16 military movies that used real-life veterans in active roles

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Still from Flags of our Fathers (Image via Warner Bros. Entertainment)
Still from Flags of our Fathers (Image via Warner Bros. Entertainment)

5.⁠ ⁠Saving Private Ryan (1998)

Still from the movie (Image via Rotten Tomatoes)
Still from the movie (Image via Rotten Tomatoes)

Directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Hanks, this influential war movie is about a group of soldiers who must bring Private Ryan back home after all his brothers get killed in World War II. Set in 1944 in Normandy, the film has one of the most realistic depictions of battle scenes and one of the actors, James McEachin, was also a Korean War veteran, who added credibility to the intense movie.

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