Dunkirk (TV series)
| Dunkirk | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Docudrama |
| Written by | Alex Holmes Neil McKay Lisa Osborne |
| Directed by | Alex Holmes |
| Starring |
Simon Russell Beale Clive Brunt Phil Cornwell |
| Narrated by | Timothy Dalton |
| Composer(s) | Samuel Sim |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 3 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Mike Dormer Peter Lovering Laura Mackie |
| Producer(s) | Rob Warr |
| Editor(s) | Oliver Huddleston |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Distributor | BBC |
| Release | |
| Original network | BBC Two |
| Picture format | 16:9 |
| Audio format | Stereo |
| Original release | 18 February – 20 February 2004 |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows |
Dunkirk: The Soldiers' Story The Other Side of Dunkirk |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Dunkirk is a 2004 BBC television docudrama about the Battle of Dunkirk and the Dunkirk evacuation in World War II.
Dunkirk used archive film footage, eyewitness accounts and original dramatised sequences to describe the events of the 1940 Dunkirk evacuation. The BBC also included an interactive 'red button' facility to allow television viewers reach further information. The documentary has been described as helping the BBC build 'Digital Britain' and fulfill its public service remit.
Day 1: Captain Bill Tennant, RN, at the Admiralty receives reports of the British Expeditionary Force's retreat and prepares to oversee Operation Dynamo. Private Alf Tombs and his decimated company rest at Wormhoudt on the western end of the corridor to Dunkirk. New Prime Minister Winston Churchill chairs a briefing of the War Cabinet where Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax presses for peace negotiations. Adolf Hitler has halted the Blitzkrieg, giving Tombs’s company time to consolidate their position and Signalmen Clive Tonry and Wilf Saunders return to offer support.
Day 2: Tennant sails from Dover on HMS Wolfhound to find the Port of Dunkirk decimated by enemy bombardment. Divisions between Churchill and Halifax deepen over the proposed mediation of Italy, threatening a leadership crisis. Embarkation progresses slowly and Tennant signals the Queen of the Channel to come alongside the eastern breakwater to speed up the process.
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