The British part of me is both a little annoyed that so many people don't know about Dunkirk but also excited that a massive new audience is going to learn about it in such an amazing way.
@@Martin-rh6bn It was a pivotal moment. Everyone remembers D-day but without the miracle of Dunkirk most likely there never would have been a D-Day. The loss of the BEF wouldve crippled us.
I do agree that America should be taught these things, but there are many pivot points in history for Americans point of view that aren't taught in America.
We shall not flag or fail. We will go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we will fight on the seas and oceans, we will fight with the confidence and the strength in the air, we will defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; We shall never surrender!
I can confirm they're real planes, I live in Hampshire, Uk, and they filmed a lot of the air shots close to where I worked. I spent my breaks from work sat outside a coffee shop watching Spitfires fly past for a couple of weeks. Only after googling it, did I find out it was for an upcoming film (Dunkirk). This was around a year ago :)For info, the place where I saw the spitfires flying past was Lee on Solent, Portsmouth, UK.
Oh and btw "where's the bloody air force" is a great nod to actual events. The RAF did a hell of a job to stop the air onslaught happening over Dunkirk but they were rarely spotted by the troops on the ground ,or the sailors on the ships, as the fighters were trying to catch the german planes as far from the beaches as possible. During the whole evaquation barely a single english fighter could be seen from Dunkirk itself, leaving a very sour impression on the troops on spot that the air force was nowhere to be found and was not even trying to protect them (when in fact they were doing a sterling job at it). Meanwhile the RAF (which lost quite a number of machines and pilots trying to hold on the german tide) felt as if their efforts and sacrifizes during the operation had received very little appreciation from the Army. The whole thing caused a pretty big rift of bad feelings between Army and RAF that wasn't totally healed until 1944.
ramjb The Air Marshall deliberately kept the majority of aircraft at home, two reasons, one he didn’t want the Germans to see how many aircraft we had and secondly he knew one France had fallen the Nazis would be looking to invade the U.K. 😃
Shavone Granville He wanted the production to buy an actual WWII German plane (very huge cost of course) to destroy it in the movie. It's still unknow if he succeded to do that or not!
Il Solingo I _think_ they ended up destroying quarter scale drones or models but they did use 3 real Spitfires (the shot of them flying in formation near the end of the trailer is very likely real) and a real Spanish Buchon to stand in for the Bf 109s during the aerial scenes. Destroying a real restored WWII plane would not only be very expensive, you could argue it's also somewhat historically irresponsible. www.warbirdsnews.com/warbirds-news/dunkirk.html Plenty of the ships are also real BTW.
That might work. Now we just have to educate all those moronic warmongers sufficiently so they are able to play Battlefield, CoD and the like and the world will be saved. ^^
DougyAM - He was talking about World War Two through the whole video, its clear it was a slip of the tongue when he said World War One. Give him a break, he's sick! Lol
There were a lot more than one of the "little ships" as they're known in the UK, over the course of the evacuation something like 700 civilian boats, some of them not much more than Thames pleasure cruisers, sailed across the English channel (often multiple times) to help with the evacuation. The boat featuring Mark Rylance and Cillian Murphy is probably just serving as a focus and example for all of them. Incidentally, from the trailer I suspect that Rylance is playing a character inspired by Charles Lightoller who survived multiple shipwrecks over a long maritime career, probably the most notable being one RMS Titanic (which people may have heard of ;) - he was the 2nd officer, one of the first sailors to start lowering lifeboats and among the very last to leave his post (twenty minutes before the ship sank he was ordered to board a lifeboat and is reputed to have replied "Not damn likely" then carried on helping passengers until the end, when he was apparently actually pulled under with the ship but the shockwave from an exploding boiler pushed him back to the surface). After retiring, at the age of 66, he along with his son and a young sea cadet took his private yacht over the channel as one of the little ships to help with the evacuation at Dunkirk (i'll leave it there to avoid "spoilers" (?) just in case the character is actually him, rather than just based on him). Suffice it to say, the bloke was a bit of a bloody legend.
This irks me. My great grandfather and great uncle were at Dunkirk, my grandfather lost three fingers and my great uncle died in the Hull of the ship. Rip.
My great grandfather was posted out to Egypt during the war and was in the royal engineers. He got malaria and had several boughts of it during the years.
as a french ex history student, it's a must see. as it's a Nolan, it's get better. and one of the war boat is from my city, so I definitely want to watch this !
Approx. 30 nautical miles, via 3 navigable routes through minefields, under artillery and air bombardment to rescue 338,226 men from beaches and 1 pier, in a burning port facility - the naval and civilian effort was astonishing; all the services, pulled together!
the nazi blitzkrieg meant that german tanks were seriously exposed and the main force of german troops were 2 days away, which meant the allies could slip away, also all the idiots saying the french fought while the left, 80,000 french left dunkirk on boats.
@@saber1716 Let's not forget that the main reason for the withdrawal from Dunkirk was the French falling back from the Maginot Line, leaving the British troops to fight.
"also all the idiots saying the french fought while the left, 80,000 french left dunkirk on boats" that doesn't change the fact that the french were fighting to allow the british to escape and were the last to leave if you're gonna call the people "idiots" the least you could do is not try to be one yourself
Well It took them 10 days to get all those soldiers home, so yeah they pretty much asked for anything that could float to go get those man, and the germans did try to get to the port but the french army hold them off to give the britts a chance to escape
Well Hitler did try to wipe out the troops at Dunkirk but his Blitzkreig tactic failed because the tanks were way ahead of the ground troops so they couldn’t resupply oil to power the tanks
At the end of Dunkirk when they showed Weymouth I felt proud that Dorset was in the movie as I’m from Dorset so felt abit of pride our troops came home 🇬🇧
the german tanks had to wait for the infantry to catch up to be effective also some of the ground around dunkirk is bad for tanks (marshland) this is the main reason for the time that allowed the escape of so many men. and for anyone wondering about the realism of a clearly marked hospital ship being dived bombed by nazi bombers and/or being topedoed, my grandfather was at dunkirk wounded in a clearly marked hospital tent which was then bombed and resulted in injuries so severe that his own mother did not recognise him after he was medically discharged from the army....many of his mates died fighting in france, before the dunkirk events. truly the greatest generation.
The journey from Dover in England, to Dunkirk in France, crossed the Channel and was a distance of less than 100 kilometres, though they didn't go in a straight line. The evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force (really a multinational force - mainly British, but also Canadian, Polish, associated French troops, and more I'm forgetting) took several days.
The BEF consisted of 90% British forces and 10% Canadian (Britain tried to keep commonwealth countries not being invaded out of the war from start to finish, but nearly all commonwealth countries government's and it's people volunteered to help). The BEF had regrouped and retreated with the home forces of France, Belgium and the Netherlands for the defence of Dunkirk. Whilst Most of France's forces stayed to cover the retreat (With Some Dutch and British)... All countries were aboard the evacuation boats, with Britain obviously more keen on getting it's own forces home to defend Britain in the upcoming attack. France, Belgium and Netherlands were not part of the BEF... they were already there defending their homes/countries.
The reason the Germans didn't push the attack was because they never wanted to fight the brits let alone defeat them. they originally wanted a alliance with Britain (they would control the seas and Germany would control Europe) they had a belief in their saxon bond.
Glad to see they're making a movie about this, the evacuation of the B.E.F. following the fall of France was no easy task. Operation KE was another well executed evacuation during WW2.
The sirens are from Ju 87s and hermann goering was mainly the reason why German army held back. Goering was confident the his luftwaffe could wipe out the stranded allied troops. So the panzer divisions and infantry stop there advance and history was made from that point on
what messed it up was the magna line , the allies thought they would fight like world war 1 in trenches but Germans changed warfare and none was ready for it
Nolan dislikes cgi. The aircombat is filmed with antique Spitfires. The Messersmith bf109 in the film is actually a licencebuild bf109 Casa from Spain.
Hitler used the the practice of lighting war 'blitzkrieg 'to overrun Europe so quickly and the allies were overwhelmed routed, that's why they found themselves on the beaches of Dunkirk in 1940.Almost everything apart from personal weapons were destroyed. The allies only had a 20 mile perimeter around Dunkirk which shrank day to day. The Royal navy launched it's a plan operation dynimo to lift as many troops off as possible on the short journey across the English channel they managed bring home over a quarter of a million men it was no victory.
What amazed me on this reaction is why everyone ignored Mark rylance who is arguably the worlds greatest actor right now. He's only recently moved into film (Bridge of spies, Oscar nominee) and tv (wolf hall, emmy award). He's a classical Shakspearean actor and the best of our country for sure. He's the guy on the boat going to help.
From what I know there was a lot of German troops trying to kill them but the French forces creating a barrier around Dunkirk holding them off so the British could retreat while taking mass casualties in the proses.
One of the most controversial and strange events during the timeline of WW2. One one side Brits managed to get stuck in such a stupidly large number due to a fast French surrender. On German side for some reason they stopped while having a massive advantage against a depleted force of 400,000 men. So much theoretical shit has been thrown around if Germany was trying to win favor with England not assaulting those troops.
It would have helped if you had read a little about Dunkirk and learned the HUNDREDS of civilian men and women who took their boats to rescue the stranded soldiers. Some had never sailed out to sea, just pleasure boats. There were fishermen, and all kinds of occupations who just lived normal lives until that day. Many of the civilians died in their attempts to save the troops. They weren't equipped with guns or any kind of defence, they carried nothing, just their bravery and their will to save lives. Its not a joke that one boat went back and forth. The boat journey to Dunkirk to the UK was miles of hell exposed to the slaughtering Germans. This is a film about real events and real people, not fiction
Why are so many commenters surprised that American schools don't focus on the "Miracle at Dunkirk" as it's called? Every country tends to focus more on it's own contributions to the war, as well as the major events that occurred in the theater that it was involved in. American schools discuss things that were happening at home (still dealing with the Great Depression repercussions) as well as the war in the Pacific at that point, since that was where America's main focus was at the time. I'd be willing to lay some pretty good odds that most Brits don't have a clue of what Peleliu is, or even Guadalcanal...both of which were very big parts of the Pacific theater of WW2 (regardless of armchair general opinions, Peleliu was a massive battle/siege with a ridiculously high casualty rate, it's overall importance strategically is a completely separate debate). Yes, it would be nice if they would put more focus on it...it'd also be nice if they'd actually mention Korea, or Vietnam for that matter. But with the way that American public schools are going, pretty soon they won't be able to cover any topic of WW2, or WW1, or Vietnam, or anything else in history because they're afraid it's going to offend somebody.
it was hundreds of civilian fishing and pleasure boats. It was not a failure but a great moment of heroism of the British people to get back the expeditionary force.
In case you guys were curious, all the clips from the planes looked real because they were. They rigged the inside of those planes with IMAX cameras and the crashed planes were perfect replicas they built to be shot down and destroyed in order to gain the best shots.
Hitler didn't take Dunkirk because there main panzer units were beat up and needed repair , in the early days of the war the German army didn't do large operations without there tanks , so Hitler ordered the Luftwaffe to bomb and strafe the beaches and boats , instead of risking his precious panzers .
amazing how Americans know nothing much about ww2 until after they joined in the UK had been fighting for years and this Dunkirk was the most famous event of the struggle to keep going on alone
If I remember my WW2 history class in high school the reason Hitler didn't wipe out the forces at Dunkirk were two fold: 1) He was still dealing with the French Army since I don't think France had officially surrender or if they did some commanders still fought on and 2) Hitler hoped to broker a peace with Britain after defeating France and Britain so soundly. My memory is a little vague but that is the reasoning why Dunkirk was allowed to happen
The German's could've easily won the Battle of Dunkirk, they could've just swept over the trapped forces blitzkreig style. Further more, it's a myth that Hitler ordered a halt order with the Dunkirk Advance, it was the British and french counterattack at Arras that gave the German Commanders at the time pause. Another thing of note is, Germany WASN'T split at the time, Operation Barbarossa (Invasion of the USSR) Began sometime in 1941, Dunkirk Evacuation was in 1940s
MuggleCheese correct it was a german commander that ordered the halt because he lost a lot of tank units at arras. The Germans wanted to save their tanks because there were pockets of french resistance and it wud be a lil risky for the tanks on softer ground without enough infantry support. Hitler and his generals figured an evacuation on that scale was impossible and they had time to bolster their tank divisions with infantry then move forward. they also believed the luftwaffe (german air force) wud be able to really do and lot of the work from the air, again saving ground armour. the german divisions wud then swoop in later and kill and capture whatever the luftwaffe left. if the germans cud kill or capture a signifcant % of the men then britain wud have no choice but to cut a deal, which wud then lead to france completely folding and a total german victory. This was in fact quite sound thinking as no one cud of predicted the speed and amount of ppl evacuated and that civil boats wud be helping. nor cud they have predicted bad weather and an incedible performance from the raf + french air resistence vs the luftwaffe. so only after the fact does it become apparent that it's a tactical error.
Also Hitler never wanted to fight against Britain. (it was Britain and France who declared war on Germany) he believed in the idea that Germany while Germany should control Europe Britain should be its naval superpower ally. therefore he did not want to destroy their military, he wanted them to surrender and broker a truce which would lead to a alliance. Just like with ww1 the germans had a deep connections to the English.
I'm pretty sure the terrain surrounding Dunkirk would've been a drawback for the German armor divisions which were on a roll at the time of the war so they decided to wait and repair their armor, and the German Air Force was ridiculously efficient at the time so they had hoped to rout them from the air as the the allies couldn't match their air superiority, however the British had better air fighters though which I think the movie will highlight.
Not really, Allied forces were in shambles completely destroyed and in the run. It was the big opportunity to completely destroy an army of 400000 Brits, Hitler had him cornered. Rommel could have made them surrender in a moment, Hitler refused and until today nobody knows why? There is speculations but no one really knows for sure.
I really hate it when people just focus on the actors instead of the stories. Especially in this movie, which tells an immensely submersive and intense story and people should respect what these soldiers have gone through and not making comparisons to films like Saving Private Ryan because Dunkirk is on a whole new level.
BTW, geek on the second left - this isn't "Interstellar", this isn't "Inception" - this was portraying a real event - the film "Pearl Harbour" was great, until you considered what really happened, one of the reasons (there were a few) why it got so heavily panned...
It's World War 2 not 1. And this really happened. Watch "Oversimplified" WW2 part 1 to see how the British and the French ended up in this predicament. Nolans love of practical effects shows how much more realistic movies are when used instead of CGI. That's why older movies are better than today's garbage. And let's face it today's films are just men in capes, Martin Scorsacee pointed this out...
The BEF escaped because the counterattack at Arras, whilst a failure, caught the German tanks unprepared as they had no infantry to cover their flanks. The German panzers had moved too far ahead of the German soldiers and had no proper defence against the counterattack at Arras. We know the BEF was not allowed to escape because of a kinship between the Germanic nations as the order to halt the advance didn't even originate with Hitler, it originated with the leader of the Panzer division attacked at Arras. We know that they wasn't even meant to escape as the Luftwaffe was attacking soldiers on the beaches and sinking ships that were carrying soldiers home. The German line was thin, unprepared, and the communication lines required for massacring 400k men was not in place.
WW2. And yeah Hitler missed a trick but he was also by this point being a victim of British counter ops. Thankfully. Just want to take the opportunity to recognise my Granda Jack who flew instruction in Arizona 39-45, lost his two brothers in Normandy, and returned to the Baltic Flour Mills on Tyneside in '46, my Dad's Dad.
Why am i unable to watch your bladerunner trailer video in germany? Can someone please tell me or help me if possible? Great reaction guys on this one by the way. Thank you. it works now.
1940 and Dunkirk was important to get the British army home from the shores of France if no other reason than for the army to be rescued, if that army had been captured or killed then it would have given Hitler more reason to invade Britain which was his intention anyway. The VITAL event came just after in the air battle known as the Battle of Britain and had the R.A.F. been defeated then Germany would have had air superiority and the very real possibility that Britain would have lost and German occupation would follow and we would be looking at a very different world today. As a matter of interest they were real spitfires strangely there are quite a few spitfires around but only one which actually fought in the Battle of Britain which I have seen at air shows. The distance between the South coast of England and Dunkirk in France is around 26 miles and can indeed be seen on a clear day.
The British part of me is both a little annoyed that so many people don't know about Dunkirk but also excited that a massive new audience is going to learn about it in such an amazing way.
Its insane that they dont teach this in schools in America. It is quite disapointing
@@Martin-rh6bn It was a pivotal moment. Everyone remembers D-day but without the miracle of Dunkirk most likely there never would have been a D-Day. The loss of the BEF wouldve crippled us.
I do agree that America should be taught these things, but there are many pivot points in history for Americans point of view that aren't taught in America.
@@abbbyelise The problem is how de-centralised the US is the curriculums vary so wildly between schools and states.
gollygaloshes I know right
We shall not flag or fail. We will go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we will fight on the seas and oceans, we will fight with the confidence and the strength in the air, we will defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; We shall never surrender!
Brody_HD Nevaaaaa Surenddaaaaaaa!
@@kevinmorrice we helped in the war calm down.
@@holstfly1 stfu
as my grandad who survived dunkirk used to say, "when mind and body start to fail, dunkirk spirit will always stay true"
Nolan was using actual planes. His love for practicality is amazing.
they are RC planes 1/2 scale i think. can watch the footage of filming
I can confirm they're real planes, I live in Hampshire, Uk, and they filmed a lot of the air shots close to where I worked. I spent my breaks from work sat outside a coffee shop watching Spitfires fly past for a couple of weeks. Only after googling it, did I find out it was for an upcoming film (Dunkirk). This was around a year ago :)For info, the place where I saw the spitfires flying past was Lee on Solent, Portsmouth, UK.
SAM PHILLIPS they used real planes but there was a yak that was painted and a large scale He111
@Lachlan Trescott yeah mate it was awesome to witness
Oh and btw "where's the bloody air force" is a great nod to actual events. The RAF did a hell of a job to stop the air onslaught happening over Dunkirk but they were rarely spotted by the troops on the ground ,or the sailors on the ships, as the fighters were trying to catch the german planes as far from the beaches as possible. During the whole evaquation barely a single english fighter could be seen from Dunkirk itself, leaving a very sour impression on the troops on spot that the air force was nowhere to be found and was not even trying to protect them (when in fact they were doing a sterling job at it).
Meanwhile the RAF (which lost quite a number of machines and pilots trying to hold on the german tide) felt as if their efforts and sacrifizes during the operation had received very little appreciation from the Army.
The whole thing caused a pretty big rift of bad feelings between Army and RAF that wasn't totally healed until 1944.
ramjb The Air Marshall deliberately kept the majority of aircraft at home, two reasons, one he didn’t want the Germans to see how many aircraft we had and secondly he knew one France had fallen the Nazis would be looking to invade the U.K. 😃
Raf won because od polish pilots
@@marcinmatkowski2354 british not polish
@@stealthkillah122 During the battle of britain there were polish pilots on the side of the british
@@stealthkillah122 the polish did help the British a lot
nolan loves practical effects. it makes for way better experience
Christopher Nolan a Star Wars movie. go go go
Shavone Granville He wanted the production to buy an actual WWII German plane (very huge cost of course) to destroy it in the movie. It's still unknow if he succeded to do that or not!
Il Solingo I _think_ they ended up destroying quarter scale drones or models but they did use 3 real Spitfires (the shot of them flying in formation near the end of the trailer is very likely real) and a real Spanish Buchon to stand in for the Bf 109s during the aerial scenes. Destroying a real restored WWII plane would not only be very expensive, you could argue it's also somewhat historically irresponsible.
www.warbirdsnews.com/warbirds-news/dunkirk.html
Plenty of the ships are also real BTW.
that dude hates CGI
"Shitty way to fight a war."
I agree. But are there any good ways to fight a war?
on a pc or console
Lonen George your comment made me laugh so hard
That might work. Now we just have to educate all those moronic warmongers sufficiently so they are able to play Battlefield, CoD and the like and the world will be saved. ^^
A world where everything is decided by games? Hmmm...... this seems.....familiar.....
probably the one where it takes the least casualties
Tom Hardy: Aahh you think altitude is your friend eh? You merely adopted the air. I was born in it! Molded by it.
*lol* 😂😂😂😂
"one of the largest military flaws of WW1"... 2 not 1.
DougyAM THANK U
I think he meant 2.
DougyAM - He was talking about World War Two through the whole video, its clear it was a slip of the tongue when he said World War One. Give him a break, he's sick! Lol
Ju 87... Stuka dive bomber but o well calvin was on target anyway
The smarty pants didnt call the MkI Blenheim or the He111 though :P
There were a lot more than one of the "little ships" as they're known in the UK, over the course of the evacuation something like 700 civilian boats, some of them not much more than Thames pleasure cruisers, sailed across the English channel (often multiple times) to help with the evacuation. The boat featuring Mark Rylance and Cillian Murphy is probably just serving as a focus and example for all of them.
Incidentally, from the trailer I suspect that Rylance is playing a character inspired by Charles Lightoller who survived multiple shipwrecks over a long maritime career, probably the most notable being one RMS Titanic (which people may have heard of ;) - he was the 2nd officer, one of the first sailors to start lowering lifeboats and among the very last to leave his post (twenty minutes before the ship sank he was ordered to board a lifeboat and is reputed to have replied "Not damn likely" then carried on helping passengers until the end, when he was apparently actually pulled under with the ship but the shockwave from an exploding boiler pushed him back to the surface). After retiring, at the age of 66, he along with his son and a young sea cadet took his private yacht over the channel as one of the little ships to help with the evacuation at Dunkirk (i'll leave it there to avoid "spoilers" (?) just in case the character is actually him, rather than just based on him). Suffice it to say, the bloke was a bit of a bloody legend.
Fantastic, thanks for that tidbit, amazing story.
2:50 Harry Styles on the left?
I'm only 45 seconds into the vid but I really hope they know Dunkirk is a real- NEVERMIND ERIC JUST SAID SO MOVING ON.
stuntrabitstudios Calvin knew
Detective Calvin always knows...
I love the soundtrack to this trailer. Every time I watch it I tap my foot to the ticking clock. It really puts you in the moment.
I'm writing a research paper about Dunkirk right now. It is a truly fascinating story!
I just finished studying the Miracle of Dunkirk haha :p
This irks me. My great grandfather and great uncle were at Dunkirk, my grandfather lost three fingers and my great uncle died in the Hull of the ship. Rip.
My great grandfather was posted out to Egypt during the war and was in the royal engineers. He got malaria and had several boughts of it during the years.
as a french ex history student, it's a must see. as it's a Nolan, it's get better. and one of the war boat is from my city, so I definitely want to watch this !
Approx. 30 nautical miles, via 3 navigable routes through minefields, under artillery and air bombardment to rescue 338,226 men from beaches and 1 pier, in a burning port facility - the naval and civilian effort was astonishing; all the services, pulled together!
the nazi blitzkrieg meant that german tanks were seriously exposed and the main force of german troops were 2 days away, which meant the allies could slip away, also all the idiots saying the french fought while the left, 80,000 french left dunkirk on boats.
and several thousand other Frenchmen died or were captured in the siege of Lille to allow them to escape
@@saber1716 Let's not forget that the main reason for the withdrawal from Dunkirk was the French falling back from the Maginot Line, leaving the British troops to fight.
"also all the idiots saying the french fought while the left, 80,000 french left dunkirk on boats" that doesn't change the fact that the french were fighting to allow the british to escape and were the last to leave if you're gonna call the people "idiots" the least you could do is not try to be one yourself
"Pushes up glasses" Ju87's not ju88's Calvin :P
shephard1994 ikr, I died when he said JU88
I’m glad I’m not the only one who noticed I almost died
It's a fairly important distinction considering the Ju 88 was a twin engine bomber.
Well It took them 10 days to get all those soldiers home, so yeah they pretty much asked for anything that could float to go get those man, and the germans did try to get to the port but the french army hold them off to give the britts a chance to escape
French forces were also evacuated in significant numbers.
Well Hitler did try to wipe out the troops at Dunkirk but his Blitzkreig tactic failed because the tanks were way ahead of the ground troops so they couldn’t resupply oil to power the tanks
At the end of Dunkirk when they showed Weymouth I felt proud that Dorset was in the movie as I’m from Dorset so felt abit of pride our troops came home 🇬🇧
I lived in Weymouth for a couple of years, lovely place!
the german tanks had to wait for the infantry to catch up to be effective also some of the ground around dunkirk is bad for tanks (marshland) this is the main reason for the time that allowed the escape of so many men.
and for anyone wondering about the realism of a clearly marked hospital ship being dived bombed by nazi bombers and/or being topedoed, my grandfather was at dunkirk wounded in a clearly marked hospital tent which was then bombed and resulted in injuries so severe that his own mother did not recognise him after he was medically discharged from the army....many of his mates died fighting in france, before the dunkirk events.
truly the greatest generation.
How the hell did Nolan not win an Oscar? This man is legendary.
Nobody sees that Calvin looks like Jay from Knocked Up?
"One of the major military flaws of World War One." "Interesting". Nice video guys keep going
The journey from Dover in England, to Dunkirk in France, crossed the Channel and was a distance of less than 100 kilometres, though they didn't go in a straight line. The evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force (really a multinational force - mainly British, but also Canadian, Polish, associated French troops, and more I'm forgetting) took several days.
The BEF consisted of 90% British forces and 10% Canadian (Britain tried to keep commonwealth countries not being invaded out of the war from start to finish, but nearly all commonwealth countries government's and it's people volunteered to help). The BEF had regrouped and retreated with the home forces of France, Belgium and the Netherlands for the defence of Dunkirk. Whilst Most of France's forces stayed to cover the retreat (With Some Dutch and British)... All countries were aboard the evacuation boats, with Britain obviously more keen on getting it's own forces home to defend Britain in the upcoming attack.
France, Belgium and Netherlands were not part of the BEF... they were already there defending their homes/countries.
The reason the Germans didn't push the attack was because they never wanted to fight the brits let alone defeat them. they originally wanted a alliance with Britain (they would control the seas and Germany would control Europe) they had a belief in their saxon bond.
"Ju 87"
Some 700 'small ships' made the crossing of 20 or so miles, many repeatedly
3:20 The air combat WAS real Spitfires and Bf-109. Smoke, sparks, bullet damage, etc were added later.
When I refreshed to see if anything new came up, it said 18 seconds ago and I was happy. Also great reaction I feel the same way.
Yes you actually did it ! Thanks you !
Churchills speech really complimented the trailer :D
Glad to see they're making a movie about this, the evacuation of the B.E.F. following the fall of France was no easy task. Operation KE was another well executed evacuation during WW2.
The sirens are from Ju 87s and hermann goering was mainly the reason why German army held back. Goering was confident the his luftwaffe could wipe out the stranded allied troops. So the panzer divisions and infantry stop there advance and history was made from that point on
You know why the air shots look great because its fucking REAL. Nolan tied those imax camera's to the actual plane and shot them.
There's a new IT Trailer!!!!
They removed the trailer shortly after the upload (The IT trailer, not Blindwave reaction) , so I guess it'll be a tad longer.
The Spitfire flight sequence is real for the most part, no doubt there's some CGI that'll be used... but they flew real aircraft.
i hope they know Dunkirk is a real thing and is very important to British people.
From Dunkirk to England is about 26 miles
This is probably the best trailer I've ever seen.
All the flying sequences we've seen so far are real! No CGI has been used anywhere as far as I'm aware, which is awesome.
Anyone notice the lines from Winston Churchill's "We Shall Fight on the beaches" 😄
Yep. People talk about hitlers skill in speeches- Churchill weren't too shabby either
what messed it up was the magna line , the allies thought they would fight like world war 1 in trenches but Germans changed warfare and none was ready for it
Nolan dislikes cgi. The aircombat is filmed with antique Spitfires. The Messersmith bf109 in the film is actually a licencebuild bf109 Casa from Spain.
in the beginning it wasn't a Ju-88, the plane seen was smaller with 1 engine and and bent wings and the screeching was from Ju-87
Ju88? you mean Ju87 "Stuka"
"ju-88!" aaaaaaaaand this guy knows whats up
Hitler used the the practice of lighting war 'blitzkrieg 'to overrun Europe so quickly and the allies were overwhelmed routed, that's why they found themselves on the beaches of Dunkirk in 1940.Almost everything apart from personal weapons were destroyed. The allies only had a 20 mile perimeter around Dunkirk which shrank day to day. The Royal navy launched it's a plan operation dynimo to lift as many troops off as possible on the short journey across the English channel they managed bring home over a quarter of a million men it was no victory.
The Dark Tower trailer reaction !
What amazed me on this reaction is why everyone ignored Mark rylance who is arguably the worlds greatest actor right now. He's only recently moved into film (Bridge of spies, Oscar nominee) and tv (wolf hall, emmy award). He's a classical Shakspearean actor and the best of our country for sure. He's the guy on the boat going to help.
From what I know there was a lot of German troops trying to kill them but the French forces creating a barrier around Dunkirk holding them off so the British could retreat while taking mass casualties in the proses.
One of the most controversial and strange events during the timeline of WW2. One one side Brits managed to get stuck in such a stupidly large number due to a fast French surrender. On German side for some reason they stopped while having a massive advantage against a depleted force of 400,000 men.
So much theoretical shit has been thrown around if Germany was trying to win favor with England not assaulting those troops.
It would have helped if you had read a little about Dunkirk and learned the HUNDREDS of civilian men and women who took their boats to rescue the stranded soldiers. Some had never sailed out to sea, just pleasure boats. There were fishermen, and all kinds of occupations who just lived normal lives until that day. Many of the civilians died in their attempts to save the troops. They weren't equipped with guns or any kind of defence, they carried nothing, just their bravery and their will to save lives. Its not a joke that one boat went back and forth. The boat journey to Dunkirk to the UK was miles of hell exposed to the slaughtering Germans. This is a film about real events and real people, not fiction
Why are so many commenters surprised that American schools don't focus on the "Miracle at Dunkirk" as it's called? Every country tends to focus more on it's own contributions to the war, as well as the major events that occurred in the theater that it was involved in. American schools discuss things that were happening at home (still dealing with the Great Depression repercussions) as well as the war in the Pacific at that point, since that was where America's main focus was at the time. I'd be willing to lay some pretty good odds that most Brits don't have a clue of what Peleliu is, or even Guadalcanal...both of which were very big parts of the Pacific theater of WW2 (regardless of armchair general opinions, Peleliu was a massive battle/siege with a ridiculously high casualty rate, it's overall importance strategically is a completely separate debate). Yes, it would be nice if they would put more focus on it...it'd also be nice if they'd actually mention Korea, or Vietnam for that matter. But with the way that American public schools are going, pretty soon they won't be able to cover any topic of WW2, or WW1, or Vietnam, or anything else in history because they're afraid it's going to offend somebody.
At this point America was not in the war, British people know quite a bit about the Pacific war, we were there as well.
At least THIS event in WWII didn't end in two giant extinction balls being used.
Those were ju87, most likely d variants. The ju88 comes later.
No one mentions Nolan's Memento? That's the movie that made me his fan in the first place. The directing in that is brilliant.
it was hundreds of civilian fishing and pleasure boats. It was not a failure but a great moment of heroism of the British people to get back the expeditionary force.
my first thought when I saw that badge on the desk was why you guys got an Athletico Madrid logo on your desk...looks almost the same.
3rd guy in knows his shiz. Respect
This is real. Dunkirk happened. Really should've learned about it.
The movie had me at nolan. Love interstellar the best.
1:15 "ju-88s"
Me: whoa whoa dude those are ju-87s know your aircraft man😐
In case you guys were curious, all the clips from the planes looked real because they were. They rigged the inside of those planes with IMAX cameras and the crashed planes were perfect replicas they built to be shot down and destroyed in order to gain the best shots.
It’s actually only 26 miles from Dover to Dunkirk. I am a World War Two historian, so you could take many trips back and forth.
Hitler didn't take Dunkirk because there main panzer units were beat up and needed repair , in the early days of the war the German army didn't do large operations without there tanks , so Hitler ordered the Luftwaffe to bomb and strafe the beaches and boats , instead of risking his precious panzers .
amazing how Americans know nothing much about ww2 until after they joined in
the UK had been fighting for years and this Dunkirk was the most famous event of the struggle to keep going on alone
If I remember my WW2 history class in high school the reason Hitler didn't wipe out the forces at Dunkirk were two fold: 1) He was still dealing with the French Army since I don't think France had officially surrender or if they did some commanders still fought on and 2) Hitler hoped to broker a peace with Britain after defeating France and Britain so soundly. My memory is a little vague but that is the reasoning why Dunkirk was allowed to happen
The German's could've easily won the Battle of Dunkirk, they could've just swept over the trapped forces blitzkreig style. Further more, it's a myth that Hitler ordered a halt order with the Dunkirk Advance, it was the British and french counterattack at Arras that gave the German Commanders at the time pause.
Another thing of note is, Germany WASN'T split at the time, Operation Barbarossa (Invasion of the USSR) Began sometime in 1941, Dunkirk Evacuation was in 1940s
MuggleCheese correct it was a german commander that ordered the halt because he lost a lot of tank units at arras. The Germans wanted to save their tanks because there were pockets of french resistance and it wud be a lil risky for the tanks on softer ground without enough infantry support. Hitler and his generals figured an evacuation on that scale was impossible and they had time to bolster their tank divisions with infantry then move forward. they also believed the luftwaffe (german air force) wud be able to really do and lot of the work from the air, again saving ground armour. the german divisions wud then swoop in later and kill and capture whatever the luftwaffe left. if the germans cud kill or capture a signifcant % of the men then britain wud have no choice but to cut a deal, which wud then lead to france completely folding and a total german victory. This was in fact quite sound thinking as no one cud of predicted the speed and amount of ppl evacuated and that civil boats wud be helping. nor cud they have predicted bad weather and an incedible performance from the raf + french air resistence vs the luftwaffe. so only after the fact does it become apparent that it's a tactical error.
Also Hitler never wanted to fight against Britain. (it was Britain and France who declared war on Germany) he believed in the idea that Germany while Germany should control Europe Britain should be its naval superpower ally. therefore he did not want to destroy their military, he wanted them to surrender and broker a truce which would lead to a alliance. Just like with ww1 the germans had a deep connections to the English.
I'm pretty sure the terrain surrounding Dunkirk would've been a drawback for the German armor divisions which were on a roll at the time of the war so they decided to wait and repair their armor, and the German Air Force was ridiculously efficient at the time so they had hoped to rout them from the air as the the allies couldn't match their air superiority, however the British had better air fighters though which I think the movie will highlight.
Not really, Allied forces were in shambles completely destroyed and in the run. It was the big opportunity to completely destroy an army of 400000 Brits, Hitler had him cornered. Rommel could have made them surrender in a moment, Hitler refused and until today nobody knows why? There is speculations but no one really knows for sure.
I really hate it when people just focus on the actors instead of the stories. Especially in this movie, which tells an immensely submersive and intense story and people should respect what these soldiers have gone through and not making comparisons to films like Saving Private Ryan because Dunkirk is on a whole new level.
Thank you.
1:17 pretty sure theyre ju87 btw the ju88 was a light bomber/attack aircraft
I just want to thank the French for holding the Germans off and keeping them busy, buying time for the British to evacuate.
The spitfires were real
The planes are real
there were about 700 small boats .
All the planes are real, they were flying over my house all the time ^.^
BTW, geek on the second left - this isn't "Interstellar", this isn't "Inception" - this was portraying a real event - the film "Pearl Harbour" was great, until you considered what really happened, one of the reasons (there were a few) why it got so heavily panned...
It's World War 2 not 1. And this really happened. Watch "Oversimplified" WW2 part 1 to see how the British and the French ended up in this predicament.
Nolans love of practical effects shows how much more realistic movies are when used instead of CGI.
That's why older movies are better than today's garbage.
And let's face it today's films are just men in capes, Martin Scorsacee pointed this out...
Yes... the planes are real. Actual vintage Spitfires and Messershmitts.
No they are ju 87’s not 88’s
The BEF escaped because the counterattack at Arras, whilst a failure, caught the German tanks unprepared as they had no infantry to cover their flanks. The German panzers had moved too far ahead of the German soldiers and had no proper defence against the counterattack at Arras.
We know the BEF was not allowed to escape because of a kinship between the Germanic nations as the order to halt the advance didn't even originate with Hitler, it originated with the leader of the Panzer division attacked at Arras.
We know that they wasn't even meant to escape as the Luftwaffe was attacking soldiers on the beaches and sinking ships that were carrying soldiers home.
The German line was thin, unprepared, and the communication lines required for massacring 400k men was not in place.
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Don't forget Memento
bigger than pearl harbour in the sence it was vital from the beginning or the end for us all
WW2. And yeah Hitler missed a trick but he was also by this point being a victim of British counter ops. Thankfully. Just want to take the opportunity to recognise my Granda Jack who flew instruction in Arizona 39-45, lost his two brothers in Normandy, and returned to the Baltic Flour Mills on Tyneside in '46, my Dad's Dad.
I hate how people don't know about dunkirk.
IM SO TRIGGERED.... JU 87S NOT JU 88s
The planes are real.
i stand corrected i wasn't a baefighter......plus I looked at again and again...deffo a Blenheim
The prestige is the best Nolan movie
those were actually ju87s
Why am i unable to watch your bladerunner trailer video in germany? Can someone please tell me or help me if possible?
Great reaction guys on this one by the way. Thank you.
it works now.
For the Americans you are watching a Christopher Nolan film......but if yiu are British.....you are watchig modern history take place
1940 and Dunkirk was important to get the British army home from the shores of France if no other reason than for the army to be rescued, if that army had been captured or killed then it would have given Hitler more reason to invade Britain which was his intention anyway. The VITAL event came just after in the air battle known as the Battle of Britain and had the R.A.F. been defeated then Germany would have had air superiority and the very real possibility that Britain would have lost and German occupation would follow and we would be looking at a very different world today. As a matter of interest they were real spitfires strangely there are quite a few spitfires around but only one which actually fought in the Battle of Britain which I have seen at air shows. The distance between the South coast of England and Dunkirk in France is around 26 miles and can indeed be seen on a clear day.
5:48 that’s what he did but the remaining French covered there escape
hey babies.
My father and uncle were on this beach uncle Ron got of my dad did not the two of them also served in the Korean War
you should read up on the event. it's very interesting.
just FYI its not CGI