- In 2014, moviegoerssaw the inspiring story

of Louis Zamperini,

an Olympic runner whobecame a prisoner of war.

That film ended shortly

after Louis returned home from Japan.

Now, the sequel to that movetells the rest of his story.

Here's a sneak peak atUnbroken, Path to Redemption.

(solemn music)

- Bless you Louis, welcome home.

All of Torrance was prayingfor your safe return.

- Miracles didn't save me, Padre.

A couple of atomic bombs did that.

(laughing)

- You're Louis Zamperini, aren't you?

Thank you.

- For what?

- For preserving the freeworld for silly girls like me.

- People from all overthe country wanna know

if you're going to runin the London Olympics.

- [Louis] I don't runto run, and run to win.

I just thought I'd beable to forget everything.

- [Male] Are you having anynight sweats or nightmares?

- You need help?

- Here tonight, there's a drowning man,

but there's a lifeline.

Just reach out.

- Those men did terrible things to you.

What are you gonna say to them?

- Joining us now is Will Graham,

one of the actors in Unbroken.

Will plays the part ofBilly Graham who just

so happened to be Will's grandfather.

Welcome.

- Oh, well thank you so much.

- Nice to have you here.

Was this your first acting opportunity?

- My first and probably my last.

(laughing)

- What was it like for you?

- It was real nerve-wracking,'cause I'm a preacher.

This is not something I went looking for.

This is, I was--

- It came to you?- It came to me,

and I prayed about it,because this is something,

a decision that my granddaddyhad to make in 1949.

- Yeah.- Because the movie people

all came after him.

We want you to be in movies.- Yeah.

- And he said, no, and now I'm actually,

was thinking about it andso I had to pray about it

and the Lord gave me peace about it,

so I made a decision to the movie.

And I'm grateful for the experience

but it was nerve-wracking.

- History repeating itself, huh?

- A little bit.

- In the movie, we seeLouis returning from Japan.

What was life like for him after that?

It wasn't exactly happily ever after.

- No, and that's wherethe first movie ends.

Everything looks good.

He hugs his mom--

- Yeah.- his dad--

- Welcome home.- his family.

You get welcome home and it's,you think everything is fine.

But what we know today is PTSD.

- Yes.- And Louis

starts self-medicating using alcohol.

- Yeah.- And that's how he was trying

to get rid of these nightmares.

He had nightmares every nightwith the man who tortured

him while he was a prisoner of war.

- Wow.- His name was the Bird.

That was his nickname, the Bird,

and the Bird would torture him

and he had all these nightmares and so,

but he was trying to get by with alcohol.

He thought maybe love was it.

He got married, married abeautiful lady from Florida.

They moved back to California.

They had a child together.

He was trying to get back into running,

but that came to an end.

His leg broke and hecouldn't do it any more.

All this was compoundinghis problem and so his life

was broken to fully.

It was out of desperation thathe would go hear my granddad.

- My dad fought in the second world war,

and I think you're rightthat we didn't know PTSD

when these men returned from action

and many of them suffered the kinds of,

not as deeply perhaps as Louis did,

but just from the things that they saw

and society didn't always understand that.

In the movie, his wife, Cynthia,

is really kind of the heroine of the--

Tell us about her role.

- She is and she grew upwith a religious background

and Louis was more of a skeptic,

a cynic when it came to religion.

But her marriage was falling apart

and she was gonna divorce him.

She said, "I can't do this, Louis."

"I'm gonna seek for a divorce"

and he didn't wanna divorce his wife.

But he realized deep downinside he was the problem.

He didn't know how to fix the problem.

- Yeah.- He didn't know how

to fix himself, so she wentout of desperation to a friend.

He's the real hero.

A friend said, "come withus to hear Billy Graham."

- Wow.- And so, you gotta remember,

you say today, welleverybody knows Billy Graham.

1949, nobody knew Billy Graham.

- Yeah.

- Billy Graham was a nobody.

So she would go andgive her life to Christ

and she came back and said,

`"Louis, I'm not gonna divorce ya."

- Wow.- And he was so touched,

it softened his heart,

that he was willing togo one of the next times

that she would ask that he would say,

"yes, I'll go."

- So is that how he andyour grandfather connected

with each other?

- Yes, it was in 1949 afterhe gave his life to Christ.

- Wow.- Now there was thousands

of people that would end upgiving their life to Christ,

but there was three famous people

that would come to know Christ.

One was Stuart Hamblin.

Stuart Hamblin was kingof radio on the West Coast

and he would come to know Christ.

A man named Jim Voss.

Jim Vaus was the wiretapper for Mickey Cohen,

the mobster, LA mobster.

- Wow.- And he would,

and Jim Vaus would take mygranddaddy to meet Mickey Cohen,

trying to lead him to Christ.

Now Mickey wouldn't come to know Christ

at that time but then, later on,

we see that Louis Zamperiniwould come to know Christ.

It was a great story of howso many lives were changed

but in particularly, those three people.

- Coming to Christ wasthe initial changing point

of Louis' life, but forgiveness was--

- That was the best partof the whole movie to me.

- That's what gave him freedom. (laughing)

- It did.

And Louis always said he didn't know

what God did in His life.

That was in 1949.

Later on, he would go to Sugamo Prison--

- Yes.- Sugamo Prison in Japan

to face the same men that had captured him

and tortured him.

- [Terry] What was that like for him?

- For him, this was a moment of test.

If I can forgive these people,

then I know that God's truly forgiven me.

- Wow.- And so, it was a God test,

'cause he didn't knowif this was just emotion

that he'd been riding on.

- Yes.- But this is gonna

be the real test of his faith

if he could look at thosemen that did all these

bad things to him, if he could turn around

and love them and forgive them.

- Yeah.- And he said when

he first saw 'em, his heart melted.

And he said that he knew forsure what God did back in

1949 changed his life.

- Wow.- And so,

that was the proof in the pudding--

- Yeah.- You might say,

at what took place.

- So it wasn't justfreedom from the hatred

that he had felt or theanger that had been in him,

but really, freedom tounderstand how forgiven he was,

in the process.- It was.

To me, it's the greateststory of forgiveness

outside of the Bible.

- Yeah.- It's one

of the greatest stories of forgiveness

and that's why I'm so grateful to just

have a small part in this film

and grateful of the storyof how God used Billy Graham

and Louis Zamperini atone moment in history.

- [Terry] Why do you thinkforgiveness is so powerful?

- Well, there's so manypeople looking for it today.

I saw a study the other day that,

I think it was at one ofthe Ivy League schools.

I wanna say Princeton,it may not be Princeton,

but one of these Ivy League schools

and the number one class,it was a study on happiness,

trying to find happiness,

and so many people arelooking for happiness,

joy in life, but yet, they'vegot guilt in their life.

They don't know how toget rid of this guilt.

They want to experiencehappiness but they're not

because they're carrying

- Yeah.around guilt and sin

in their life.

Until they understand thatyou can get rid of sin

through the power of theblood of Jesus Christ,

and that's the only way, andthat's what Louis found out.

It was only through, itwasn't through alcohol,

it wasn't through money or running,

it was through forgiveness,what Christ forgave in him,

that he was able to forgive others.

And so that was one ofthe most important lessons

for Louis and for so manypeople in today's world too.

- You preach like a Graham. (laughing)

- Well, a little bit.

- Well, you're Franklin's son,

your grandfather wasthe famous Billy Graham.

He passed away not long ago.

How's your family doing?

- I appreciate you asking.

You know, we miss him.

- I'm sure.- We miss my granddaddy

and he was a great staple and we love him.

We call him Daddy Bill.

That's his grandchildren,that's what we call him .

And we miss Daddy Bill.

- Yes.- The world lost Billy Graham,

but we lost our grandfather.

- [Terry] Yeah.

But he'll be forever with us.

- And we'll see him again.- He has a great legacy.

Amen, Amen.

So wonderful to have you hereand to hear about the movie.

That whets people'sappetite to go and see it.

We appreciate your being with us, Will.

- Thank you so much.- Thank you so much.

I wanna mention to all ofyour that the movie, Unbroken,

Path to Redemption, hitstheaters all across America

on September the 14th.

It's rated PG-13, so make sureto check your local listings

for both time and locations.

And Will, again, greatto have you with us.

- I thank you.

- Bless you.