[Harper]

The Longest Day --- excellent film to portray the full spectrum of D-Day as seen from all sides.
Can't recommend it enough.

Worth reminding them that it was the second landing on mainland Europe by the Western Allies, following the landings in Italy in Sept 1943, and of course the Soviet Army which was still bearing the brunt of the war was moving into Poland from the east.

Use the movie "The Longest Day" to protray the D-Day landings. Any more recent movies about Private Ryan and Band Of Brothers are rated "R" movies anyways. Way too graphic as well as violent. The Longest Day atleast doesn't go down that road like todays Hollywood. Anything else doesn't matter. D-Day was about the efforts to liberate Western Europe by the French, British, Canadians and the US. The Russians had no role in what took place in France nor in Italy.