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the crew used an actual world war 2 era ships from nine countries 

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700 private boats were used during the evacuation of Dunkirk.

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There were no phones in the french army hq's

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In reality the planes were not painted yellow till after Dunkirk.

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The three main narratives in the movie are fiction but based off true events.

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The evacuation at Dunkirk was referred to as Operation Dynamo.

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Only 30,000 -  45,000 people were expected to get rescued but over 300,000 were actually rescued

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pilots could glide their planes for 15 miles after they ran out of gas.

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A lot of the main characters aren't based off of real people just like Saving Private Ryan.

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The Germans dropped propaganda leaflets on the Allied soldiers who were cornered at Dunkirk.

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The movie only focused on the beach, but there was actually people constantly fighting around the outskirts of Dunkirk.

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In reality, the planes were not painted yellow until about a month after Dunkirk.

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Dunkirk is actually the town's name, while the evacuation itself is referred to as Operation Dynamo

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the beach at Dunkirk was so shallow that the big ships of the royal navy couldn't reach the stranded soldiers.

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in the movie the German army (Wehrmacht) was not as close to the British, French, and Belgian lines and were actually several miles away being stalled in a bloody fight against the French because of their inability to use Panzers (tanks), because of Hitler's orders. also, some of the destroyers/military ships were modern day ones with a few even being armed with visible sea to air missiles

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Operation Dynamo was named after the dynamo room that generated electricity for the British Naval Headquarters located in the secret tunnels underneath Dover Castle.

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None of the main characters are based on real people.

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Commander Bolton was inspired by the real life Captain William Tennant

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Evacuation of 350,000 troops bosted morale and allowed the allies to continue the war.

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About 11,000 soldiers died at the evacuation from Dunkirk.

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Most of the town of Dunkirk had been destroyed.

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Like the British soldier does in the movie, some of the men really did strip off their gear and try to make a lengthy swim toward the boats, while others went as far as trying to swim the English Channel

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There weren't 400,000 allied soldiers standing on the beach in the movie.

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The British airmen wasn't by to protect the soldiers on the beach because most of the dogfights were far from them

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Nearly the whole town of Dunkirk was destroyed afterward

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Characters are based on history but are fictional

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The crew used actual world war 2 era ships from nine countries

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All the characters in Dunkirk are made up, though Nolan did his research in creating them. He and Joshua Levine, a historian who helped work on the script, consulted veterans before filming the movie

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The soldiers on the beach accused the pilots of not doing enough work.

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The Three narratives are fiction but based on a true story

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The characters  in the movie are not based off of real people.

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All characters in the movie where made up but Christopher Nolan consulted actual veterans in rder to get the characters accurate.

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Character are based on history but are fictional

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The characters are based in history, but are fictional

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Tom Hardy character Farrier wasnt based on a real person

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Senior officers in Westminster did order the withdrawal of the best class of Destroyers from the scene just like the movie.

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Dunkirk is the town's actual name, but the evacuation itself was called Operation Dynamo.

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Large amounts of British supplies was left behind and the Germans took it.

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Germany sunk more than 200 allied boats.

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None of the main characters in the movie are based on actual people.

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