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10 Best Movies Like Saving Private Ryan

If you loved Saving Private Ryan, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
When Trumpets Fade

When Trumpets Fade

1998★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Saving Private Ryan for fans of War & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In WWII Western Germany, Private David Manning reluctantly leaves behind a mortally wounded fellow soldier and searches for survivors from his platoon, only to learn from commandin...

#2
Fury

Fury

2014★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Saving Private Ryan for fans of War & Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

April, 1945. As the Allies make their final push in the European Theatre, a battle-hardened army sergeant named Wardaddy commands a Sherman tank and her five-man crew on a deadly m...

#3
Flags of Our Fathers

Flags of Our Fathers

2006★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Saving Private Ryan for fans of War & Drama & History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945. This is the story of three of the six survi...

#4
Saints and Soldiers

Saints and Soldiers

2003★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Saving Private Ryan for fans of War & Drama & History. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Five American soldiers fighting in Europe during World War II struggle to return to Allied territory after being separated from U.S. forces during the historic Malmedy Massacre....

#5
The Big Red One

The Big Red One

1980★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Saving Private Ryan for fans of War & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A veteran sergeant of World War I leads a squad in World War II, always in the company of the survivor Pvt. Griff, the writer Pvt. Zab, the Sicilian Pvt. Vinci and Pvt. Johnson, in...

#6
The Great Raid

The Great Raid

2005★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Saving Private Ryan for fans of War & History. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

As World War II rages, the elite Sixth Ranger Battalion is given a mission of heroic proportions: push 30 miles behind enemy lines and liberate over 500 American prisoners of war....

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