Dunkirk (4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray) [4K UHD]

It's a dark time in WW II and the British, along with French troops have moved to Dunkirk in hopes of being evacuated to England. The movie is set with several different story lines, one being the events befalling young British soldiers who try their best to get away on one ship. When it is sunk, they end up back at Dunkirk.Another story line follows a man and his son, along with his son's friend, depart to Dunkirk to pick up some of the soldiers on their small boat. A third line follows members of the RAF shooting down any Germans flying over the groups of private boats sailing to pick up soldier at Dunkirk. Some are shot down, while one survives long enough to shoot down an enemy flier over the beaches of Dunkirk and becomes an instant hero, even though unknown.There are times you wish the movie wouldn't move away from the story line you're on. I occasionally found that annoying but then again, the story lines are so good, I really didn't mind when all was said and done. A good movie and it made me review history for that time to learn more about what was happening in France.I do hope we don't ever have another World War again.

Not on the grand scale of Oppenheimer, but it is still a really good movie. My only criticism was that unless you already knew something about Dunkirk and its significance, you might have a difficult time understanding how important it was to the future of Britain's success in WWII. However, I would still highly recommend it for its superb acting and excellent cinematography.

Dvd worked excellently, movie was great, especially for my nephew, who’s a WWII battle buff.

The Dunkirk evacuation was the evacuation of more than 338,000 Allied soldiers from the beaches and harbor of Dunkirk, in the north of France during the Second World War; The operation commenced after large numbers of Belgian, British, and French troops were cut off and surrounded by German troops during the six-week Battle of France.Dunkirk is a 2017 war film written, directed and produced by Christopher Nolan that depicts the Dunkirk evacuation of World War II through the perspectives of the land, sea and air.𝑨𝒍𝒍 𝒘𝒆 𝒅𝒊𝒅 𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒗𝒊𝒗𝒆.𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒕'𝒔 𝒆𝒏𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉.A story of peril and miraculous feats, 𝑫𝒖𝒏𝒌𝒊𝒓𝒌 started as a mere disturbance of peace. Having grown with both myths and stories tied to what is designated as the association of Dunkirk’s ‘little ships’, Nolan and his wife decided to sail across the English Channel in 1992 using the same route said ships had taken five decades prior. What was anticipated and designed to be a leisurely cruise ended up taking almost nineteen hours total owing to a run-in with rougher water than had been expected..With the Dunkirk evaluation happening over the course of ten days from May 26th to June 4th of 1940,Nolan’s attempt to transpose the alliance needed to pull it off successfully is presented in a non-linear fashion with varying amounts of time assigned to the different locations and perspectives in question. This technique’s effectiveness is debatable given the fact 𝑫𝒖𝒏𝒌𝒊𝒓𝒌 ultimately feels like the cinematic equivalent of one grueling day, with best guesses being that it takes place - or, at the very least, concludes - on June 4th if one uses the words transmitted by Churchill towards the end as a point of reference.Is 𝑫𝒖𝒏𝒌𝒊𝒓𝒌 historically accurate? This may not be the best question to ask, as the stretch of time in which the evacuation occurred invites a compository sketch of information known to be fact in combination witheyewitness accounts that Nolan came to find in Joshua Levine’s 𝑭𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒐𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒏 𝒗𝒐𝒊𝒄𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑫𝒖𝒏𝒌𝒊𝒓𝒌.Many of these ‘inaccuracies’ reach for a more attentive preservation of intervention provided by civilians, as is the case with 𝑫𝒖𝒏𝒌𝒊𝒓𝒌’s chapter simply titled ‘sea’ and reportedly occurring over the course of one full day. Ordered requisition of the ships manned by citizens like Mr. Dawson and his company started as early as the 14th of May as a preliminary measure, and a majority of them were manned by Naval personnel though a shortage of such persons led to a self-propelling of these crafts intermittently and at times without authorization to do so.For what it’s worth, Commander Bolton (as portrayed by Sir Kenneth Branagh) comes closest to having a real life counterpart, with a Captain William Tennant having oversaw the evacuation of men waiting on the beaches of Dunkirk from the day it began; the specificity of his duties prove less important to 𝑫𝒖𝒏𝒌𝒊𝒓𝒌’s screenplay given his tenacity was unmatched, as evidence by his refusal leave until the final ship departed from the area in question on the 2nd of June.Not one to skimp when it comes to architectural splendor, 𝑫𝒖𝒏𝒌𝒊𝒓𝒌 more impressively features set pieces due to impress even the most harcore of historians sans technical decisions made (IE, the color of specific aircrafts and a mass reduction in the number of people that would have otherwise been present in the opening beach scene, specifically) for the purposes of easy distinction between allies and enemy forces.Starting with location, shooting was originally set to take place off of the coast of England in Suffolk, however Nolan changed his mind upon visiting the location where the Dunkirk evacuation took place and was able to secure the permits (There being much more than usual!) needed to shoot there. Secondary to this, a majority of the occupied fleets are certified vintage: imported from museums and collections not in the immediate proximity (Some imported from the United States!), reconstructed using the original blueprints when such resources were available as was the case of ‘The Mole’, and created from scratch using photographs when real-life equivalents were nowhere to be found.(Sidenote, during the time in which 𝑫𝒖𝒏𝒌𝒊𝒓𝒌 occurs the titular location was in shambles, though its opening sequence would suggest the contrary. Neither Nolan or Crowley have commented on this set-related decision directly, but given how little their collaborations depend on the utilization of CGI this really shouldn’t be much of a surprise)Admittedly, at first it is hard not to think of 𝑫𝒖𝒏𝒌𝒊𝒓𝒌’s points of convergence as opportunistic and contrived between the sudden nature of head injuries that seem out of place and a question of buoyancy that distracts from the gravity of the evacuation on hand. Charitable building on this ties 𝑫𝒖𝒏𝒌𝒊𝒓𝒌 to the ramifications of warfare for those both actively serving and participating as active bystanders, and is especially applicable when the randomness of rescue at times is taken in to consideration.Lives lost without experience or maturity is seen in its fresh-faced cast who bring a poised somberness to emotionally charged scenarios with little hint of forcefulness or insincerity, and such praise extends to ‘actors’ who otherwise aren’t associated with the genre of drama or intensity of the subject matter.Obviously, there is a nuance missing, but one might do better to appreciate the refusal to synthesize periods of relief when chaos is clearly in abundance: perhaps even more-so when the risks associated with not being evacuated included but were not limited to imprisonment if captured by German service members and the depravity one was subjected to if so.If nothing else, this addition to Nolan’s collection reinforces his ability to read and placate to audience members with nichey interests albeit susceptible to alianting methods for the purposes of reeling in a larger scope of viewership.Sticklers in the name of non-fiction have expressed disappointment over some level of negligence and biased favoritism as the extent in which certain entities (Like the Royal Indian Service Corps) provided support of their own goes totally unaccounted for: not to mention systematic obstacles to being evacuated (Like the fact that the French military had no standing policy for being evacuated at the time) that would justify actions taken by characters in 𝑫𝒖𝒏𝒌𝒊𝒓𝒌 that in other contexts would be unscrupulous.No matter: Dunkirk’s ongoing legacy is in the knowledge that the failure to rescue approximately 338,000Allied soldiers would have almost certainly depleted Britain’s resources, and this secondarily would have made success on the European front far less likely; coupled with the likelihood that those saved from Dunkirk would likely be recycled through the theater of World War II, what we ultimately become privy to is gratitude for efforts given and those sacrificial in nature.

Awesome movie! Had a blast watching, never gets old and i've seen it 4 times.

Good movie 🍿

Magnificent portrayal of this great moment in British history. 5 stars.