Hands-Down The Most Accurate War Movies Ever Made

Publish date: 2024-05-02

Christopher Nolan's "Dunkirk" is a strange war movie in a lot of ways. As noted by historian Michael Korda in GQ, the film has no main character and no real narrative. Indeed, it's a big-picture story about the miraculous survival and rescue of 340,000 British, French, and Belgian troops from the French port after German forces had trapped them there.

Nolan doesn't offer the usual war movie scenes of politicians and generals gravely explaining the historical details — in fact, no one even mentions the fact that it's the German army and air force closing in on the soldiers on the beach. Instead, he focuses on capturing the sense of chaos and terror experienced by the troops, especially as every attempt to escape doom seems to inevitably fail. According to former Marine Tan Vega (via Coffee or Die), Nolan definitely succeeds in "recreating the plight of tending to your fellow soldier while being under constant threat of bombardment."

As reported by PopMatters, the film's aerial combat has also been praised as exceptionally accurate. And as noted by Hypebeast, despite the fact that it's largely impossible to find equipment and uniforms dating from the period, costume designer Jeffery Kurland did exceptional research to ensure that every bit of the film is historically accurate in terms of look and material.

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