In Saving Private Ryan (1998), the Omaha Beach scene was depicted with so much accuracy that the Department of Veteran Affairs set up a telephone hotline for traumatized veterans to cope
The 23-minute D-Day landing in Saving Private Ryan (1998) cost $12 million, about a fifth of the film’s budget. Filmed over a month with 1,500 actors and 400 crew, it remains one of cinema’s most intense sequences.