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Our American Stories

Louis Zamperini: The Story of the Real-Life "Unbroken" Hero -- In His Own Words

Our American Stories

iHeartPodcasts

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.6817 Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Our American Stories, our next story was made into a 2014 motion picture directed by Angelina Jolie and based on the 2010 non-fiction book by Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption. While some of the most remarkable parts of Louis Zamperini’s story were left out of the film, you'll hear them in this piece—from the man himself.

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:04.5

Adventure should never come with a pause button.

0:07.1

Remember Movie Pass?

0:08.4

All the movies you wanted for just nine bucks?

0:11.1

I'm Bridget Todd, host of There Are No Girls on the Internet.

0:13.9

And this season, I'm digging into the tech stories we weren't told.

0:17.4

Starting with Stacey Spikes, the black founder of movie pass who got pushed out of the company

0:21.6

he built.

0:22.8

Everybody's trying to knock you down and it's not going to work and no one's going to like it.

0:27.3

And then boom, it's everywhere.

0:29.3

And that was that moment.

0:30.7

Listen to there are no girls on the internet on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast.

0:45.0

Yeah. or wherever you get your podcast. This is Lee Habib, and this is Our American Stories, the show where America is the star and the American people.

0:53.5

And we love our listener stories. Send them to

0:56.5

Our American Stories.com. That's Our American Stories.com. They're some of our favorites.

1:03.0

Our next story was made into a 2014 motion picture directed by Angelina Jolie, based on the 2010

1:10.5

nonfiction book by Laura Hillenbrand Unbroken,

1:14.7

a World War II story of survival, resilience, and redemption.

1:19.8

While some of the most remarkable parts of Zamperini's story were left out of the film,

1:25.0

you will be hearing them told now by the man himself.

1:29.4

We'd like to thank the folks at Vision Video for giving us access to the footage you're

1:34.1

about to hear. Check out their selection of 1900 video titles of uplifting, family-friendly

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