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DVD video

Uniform Title Saving Private Ryan (Motion picture)
Title Saving Private Ryan / DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures present an Amblin Entertainment production in association with Mutual Film Company ; produced by Steven Spielberg, Ian Bryce, Mark Gordon, Gary Levinsohn ; written by Robert Rodat ; directed by Steven Spielberg
Edition Widescreen special limited edition
Published Universal City, CA : DreamWorks Home Entertainment, [1999]

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Location Call no. Vol. Availability
 MELB  791.4372 Spe/Spr 1999  AVAILABLE
Description 1 videodisc (approximately 169 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
Contents Special features: Message from Stephen Spielberg -- Saving Private Ryan: "Into the breach" -- Theatrical trailer -- Re-release trailer -- Cast and filmmakers' bios -- Production notes
Summary Captain John Miller must take his men behind enemy lines to find Private Ryan, whose three brothers have been killed in combat. Faced with impossible odds, the men question their orders. Why are eight men risking their lives to save just one? Surrounded by the brutal realities of war, each man searches for his own answer and the strength to triumph over uncertain future with honor, decency and courage
Notes Originally released as a motion picture in 1998
Credits Director of photography, Janusz Kaminski ; film editor, Michael Kahn ; music, John Williams
Cast Tom Hanks, Edward Burns, Matt Damon, Tom Sizemore
Notes DVD, region 1, NTSC; anamorphic widescreen (aspect ratio 1.85:1); Dolby Digital 5.1 surround
Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired
Subject Combat -- Drama.
Families -- Drama.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- France -- Normandy -- Drama.
Genre/Form Feature films.
War films.
Video recordings.
Drama.
Author Bryce, Ian.
Burns, Edward, 1968-
Damon, Matt.
Gordon, Mark, 1956-
Hanks, Tom.
Kahn, Michael, 1935-
KamiƄski, Janusz, 1959-
Levinsohn, Gary.
Rodat, Robert.
Sizemore, Tom, 1961-
Spielberg, Steven, 1946-
Williams, John, 1932-
Amblin Entertainment (Firm)
DreamWorks Home Entertainment (Firm)
Dreamworks Pictures.
Mutual Film Company.
Paramount Pictures Corporation.
ISBN 0783233531
9780783233536