Flags of Our Fathers (film)
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| Directed by | Clint Eastwood |
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Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley and Ron Powers |
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| Cinematography | Tom Stern |
| Edited by | Joel Cox |
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131 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $90 million |
| Box office | $65.9 million |
Flags of Our Fathers is a 2006 American war film directed, co-produced, and scored by Clint Eastwood and written by William Broyles, Jr. and Paul Haggis. It is based on the book of the same name written by James Bradley and Ron Powers about the 1945 Battle of Iwo Jima, the five Marines and one Navy Corpsman who were involved in raising the flag on Iwo Jima, and the aftereffects of that event on their lives.
Until June 23, 2016, Bradley's father John Bradley, navy corpsman, was both misidentified as being one of the figures who raised the second flag, and incorrectly depicted on the memorial as the third bronze statue from the base of the flagstaff with the 32-foot (9.8 M) bronze statues of the other five flag-raisers on the monument.
The film is taken from the American viewpoint of the Battle for Iwo Jima, while its companion film, Letters from Iwo Jima, which Eastwood also directed, is from the Japanese viewpoint of the battle. Letters from Iwo Jima was released in Japan on December 9, 2006 and in the United States on December 20, 2006, two months after the release of Flags of Our Fathers on October 20, 2006.
As three US servicemen – Marine Private First Class Ira Hayes, Private First Class Rene Gagnon, and Navy Corpsman John "Doc" Bradley (Bradley who was incorrectly identified as being a flag-raiser) – are feted as heroes in a war bond drive, they reflect on their experiences via flashback.
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