Though almost all of the faces in Dunkirk are white, that isn’t representative of the battle’s real-life history. When Dunkirk debuted in India at the end of July, critics were quick to point out its ...

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 story of the World War II evacuation at Dunkirk — the subject of Christopher Nolan’s well-reviewed new film — starts well before the men who were part of one of the most famous events in modern ...

This summer’s big movie is “Dunkirk.” Since its July 21 opening, it has taken in over $100 million in North America and been hailed by ecstatic critics everywhere. I have seen the film twice, admiring ...

Even before the announcement that he’d been diagnosed with brain cancer, Sen. John McCain was facing special venom from his enemies — including some Republicans, notes Elliot Kaufman at National ...

The Dunkirk movie is primarily a reaction to the old patriotic propaganda movies of the past. The hero always wins, and if there is sacrifice, it’s always noble, and always worth it. Before we dismiss ...

Watching Dunkirk, I was again and again reminded of Wilfred Owen, the British poet who was killed, aged 25, in the final week of World War I, and wrote, “My subject is War, and the pity of War. The ...

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To read Allen Barra’s review of the film “Dunkirk,” click here. More than any other story to come out of World War II, with the possible exception of the Battle of Stalingrad, and perhaps more than ...

Christopher Nolan’s war movie is as intriguing for what it leaves out as what it puts in. By Stephen Galloway On May 10, 1940, just a few months after the outbreak of World War II, an aging and ...

This image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Fionn Whitehead in a scene from "Dunkirk." (Melissa Sue Gordon/Warner Bros. Pictures via AP) With guest host Jane Clayson. Dunkirk, the sweeping ...