10 Huge Historical Inaccuracies In Chris Nolan's Dunkirk

There were 400,000 British and Commonwealth troops trapped at Dunkirk, but it sure doesn't look like it.

Images and recollections from the time describe huge columns and crowds of thousands of men, which are mostly absent from the movie. A thousand extras were employed, along with rows of cardboard cut-outs for long shots of waiting soldiers, but it doesn't quite do the job. It's a rare instance where some CGI might have actually been a good idea in recreating the sheer scale of the evacuation.

And it's not just nervous British Tommies that are missing. The evacuation sites were covered in anti-aircraft emplacements, hundreds of vehicles, thousands of discarded rifles, and heaps of gear, supplies, rations and everything else that didn't need to be taken onto a boat.

It looked like the aftermath of a serge-themed Glastonbury festival, which is something the modern-day people of Dunkirk are probably grateful Nolan didn't try to recreate.