Saving Private Ryan: Winning the Omaha Beach Battle (HD CLIP)

Saving Private Ryan: Winning the Omaha Beach Battle What’s happening in this Saving Private Ryan movie clip? Capt. John Miller (Tom Hanks) and his men manage to make their way through the beach despite the heavy German artillery fire aiming at them. By attacking quickly, the group takes a concrete pillbox and helps win the battle. Rent or buy Saving Private Ryan here: What’s the movie Saving Private Ryan about? Steven Spielberg directed this powerful, realistic re-creation of WWII’s D-day invasion and the immediate aftermath. The story opens with a prologue in which a veteran brings his family to the American cemetery at Normandy, and a flashback then joins Capt. John Miller (Tom Hanks) and GIs in a landing craft making the June 6, 1944, approach to Omaha Beach to face devastating German artillery fire. Miller’s men slowly move forward to finally take a concrete pillbox. On the beach littered with bodies is one with the name “Ryan“ stencil