Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk tops poll of UK’s favourite second world war films

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Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk has been voted the UK’s favourite 2nd satellite warfare film, beating classics specified arsenic The Dam Busters and The Bridge connected the River Kwai.

The 2017 film, starring Harry Styles, Cillian Murphy and Barry Keoghan, portrays the 1940 evacuation of much than 330,000 Allied troops from the French coast.

Saving Private Ryan (1998) placed second, followed by The Great Escape (1963) successful third, with The Dam Busters (1955) and Battle of Britain (1969) completing the apical five.

Directed by Steven Spielberg, Saving Private Ryan follows a peculiar US detachment searching for a missing soldier aft the Normandy invasion. The Great Escape tells the communicative of a radical of Allied prisoners effort to flight a Nazi camp.

The poll, conducted by Deltapoll for the War Movie Theatre podcast, pitted modern warfare films against older movies, considered classical by galore fans. Other entries successful the apical 10 included The Longest Day, A Bridge Too Far, Pearl Harbor and Schindler’s List.

The writer and writer Robert Hutton, co-host of the War Movie Theatre podcast with chap writer Duncan Weldon, said: “Cinema has ever been looking for large stories, and warfare provides everything, heroism, motivation conflict, adventure, romance.

“Even arsenic the 2nd satellite warfare was being fought, it was inspiring immoderate of the top films of the past century, specified arsenic In Which We Serve oregon Went the Day Well?, which present moments of quality play and drama arsenic good arsenic action.

“Afterwards, it became a mode for america to archer ourselves stories astir what had happened, and past a procreation later, with Saving Private Ryan, it became a mode to commemorate.”

On Dunkirk topping the list, Hutton said: “It’s not astonishing that Dunkirk is apical of the list, it’s the astir palmy warfare movie of the past decade. But it’s noteworthy that fractional the database is from the aureate epoch of warfare movies successful the 50s and 60s. Four of them were made wrong 8 years of each other.

“I’m a small bittersweet that John Mills, who seemed to beryllium permanently successful azygous connected Sunday day TV successful my childhood, doesn’t get a movie successful this list.

“And I’d person liked to spot astatine slightest 1 of the large Alistair MacLean commando movies, Where Eagles Dare oregon The Guns of Navarone, successful there. But chiefly I’m appalled to spot Pearl Harbor connected the list, which ought to beryllium a warfare crime.”

The afloat apical 10 list, according to the War Movie Theatre podcast poll, was arsenic follows: