Letters From Iwo Jima

Clint Eastwood's companion film to "Flags of Our Fathers," a thoughtful portrait of the battle of Iwo Jima, is a sympathetic look at a military culture at war with itself, as well as the soldiers sacrificed to notions of honor that seem alien today. An American film shot almost entirely in Japanese, it earned a surprising four Oscar nominations (including Best Film, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay) and even better reviews than "Flags." It's almost a mirror to that film, putting the audience into the suffocating caves alongside the soldiers and officers of a doomed army facing certain defeat. Eastwood proves himself a powerful and compassionate storyteller who values all human life sacrificed to the war machine, not merely those under the flag of our fathers. Supplements on the two-disc set include three featurettes, including the 21-minute production overview "Red Sun, Black Sand: The Making of 'Letters From Iwo Jima.'" Also available in separate Blu-ray and HD DVD editions. The first half of Eastwood's Iwo Jima diptych, "Flags of Our Fathers," is also rereleased in a new two-disc edition with six new featurettes and a new introduction by Clint Eastwood.