Flags of Our Fathers (2006)
20 Oct 2006 ● English ● 2 hrs 15 mins
During WW II, as the Americans attacked Iwo Jima, Six American soldiers raised the flag as a symbol of victory. The three survivors are hailed heroes and brought back to America in an effort to increase the war fund. While they travel the country making speeches and raising money, the trio are reminded of the horrors of the battle and not everything seeming heroic is always so.
Cast: Ryan Phillippe
Crew: Clint Eastwood (Director)
Rating: A (India)
Genres: Drama
Release Dates: 20 Oct 2006 (India)
Did you know? The part where a sailor falls from a ship and is left in the water as the fleet steams toward Iwo Jima actually happened. The incident is described in "Iwo" by Richard Wheeler, himself a veteran of the fighting. Quote: "According to Coast Guardsman Chet Hack of LST 763: 'We got the man-overboard signal from the ship ahead of us. We turned to port to avoid hitting him and threw him a life preserver, but had orders not to stop. We could not hold up twenty-four ships for one man. Looking back, we could see him waving his arms, and it broke our hearts that we couldn't help him. We hoped that one of our destroyers or other small men-of-war that were cruising around to protect us would pick him up, but we never heard that they did.'" Read More
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Director
Production
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Film Type:
Feature
Language:
English
Colour Info:
Color
Frame Rate:
24 fps
Aspect Ratio:
2.39:1 (Scope)
Stereoscopy:
No
Trivia:
This film is based on the 2000 book of the same name written by James Bradley and Ron Powers about the 1945 Battle of Iwo Jima.
The part where a sailor falls from a ship and is left in the water as the fleet steams toward Iwo Jima actually happened. The incident is described in "Iwo" by Richard Wheeler, himself a veteran of the fighting. Quote: "According to Coast Guardsman Chet Hack of LST 763: 'We got the man-overboard signal from the ship ahead of us. We turned to port to avoid hitting him and threw him a life preserver, but had orders not to stop. We could not hold up twenty-four ships for one man. Looking back, we could see him waving his arms, and it broke our hearts that we couldn't help him. We hoped that one of our destroyers or other small men-of-war that were cruising around to protect us would pick him up, but we never heard that they did.'"
Filmmaker Spike Lee criticized Producer and Director Clint Eastwood at the Cannes Film Festival, for not displaying African-American Marines who had fought on Iwo Jima. Eastwood's response was that the movie was about the marines who raised the flag on Mount Suribachi. He went on to explain that although African-Americans did fight on Iwo Jima (some can be seen during the briefing scene), the Marine Corps was segregated during World War II, and none of the men who raised the flag were black.
The part where a sailor falls from a ship and is left in the water as the fleet steams toward Iwo Jima actually happened. The incident is described in "Iwo" by Richard Wheeler, himself a veteran of the fighting. Quote: "According to Coast Guardsman Chet Hack of LST 763: 'We got the man-overboard signal from the ship ahead of us. We turned to port to avoid hitting him and threw him a life preserver, but had orders not to stop. We could not hold up twenty-four ships for one man. Looking back, we could see him waving his arms, and it broke our hearts that we couldn't help him. We hoped that one of our destroyers or other small men-of-war that were cruising around to protect us would pick him up, but we never heard that they did.'"
Filmmaker Spike Lee criticized Producer and Director Clint Eastwood at the Cannes Film Festival, for not displaying African-American Marines who had fought on Iwo Jima. Eastwood's response was that the movie was about the marines who raised the flag on Mount Suribachi. He went on to explain that although African-Americans did fight on Iwo Jima (some can be seen during the briefing scene), the Marine Corps was segregated during World War II, and none of the men who raised the flag were black.
