Flags of Our Fathers (2006)

Highly Recommended

USA

Feature Film

Director/Composer: Clint Eastwood

Writers: William Broyles Jr., Paul Haggis, James Bradley, Ron Powers

Cinematographer: Tom Stern

Cast: Ryan Phillippe, Jesse Bradford, Adam Beach, John Benjamin Hickey, John Slattery, Barry Pepper, Jamie Bell, Paul Walker, Robert Patrick, Neal McDonough, Melanie Lynskey

Three US Marines, captured in an iconic photograph of a flag raising in the midst of the battle for Iwo Jima, cope markedly differently with the fame and attention heaped upon them by a war weary nation during a war bonds fundraising tour, in Eastwood’s horrific, affecting, and painfully authentic feeling exploration of propaganda, the myth of heroism, and the multifaceted tragedies or war and its aftermath. Iain.Stott

See also Letters from Iwo Jima (2006).