Milton SperlingTo the shores of Iwo Jima (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 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.
This item is part of the collection: Feature Films
Producer:
Milton Sperling
Production Company:
U.S. Government Office of War Information
Audio/Visual:
sound,
color
Keywords: WWII; Marine Corps; Iwo Jima
Contact Information:
www.k-otic.com
Creative Commons license:
Public Domain
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Subject: Running time
Running time is 47 min.