People have flocked by the boatload to see Christopher Nolan’s World War II epic “Dunkirk” about a massive evacuation effort that rescued over 300,000 British soldiers stranded on the beaches of ...

Nolan's latest film marks the first time he has tackled a true story: the heroic evacuation of British troops by civilians in small boats at the... 'Dunkirk' Director Christopher Nolan: 'We Really Try ...

"It was one of the most extreme things I've ever done," says the director of the grueling effort to depict the greatest rescue in British military history with unprecedented precision. By Andy Lewis ...

A flotilla marking the 85th anniversary of the Dunkirk evacuation was forced to divert due to a migrant dinghy in the English Channel. The fleet of 66 vessels set sail from Ramsgate, Kent, at 6am on ...

Shattered by bomb impacts, the 100-meter-long British destroyer "Keith" has been lying at the bottom of the Dunkirk channel since its sinking in 1940. It went down during Operation Dynamo, when ...

But the English Channel, which runs alongside Dunkirk, was too shallow for British Navy ships to cross. In a last-ditch feat of planning, civilians were recruited to join Allied troops in funneling ...

A new film dramatizes the '40 Allied retreat from the beaches of France as the Nazis close in. Despite strong action sequences, Dunkirk relies too much on fragmented storytelling and obvious plotting.