Saving Private Ryan – the Normandy landing. The most expensive scenes in cinema history

Once again, a war movie, but in this case we are dealing with one that remains forever etched in the history of cinema as one of the best representatives of this genre. Saving Private Ryan was not only a film with an all-star cast (Tom Hanks, Matt Damon), but also with amazing special effects. It's just one of those movies that makes you regret you're not watching it for the first time in your fifteenth screening. It's the kind of experience you'd like to repeat, but it's not possible...

It took four weeks and some 750 actors to fully portray the Normandy landing. As a result, we got a very intense opening 25 minutes depicting the cruelty of war and brutality of that invasion. Even the veterans of the conflict agreed that this sequence was exceptionally close to reality. From the very beginning, we have no idea who will survive and who will die – the director perfectly showed how much chance matters for survival during war.

Steven Spielberg (along with his proven cinematographer, Janusz Kaminski) created an incredibly powerful scene, which amounted to as much as $12 million (in a budget that was "only" $70M). This war-horror game earned Spielberg an Oscar for Best Director. Whenever we return to this sequence, we have no doubt that this is a well-deserved reward.