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Flags of Our Fathers

2006 Film Synopsis & Plot Summary

6.9/10

Rating

135 min

Runtime

2006

Release Year

Clint Eastwood

Director

Cast

Ryan Phillippe, Jesse Bradford, Adam Beach, John Benjamin Hickey, John Slattery

Quick Synopsis

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.

Full Plot Summary of Flags of Our Fathers

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.

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