In June 1940, as British forces celebrated the miracle of Dunkirk, one division was left behind to face the full force of the German advance. The 51st Highland Division, trapped near the French port ...

Nine months after World War II began, the German Nazi war machine drove French, British, and Belgian troops west across France into a town on the English Channel’s coast, called Dunkirk. By late May ...

Filmmaker Christopher Nolan, the British director and sole writer of this film about 400,000 men trapped on a beach in Dunkirk, France, with their backs to the sea in 1940, goes away from his “Dark ...

A fleet of 66 'little ships' is set to sail from Ramsgate to the French port to commemorate the 85th anniversary of Operation Dynamo. From 26 May to 4 June 1940, about 1,000 vessels sailed through ...

Director Christopher Nolan confers with actor Kenneth Branagh while on location during the filming of Dunkirk; (Photo: Melinda Sue Gordon/Warner Bros.) This is how obsessed Christopher Nolan has been ...

In 1940 thousands of Allied troops were surrounded, with water on one side & Nazis everywhere else. They needed a miracle, and they got one.