Flags of Our Fathers

A single shot can end the war.

A somber, historically grounded examination of three soldiers haunted by the iconic Iwo Jima photograph and the gap between heroic myth and traumatic reality.

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.