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Podcast: Beyond the Crucible
Episode: Big Screen, Big Crucibles I: Unbroken
Description: Big Screen, Big Crucibles I: UnbrokenWe kick off our eight-part summer series — BIG SCREEN, BIG CRUCIBLES — this week with a look at the remarkable life of Louie Zamperini, whose true story of overcoming several devastating crucibles is told in the film UNBROKEN.The movie depicts him as an Olympic athlete, an air force bombardier adrift in a life boat for 47 days during World War II and a prisoner of war brutalized by his captors in Japanese prisoner of war camps.How does he survive? By living out the advice his brother game him when they were both boys...