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Released
2006 · FILM

Flags of Our Fathers

A Navy medic and a band of Marines fight their way up Mount Suribachi under heavy fire during the brutal Battle of Iwo Jima, where their iconic flag-raising becomes a symbol of sacrifice and unity in the Pacific Theater of WWII.

“A single shot can end the war.”

Directed by
Clint Eastwood, Katie Carroll
Written by
William Broyles Jr, Paul Haggis
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
135 min
ActionAdventureDrama
Streaming on
  • Fubo

Synopsis

The iconic photograph of five Marines and one Navy Corpsman raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi on February 23, 1945, was captured by Joe Rosenthal. The image became one of the most recognizable symbols of World War II. The story focuses on three of the six surviving servicemen depicted in the photograph: John "Doc" Bradley, Private Rene Gagnon, and Private Ira Hayes, all of whom had fought in the battle to capture the Japanese-held island of Iwo Jima.

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The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 373+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Joel CoxShot by Tom SternScored by Clint EastwoodDesigned by Henry BumsteadSound by Bub AsmanCostumes by Deborah Hopper

Box Office

2006 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.7× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$65.9M

Budget$90.0M
Worldwide gross$65.9M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $33.6M — 51% of worldwide · International: $32.3M (49%)

Opening weekend: $10.2M — 30% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $13.6M — 40% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,876 theaters

Full synopsis

Also known as

  • Flags Of Our Fathersde
  • (English)Flags of Our Fathers
  • Mémoires de nos pèresfr
  • (Bulgarian)Знамената на бащите ни
Release dates around the world3 countries · show
  • United StatesOct 9, 2006
  • CanadaOct 20, 2006
  • JapanOct 21, 2006

Companies

ProductionDreamWorks Pictures, Warner Bros., Amblin Entertainment

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