The D-Day movie to watch, not least for being the film that changed the grammar of war movies in one extraordinarily visceral opening 24-minute scene. Steven Spielberg’s shakycam depiction of the slaughter on Omaha Beach, with Janusz Kamiński’s desaturated cinematography mirroring Robert Capa’s famous photographs of the battle, plunges you right into the maelstrom of D-Day’s fiercest fighting. It’s as close as you’ll get to understanding what ‘hitting the beaches’ was really like, as the German defenders fire down from bunkers on horrifically exposed G.I.s inching up the sand. Somehow Tom Hanks and his squad of US Rangers make it off intact, but 2,400 others weren’t so lucky.