Flags of Our Fathers

2006 · Movies · 2h 15m · Drama, History

bleak

Major character dies

Downer ending

Ends on a twist

Addiction or relapse

How it ends

Ira Hayes dies from exposure after struggles with alcoholism, while Doc Bradley reveals he wasn't in the famous photo.

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Overview

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.