(1945) 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 20,000 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.
