There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945. This is the story of three of the six surviving servicemen - John 'Doc' Bradley, Pvt. Rene Gagnon and Pvt. Ira Hayes - who fought in the battle to take Iwo Jima from the Japanese.

Ryan Phillippe
as John 'Doc' Bradley

Jesse Bradford
as Rene Gagnon

Adam Beach
as Ira Hayes

John Benjamin Hickey
as Keyes Beech

John Slattery
as Bud Gerber

Barry Pepper
as Mike Strank

Jamie Bell
as Ralph "Iggy" Ignatowski

Paul Walker
as Hank Hansen

Robert Patrick
as Colonel Chandler Johnson

Neal McDonough
as Captain Severance
r96sk
A nicely crafted war film. I wasn't overly invested in what was happening onscreen, but that doesn't take away from the fact that I still found <em>'Flags of Our Fathers'</em> to be a very good and a very interesting story from the Battle of Iwo Jima. It's a fascinating tale that it tells, whi...