These war movies are a reminder that, while the Oscars sometimes get it wrong, they get it right just as often.

Veterans of World War II describe their experiences of the retreat to Dunkirk in 1940 and the evacuation On 10 May the German Army invaded Holland and Belgium The Blitzkrieg had begun an entirely ...

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We’ve had two biopics of Churchill in the last 12 months and a spectacular movie about Dunkirk, but none of them really captures the peril Britain was in – and none of them adequately frames ...

"Dunkirk" writer/director Nolan previously told ... I wanted to avail myself of the best-possible actors. Branagh anchors the movie with a sense of authority the audience taps into." ...

Movies: Dunkirk, Bombers and the Bombed, Evacuees, Secret Army, D-Day In June 1940, the British Expeditionary Force and the remnants of the French army were trapped in a pocket around the port of ...

May/June 1940. Four hundred thousand British and French soldiers are holed up in the French port town of Dunkirk. The only way out is via sea, and the Germans have air superiority, bombing the ...

Powerful myths and misconceptions have shaped our understanding of the moment which changed the course of WW2 - the evacuation at Dunkirk in 1940. But what really happened at Dunkirk and in the ...