Flags of Our Fathers TOP 10

There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945. Flags of Our Fathers is the story of three of the six surviving servicemen, John Doc Bradley (Ryan Phillippe), Pvt. Rene Gagnon (Jesse Bradford), and Pvt. Ira Hayes (Adam Beach), who fought in the battle to take Iwo Jima. Flags of Our Fathers is the American viewpoint of Eastwood's diptych on the battle of Iwo Jima, the other being Letters From Iwo Jima