DUNKIRK, France — It is synonymous with the largest military evacuation of allied forces in World War II, but Dunkirk is now facing a new human drama. This time there are few heroes. In woodland ...

The French are furious over a new historical movie that, they say, diminishes their country’s role in a World War II evacuation. “Dunkirk,” the Christopher Nolan-directed film that hit theaters last ...

Two of the many small boats which helped to bring the Allied troops in the emergency evacuation across the English Channel from Dunkirk, France, are shown on June 4, 1940 in World War II. A dense ...

Rollo Tomasi is a Connecticut-based film critic, TV show critic, news, and editorial writer. He will have a MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University in 2025. Rollo has written over 700 film, ...

Christopher Nolan's relentless World War II drama Dunkirk is in theaters this weekend, telling a fictional story of the very real British defeat against Nazi Germany in France and subsequent retreat ...

War movies tend to depict the battles a nation wins—not the ones it loses. So with a blockbuster Hollywood movie on Dunkirk hitting the silver screen this July, one would think that Dunkirk was a ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: Germany dithered, and the British got away. War movies tend to depict the battles a nation wins—not the ones it loses. So with a blockbuster Hollywood movie on Dunkirk ...

As an epic World War II film, Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk has the booming, action-filled moments and sense of scale you'd expect. But even in faithfully recreating the most grandiose aspects of the ...

The latest movie by Christopher Nolan features stars like Tom Hardy, Oscar-winner Mark Rylance, and Cillian Murphy — but when you leave the theater after watching “Dunkirk” (opens July 21), one of the ...