History Trivia / Dunkirk

* CreatorChosenCasting: Creator/ChristopherNolan cast Creator/MarkRylance as Mr. Dawson based on his work in the theatre and his performance in ''Series/WolfHall''.

* UncreditedRole: Creator/MichaelCaine has a voice-only {{Cameo}} as the flight leader of the three Spitfires, which is uncredited. Note he also played an RAF fighter pilot in ''Film/BattleOfBritain'' almost 50 years earlier.

* DuelingWorks: With ''Film/{{Darkest Hour|2017}}'' as both films are based on the Dunkirk evacuation. However, while ''Dunkirk'' is focused on the soldiers who were evacuated from the town, ''Darkest Hour'' focuses on Prime Minister Winston Churchill during the events at home.

* AuthorsSavingThrow: Nolan confirming that the film will have "little dialogue" has seemed to win over people who felt Nolan's previous films relied too much on expositionary dialogue.

** This marks the seventh time for both Lee Smith as an editor and Nathan Crowley as a production designer on Nolan's films. In a twist of surprising irony, he was also the Editor for the similarly acclaimed ''Film/1917''.

* UncreditedRole: Creator/MichaelCaine has a voice-only {{Cameo}} as the flight leader of the 3 Spitfires, which is uncredited. Note he also played an RAF fighter pilot in Film/BattleOfBritain almost 50 years earlier.
* VoiceOnlyCameo: As mentioned above, Creator/ChristopherNolan's regular collaborator Creator/MichaelCaine.

* DoingItForTheArt: In true Nolan tradition, he chose to shoot entirely in film rather than digital, going so far as to shoot entirely in 70mm film. (His previous films used 35mm film in some capacity.) He also opted to go for real naval destroyers for the battle scenes (rather than CGI).

* UncreditedRole: Creator/MichaelCaine has a voice-only {{Cameo}}, which is uncredited.
* VoiceOnlyCameo: As mentioned above, Creator/ChristopherNolan's regular collaborator Creator/MichaelCaine is the radio operator who advises them

** This marks the seventh time for both Lee Smith as an editor and Nathan Crowley as a production designer on Nolan's films. In a twist of surprising irony, he was also the Editor for the similarly acclaimed ''Film/1917'', a World War I film.

** This marks the seventh time for both Lee Smith as an editor and Nathan Crowley as a production designer on Nolan's films. In a twist of surprising irony, he was also the Editor for the similarly acclaimed Film/{{1917}}, a World War I film.

** This marks the seventh time for both Lee Smith as an editor and Nathan Crowley as a production designer on Nolan's films. In a twist of surprising irony, he was also the Editor for the similarly acclaimed ''Film/{{1917}}'', a World War I film.

** This marks the seventh time for both Lee Smith as an editor and Nathan Crowley as a production designer on Nolan's films. In a twist of surprising irony, he was also the Editor for the similarly acclaimed 1917, a World War I film.

** This marks the seventh time for both Lee Smith as an editor and Nathan Crowley as a production designer on Nolan's films.

* FanNickname: The Shivering Soldier is often simply called "Creator/CillianMurphy", as he's not given an actual name in the movie proper.

* FakeBrit: Irishmen Creator/CillianMurphy and Barry Keoghan both use English accents.

* StarMakingRole: For newcomer Creator/FionnWhitehead. Music/HarryStyles is already known as one of Music/OneDirection's members, but ''Dunkirk'' is his first acting role. Barry Keoghan also rose to fame with this film, along with Film/TheKillingOfASacredDeer.

* VoiceOnlyCameo: As mentioned above, Creator/ChristopherNolan's regular collaborator Michael Caine is the radio operator who advises them

* GenreKiller: Its success may have done more to [[http://www.slashfilm.com/imax-3d-phasing-out/ end the Millennial 3D Craze]] than Disney's pulling away from the Blu-ray 3D market, 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray not including specifications for 3D presentations, and the discontinuation of most, if not all, 3D television sets have.

** In Nolan's defense, it was actually very easy to not know Harry Styles face or name. A large swath of American culture tries its best to roll their eyes at boy bands and do their best to ignore them entirely.
*** This tends increase with age and he's about fifty. It's also still looked down for men to know much of anything on the subject.
*** And for the final nail, Harry was still working on his solo breakout at the time.

* StuntCasting: {{Subverted|Trope}}. It was believed that this was the case with Music/HarryStyles, but then [[WordOfGod Nolan revealed in an interview]] that he had no idea who Styles was and cast him on the strength of his audition.