Gran Torino. Directed by Clint Eastwood. Written by Nick Schenk. With Clint Eastwood, Bee Vang, Ahney Her and Christopher Carley. (2008). An Unlikeable Racist Learns to Live Again You don’t often see a movie about a bitter, unrepentant old racist coot.

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Flags of Our Fathers (2006). Directed by Clint Eastwood. Written by William Broyles, Jr. and Paul Haggis. Clint Eastwood’s Flags of Our Fathers, the first of two films the director made about the Battle for Iwo Jima, focuses its lens on a small group of GI’s who fought there and raised the flag on that barren island. It is also the story of how the famous photo of that flag being planted became part of American myth.

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