Movie
Flags of Our Fathers
Overview
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.
Details
- Release date
- 2006-10-19
- Runtime
- 135 min
- Genres
- War, Drama, History
- Status
- Released
- Production
- DreamWorks Pictures, Amblin Entertainment, Malpaso Productions, Warner Bros. Pictures
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Ryan Phillippe as John 'Doc' Bradley
- Jesse Bradford as Rene Gagnon
- Adam Beach as Ira Hayes
- John Benjamin Hickey as Keyes Beech
- John Slattery as Bud Gerber
- Barry Pepper as Mike Strank
- Jamie Bell as Ralph "Iggy" Ignatowski
- Paul Walker as Hank Hansen
- Robert Patrick as Colonel Chandler Johnson
- Neal McDonough as Captain Severance
- Melanie Lynskey as Pauline Harnois
- Tom McCarthy as James Bradley
Crew
- Clint Eastwood - Director
- Paul Haggis - Screenplay
- William Broyles Jr. - Screenplay
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