Flags of Our Fathers

History, War

Jesse Bradford	Rene Gagnon
Ryan Phillippe	John Bradley
Adam Beach	Ira Hayes
John Benjamin Hickey	Keyes Beech
John Slattery	Bud Gerber
Barry Pepper	Mike Strank
Michael Ahl	Senator
Paul Walker	Hank Hansen
Robert Patrick	Colonel Chandler Johnson
Neal McDonough	Captain Severance
Jamie Bell	Ralph "Iggy" Ignatowski

Director	Clint Eastwood
Producer	Steven Spielberg; Clint Eastwood; Robert Lorenz
Writer	Paul Haggis; William Broyles Jr.
Cinematography	Tom Stern
Musician	Clint Eastwood

In February 1945, war in the Pacific rages on, with one of the bloodiest and most essential battles taking place in the island of Iwo Jima. Five Marines and a Navy corpsman raise the flag on Mount Suribachi, and the captured image becomes symbolic of American victory. The photo inspires America, which immediately pronounces the people in the photo heroes. But the surviving flag raisers themselves have no interest in being symbols or heroes, wanting instead to remain in the frontlines, fighting alongside other soldiers who were dying without being recognized.