Saving Private Ryan: On the battlefront with Ryan (HD CLIP)

Saving Private Ryan: On the battlefront with Ryan What’s happening in this Saving Private Ryan movie clip? Miller (Tom Hanks) and his unit fight alongside the 101st and Ryan (Matt Damon) to defend a key bridge in Ramelle against the Germen. Rent or buy Saving Private Ryan here: What’s the movie Saving Private Ryan about? Steven Spielberg directed this powerful, realistic re-creation of WWII's D-day invasion and the immediate aftermath. The story opens with a prologue in which a veteran brings his family to the American cemetery at Normandy, and a flashback then joins Capt. John Miller (Tom Hanks) and GIs in a landing craft making the June 6, 1944, approach to Omaha Beach to face devastating German artillery fire. Miller's men slowly move forward to finally take a concrete pillbox. On the beach littered with bodies is one with the name “Ryan“ stenciled on his backpack. Army Chief of Staff Gen. George C. Marshall (Harve Presnell), learning