Saving Private Ryan: 80th Anniversary of D-Day Celebrate American Heroes and mark the 80th Anniversary of the greatest amphibious landing ever undertaken in human history, a moment when the Allied powers trumped over tyranny, at this special D-Day screening of Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan. After storming the beaches at Normandy, Army captain Tom Hanks leads his men on a dangerous mission to retrieve a soldier whose brothers have all died in combat. The war movie that rewrote how war movies are made and how epic American stories are told, experience this classic that garnered Spielberg his second Academy Award for Best Director on the big screen.