FREE: SAVING PRIVATE RYAN (2 VHS SET) PLUS LARGE ILLUSTRATED MOVIE BOOK

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Another great movie from my collection 2 VHS set, with the matching photo collection book.

Saving Private Ryan ,Special Limited Edition {VHS] Starring Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Tom Sizemore and Edward Burns (Jul 24, 1998)

This "special edition" contains the 25-minute featurette Into the Breach. Besides interviews with the film's actors, there are interviews with D-day veterans and World War II historian Stephen Ambrose. Real D-day footage is edited together with scenes from the film that have been changed to black and white. The highlight is a glimpse of Steven Spielberg's early films. Using his dad's camera and his friends, the teenage Spielberg made two relatively impressive short war films, Escape to Nowhere and Fighter Squad. There are also home movies his dad made while stationed in the Pacific and a short visit with the Nilands, a family that lost four brothers during the war.
When he toured Europe with Duel in his 20s, he saw old men crumble in front of headstones at Omaha Beach. That image became the opening scene of Saving Private Ryan, his film of a mission following the D-day invasion that many have called the most realistic--and maybe the best--war film ever. We are at Omaha Beach as troops are slaughtered by Germans yet overcome the almost insurmountable odds. A stalwart Tom Hanks plays Captain Miller, a soldier's soldier, who takes a small band of troops behind enemy lines to retrieve a private whose three brothers have recently been killed in action. It's a public relations move for the Army, but it has historical precedent dating back to the Civil War.

Saving Private Ryan: The Men, The Mission, The Movie (Newmarket Pictorial Moviebook) by Steven Spielberg and David James (Jun 15, 1999)
The only illustrated companion book to the extraodinary film. Includes excerpts from Stephen Ambrose's books, screenplay extracts, and commentary by Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Janusz Kaminski and others. 100 illustrations, 130 color plates.