I,ll agree that Saving Private Ryan...is up there for realism....but...had you seen ..the un-edited version of Sam Peckinpah,s...Cross of Iron....like i did at the cinema....there was a moment when every man in that cinema...flinched at what happened in the barn sequence....with a female Russian soldier.....suffice to say....it was,nt for the feint hearted....and the close combat sequences between the German rearguard and the advancing Russians....was up there with Private Ryan....if not ahead...and bear in mind...this film was over 20 years before Private Ryan.......