In the early days of World War II the battle of Dunkirk was one of the most climactic battles. It is said that the Axis powers allowed time for the Allies to be rescued from the coastal city which ...

Dressed in a suit adorned with military medals and awards, Ken Sturdy, a 97-year-old World War II veteran, sat in a crowded movie theater in Calgary, Alberta, on July 21 and watched Dunkirk — a war ...

The new movie "Dunkirk" immerses its 21st century audience in a pivotal moment of 20th century British history early in the Second World War. In late May and early June of 1940, as German forces ...

"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 ...

Wars are not won by evacuation, but George Washington's decision to evacuate Long Island in August 1776 ultimately saved the the Continental Army.

Mel Gibson's 2016 war film Hacksaw Ridge follows the true story of Desmond Doss, who saved 75 soldiers during the Battle of ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: The myth of Dunkirk (and especially of the fleet of small civilian boats that supposedly rescued the British Army) undoubtedly stiffened British resistance. However, ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - For the filmmaker who re-imagined Batman as "The Dark Knight" and explored deep space in "Interstellar," the story of British troops trapped on a French beach during World War ...

What are the odds that two films in the annual Oscar race would be about the same incident of World War II? And yet, that's what we have in 2017. The shared topic is the incident at Dunkirk on the ...

A "masterful" war film directed by Mel Gibson and rated higher than Dunkirk is now streaming on Amazon Prime. The ...

Dunkirk is an awesome movie experience, one that ignores all the rules of historical drama to focus on the perspectives of the men who lived through the British and French evacuations from Dunkirk ...

The Battle of Dunkirk was a spectacular defeat for the British, yet the retreat is a point of pride in Britain today. Robert Siegel speaks with historian Andrew Roberts, about the movie Dunkirk. The ...