UNBROKEN
HBO, 8:00 p.m. ET
The Laura Hillenbrand biography upon which this 2014 movie is based was a wonderful, well-researched read. The movie version, directed by Angelina Jolie and with a screenplay whose collaborators include Joel and Ethan Coen and Richard LaGravenese, is dramatic and earnest – though not, in some sections, as vividly wrenching as the original author’s powerful prose about Louis Zamperini, whose stories as a competitive runner, a WWII fighter plane crewman and a prisoner of war are individually gripping, and collectively amazing and inspiring. Jack O’Connell portrays Zamperini, with composer and actor Miyavi as Zamperini’s cruel Japanese captor.