iwojima Milton Sperling movies feature_films moviesandfilms An Academy Award nominee for Best Documentary, this 20 minute Technicolor production unfolds with graphic energy the nearly month long battle for Iwo Jima, a volcanic island lying 700 miles southeast of Japan, in which 20000 Japanese and nearly 7000 American fighting men were killed, a struggle eternalized by Joe Rosenthal's photograph of five Marines and a Navy corpsman raising a giant U.S. flag atop 550 foot high Mt. Suribachi, cinematically captured here in this well-edited (by Warner Bros.) effort. 1945 1945 WWII; Marine Corps; Iwo Jima http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/ 2007-07-21 11:40:09 2007-07-21 11:38:40 josef_schrantz@freenet.de k-otic akb k-otic 2007-07-21 11:46:00 2007-07-25 15:27:50 2007-08-22 20:03:52 k-otic U.S. Government Office of War Information sound color 47 min www.k-otic.com 2008-02-29 19:46:46 k-otic