In 1940, the Allies had been beaten back by the Nazis across France to the northern port of Dunkirk. In the ultimate race against time, more than 300,000 Allied soldiers were daringly evacuated across the Channel.

This moment of German aggression was used by Winston Churchill as a call to Franklin Roosevelt to enter the war.

Now, Joshua Levine, the film's official historian, explores the real lives of those soldiers, bombed and strafed on the beaches for days on end, without food or ammunition; the civilians whose boats were overloaded; the airmen who risked their lives to buy their companions on the ground precious time; and those who did not escape.


1940 年，納粹德軍夾擊法國北境港口敦克爾克，導致盟軍節節敗退。在十萬火急之際， 30 多萬盟軍士兵英勇越過英吉利海峽撤退。

邱吉爾想藉著這次德國的軍事行動說服羅斯福讓美國參戰。

本片官方歷史學家 Joshua Levine 探究了敦克爾克撤退行動中種種人物的真實經歷：盟軍士兵，他們連續數日遭受敵方飛機的轟炸和掃射，他們用盡彈藥，也沒了兵糧；那些前來支援撤退的民用船船員，他們的船超載了士兵；空中的飛行員，他們冒險生命危險為岸上的同袍爭取寶貴時間；以及那些未能及時撤離的人。