Flags of Our Fathers
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Clint Eastwood
Ryan Phillippe
Barry Pepper
Paul Walker
Robert Patrick
Neal Mcdonough
Film Details
Technical Specs
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 J 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 her s 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 her s 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.
Director
Clint Eastwood
Cast
Ryan Phillippe
Barry Pepper
Paul Walker
Robert Patrick
Neal Mcdonough
Patrick Dollaghan
Martin Delaney
Tom Mccarthy
John Henry Canavan
David Patrick Kelly
Steven M. Porter
Vivien Lesiak
Beth Tapper
Tony Barracca
Matt Huffman
Stark Sands
Benjamin Walker
Kirk B. R. Woller
Joie Shettler
Melanie Lynskey
Michael Canavan
Jim Cantafio
David S Brooks
Darri Ingolfsson
Jamie Bell
Johann Johannson
John Nielsen
Jon Kellam
Judith Ivey
Denise Bella Vlasis
Bubba Lewis
Jeremy Merrill
Christopher Curry
John Hoogenakker
Ann Dowd
Daniel Porcey
V.j. Foster
David Hornsby
Dale Waddington Horowitz
Gunnar Palsson
Lisa Dodson
John Slattery
James Newman
Mary Beth Peil
Alessandro Mastrobuono
Mark Thomason
William Charlton
David Rasche
Beth Grant
Patrick New
John Maloney
Harve Presnell
George Grizzard
Bjorgvin Franz Gislason
Danny Mccarthy
Karl Gulledge
David Clennon
Gordon Clapp
George Hearn
Donn Emerson
Jeremiah Bitsui
Ron Fassler
Connie Ray
Adam Beach
James Horan
Silas Weir Mitchell
Jason Gray-stanford
John A. Schacht
Yukari Black
Lennie Loftin
Michael Cumpsty
Ned Eisenberg
Chris Bauer
John Benjamin Hickey
Joseph Cross
Oliver Davis
Mark Colson
Hilmar Gudjonsson
Len Cariou
Shannon Gayle
Tom Mason
Sean Moran
Erica Grant
Tom Verica
George Cambio
Myra Turley
Jon Polito
Jayma Mays
Jenifer Menedis
Scott Eastwood
Brian Kimmet
Jesse Bradford
Barry Sigismondi
Skip Evans
Crew
Dan Abrams
Nancy Adams
Ulrika Akander
Jane Alderman
Janice Alexander
Tom Allen
Kokayi Ampah
Orn Alexander Amundason
Scott M. Anderson
Denise Anderson Poore
Slavik Anishchenko
Carrie Yoko Arakaki
Sandi Armstrong-renfroe
Magnus Arnason
David A Arnold
James Ashwill
Brandon Ashworth
Bub Asman
Fridrik Elis Asmundsson
Joseph Bailey
Debra Bakeman
Sigurbjorn Bui Baldvinsson
Terry Baliel
Larry Ballard
Gregory J Barnett
Maurice Bastian
Geoffrey E Baumann
Eric Beaver
Eirikur Beck
Brian Begun
Joel Behrens
Steve Beimler
Nathaniel E Bell
Bill Benavides
David Benavides
Bob Bennett
Irving Berlin
Niki Bern
David Bernstein
Jessica Biggins
Joe Biggins
Michael I. Bilog
Thoranna D Bjornsdottir
Jon Kjartan Bjornson
Bradley B. Blasdel
Jill Bogdanowicz
Ben Bohling
Kevin Bouchez
Richard Bowen
Andrea Brabin
James Bradley
Corey C. Bronson
Dan Brown
William Broyles
Dominick Bruno
Brinton Bryan
Richard Bucher
Henry Bumstead
John Burich
Buzzy Burwell
Matthew Butler
Howard Cabalfin
Robert Caballero
Sammy Cahn
Paul Calabria
Stephen S. Campanelli
Stephen S. Campanelli
David E Campbell
Nick Carranza
Katie Carroll
Trevor Carroll-coe
Pam Cartmel
Bill Cawley
Gordon Chapman
Katie Cheang
Ili Chiang
Fernando Chien
Sammy Chin
Ilram Choi
Michael Cipriano
Chan Claggett
Jacob Clark
Jason Clark
Bill Coe
Lucy Coldsnow-smith
Elisa Ann Conant
Brenton Cottman
David Cox
Joel Cox
Dan Craney
John Cucci
Ann Culotta
Gloria D'alessandro
Vincent D'angelo
Leifur B Dagfinnsson
Valerie Davidson
Brandon Davis
Shad Davis
Gabriel De Cunto
Loren Dennis
Sgt. Maj. James D. Dever
Feliciano Di Giorgio
Edgar Diaz
Gareth Dinneen
Daniel Dirks
Nathaniel Dirksen
Hugo Dominguez
Mark Donaldson
Joe Dorn
Joshua Doud
John J. Downey
Christina Drahos
Peter Dress
Michael Dressel
Richard Duarte
Greg Duda
Edward Dumlao
Ross Dunkerley
Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood
Kyle Eastwood
Kyle Eastwood
Kyle Eastwood
Michael Edland
Mike Edmonson
Roy Edwards
John Ellingwood
Juno J. Ellis
Nousha Emami
Jenn Epstein
Chuck Eskridge
Rod Farley
Joe Farrell
David Fencl
James Fernandez
Robert Fernandez
Chad Finnerty
Graeme Flowers
Graeme Flowers
Colin Follenweider
Dan Forcey
Bruce Forman
Jay Frankenberger
Jessica Franks
Robert A D Frick
Jonathan Fuh
Darin Fujimori
Max Gabl
Steve Galle
Jon Hinrik Gardarsson
Sigurjon Gardarsson
Sigurjon Fridrik Gardarsson
Brian Gazdik
Swen Gillberg
Ed Giovanni
Jeff Gladu
Mitchell J Glaser
Richard Goddard
Jason S. Gondek
Carolina Margo Gonzalez
Galen Goodpaster
Adrian Gorton
Adrian Gorton
Al Goto
Lori Green
Ron Gress
Hjortur Gretarsson
Steve Griffith
Bryan Grill
Ottar Gudnason
Joseph Guerino
Bill Guiette
Natalie G Gunnarsdottir
Eddie Gutierrez
Paul Haggis
Jonah Hall
Oddur Halldorsson
Tanja Hallvardsdottir
Amanda Hampton
Dick Hansen
Arni Hansson
Michael Harbour
Donald Harris
Ian A Harris
Jessica Harris
Marlan Harris
Susan Hartmann
Danielle Hartzell
Chris Harvey
Zoe Hay
Claas Henke
Peter Herlein
Brad Herman
Leo A Hernandez
Chuck Hessey
Alan Hicks
Darin Hilton
Erik Hirt
Tony Hobbs
Film Details
Technical Specs
Award Nominations
Best Sound
Best Sound Editing
Quotes
Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Winner of the 2006 award for Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Motion Picture by the Visual Effects Society (VES).
Released in United States Fall October 20, 2006
Released in United States on Video February 6, 2007
Based on the book "Flags of Our Fathers" written by James Bradley and Ron Powers; published by Bantam May 2, 2000.
Dreamworks bought the book by James Bradley and Ron Powers for a reported six figures.
Literary Sale Date: 06/19/2000.
Released in United States Fall October 20, 2006
Released in United States on Video February 6, 2007
Co-winner of the 2006 Satellite Award for Best Director and winner of two 2006 Satellite Awards including Best Cinematography and Best Art Direction & Production Design by the International Press Academy (IPA).
