Question

What are three things from the film Dunkirk that are NOT historically accurate. How do you know this?

Answer 1

Answer:

1 The British ships in the movie appear to be expected at the mole during daylight hours, although orders given at the beginning of June 1940 had made it clear that they would only come in at night.

2 Equally remiss is the failure to profile the bitter rows between French and British commanders over whether the British should carry on holding the port until more French troops could be evacuated. Nor is there even the smallest reference to the number of troops left behind at Dunkirk when the evacuation was terminated: on the British side, a hospital full of British wounded staffed by a skeleton staff of doctors and medical orderlies, and on the French side no less than 80,000 soldiers.

3 women appear at Dunkirk on some of the little ships, although I never encountered any in the course of my research.