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Dunkirk Movie Essay

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Dunkirk: A Heroic Effort Amidst Emphatic Silence

Ever since our world achieved universal peace once again on the historical day of September 2nd, 1945, historians, survivors, and film directors alike have put their talents together to create monumental artifacts in order to retell famous stories of destruction caused by the Second World War. Although there are many films regarding heroic stamina that occurred within the horrific years of 1939 and 1945 that make up the war film genre, a miraculous story concerning an evacuation of over 340,000 trapped Allied soldiers off of the beaches of Dunkirk, France is often an unreported tale in both the film industry and history classes.
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