Dunkirk Named UK’s Favourite WWII Film in National Poll

A recent poll commissioned by Deltapoll for the War Movie Theatre podcast has named Christopher Nolan's 2017 film Dunkirk as the UK's favorite Second World War movie, surpassing classics such as Saving Private Ryan and The Great Escape. The film depicts the 1940 evacuation of over 330,000 Allied soldiers from the French coast and has been recognized as the most successful war movie of the last decade. Saving Private Ryan (1998) was voted second, followed by The Great Escape (1963) and The Dam Busters (1955) in third and fourth places respectively. The top ten also includes films like The Battle of Britain (1969), The Longest Day (1962), A Bridge Too Far (1977), Pearl Harbour (2001), Schindler’s List (1993), and The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957). According to Robert Hutton, co-host of the War Movie Theatre podcast, war films have long captivated audiences by providing stories filled with heroism, moral conflict, adventure, and romance, with half the top ten films originating from the golden era of war movies in the 1950s and 60s. The poll also highlights a trend toward preference for war films based on true stories over fictionalized tales, with some classic films like Where Eagles Dare notably absent from the top ten.