Zab, the Sicilian Pvt. Vinci and Pvt.
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The Great Raid
2005 · Directed by John Dahl · 132 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii, rescue mission, us army · Also history and war
As World War II rages, the elite Sixth Ranger Battalion is given a mission of heroic proportions: push 30 miles behind enemy lines and liberate over 500 American prisoners of war.
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Saints and Soldiers
2003 · Directed by Ryan Little · 90 min6.3
Why you'll like itShares: bravery, world war ii, 1940s · Also war and drama
Five American soldiers fighting in Europe during World War II struggle to return to Allied territory after being separated from U.S. forces during the historic Malmedy Massacre.
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Dunkirk
2017 · Directed by Christopher Nolan · 107 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii, rescue mission, military · Also war and drama
The story of the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk between May 26th and June…
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Inglourious Basterds
2009 · Directed by Quentin Tarantino · 153 min8.2
Why you'll like itShares: self sacrifice, world war ii · Also drama and war
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis.
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Letters from Iwo Jima
2006 · Directed by Clint Eastwood · 141 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii, 1940s · Also drama and war
The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.
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Enemy at the Gates
2001 · Directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud · 131 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii, 1940s · Also war and history
A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.
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Cross of Iron
1977 · Directed by Sam Peckinpah · 133 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii, troops · Also drama and history
It is 1943, and the German army—ravaged and demoralised—is hastily retreating from the Russian front. In the midst of the madness, conflict brews between the aristocratic yet ultimately pusillanimous Captain Stransky…