July 24, 1998 –
The unflinchingly gritty Steven Spielberg war flick, Saving Private Ryan opened on this date.
The Omaha Beach scene cost $11 million to shoot, and involved up to 1,000 extras, some of whom were members of the Irish Army Reserve. Of those extras, 20-30 of them were amputees, issued with prosthetic limbs, to play soldiers who had their limbs blown off.
The Haus of Dcaligari 