The Outsider (1961)

Ira Hayes a young Pima Indian enlists in the Marine Corps At boot camp he is shunned and mocked by everyone aside from a Marine named Sorenson who he befriends They happen to be two of the six marines captured in the famous photograph of Marines raising the US flag on Suribachi during the battle of Iwo Jima but Sorenson is killed soon after Although he is hailed as a hero Iras life begins to spiral out of control after the war