Dunkirk 10 War Movies To Watch If You Liked Christopher Nolans WW2 Epic
Dunkirk: 10 War Movies To Watch If You Liked Christopher Nolan’s WW2 Epic
Christopher Nolan’s modern war epic Dunkirk isn’t the only great war movie of recent memory that you should watch.
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Christopher Nolan’s Academy Award-winning war film, Dunkirk, was released in 2017 but has left a lasting impact on its viewers, and the world of cinema. The film is set during World War II, when British, French, and Belgian soldiers desperately evacuate Dunkirk after losing France to Nazi Germany.
The story is split across several points of view and timelines; one takes place on the ground in Dunkirk, another in the sky, another on the sea. Starring in the intense, atmospheric film is Harry Styles, Cillian Murphy, Tom Hardy, Kenneth Branagh, Fionn Whitehead, and others. Here are ten more impactful war films to watch after Dunkirk.
10 Darkest Hour (2017)
Gary Oldman won an Academy Award for his role as Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour. As the title suggests, this film is all about the darkest time during the war, and one of the darkest times in Britain’s entire history.
Prime Minister Winston Churchill is faced with a tough decision: sign a peace treaty with Germany but capitulate to the Nazis, or continue fighting. As the country loses faith in him, Churchill decides to keep fighting, plunging them deeper into shadow. The movie premiered the same year as Dunkirk, making for an even more impactful viewing experience. Additionally, the events of Dunkirk and Darkest Hour coincide, with Churchill’s famous speech (which was built up to over the course of Darkest Hour) being heard in Dunkirk’s final moments.
9 The Boy In The Striped Pajamas (2008)
A harrowing watch, The Boy In The Striped Pajamas thrust Asa Butterfield into the limelight. He stars as Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a concentration camp. The curious Bruno befriends one of the Jewish boys being held in the camp. Vera Farmiga, David Thewlis, Jack Scanlon, and Rupert Friend also star.
Like Dunkirk, this movie leaves a lasting impact, but for a completely different reason. Viewers can’t help but feel for the young, innocent characters and thus understand the real scope of war. Whereas Dunkirk shows what it’s like to be a solider in combat, The Boy In The Striped Pajamas shows how horrifying it is to be a civilian in war.
8 Unbroken (2014)
Angelina Jolie directs this brutal yet epic movie about an American track athlete who finds himself in an inhuman situation. Also set during the second World War, Unbroken picks up after Olympian Louis Zamperini survives a plane crash.
He ends up becoming a prisoner of war, the harshness of which Unbroken doesn’t skimp on. Jack O’Connell portrays Zamperini, alongside castmates Garrett Hedlund, Miyavi, Finn Wittrock, Jai Courtney, and Domhnall Gleeson.
7 The Zookeeper’s Wife (2017)
Truth be told, The Zookeeper’s Wife would be a suitable choice for those who loved the unconventional aspects of Dunkirk. This movie also takes place during World War II, but focuses on the people left behind rather than those on the front lines.
Antonina Zabinska (Jessica Chastain) is the wife of a zookeeper (Johan Heldenbergh) in Poland in 1939. The Zabinskis make the Warsaw Zoo a secret hiding place for Jews and other people who would otherwise be victims of the Nazis’ cruelty and inhumanity.
6 Schindler’s List (1993)
For those looking for the harshest, most realistic portrayal of war and its effects on people who aren’t even fighting in it, Schindler’s List is one of the greatest war films ever made. Directed by Steven Spielberg, Liam Neeson stars as Oskar Schindler, a member of the Nazi party who tries to save Jews after witnessing the horror they face in Poland.
The film is shot in black and white to give it a timeless effect, and one that leaves no room for beautification or admiration of beauty. Schindler’s List successfully portrays both the horrors of war and the surprising good that rises in the face of such evil, juxtaposing the good against the bad.
5 The Book Thief (2013)
For viewers who enjoyed Dunkirk’s artistry and storytelling, The Book Thief is a perfect choice. Narrated by Death (Roger Allam) himself, the film adaptation of the book of the same name follows a Lisel, who becomes orphaned when her communist mother gives her away.
On her way to her adoptive home, her younger brother dies. She has a hard time adjusting to her new life and the new world that World War II has trusted her into, only finding solace in stealing books and sharing them with the Jewish refugee who’s hiding in her adoptive family’s basement.
4 The Imitation Game (2014)
Benedict Cumberbatch appears in a few of the movies on this list, but he has the starring role in The Imitation Game. Based on true events, the story takes place during World War II, when British mathematician Alan Turing joins the cryptography team to decipher the Nazi Enigma encryption device’s nigh incomprehensible code.
His portrayal of Turing earned him an Oscar nomination and the film won Best Adapted Screenplay. Keira Knightley stars as Joan Clarke, while Alex Lawther portrays a younger, more timid Turing in his schooldays. These flashbacks are key scenes that show how Turing comes to be the way he is as an adult: reserved, independent, and serious.
3 Atonement (2007)
Though Atonement is much more focused on its characters than the actual war, the film is famous for its incredible, long tracking shot of the beach at Dunkirk. In her childhood, Briony Tallis (Saoirse Ronan) wrongfully accuses a young man named Robbie (James McAvoy) of assaulting a young girl.
Her sister Cecelia (Keira Knightley) and Robbie are thus separated and spend the next few years corresponding via mail, promising to find their way back to each other. Now in his third year in the army, Robbie is sick and almost delusional as he treks across the chaotic beach in a single, unbroken shot.
2 1917 (2019)
A rare modern World War I film, Sam Mendes’ 1917 is also filmed to look like one continuous, unbroken shot. The story follows two young soldiers who are given an impossible task: cross enemy territory and No Man’s Land to deliver a message to a battalion by dawn. This message of retreat is pertinent to the two because one of them has a brother in said battalion, which will be wiped out if their commanders don’t call off an attack that’s walking into a trap.
Artfully made, the film manages to deliver a gruesome account of the reality of war, thrusting viewers right into the experience of being in the trenches along with these soldiers.
1 Saving Private Ryan (1998)
This multiple Academy Award-winning film has been hailed as one of the greatest war films ever made, with perhaps the most memorable sequence being the drawn-out opening on Omaha Beach on D-Day. Captain John Miller (Tom Hanks) arrives onto Bloody Omaha with thousands of other men, most of whom are brutally killed within seconds of landing.
The rest of Saving Private Ryan takes place in Normandy, where Miller is in search for Private Ryan, whose three brothers have died in combat and who command wants to bring back home. Dunkirk makes a big deal of war and all of its glory, while Saving Private Ryan is about the smaller, real moments. Whereas Dunkirk triumphs human resilience, Saving Private Ryan shows how much of a desperate struggle World War II — or any war for that matter — really was.
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