Storyline
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.
Directors
Cast
Jamie Bell, Jason Gray-Stanford, Erica Grant, Beth Grant, Scott Eastwood, Neal McDonough, Barry Pepper, Paul Walker, Adam Beach, John Slattery, Chris Bauer, John Benjamin Hickey, Robert Patrick, Jesse Bradford, Ryan Phillippe, Judith Ivey, James Newman, Stark Sands, Jon Polito, Michael Cumpsty, Melanie Lynskey, Beth Tapper, Ann Dowd, David Rasche, Gordon Clapp, Joseph Cross, Benjamin Walker, Alessandro Mastrobuono, Brian Kimmet, Shakti Shannon, David Patrick Kelly
Trailer
Reviews
100
Clint Eastwood's Flags of Our Fathers does a most difficult and brave thing and does it brilliantly. It is a movie about a concept. Not just any concept but the shop-worn and often wrong-headed idea of "heroism."
100
Clint Eastwood has crafted a bold and meticulous epic.
100
Village Voice
To an extent, Flags of Our Fathers is to the WWII movie what Eastwood's Unforgiven was to the western -- a stripping-away of mythology until only a harsher, uncomfortable reality remains.
90
Variety
Ambitiously tackling his biggest canvas to date, Clint Eastwood continues to defy and triumph over the customary expectations for a film career in Flags of Our Fathers.
90
An epic both raw and contemplative, is neither a flag-waving war movie nor a debunking.
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