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Flags of Our Fathers is a american film of genre Drama directed by Clint Eastwood released in USA on 19 october 2006 with Ryan Phillippe
Flags of Our Fathers (2006)
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Add to a movie listFlags 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.
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.
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As three US servicemen - Marine Private First Class Ira Hayes, Private First Class Rene Gagnon, and Navy Corpsman John "Doc" Bradley - are feted as heroes in a war bond drive, they reflect on their experiences via flashback.Actors
Ryan Phillippe
(John 'Doc' Bradley)
Jesse Bradford
(Rene Gagnon)
Adam Beach
(Ira Hayes)
John Benjamin Hickey
(Keyes Beech)
John Slattery
(Bud Gerber)
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