Best Director nominee Clint Eastwood's charged companion piece to his "Flags of Our Fathers" is a poignant and impressive deconstruction of the World War II battle from the perspective of the ...

More than 40 reels of combat footage were used to bring to life the bloodiest conflict in the history of the US Marine Corps in this PBS film about the World War II battle for Iwo Jima Documenting ...

Sands of Iwo Jima This is a vast saga [by Harry Brown] of a marine platoon whose history is traced from its early combat training through its storming of Iwo Jima's beaches to the historic flag ...

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 ...