3 real historical locations · Japan, Marshall Islands, Pacific Ocean
Based on Laura Hillenbrand's biography of Louis Zamperini — Olympic runner, B-24 bombardier, and crash survivor who spent 47 days on a life raft before Japanese capture and years of brutal imprisonment. Directed by Angelina Jolie, it is a story of extraordinary human endurance.
CinemaMapped has mapped 3 real historical locations where the story takes place, spanning Japan, Marshall Islands, Pacific Ocean.
Louis Zamperini and two crew members survive 47 days adrift on a rubber raft after their B-24 crashes in the Pacific.
Zamperini's 47 days on the raft set a world survival record at the time. He and Russell Phillips survived on rainwater, raw fish, and albatrosses they caught by hand. Zamperini had been an Olympic distance runner — hi...
View location →Zamperini is taken to Kwajalein — known among Allied prisoners as 'Execution Island' — before transfer to Japan.
Kwajalein was a major Japanese naval and air base. Allied POWs held there were used for medical experiments and subjected to severe beatings. The island was captured by US forces in February 1944 — one of the fastest ...
View location →Zamperini's final camp — where Sergeant Mutsuhiro 'The Bird' Watanabe subjects him to systematic torture.
Mutsuhiro Watanabe was placed on General MacArthur's most-wanted war criminals list. He evaded capture by hiding in rural Japan and was never prosecuted after a blanket amnesty in 1952. Zamperini later said he chose t...
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