Unbroken movie billboards...

These days when Angelina Jolie isn't raising her massive brood with her husband Brad Pitt, or starring in blockbuster movies like Maleficent or Salt, she's directing World War II prisoner of war epics like Unbroken.

This holiday season she'll bring the true story of 'Louis Zamperini', an Olympic runner captured by Japanese forces during World War II, to the big screen to battle the likes of big screen musicals and blockbuster sequels.

Jack O'Connell stars as the son of Italian immigrants who ran in the 1936 Berlin Olympics and enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Forces.

'Louie' crashed in the Pacific Ocean and survived adrift for 47 days with two crewmates before Japanese troops took him to a POW camp, where he endured brutal treatment at the hands of the guards for more than two years until the end of the war.

These evocative and striking billboards certainly give a sense of what the period movie is about, from the crashing airplane over water, to the perseverance of a malnourished and dirty prisoner of war refusing to give up as he holds a wooden beam above his head as part of some sadistic trial from his captors.

It's powerful and intriguing imagery that catches your eye and works perfectly with the film's title.

These billboards were photographed around the streets of L.A. from November 29 to December 4, 2014, with giant billboards along Highland and Franklin Avenues in Hollywood and towering over Wilshire Boulevard in Westwood.

Obviously this compelling WWII drama is getting some impressive advertising support, but can the indomitable spirit of its subject matter shine through over alternative Christmas comedy and musical cinematic fare like The Interview, Into the Woods, Big Eyes and Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb.

UPDATED: Here's also a standard landscape version of the airplane creative snapped at the busy intersection of Olympic and La Cienega Boulevards on December 8, 2014.

Plus if you loved the movie, be sure to check out Jack O'Connell's WWII bombardier costume from Unbroken on display.