Sentences with phrase «survived in a raft»

Academy Award ® winner Angelina Jolie directs and produces Unbroken, an epic drama that follows the incredible life of Olympian and war hero Louis «Louie» Zamperini (Jack O'Connell) who, along with two other crewmen, survived in a raft for 47 days after a near - fatal plane crash in WWII - only to be caught by the Japanese Navy and sent to a prisoner - of - war camp.

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Researchers analyzed in detail a stunning 237 species that rafted to the western coast of North America on 2011 tsunami debris from Japan and survived the journey.

The plane crashes in the Pacific, with eight dead, and the resourceful Louis leads the way in trying to survive on a raft with two of his crew, the pilot Phil & the new gunner Mac (Domhnall Gleeson & Finn Wittrock).

Recounting the extraordinary life story of Louis Zamperini (played by Jack O'Connell, «Starred Up»)-- who ran for America in the 1936 Olympics, survived a plane crash during World War II, stayed afloat for 75 days on a life raft before forced internment in a series of Japanese POW camps — Jolie and company seem to be digging into the Spielberg playbook: The movie offers up sun - dappled nostalgia for Depression - era Southern California, harrowing wartime sequences, and even a shark attack, but it serves them all up with maximum efficiency.

Assigned to a rickety plane to conduct a search - and - rescue mission, he survived a crash in the south Pacific and spent the next 46 days in a life raft with two others, living on rain water, captured sea birds and raw fish.

That was this past year — 70 - odd years after he had participated in the Olympics, fought in World War II, survived being stranded on a raft at sea for 47 days, been tortured as a PoW for nearly two years in Japanese camps, and battled severe post-traumatic stress disorder to find God.

(That's why Indiana Jones can survive jumping out of an airplane with a rubber raft in one film but if he hides inside a refrigerator in another it's suddenly «unrealistic.»

Glass is desperate to protect his son, borne to a Pawnee mother killed during an English raid, right in front Glass» eyes, in the village wherein he spent what seems to be the best years of his life, and so he takes responsibility over the small surviving party (apparently led by Henry) and commands them to part with their raft fearing another ambush would follow should they continue floating that stream.

Surviving with the help of a life raft turned parachute, Indy, along with two tagalongs — lounge singer Willie Scott (Kate Capshaw) and young Short Round (Jonathan Ke Quan)-- skid down snow covered slopes, float along a river and end up unscathed and ready for a good meal in a poverty stricken village in India.

The film primarily focuses on Louis» life trying to survive on a flimsy raft and his days being brutally beaten in the POW camps.

His rigorous conditioning and perseverance as a track star, as well as his childhood of being bullied and ridiculed by his peers for being Italian, gave him the fortitude to go the distance during his days in World War II as an Air Force bombardier whose plane is shot down, forcing him and fellow soldiers to have to survive in a life raft in the middle of the Pacific Ocean for weeks.

Academy Award ® winner Angelina Jolie directs and produces this epic drama that follows the incredible life of Olympian and war hero Louis «Louie» Zamperini (Jack O'Connell) who, along with two other crewmen, survived on a raft for 47 days after a near - fatal plane crash in WWII — only to be caught by the Japanese navy and sent to a prisoner - of - war camp.

Joining the US air force as a bombardier prior to the attack on Pearl Harbour, he survived being shot down on a couple of occasions, the last time being when he and two crewmates spent 47 days adrift on open life - rafts in the Pacific, their ordeal ended when they were captured by the Japanese and another ordeal began.

Adrift in a small life - raft in shark - infested waters, Zamperini, together with a fellow crew member, (played by Domhnall Gleeson), miraculously survived for 47 days.

A FERAL LABRADOR RETRIEVER mix with no collar, no history and every appearance of surviving by his own devices in the desert crossed paths with Ted Kerasote while he was rafting down the San Juan river.