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Films about the Dunkirk evacuation (1940). Pages in category "Dunkirk evacuation films" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
The Dunkirk evacuation, codenamed Operation Dynamo and also known as the Miracle of Dunkirk, or just Dunkirk, was the evacuation of more than 338,000 Allied soldiers during the Second World War from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, in the north of France, between 26 May and 4 June 1940.
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]
You will find a number of those titles in this list of the 20 greatest Second World War films. ... Dunkirk (Christopher Nolan, 2017) ... Nolan’s retelling of the Dunkirk evacuation is a stunning ...
Dunkirk is a 2017 historical war thriller film written, directed, and co-produced by Christopher Nolan that depicts the Dunkirk evacuation of World War II from the perspectives of the land, sea, and air.
The locations of three boats used in the Dunkirk evacuation in the Second World War have been uncovered for the first time by a detailed survey of 30 shipwrecks off the French coast.
The Battle of Dunkirk (French: Bataille de Dunkerque) was fought around the French port of Dunkirk (Dunkerque) during the Second World War, between the Allies and Nazi Germany. As the Allies were losing the Battle of France on the Western Front , the Battle of Dunkirk was the defence and evacuation of British and other Allied forces to Britain ...
The film is a propaganda effort, made during the Second World War, that depicts the female owner (Ashcroft) of a yacht, the Wanderer, heading across the English Channel to help evacuate British troops from Dunkirk. [1] [2] Other ships referenced, as the larger vessels to which the civilian small craft are ferrying troops lifted from the beaches ...