In late May 1940, the Second World War had been raging for eight months when German troops, led by Adolf Hitler, invaded Belgium and then swept into France.
As a result, the outnumbered Allied Forces collapsed under the weight of the invasion, and 400,000 troops found themselves stranded on the sandy shores of Dunkirk, a French coastal town on the cold North Sea.
The German Luftwaffe relentlessly bombed the beach, cornering the Allied troops. However, with England only 33.3 kilometres away across the Strait of Dover, a massive evacuation, codenamed Operation Dynamo, was imperative.
The procedure involved hundreds of naval and civilian vessels to evacuate the stranded soldiers. While three Royal Air Force Spitfires tried to fend off the Nazi attacks, a civilian captain, along with his son and his friend, worked tirelessly to rescue as many soldiers as possible.
Despite the odds, the evacuation was successful--a pivotal point in the war effort. The operation made history as the "Miracle of Dunkirk".
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Dunkirk
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Variation 15 (Dunkirk)
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The Mole
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We Need Our Army Back
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Shivering Soldier
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Supermarine
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The Tide
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Regimental Brothers
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Impulse
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Home
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The Oil
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Variation 15 (Dunkirk) (Benjamin Wallfisch & Sir Edward Elgar)
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Künstler
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End Titles (Dunkirk) (Benjamin Wallfisch, Sir Edward Elgar, Lorne Balfe & Hans Zimmer)
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Hans Zimmer:
Künstler
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