Watch Saving Private Ryan

Easy Company from Normandy to Berchtesgaden; Spielberg and Hanks' ten-part war.

Three timelines converge on the beach evacuation of 1940, almost without dialogue.

Command cards and blocks over the Normandy hedgerows, in under an hour.

One month of political horse-trading to pass the Thirteenth Amendment.

The Israeli squad sent after the Black September operatives, and what it costs them.

A Brooklyn insurance lawyer negotiates a Cold War prisoner swap on a bridge in Berlin.

The Washington Post decides whether to print the Pentagon Papers, with Streep as the publisher who says yes.

Takahata's devastating story of two children in the last months of the war.