Tom Hanks: America's Chronicler-in-Chief

Saving Private Ryan, 1998
Hanks plays an army captain who leads his troops on a search for a soldier in northern France in the days after the D-Day landings.
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Saving Private Ryan, 1998
in this epic Steve Spielberg film, Hanks plays an army captain who leads his troops on a search for a soldier in northern France in the days after the D-Day landings.

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