Saving Private Ryan
To many, the 1998 film Saving Private Ryan is a quintessential World War II film. It is gritty, moving, and has so many masterful scenes. This is certainly reflected in the 11 Academy Awards for which the film was nominated, several of which it claimed. But while the film gets considerably more right than most films of ilk, there is one small detail that raised some eyebrows. As a World War II film, Saving Private Ryan contains many scenes with rugged, frenzied soldiers just doing their jobs. As a result, this error might be a little harder to overlook than others, if you are able to catch on to it in the first place. So, what is this error? The soldiers sport black boots, while a more likely color for the time period would have been brown.