Fact-based fiction ruled this year's National Board of Review selections as Clint Eastwood's Japan-centric World War II drama "Letters From Iwo Jima" took home best film of the year honors.

Clint Eastwood’s World War II drama “Letters From Iwo Jima” -- a recollection of the famed 1945 battle told from the Japanese perspective -- was named best movie of the year Sunday by the ...

Retropolis A Marine captured the famous Iwo Jima flag-raising on film. The original hasn’t been seen in 75 years. The recording of the scene on Mount Suribachi was sent to a lab in Washington in ...

Amazon Prime fans have been blown away by a war film which has been hailed as a "masterpiece". Letters from Iwo Jima, released in 2006, follows Japanese soldiers who fought during the Battle of ...

Most of the cameramen on Iwo Jima used 100-foot film reels that could capture about two and a half minutes of film. Sgt. Genaust, who shot the color sequence atop Suribachi, shot at least 25 reels ...

Sands of Iwo Jima also went down as one of the movie star’s most iconic movies, as well as a substantial feature film about war. The ‘Sands of Iwo Jima’ cast avoided John Wayne after ...

Lots of Iwo Jima tour videos out there, but most are low production quality and don’t go that in-depth about the battle. This video had great production value and allowed me to learn a lot more ...

While the Japanese-centric companion piece Letters from Iwo Jima received critical acclaim and was a hit at the box office, it was his film exploring the 1945 Battle of Iwo Jima from the American ...

His film was taken by another Marine to a lab just days after the battle of Iwo Jima, but “appears to have gotten lost in a trans-ocean, cross-country bureaucratic and technical mix-up ...

Once in life, a second time in death, Pfc. Ira Hayes — World War II veteran, Iwo Jima flag-raiser, Pima Indian — ran head-on into the homefront propaganda machine. He wasn’t the first, but ...