PLANO – It was a unique screening for a movie theater in Plano, showing the World War II movie "Unbroken" with those who experienced the real-life horror that inspired it in the audience.
Angelina Jolie directs the movie which depicts the violent reality inside a Japanese P.O.W. camp during WWII.
"It was so real, it physically affected me -- that's trouble," Fiske Hanley said of "Unbroken." He is a WWII U.S. Army veteran.
Hanley described a day when his B-29 aircraft went down over Japan in March of 1945. The movie, released on Christmas Day, brings that memory to life.
"The film is very realistic, the fact is it gives me flashbacks to when I was there," Hanley said. "The battle scenes and the prison scenes particularly. They were hard on me."
Hanley was held prisoner and awaited trial for war crimes. He was sure he wouldn't live.
Seventy years later, he's alive. Inside the Studio Movie Grill in Plano he once again becomes a young man in Japan.
"I think that all children and the public should know what really happened in a war like WWII," Hanley said.
Friday's screening part of a fundraiser benefiting the non-profit The Daughters of World War II, organized by the Kilroy's Conversation radio show on KVCE 1160 AM. Click here to visit the show's website.
