:02:02
Ryan? Anybody know Ryan?
101st Airborne? Ryan?
:02:05
You know a Private
James Ryan from lowa?
:02:08
This ensemble cast
includes Edward Burns,
:02:11
Tom Sizemore,
:02:12
Matt Damon,
:02:13
Giovanni Ribisi,
:02:15
Barry Pepper,
:02:16
Jeremy Davies,
:02:17
Adam Goldberg,
:02:19
and Vin Diesel.
:02:20
You wanna explain this math to me?
:02:23
Why risk the lives of the
eight of us to save one guy?
:02:27
Anybody wanna answer that?
:02:29
This is about citizen soldiers.
:02:31
Guys who joined because
it was the right thing to do.
:02:35
Their job was to win
so everybody can go home.
:02:38
Theirs not to reason why...
:02:41
They're ordinary men in
extraordinary circumstances,
:02:43
and they behave extraordinarily.
:02:48
Nobody was prepared
for how horrific it really was.
:02:51
And you really got a sense of
what these guys went through.
:02:56
They do what they're not supposed to,
:02:59
which is care about one another.
:03:01
It's one tragedy of war
that you lose your friends.
:03:04
Parker, get down!
:03:08
Regardless of the words
on paper and the story,
:03:12
this was going to be
:03:14
some brand
of current definitive document
:03:17
about a day of decision unlike
any other in world history.
:03:24
Destroy Hitler's empire,
smash it by air,
:03:26
break it wide open,
then invade by sea.
:03:29
That was the directive.
:03:31
D-Day was the pivot point
of this century.
:03:34
It was the day which decided
:03:36
whether this world was
going to be Nazi or democratic.
:03:40
The night before D-day
:03:43
probably was the most
exciting night in our history.
:03:48
Planes started taking off
:03:50
about nine to ten o'clock
at night.
:03:52
And they were coming over us
at about 500 feet
:03:56
with their lights blinking,
:03:58
and in one of those was my brother,