Tom Hanks and Matt Damon star in Steven Spielberg\'s Oscar winning, epic, WWII drama, set against the backdrop of the Normandy landings, about a mission to rescue a Private whose three brothers have all been killed in action. Steven Spielberg\'s Oscar winning, epic, WWII drama is set against the backdrop of the Normandy landings. A squad of American soldiers, led by Captain John Miller, receive top-level instructions to undertake an unusual mission: to rescue Private James Ryan, whose three brothers have all been killed in action. As the soldiers forge deeper into enemy territory, they begin to question the sense of risking life and limb for the sake of one man.