Name: Flags Of Our Fathers

Cast: Ryan Phillippe Jesse Bradford Adam Beach

Rating: 14 A
Genre: Drama

Synopsis: It is the most memorable photograph of World War II, among the greatest pictures ever taken.
The winner of the Pulitzer Prize for photography and one of the most-reproduced images in the history
of photography, the picture has inspired postage stamps, posters, the covers of countless magazines and
newspapers, and even the Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington, Virginia. “Raising the Flag on Iwo
Jima,” a picture taken by Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945 depicts five
Marines and one Navy Corpsman raising the U.S. flag on Mount Suribachi. The image served as a
counterpoint for one of the most vicious battles of the war: the fight to take Iwo Jima, a desolate island
of black sand barely eight square miles that would prove a tipping point in the Pacific campaign. Lasting
more than a month, the fight was a bloody, drawn-out conflict that might have turned the American public
against the war entirely, had it not been for the photo, which was taken and published five days into the
battle. The photograph made heroes of the men in the picture as the three surviving flag-raisers were
returned to the U.S. and made into props in the government’s Seventh War Bond Tour. Uncomfortable
with their new celebrity, the flag-raisers considered the real heroes to be the men who died on Iwo Jima; still,
the American public held them up as the best America had to offer, the supermen who conquered the
Japanese… …and then, just as quickly as it had arrived, the glory faded. For two of the surviving flag-raisers,
life became a series of compromises and disappointments; for the third, happiness came only by shutting off
his war experiences and rarely speaking of them ever again.

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