One of my gifts this Christmas was a blu-ray of Christopher Nolan’s most recent feature, Dunkirk, which was released in theaters on July 21, 2017, and I had been excited to see for months beforehand. I could not count how many times I watched the trailers of my own accord or in the attempts to get other people as psyched about this film as I was. It seems an odd thing to be “excited” for a war movie but the main reason I was aside from it being made by Nolan is its representation on the silver screen of a chapter in World War II history not widely discussed. I will say this now for those who have not seen in the film or heard this event referred to in school, mild spoilers ahead.