Sunday, November 15 on 4
Network Premiere. The first in Clint Eastwood's diptych of films (the second, Letters from Iwo Jima , follows straight after) about the bloody battle for Iwo Jima during World War II follows the story of three of the six marines who appeared in the iconic photograph raising the Stars and Stripes on the Pacific island. As the three marines (played by Ryan Phillippe, Jesse Bradford and Adam Beach) are feted at home as heroes, flashbacks reveal the bloody truth of the battle against an enemy that fought to the last man and the ambiguity the survivors feel about being hailed as heroes when they left so many comrades behind
