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", which tells the same story from the Japanse point of view.
Elenco: Ryan Phillippe , Adam Beach , Jesse Bradford , John Benjamin Hickey , John Slattery , Barry Pepper , Jamie Bell , Paul Walker , Robert Patrick , Neal McDonough , Melanie Lynskey , Chris Bauer , Gordon Clapp , Judith Ivey , Joseph Cross , Benjamin Walker , Alessandro Mastrobuono , Stark Sands , Ann Dowd , Beth Grant , Brian Kimmet , Jason Gray-Stanford , David Rasche , James Newman , Beth Tapper .