Something rare in the history of war movies -- a case of a filmmaker from one country sympathetically telling a combat story from the perspective of a former enemy. The second installment in Clint ...

Sixty-three years after U.S. forces vanquished the Japanese and planted the Stars and Stripes atop Iwo Jima’s Mount Suribachi, the remote outpost in the Volcano Islands is the focus of another pitched ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Hiromasa Murakami went to see Clint Eastwood's "Letters from Iwo Jima" to find out if an American could tell the Japanese side of a battle that became a symbol of U.S. patriotism, ...

STORYLINE: The companion film of Clint Eastwood’s “Flags of Our Fathers,” “Letters” examines one of the last and bloodiest battles of World War II from the Japanese perspective. ABOUT THE SCRIPT: “I ...

Clint Eastwood, as William Munny, looking pensive, in Unforgiven. Credit: Image via Warner Bros. Even if Clint Eastwood had never directed a single movie, he'd still be something of a cinematic icon ...

A Marine with a remarkable combat record, wounded by bayonet on Guam and later shot on Iwo Jima, is recognized for his bravery and resilience with a promotion to Sergeant. His journey reflects ...

U.S. Marines raised an American flag on the Japanese island’s highest peak exactly 80 years ago. But the fighting, some of the deadliest of World War II, would rage on for a month. In Photos U.S.

One of the most memorable pictures from World War II was on the front page of the Feb. 25, 1945, Tulsa World -- a picture showing U.S. Marines planting an American flag on Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima ...