Your birth year
2006
Saving Private Ryan
1998
Saving Private Ryan is 8 years older than you
It's from 1998, before you were born.
- Director
- Steven Spielberg
- Genre
- War drama
- Star
- Tom Hanks
- Released
- 1998
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About
As of 2026, it's 28 years old.
Saving Private Ryan opens with a depiction of the D-Day landing at Omaha Beach so visceral and unflinching that it changed how war is portrayed on film forever — and reportedly affected veterans who lived it. Spielberg's drama follows a squad sent to bring one soldier home, treating the cost of war with rare honesty.
Harrowing and humane, it won Spielberg a Best Director Oscar and is regarded as one of the great war films, honoring the sacrifice it depicts.
Brutal, sobering, and profoundly respectful of its subject, Saving Private Ryan is a war film that never lets you forget what war actually costs.
