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''Flags Of Our Fathers'' is a 2006 ClintEastwood film depicting the Battle of Iwo Jima, particularly [[IwoJimaPose the famous planting of the flag]] on Mount Suribachi, as well as the post-battle and post-war struggles of the three men who raised the flag as they are turned into a propaganda agent by the U.S. press. It was released jointly with ''LettersFromIwoJima'', its POVSequel.
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!!This film contains examples of:
* TheAlcoholic: Ira, Rene also became one in real life.
* AnachronicOrder: Although the underlying plotlines are chronological, the film utilizes a great deal of {{flashback}}s, {{flash forward}}s, and even flashbacks-within flashbacks to the arrival to and battle at Iwo Jima, resulting in the entire film playing out like this.
* AFateWorseThanDeath: It's arguable that the surviving flag raisers had it worse off than the ones who died in battle. Ira can never escape his unwanted fame and PTSD and becomes an alcoholic, while Rene lives the rest of his life as a high school janitor.
* DownerEnding: The flag raisers who weren't killed in the fighting basically have their lives ruined. Only one character gets a decent ending.
* FakeUltimateHero: Deconstructed with the three men. They all willingly admit that They did nothing heroic and merely survived and are clearly uncomfortable with the level of press They get praising Them as heroes. But They have to pretend anyway to raise money for the war effort. Ira takes it especially badly, becoming a washed-up Alcoholic.
* GoryDiscretionShot: We never actually what was inflicted on Iggy but rather base it on Doc's reaction.
** Iggy was a real-life person whose full name was Ralph Ignatowski. He has [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Ignatowski his own Wikipedia article]] which details the poor man's final fate.
* ImperialJapan: The film's antagonists.
* IwoJimaPose: The original photo of the Marines who planted the flag during this battle is a significant part of the film's plot, so yeah.
* JadedWashout: Ira and Rene.
* KillEmAll: Of the six men captured in the flag raising photo, three are killed during fighting on Iwo Jima. Of the remaining three, one dies of alcholism less then ten years later, and the other two die of old age.
* ObligatoryWarCrimeScene: The bayoneting and setting on fire of Japanese soldiers.
* PropagandaMachine: Tokyo Rose. The American press as well.
* SnipeHunt: Provides one of the few lighthearted moments in the film. A higher-ranking Marine asks the others in his group if they have their Masturbation Papers in order, and when one Marine (presumably the one who isn't in on the joke) says he doesn't, he's told to run and ask for them, because if he doesn't get them he can't ship out.
* TokyoRose: Under her true but less well known pseudonym "Orphan Ann".
* WarIsHell: All three men are scarred by their experiences, even unto old age.
** BlessedWithSuck: In one particularly cringe-inducing scene, a family of tourists gets Ira Hayes's supervisor to call him over to shake hands with them and show him off like a trick-pony, after which the father hands Hayes a dollar.)
* YanksWithTanks: The film's protagonists.
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