When speaking to BBC News NI he brought along a clapper board, dog tag and Ranger Battalion jacket he kept from the set of Saving Private Ryan. At one stage he owned one of the landing craft.
Every post-1998 war film owes a debt to Saving ... of the five landing sites of the Allied invasion of German-occupied France ...
John McManus, a World War II historian, looks at war scenes from "Saving Private Ryan" and rates them for realism. He breaks down the iconic movie opening of the landing on Omaha Beach during the ...