Hollywood Icon - Tom Hanks

Saving Private Ryan (1998): "We're not here to do the decent thing! We're here to follow f--ing orders!"

War is hell. No one knows that better than Hanks' Captain John Miller. He survived D-Day only to be sent to Nazi-occupied France to retrieve a single soldier; when finally found, that soldier refuses to leave his post, forcing Miller into a life-and-death confrontation with the enemy. Talk about the self-sacrifice of patriotism.

Saving Private Ryan, Tom Hanks, 1998, © Dreamworks. Courtesy The Everett Collection.