10 Insanely Accurate War Film Details

"What'd he say?! What'd he say?!"

"Look! I washed for supper!"

Saving Private Ryan's scenes depicting the attack on Omaha Beach have been acclaimed as some of the most realistic war sequences ever made. Stories of WW2 veterans breaking down or even leaving theatres due to how authentically Steven Spielberg captured the D-Day landings is a testament to the level of detail and reverence that went into the production.

Immolated soldiers scream and writhe, shellshocked young men dazedly carry their own severed limbs and bullet-ridden corpses sink into the sea like stones - it's unforgettable cinema.

The most nuanced piece of detail in Saving Private Ryan arguably comes as two surrendering Wermacht soldiers are summarily executed by advancing American forces - prompting the mocking "supper" soundbite from one of their killers. The director leaves the scene without subtitles, meaning that the heartbreaking circumstances behind the pair's demise are left unclear to the vast majority of viewers.

A particularly gloomy translation of the soldiers' desperate pleas reveal that they are actually Czech conscripts, shanghaied into the German forces following the invasion of what was then Czechoslovakia. Desperately trying to explain as such, this tragically does nothing to prevent them from being mercilessly gunned down.