Dunkirk

IMDb link: 0051565
IMDb rating: 7.1 (3,931 votes)
Genres: Action, Drama, War, History
Director: John Mills, Richard Attenborough, Leslie Norman
Cast: Bernard Lee, Robert Urquhart and others

Release date: 10 Sep 1958
Release year: 1958
Runtime: 135 minutes
Country: United Kingdom
Keywords: encirclement, nazis invade france, operation dynamo, british military, escape, english channel, year 1940, dunkirk france, dunkirk, place name in title

Plot:

Two stories in one, an easygoing British Corporal in France finds himself responsible for the lives of his men when their officer is killed. He has to get them back to Britain somehow. Meanwhile, British civilians are being dragged into the war with Operation Dynamo, the scheme to get the French and British forces back from the Dunkirk beaches. Some come forward to help, others are less willing.

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