r/Dunkirk

1.2K archived posts · Feb 2015 – Sep 2026

Christopher Nolan's DUNKIRK

r/Dunkirk

A subreddit to discuss Christopher Nolan's **Dunkirk**

Created Feb 27, 2015

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General Information

Interviews with Nolan and others (videos)

🎬 Film4 - Christopher Nolan on Dunkirk
🎬 Film4 - Nolan, Styles, Rylance and more
🎬 Today Show - Nolan and Rylance
🎬 The Late Show - Kenneth Branagh

Historical information

Reviews

There are probably too many to include here, the links above to IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes list reviews from major publications. Some representative samples:

Comments on the movie's realism by historians and eyewitnesses

There are a wide set of viewpoints concerning how accurately the movie portrays the events of Dunkirk.

Positive:

Negative:

Bonus:

🎬 Dunkirk veteran moved to tears over realism of new film Dunkirk

Visuals and IMAX

Dunkirk was filmed primarily on 65mm and IMAX stock, and is intended for viewing in IMAX.

Vox provides some background
Does It Really Matter How You See Dunkirk? (Slate) - Slate compares the experiences of the various different formats available
Official site's IMAX/70mm theater finder

Screenplay and story

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The Screenplay
Nolan himself says he was trying to create a dramatic equivalent of a Shepard Tone or Barberpole illusion when writing the film.
A possible inspiration for the character of Mr Dawson was former Titanic Officer 🎬 Charles Lightower, who sailed his yacht Sundowner to Dunkirk. (Discussion) - spotted by u/Showmethepathplease
RAF Pilot Farrier is reportedly inspired by Alan Christopher Deere.

The Music

Dunkirk's music is primarily an original score by Hans Zimmer
Amazon Prime subscribers can listen to the 🔊 Dunkirk: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack for free.
The score includes elements from Elgar's "Nimrod". Nimrod is famous within Britain and is widely used as a musical representation of Britain herself.
Again, Amazon Prime subscribers can listen to 🔊 Elgar Variations: Nimrod for free.
Nimrod was adapted for the Dunkirk sountrack by Benjamin Wallfisch, and can be heard as the symphonic music played at the end of Home, at times during the End Titles, and throughout Varation 15. Zimmer also uses Nimrod's initial notes as a motif, at the beginning of The Mole, and during The Tide.
A consistent motif in the music, suggested by Nolan, is a series of notes arranged as a Shepard Tone, an auditory illusion of tones that apparently continually ascend in pitch.
🎬 The sound illusion that makes Dunkirk so intense - Vox

Trailers

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