Flags of Our Fathers movie

The life stories of the six men who raised the flag at The Battle of Iwo Jima, a turning point in WWII.

Flags of Our Fathers (2000) is the New York Times-bestselling book by James Bradley with Ron Powers about the five United States Marines and one United States Navy Corpsman who would eventually be made famous by Joe Rosenthals lauded photograph of the flag raising at Iwo Jima, one of the costliest and most horrifying battles of World War IIs Pacific Theater. The flag raisers included John Bradley (a Navy corpsman, and the authors father), Rene Gagnon, Ira Hayes, Mike Strank, Harlon Block, and Franklin Sousley; Strank, Block, and Sousley died later in the battle. Strank refused several promotions during the battle in order to "Bring his boys back to their mothers." Block was a Corporal who reported to Strank, and the rest were privates in the Marines, except for John Bradley, a Navy Corpsman who administered first aid to Easy Company, the company to which all the flags raisers who assaulted Iwo Jima were assigned.The book, published in May 2000 by Bantam Books, a division of Random House, spent 46 weeks on the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list, spending six weeks at number one. Shortly after the books publication, Steven Spielberg optioned the film rights for DreamWorks Pictures.The book follows the lives of the six flag-raisers through their early lives of innocence, military training, fierce combat and afterward, when they were sent on tours to raise money for war bonds.The film adaptation Flags of Our Fathers, which opened in the U.S.

on October 20, 2006, was directed by Clint Eastwood and produced by Steven Spielberg, with a screenplay written by William Broyles, Jr. and Paul Haggis.

All Flags of Our Fathers trailers available on youtube

Flags of Our Fathers Cast

• Adam Beach
• Barry Pepper
• Chris Bauer
• Jamie Bell
• Jesse Bradford
• John Benjamin Hickey
• John Slattery
• Judith Ivey
• Melanie Lynskey
• Myra Turley
• Neal McDonough
• Paul Walker
• Robert Patrick
• Thomas McCarthy