Dunkirk (2017)

Dunkerque, France

The scene : 1 minOpening of the film: the handful of British soldiers making their way up the street comes under German fire and scatters to seek shelter, amidst the propaganda leaflets dropped over the city.

Dunkerque, France

The scene : 2 minThe sole survivor of his section, Tommy (Fionn Whitehead) crosses the wooden gate of the garden of a house to escape the gunfire.

Dunkerque, France

The scene : 2 minHailed this time by the French, the British soldier takes cover behind a crate and must shout his allegiance to avoid being shot.

Dunkerque, France

The scene : 2 minTommy leaps over the French barricade and crosses to the other side of the lines.

Dunkerque, France

The scene : 3 minOnce the barricade has been crossed, he descends the street towards the waterfront, where other soldiers await an escort that will not come.

Dunkerque, France

The scene : 3 minEmerging from the street onto the promenade: Tommy discovers the beach and the columns of soldiers lined up facing the sea, from where the wide shots of the deployment and the walk are filmed.

Dunkerque, France

The scene : 6 minThe British stretcher bearers make their way up the promenade, carrying the injured towards the ships.

Dunkerque, France

The scene : 7 minAfter the German bombing, the stretcher bearers resume the evacuation of the wounded towards the boats.

Weymouth, United Kingdom

Old port of Weymouth, lined with colorful Georgian architecture that has remained in place.

The scene : 8 minThe port serves as the English port from where the Moonstone departs: Mr. Dawson (Mark Rylance) decides to take his boat to Dunkirk himself with his son Peter, and it is there that the return journey ends.

Weymouth, United Kingdom

The scene : 8 minGeorge (Barry Keoghan) runs down the dock to reach the boat, determined to take part in the rescue.

Weymouth, United Kingdom

The scene : 8 minThe young boy boards the boat whose owner has just agreed to requisition by the Royal Navy under Operation Dynamo.

Dunkerque, France

It is from this pier that the majority of Allied soldiers embarked during Operation Dynamo, in May-June 1940. The wooden gangway that extended it has since vanished.

The scene : 10 minThe production reconstructed the wooden walkway to film the boarding: the stretcher bearers transport the wounded, German bombers attack the dike and the port in a dive, and the troops eventually join the retreating ships.

Dunkerque, France

The scene : Heart of the device: it is on this beach, at the very spot of the evacuation of 1940, that the mass scenes were filmed — lines of soldiers waiting to embark, the diving attacks, the long wait facing the sea.

Dunkerque, France

The scene : The forecourt of the Kursaal was dressed in a painted wooden set that transformed it into a cement factory for the needs of the film.

Dunkerque, France

A long coastal dike of six kilometers that protects the steelmaking site of Dunkirk. Built after the war, it did not exist in 1940.

The scene : Transformed into an end-of-the-world set, littered with wreckage and bodies, the seawall hosts the forced landing of Farrier's Spitfire and his subsequent capture, as well as the final scenes bringing together the three main characters.

Leffrinckoucke, France

Dune cordon of the Flemish coast, classified as a nature reserve.

The scene : To the east of the assembly area, this is where the soldiers swim back to shore after their ship is torpedoed.

Nantes, France

Escort vessel of the French Navy, today a museum ship docked in Nantes and open for visits.

The scene : The escort ship served as a warship backdrop for the filming.

Marck, France

The scene : Aerodrome used as a base by the production during the filming of the aerial sequences.

Weymouth, United Kingdom

Harbour master's office of Weymouth, located on Custom House Quay.

The scene : The building serves as the offices of the local newspaper where Peter comes to submit George's class photo.

Weymouth, United Kingdom

Seaside performance hall in Weymouth, rebuilt in the 1950s.

The scene : Her silhouette appears in the shots of the beachfront.

Swanage, United Kingdom

Terminus of the Swanage Railway, a heritage railway in Dorset operated with historical trains.

The scene : Tommy and Alex (Harry Styles) board the train that brings them back to London under the cover of darkness, surrounded by vintage carriages.

Lee-on-the-Solent, United Kingdom

The scene : The airfield hosted the shooting of the aerial combat sequences.

Netherlands

The scene : This artificial freshwater lake hosted the majority of the naval scenes: it provided credible horizons and allowed for controlled shipwrecks.

Urk, Netherlands

The scene : The port of Urk, on the IJsselmeer, served as the base for the maritime scenes filmed on the lake.

Lelystad, Netherlands

The scene : Dutch airfield used for filming the aerial sequences.

Hoogeveen, Netherlands

The scene : Second Dutch aerodrome mobilized for aerial shots.

Burbank, United States

One of the largest soundstages of the Warner Bros studios in Burbank, equipped with a tank.

The scene : The set and its basin of seven and a half million liters hosted the interiors of the gutted ship that fills with water.

Universal City, United States

Large outdoor filming tank of the Universal Studios backlot in Universal City.

The scene : The basin was used for aquatic shots requiring fully controlled water.

Rancho Palos Verdes, United States

The scene : On these cliffs overlooking the Pacific, the crew set up a gimbal-mounted Spitfire cockpit to film close-ups of the aerial scenes.

Studland, United Kingdom

Promontory and white chalk needles at the tip of Studland, at the eastern end of the Jurassic coast.

The scene : The white cliffs filmed as the boat returns, prompting the line "Is that Dover? — No, that's Dorset".