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 ...

"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 ...

IT WAS part of one of the most iconic moments in British history; a fleet of little ships crossed the Channel to evacuate out troops from the beaches of France. Now one of those ships used in the ...

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 ...

From May 26 to June 4, 1940, the evacuation of Allied troops from the French port of Dunkirk and its surrounding beaches, known as Operation Dynamo, was a hugely important event in the history of ...

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: For a film so deeply rooted in history, the aesthetic here feels so fresh and original. What was your initial approach? Is it limiting at all to do a film that must, to a certain ...