80 years ago today, Allied forces landed on the beaches at Normandy, in an operation we now call D-Day. Perhaps the most famous and respected depiction of that operation takes place in Steven Spielberg's 1998 war film Saving Private Ryan - and our hosts watched it this week.

They discuss how World War II tends to be depicted in film, how the film's acting affects its impact, where Spielberg soars and where he stalls, sentimentality vs. unsentimentally, and whether this really is the greatest Second World War film ever made.

Plus: saying the name of the movie in the movie... what to make of that?

Enjoy, and here's saluting the men who really did it.

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Music by White Bat Audio.