Released
Flags of Our Fathers
October 18 2006 (about 18 years ago)Rating
69
Based on
1819 reviews
A single shot can end the war.
- Director: Clint Eastwood
- Writers: Paul Haggis, William Broyles Jr.
- Genres: War, Drama, History
- Runtime: 2 h 15 m
- Budget: $90,000,000
- Box office: $65,900,000
- Country: United States of America
- Companies: DreamWorks Pictures, Amblin Entertainment, Malpaso Productions, Warner Bros. Pictures
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.
