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Summary Of The Movie 'Unbroken'

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Unbroken is reasonably effective for teaching Canadian 20th century history. Much of the back story on Louie Zamperini is unrelated to the course and despite being for the most part accurate; irrelevant to Canadian 20th century history as a whole. Despite this, the majority of the movie relates nicely to World War Two. The opening scene among others shows a B-24 Liberator flying a combat mission. Based off of old photographs the plan used in the movie seems extremely accurate. These air combat scenes give students a snapshot of what the air battles looked like in WWII. After this the movie shows scenes when Zamperini and the other survivors are lost at sea. While this section of the movie is not overly relevant or useful it does show the

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