Unbroken tells the incredible true story of Louis Zamperini and his years-long struggle as a prisoner of war. This is what really happened to him.
Unbroken follows the incredible true story of Louis "Louie" Zamperini , an American Olympic distance runner and lieutenant in World War II who spent four years as a prisoner of war in Japan. Zamperini's story is irresistibly inspirational, prompting the Coen brothers to write and Angelina Jolie to direct the movie Unbroken about his journey.
Zamperini finished 8th at the Olympics, but his final lap of 56 seconds set a record for the fastest lap in a 5,000-meter race. Notably, his fast finish was noticed from the stands by Adolf Hitler, who called Zamperini over to his stand and congratulated him on his speedy final lap. Unbroken, one of the Coen brothers' best-written movies, does not tell this entire story, but it does show Zamperini being pulled into running by his brother, and his famous finish at the Olympics.
Unbroken gets much of this terrible experience right, even depicting Zamperini and Phillips being located and captured by the Japanese Navy off the coast of the Marshall Islands. Unbroken does well to show how brutal the conditions were, but pacing restrictions prevented the film from conveying just how long 47 days at sea is.
Japanese POW camps in World War II were notoriously cruel, and Zamperini was treated even worse than the average prisoner because of his status as an Olympic athlete. During his time in these camps, Zamperini was constantly on the brink of starvation and was beaten severely. Despite that, POW Gregory "Pappy" Boyington revealed in his autobiography Baa Baa, Black Sheep that Zamperini wrote Italian recipes for his fellow prisoners to help keep their spirits up.
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