Movie Review
Delving into 'Dunkirk': the epic WW2 film everyone's talking about
Rosie Fiore reviews the movie, chats to director Christopher Nolan and shares a history lesson
23 July 2017 - 00:10
The real story behind the movie
You may have heard of the "Dunkirk spirit". But what actually happened in 1940? This is the astonishing series of events that inspired Christopher Nolan's film.
By May 1940, the Germans had invaded the Netherlands and Belgium and were moving across France in a "pincer" movement. The Allied forces retreated before them, and more than 400,000 members of the British Expeditionary Forces and other Allied troops were driven onto the beach in Dunkirk, a port in Northern France...
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