Steven Spielberg reinvented the war genre for a modern audience with one of his best ever films, Saving Private Ryan, which sees Captain Miller (Tom Hanks) and his team of roughnecks setting out on a suicide mission to find the elusive soldier of the title in World War Two France. The battle sequences are some of the genre's greatest.
Sam Hill is an ardent cinephile and has been writing about film professionally since 2008. He harbours a particular fondness for western and sci-fi movies.
