You may want to sit down before you read this. An Army historian has come out with a list of the top five movies that “accurately portray U.S. soldiers and combat operations at the time,” and there is ...

The Sole Survivor Policy, which prompts the mission to retrieve Damon’s Private Ryan in the movie, was a real regulation. But who is his character based on? The four Niland brothers — Edward, Preston, ...

For 23 minutes, Steven Spielberg’s “Saving Private Ryan” drops audiences into the D-Day landings at Omaha Beach. Handheld cameras and low angles follow Captain John Miller (Tom Hanks) and his squadron ...