5.060 minSeason 1 • Episode 3
LatestDunkirk has become a siege town. While a large number of the army have been evacuated many tens of thousands still remain. Jimmy Langley is injured during fierce fighting trying to hold back the final German advance and taken to a casualty clearing station where Major Newman has been trying to evacuate his wounded patients. However no arrangements have been made for them and they are left behind to face the Germans who arrive on the same day as Churchill makes his famous speech vowing 'we will never surrender'.
Major factual drama telling the story of history's greatest maritime evacuation, after the World War II Battle of Dunkirk in May and June 1940.
Acting
Cumberbatch's pre-fame intensity and Beale's Churchillian gravitas.
Production
2004 BBC budget doing absolute MOST with period detail.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made for BBC One's 60th anniversary of Dunkirk with surviving veterans consulted throughout production.
This miniseries helped revive British interest in the 'Dunkirk spirit' nearly a decade before Nolan's film made it global.
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