Perhaps one of the most popular movies amongst airsoft players and one of the best World War II movies of all time, “Saving Private Ryan” will be returning to theatres in observance of the 75th Anniversary of the June 6 D-Day Normandy Landings.

According to Forbes.com, participating theaters will be hosting a matinee on June 2 and another screening on June 5. The film will be shown at 1500H and 1900H on those days.

The D-Day landings, known as Operation Overlord with the codename Operation Neptune, are the largest seaborne invasion in history. The establishment of five beachheads in Normandy, France, paved the way for the collapse of the Nazi Germany’s occupation of Western Europe and eventual victory for the Allies in the European theater of World War II.

“Saving Private Ryan” released in 1998 and directed by Steven Spielberg, is the story about a squad of U.S. Army Rangers, led by Captain John H. Miller (Tom Hanks), that was tasked to find a 101st Airborne paratrooper, Private First Class James Francis Ryan (Matt Damon), the surviving brother of the four who were killed in action with one dying in the beaches of Normandy.  Francis Ryan was to be sent back to the States upon orders of General George Marshall after reading the Abraham Lincoln's Bixby letter which was sent to Lydia Parker Bixby who was said to have lost five sons in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

What is perhaps to be the most memorable opening sequence in the history of cinema can also be said to be the most harrowing and brutal too. Spielberg recreated a depiction of the Omaha Beach landings, the location of some of the heaviest fightings during D-Day. The Americans have responsibility have suffered around 2,000 to 5,000 casualties. World War II veterans say that it is the most realistic depiction of World War II combat according to Historians.org.

If you want to watch this at cinemas, better check movie listings at your favorite theaters. It will also be shown in the UK at participating theaters on June 6.