"DYMSHITZ: (flaring) Duty? I am sorry, duty? Duty f***ing duty. Trouble is, you Americans want everybody to live like you. We liberated Berlin, Major Steve, not you. Our duty also is to bring back the best of German culture."

"FURTWÄNGLER I didn't directly oppose the Party because I told myself, that was not my job. If I had taken any active part in politics I could not have remained here..."

"WALLACE: (a smile) Well, he's more than just a bandleader, Steve. He's a great conductor, a gifted artist. But we believe that he sold himself to the devil. Your number one priority from this moment on is to connect him to the Nazi Party. Don't be impressed by him. I want the folks back home to understand why we fought this war..."

"WALLACE: Stay put, Steve. There is some other stuff that I'd like for you to see here. Background."

"ON THE SCREEN: a Berlin sequence. Bombs falling. Ruins, a city devastated, empty. Flags of the four allied nations. Posters of Truman, Stalin, Churchill."

"DYMSHITZ [Russian Colonel]: Let Furtwängler go. Please."

"ARCHIVE FILM VOICE [U.S.Military education film] : That is the hand that dropped the bombs on defenceless Rotterdam, Brussels, Belgrade. That is the hand that destroyed the cities, villages and homes of Russia. That is the hand that held the whip over the Polish, Yugoslav, French and Norwegian slaves. That is the hand that took their food."

"STEVE[American Colonel]: I have a duty."

"ARCHIVE FILM: Sanitary conditions were so appalling that heavy equipment had to be brought in to speed the work of cleaning up [thousands of corpses]..."

"ON THE SCREEN: piles of cadavers being bulldozed..."

"AMERICAN RADIO VOICE: Remember, men, no fraternisation. In a German town, if you bow to a pretty girl or pat a blond child, you bow to all that Hitler stood for. You bow to his reign of blood. You caress the ideology that meant death and destruction. You never know who was a member of the Nazi Party..."

"ON THE SCREEN: SHOTS of camp survivors. Then SHOTS of emaciated corpses being bulldozed into mass graves."

"Kathleen Widdoes - Geraldine Walden"

"REICHSMINISTER: Dr. Furtwängler, I want to apologise personally for this power failure. I was so enjoying the performance. In times like these we need spiritual nourishment. A bomb explodes nearby. But I welcome this unexpected opportunity of talking to you. When you came on to the platform tonight, I thought you weren't well. You looked tired, (a warning) Get away from this bombing. Away from the war. Yes, you look tired...(a crooked smile) Even in this light. [bombing related power failure had just interrupted concert conducted by Furtwangler]"

"A MAN'S VOICE: Look at them. Men, women, kids. Boy, did they love him. You see, Steve, Adolf Hitler touched something deep, real deep and savage and barbaric, and it won't just go away overnight. It's got to be rooted out. You know what I think? I think they were all Nazis. And let's face it, their leaders, those bastards now on trial in Nuremberg, couldn't have done it alone...."

"Ken Jenkins - Joel Walden"

"Ned Vaughn - First Lieutenant Chelli"

"Sean Patrick Thomas - Sergeant Thompson"

"Manny Pérez - Jenkins"

"WALLACE (U.S. Army four star general): He's as big as Toscanini, maybe even bigger. In this neck of the woods, he's probably Bob Hope and Betty Grable rolled into one."

"Scott Glenn - Tony Gartner"

"Tim Guinee - Warrant Officer One A. Rady"

"Željko Ivanek - Captain Ben Banacek"

"Tim Ransom - Captain Boylar"

"Sean Astin - Sergeant Patella"

"STEVE: Jeez, and I never heard of him...."

"Regina Taylor - Meredith Serling"

"Michael Moriarty - Brigadier General Hershberg"

"Sir, if you get a hangfire on your weapon, what do you do? You wait, with your weapon pointed in a safe direction, 'cause sometimes the primer bursts, and if you open the chamber it blows up in your face. Leave this round in the chamber, sir."

"[to Monfriez, after she's been shot in the abdomen] I gave birth to a nine-pound baby, asshole. I think I can handle it."

"[in letter to loved ones] Dear Mom and Dad, well, this is it - the big push. Looks like it's gonna really happen. And I'm afraid, not of being hurt or killed, well, kind of, but not much. My only regret will be to never see you two again and that I'll never see Anne Marie grow up. But I know she's in good hands, the best. What I'm really afraid of is that I might let my people down, my crew. These people depend on me. They put their lives in my hands. I just can't fail 'em. Now, I know if you get this letter, it means I'm dead. I only hope that I've made you proud, that I did my job, and I didn't let down my country, my crew, my fellow soldiers. I love you guys. Never stop telling Anne Marie how much I love her. Your daughter, Karen."

"I work at the Pentagon, Sergeant, so I'll admit I'm a little slow on the uptake, otherwise I'd say that you just threatened me. Did you just threaten me, soldier? Because if you did, let me respond to you... [turns off tape recorder] Let me respond to you this way. I'm an officer, and therefore, by proclamation, a gentleman, but don't abuse that, son. Don't get in my crosshairs, because I'll have no compunction whatsoever about getting up to my neck in yo' ass. Do you understand me?"

"Specialist Ilario: It's not the doing shit that gets to you. It's the consequences. Imagine a life without consequences."

"Bronson Pinchot - Bruno, a White House aide"

"Matt Damon - Specialist Andrew Ilario"

"Seth Gilliam - Sergeant Steven Altameyer"

"In wartime, the first casualty is always truth."

"A medal for honor. A search for justice. A battle for truth."

"WALLACE: Well, they say here that when you went on a case, you stayed on it. (looks up at Steve.) Now we can't take every Nazi in this country to trial, although I would like to; it's an impossibility. So we're going for the big boys in industry, education, law, culture."

"Denzel Washington - Lieutenant Colonel Nathaniel Serling"

"Meg Ryan - Captain Karen Emma Walden"

"STEVE (U.S. Army major): Like this bandleader."

"Lou Diamond Phillips - Staff Sergeant John Monfriez"

"INT. MAJOR STEVE ARNOLD'S BEDROOM (I945) - NIGHT Steve having a nightmare, twisting, turning, moaning. He wakes with a cry. He is sweating. He turns on the light, looks at a clock, reaches for a cigarette, lights it. He smokes. He stares at the ceiling."

"Skipp Sudduth - Kowalski"

"Enrico Colantoni - Dooley"

"Scott Sowers - Mr. Brown"

"Chris Cooper - Terry "The Torch" Edwards"

"Joe Grifasi - Riley"

"Get on or get out of the way."