
“A single shot can end the war.”
There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945. This is the story of three of the six surviving servicemen - John 'Doc' Bradley, Pvt. Rene Gagnon and Pvt. Ira Hayes - who fought in the battle to take Iwo Jima from the Japanese.
Release Date: 10/19/2006
Runtime: 135 minutes
Languages: English
Director: Clint Eastwood
Budget: $90.0M
Revenue: $65.9M
Companies: DreamWorks Pictures, Amblin Entertainment, Malpaso Productions, Warner Bros. Pictures
Countries: United States of America
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A nicely crafted war film. I wasn't overly invested in what was happening onscreen, but that doesn't take away from the fact that I still found <em>'Flags of Our Fathers'</em> to be a very good and a very interesting story from the Battle of Iwo Jima. It's a fascinating tale that it tells, which is definitely its strongest feature. As a whole I was very interested in it, individually I don't think it's as strong but as a collective it comes out nicely. Ryan Phillippe, Jesse Bradford and Adam Beach are the pick of the performers, though there are a load of familiar faces elsewhere - including Paul Walker, John Slattery and Jamie Bell. Super intrigued to check out <em>'Letters from Iwo Jima'</em>, which Clint Eastwood & Co. released two months after this to serve as a companion piece. Hopefully that's as good as this.

Ryan Phillippe
John 'Doc' Bradley

Jesse Bradford
Rene Gagnon

Adam Beach
Ira Hayes

John Benjamin Hickey
Keyes Beech

John Slattery
Bud Gerber

Barry Pepper
Mike Strank

Jamie Bell
Ralph "Iggy" Ignatowski

Paul Walker
Hank Hansen

Robert Patrick
Colonel Chandler Johnson

Neal McDonough
Captain Severance

Melanie Lynskey
Pauline Harnois

Tom McCarthy
James Bradley
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