To the Shores of Iwo Jima
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| Produced by | Milton Sperling |
| Edited by | Rex Steele |
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| Distributed by | United Artists |
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Running time | 20 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
To the Shores of Iwo Jima is a 1945 Kodachrome color short war film produced by the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps. It documents the Battle of Iwo Jima, and was the first time that American audiences saw in color the footage of the famous flag raising on Iwo Jima.
Overview
[edit | edit source]The film follows the servicemen through the battle in rough chronological order, from the bombardment of the island by warships and carrier-based airplanes to the final breakdown of resistance. Although it shows the taking of Mount Suribachi, it then switches to the footage of the second flag raising.
The film ends by acknowledging the 4,000 who had died in the month-long battle, and tells the audience that their deaths were not in vain, showing a bomber aircraft taking off from the island for a mission over Japan.
Production notes
[edit | edit source]Four cameramen, including USMC Sgt. Bill Genaust (who shot the flag raising sequence), were killed in action. Ten other camera operators were wounded.
It was partially filmed in Wildwood Regional Park in Thousand Oaks, California.[1][2]
Award nominations
[edit | edit source]The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.[3][4]
Film
[edit | edit source]See also
[edit | edit source]- List of Allied Propaganda Films of World War 2
- List of films in the public domain in the United States
References
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External links
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- To the Shores of Iwo Jima on YouTube — digitally scanned by the National Archives and Records Administration
- Watch To the Shores of Iwo Jima at the National Archives and Records Administration
- To the Shores of Iwo Jima at IMDbLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- To the Shores of Iwo Jima is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive
- 1945 films
- American short documentary films
- Battle of Iwo Jima films
- American World War II propaganda shorts
- Films about the United States Marine Corps
- American black-and-white films
- Warner Bros. short films
- 1945 short documentary films
- Japan in non-Japanese culture
- Pacific War films
- 1940s English-language films
- 1940s American films
- English-language short documentary films
- English-language war films
- World War II documentary film stubs