Best portions of this pic are the straight battle sequences, many of which were made up of footage taken at the actual fighting at Tarawa and Iwo Jima. John Wayne stands head and shoulders above ...

Before becoming a movie star, John Wayne played the same role eight times in a Western franchise that ran for 51 films in the ...

John Wayne earned a 1949 Best Actor Academy Award nomination for one of his most iconic roles, as the battle-hardened leader of a squad of recruits, in Allan Dwan's SANDS OF IWO JIMA. Haunted by ...

Bruce Dern says he still gets hate mail for what he did to John Wayne on The Cowboys, with Duke telling him: "Oh how they're ...

Now, IMDb has ranked the very best John Wayne World War II movies, and Sands of Iwo Jima isn't even in the Top 3. " data-has-syndication-rights="1" data-portal-copyright="GETTY" data-licensor-name ...