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UK Brown on Resolution: Walter Forde Anthony Asquith: Story of heroism in the Navy during World War I. A captain's illegitimate son holds a German cruiser at bay with a rifle. D 1935 US The Dark Angel: Sidney A. Franklin: After being blinded in WW1, a man disappears and becomes a famous author. Thinking he's dead, the girl he loves marries his ...
Dunkirk is a 1958 British war film directed by Leslie Norman that depicts the Dunkirk evacuation of World War II, and starring John Mills, Richard Attenborough, and Bernard Lee. [4] [5] The film is based on the novels The Big Pick-Up by Elleston Trevor and Dunkirk co-authored by Lt Col Ewan Butler and Major J. S. Bradford. [6]
War. German sailors save Spanish civilians at the beginning of the Civil War 1938 Mexico Refugees in Madrid: Refugiados en Madrid: Alejandro Galindo: Drama, Romance, War. Refugees in Madrid 1938–39 France Spain Days of Hope or Man's Hope: Espoir: Sierra de Teruel: Boris Peskine André Malraux: Drama, War.
These are depictions of diverse aspects of war in film and television, including but not limited to documentaries, TV mini-series, drama serials, and propaganda film.The list starts before World War I, followed by the Roaring Twenties, and then the Great Depression, which eventually saw the outbreak of World War II in 1939, which ended in 1945.
The Dunkirk Jack, flown only by civilian ships that participated in the Dunkirk evacuation. The Little Ships of Dunkirk were about 850 private boats [1] that sailed from Ramsgate in England to Dunkirk in northern France between 26 May and 4 June 1940 as part of Operation Dynamo, helping to rescue more than 336,000 British, French, and other Allied soldiers who were trapped on the beaches at ...
Evacuees fleeing Hurricane Rita in Texas, United States. This list of mass evacuations includes emergency evacuations of a large number of people in a short period of time. An emergency evacuation is the movement of persons from a dangerous place due to the threat or occurrence of a disastrous event whether from natural or man made causes, or as the result of war
A wide variety of small vessels from all over the south of England were pressed into service to aid in the Dunkirk evacuation. They included speedboats, Thames vessels, car ferries, pleasure craft, and many other types of small craft. [113] The most useful proved to be the motor lifeboats, which had a reasonably good capacity and speed. [113]
Phillis (2004) — Evacuation of British citizens from Ivory Coast. Providence (2003) — French codename for evacuation of French and foreign civilians from Monrovia during Second Liberian Civil War. Sharp Edge (1990–1991) — Evacuation of Americans from Liberia. Shining Express (2003) — Evacuation of Americans from Liberia.