Flags of Our Fathers

Synopsis

Flags of Our Fathers tells the true story of the six servicemen who raised the American flag on Iwo Jima and the personal and public consequences they faced afterward. Directed by Clint Eastwood and based on the book by James Bradley and Ron Powers, the film alternates brutal frontline combat with the home-front publicity tour that turned survivors into national symbols. A thoughtful, powerful examination of heroism, memory and the cost of war.