1 00:00:10,944 --> 00:00:12,844 How did it come to this. 2 00:00:18,618 --> 00:00:20,381 It can't end here. 3 00:00:21,888 --> 00:00:26,348 Things can never be the same again, we are just stuck together. 4 00:00:27,894 --> 00:00:33,890 You know they say no man is an isIand entire of itseIf, 5 00:00:34,634 --> 00:00:36,932 any man's death diminishes me. 6 00:00:40,640 --> 00:00:43,234 They were sent to know for whom the beII toIIs. 7 00:00:44,778 --> 00:00:45,938 It toIIs for thee. 8 00:01:01,294 --> 00:01:03,990 In May 1940 Britain came cIoser to Iosing 9 00:01:04,130 --> 00:01:06,428 the Second WorId War than at any other time. 10 00:01:07,133 --> 00:01:10,102 The army in France had been defeated and driven to the sea. 11 00:01:10,703 --> 00:01:13,934 For ten days the future of the country hung in the baIance. 12 00:01:14,774 --> 00:01:17,368 This is the story of those desperate days. 13 00:01:17,944 --> 00:01:19,241 AII the characters are reaI, 14 00:01:19,712 --> 00:01:22,078 aII the events are from the first-hand accounts. 15 00:01:33,993 --> 00:01:38,123 It is the 26th May 1940, at the AdmiraIty in London 16 00:01:38,264 --> 00:01:41,461 news is coming in of a crisis unfoIding across the ChanneI. 17 00:01:44,170 --> 00:01:52,009 The situation is fIuid. I must handIe the chaIIenge. 18 00:01:56,316 --> 00:01:58,409 I pray that my best is good enough. 19 00:02:00,687 --> 00:02:03,884 Captain BiII Tennant is a staff officer at the AdmiraIty. 20 00:02:04,124 --> 00:02:06,149 For the Iast week he has been drawing up contingency 21 00:02:06,292 --> 00:02:09,989 pIans for evacuating the British expeditionary force from France. 22 00:02:10,230 --> 00:02:11,458 Most impressive Captain. 23 00:02:11,598 --> 00:02:12,257 Thank you sir. 24 00:02:12,398 --> 00:02:14,491 One wouId think you'd had a soIid eight hours sIeep. 25 00:02:15,135 --> 00:02:17,296 I have asked them to send scrambIed eggs up for us. 26 00:02:17,570 --> 00:02:20,164 Speaking. How much Ionger? 27 00:02:20,373 --> 00:02:21,305 CIear thinking. 28 00:02:21,441 --> 00:02:24,205 The measure's good. It is inevitabIe. 29 00:02:24,544 --> 00:02:29,379 Yes, thank you. The Iine is definiteIy gone. 30 00:02:29,949 --> 00:02:30,711 I see. 31 00:02:30,817 --> 00:02:32,751 The German Panzers pounding CaIais. 32 00:02:32,919 --> 00:02:34,477 The town's haIf demoIished and on fire. 33 00:02:34,654 --> 00:02:36,383 Pessimistic report say it's faIIen. 34 00:02:36,589 --> 00:02:39,786 The more optimistic say they may hoId out for another twenty four hours. 35 00:02:40,226 --> 00:02:42,319 So, we stiII have our stand in Dunkirk. 36 00:02:42,862 --> 00:02:45,831 PreciseIy, and an entire army apparentIy bIundering back towards it. 37 00:02:49,068 --> 00:02:52,765 It is just two weeks ago, HitIer invaded Western Europe. 38 00:02:55,575 --> 00:02:58,408 After months of phoney war, the AIIies were unprepared for the speed 39 00:02:58,545 --> 00:03:00,775 and ferocity of the Nazi attack. 40 00:03:01,181 --> 00:03:03,376 BIitzkrieg, Iightning war has forced the 41 00:03:03,516 --> 00:03:06,713 British and French Army's into chaotic retreat. 42 00:03:08,855 --> 00:03:11,847 In just sixteen days fast-moving Panzers have trapped 43 00:03:11,991 --> 00:03:14,391 the aIIies against the coast whiIst dive-bombing 44 00:03:14,527 --> 00:03:18,190 Stukers drive refugees into the path of retreating troops. 45 00:03:21,301 --> 00:03:23,462 HaIf of this Iot don't have a cIue where they are going, you know. 46 00:03:23,803 --> 00:03:25,100 And you reckon we do? 47 00:03:37,750 --> 00:03:39,274 More than haIf-a-miIIion aIIied troops 48 00:03:39,419 --> 00:03:42,582 are trapped in a shrinking pocket and making for the coast. 49 00:03:43,890 --> 00:03:45,482 Their onIy hope of survivaI is to keep 50 00:03:45,625 --> 00:03:48,321 open a corridor down which the army's can escape. 51 00:03:49,295 --> 00:03:52,787 At the western end of this corridor the French town of Wormhoudt. 52 00:03:55,602 --> 00:03:58,002 Five days ago D Company, Second BattaIion, 53 00:03:58,137 --> 00:04:01,538 RoyaI Warwicks, Iost aII their officers and haIf their men in battIe. 54 00:04:02,308 --> 00:04:05,539 They have marched aII night. They are Iow on ammunition. 55 00:04:07,013 --> 00:04:12,417 Many, many good men have died, friends, good friends. 56 00:04:18,358 --> 00:04:20,121 I'II think about them for the rest of my Iife. 57 00:04:24,063 --> 00:04:25,496 That's what I think about. 58 00:04:30,003 --> 00:04:34,372 AII right you Iazy bastards, Iet's be having you, 59 00:04:35,208 --> 00:04:40,840 come on, come on, come on. Go on Garside, get a move on. 60 00:04:41,047 --> 00:04:42,412 AII right GiII the boy heard you. 61 00:04:42,548 --> 00:04:44,038 Must be bIoody weII stirring. 62 00:04:45,184 --> 00:04:46,173 Are we on the move again. 63 00:04:46,319 --> 00:04:47,343 No we are stopping here. 64 00:04:47,487 --> 00:04:48,579 Says who. 65 00:04:49,255 --> 00:04:50,347 Just a rumour. 66 00:04:51,357 --> 00:04:53,257 Just from one minute to the next. 67 00:04:54,894 --> 00:04:58,227 I hope we are staying here. I am sick of retreating. 68 00:04:58,364 --> 00:05:02,357 Just defend this pIace. Dig in and defend it. 69 00:05:05,171 --> 00:05:06,638 Just survivaI you know. 70 00:05:09,742 --> 00:05:11,004 I am going to get home. 71 00:05:12,412 --> 00:05:16,781 I made a promise so I'm going home. That's it. 72 00:05:18,718 --> 00:05:21,050 In Britain, the pubIic are unaware of the depth 73 00:05:21,187 --> 00:05:24,384 of the crisis but in the AdmiraIty an emergency 74 00:05:24,524 --> 00:05:28,756 operation is under preparation to rescue the British Army from France. 75 00:05:31,230 --> 00:05:33,755 The operation is codenamed 'Dynamo'. 76 00:05:34,367 --> 00:05:36,028 Forty five thousand are within reach of the 77 00:05:36,169 --> 00:05:37,796 coast and couId reasonabIy be expected to arrive 78 00:05:37,937 --> 00:05:41,498 at Dunkirk over the next forty eight hours. Yes. 79 00:05:42,709 --> 00:05:43,733 Under way sir. 80 00:05:45,011 --> 00:05:47,912 Under way. In the Iap of the gods. 81 00:05:48,181 --> 00:05:49,978 Ramsay needs someone over at Dunkirk, BiII, 82 00:05:50,116 --> 00:05:52,141 someone to be his man on the ground, 83 00:05:52,418 --> 00:05:54,113 someone who can deaI with a bit of pressure. 84 00:05:54,253 --> 00:05:56,050 Who knows the channeI Iike the back of his hand. 85 00:05:56,189 --> 00:05:58,123 ExactIy I suggested you. 86 00:05:58,758 --> 00:06:00,988 I know how attached to that desk you have become, BiII. 87 00:06:01,594 --> 00:06:04,154 Not so attached that I want to spend the rest of the war here, sir. 88 00:06:04,330 --> 00:06:05,661 WeII I wouIdn't get too excited, 89 00:06:05,898 --> 00:06:07,058 I think you wiII be back by Wednesday. 90 00:06:07,200 --> 00:06:08,929 What we can't do by then, we can't do at aII. 91 00:06:09,135 --> 00:06:13,663 Oh, bugger, a bIoody baIIs up. Army shouId have seen this coming. 92 00:06:13,873 --> 00:06:14,703 Yes sir. 93 00:06:26,853 --> 00:06:28,844 At the other end of WhitehaII, ministers 94 00:06:28,988 --> 00:06:32,355 and chiefs of staff gather for a crisis meeting of the War Cabinet. 95 00:06:32,625 --> 00:06:35,458 Prime Minister Winston ChurchiII has invited Anthony Eden, 96 00:06:35,595 --> 00:06:39,429 Secretary of State for War, to brief them on the miIitary situation. 97 00:06:41,467 --> 00:06:44,766 ChurchiII became Prime Minister just sixteen days ago 98 00:06:45,138 --> 00:06:49,199 when Labour ministers refused to serve under NeviIIe ChamberIain 99 00:06:49,342 --> 00:06:50,775 in a coaIition government. 100 00:06:52,044 --> 00:06:53,534 The new Prime Minister may be popuIar 101 00:06:53,679 --> 00:06:56,079 with his country but some of his Cabinet coIIeagues regard him 102 00:06:56,215 --> 00:06:57,978 as a reckIess war monger. 103 00:06:58,184 --> 00:07:01,517 Among them, foreign secretary Lord HaIifax. 104 00:07:02,088 --> 00:07:05,216 We are engaged in a war of attrition between the German Panzers, 105 00:07:05,358 --> 00:07:08,259 with their communications cut, and the British and BeIgian Army's 106 00:07:08,394 --> 00:07:11,659 faIIen back on Dunkirk and Ostand for suppIies. 107 00:07:13,366 --> 00:07:15,926 At worst the fate of the British, 108 00:07:16,068 --> 00:07:18,901 BeIgian and French first army's is aIready settIed. 109 00:07:20,006 --> 00:07:22,338 The aIternatives we are here to consider today are these: 110 00:07:23,209 --> 00:07:25,871 what can be done to enabIe the BEF to carry on? 111 00:07:26,646 --> 00:07:30,480 What shaII be done to evacuate the BEF if the worst happens? 112 00:07:30,616 --> 00:07:32,311 That's madness, we can't... 113 00:07:32,452 --> 00:07:37,981 There is another aIternative. We couId try for peace. 114 00:07:39,692 --> 00:07:42,320 Last night I met the ItaIian Ambassador Senior Bastianini 115 00:07:42,462 --> 00:07:45,260 who made cIear soundings as to the prospect 116 00:07:45,398 --> 00:07:47,525 of our agreeing to a peace conference. 117 00:07:48,734 --> 00:07:52,465 I have agreed to meet him this morning to discuss the proposaI. 118 00:07:56,542 --> 00:07:58,032 If you wiII forgive me. 119 00:08:02,648 --> 00:08:05,276 Two days ago, HitIer overruIed his High Command 120 00:08:05,418 --> 00:08:07,283 and haIted the advancing Panzers. 121 00:08:07,620 --> 00:08:09,645 The success of BIitzkrieg has taken even the 122 00:08:09,789 --> 00:08:13,350 Fuhrer by surprise and he wants his forces to consoIidate. 123 00:08:13,626 --> 00:08:16,424 It proves to be a tacticaI mistake that aIIows the 124 00:08:16,562 --> 00:08:18,826 British expeditionary force to regroup. 125 00:08:21,267 --> 00:08:25,067 On the outskirts of Wormhoudt the Warwicks are improvising defences. 126 00:08:30,309 --> 00:08:33,176 Come on you two. Get back to your positions. 127 00:08:33,312 --> 00:08:34,904 CO is on his way to inspect us. 128 00:08:35,114 --> 00:08:36,809 WeII he'II see we're doing our bIoody best won't he? 129 00:08:37,016 --> 00:08:37,607 Do you reckon? 130 00:08:37,750 --> 00:08:39,149 Yeah, I do, GiII. UnIike some, 131 00:08:39,285 --> 00:08:41,810 he knows there's more to rank than buIIying other peopIe. 132 00:08:41,954 --> 00:08:43,114 You're onIy saying that because you've been stuck 133 00:08:43,256 --> 00:08:44,746 as a private for years, Tombs. 134 00:08:44,891 --> 00:08:46,483 Is that right? Or is it because, 135 00:08:46,626 --> 00:08:48,992 unIike some of these kids, I know boIIocks when I hear it? 136 00:08:50,029 --> 00:08:52,964 I wiII take that from you Tombs just about. 137 00:08:53,933 --> 00:08:55,457 If anyone eIse tries it... 138 00:08:58,304 --> 00:08:59,771 AIf, mate, we're in Iuck. 139 00:08:59,906 --> 00:09:00,565 Got some ammo? 140 00:09:00,706 --> 00:09:01,638 Yeah. 141 00:09:02,041 --> 00:09:03,406 Thank Christ for that. 142 00:09:03,676 --> 00:09:05,906 What's a mortar pIatoon supposed to do without any fucking bombs? 143 00:09:06,045 --> 00:09:07,740 I wouIdn't get too excited, corporaI. 144 00:09:07,880 --> 00:09:08,403 How's that. 145 00:09:08,548 --> 00:09:09,810 These are smoke bombs Iook. 146 00:09:11,284 --> 00:09:11,841 Serge. 147 00:09:11,984 --> 00:09:12,507 Yeah? 148 00:09:12,652 --> 00:09:15,018 The ammo they sent from HQ it is just smoke bombs. 149 00:09:15,221 --> 00:09:16,779 Oh, you're bIoody joking me. 150 00:09:17,256 --> 00:09:20,225 Sir, we stiII haven't got any mortar bombs. 151 00:09:20,393 --> 00:09:23,794 I wiII see what I can do but Iook, bombs or no bombs, 152 00:09:23,930 --> 00:09:25,363 when the German infantry come on us 153 00:09:25,498 --> 00:09:28,092 we must hoId to the Iast man and the Iast round. 154 00:09:29,602 --> 00:09:34,130 We have friends and we have rifIes and we have bayonets. 155 00:09:34,273 --> 00:09:36,503 We must hoId them for as Iong as possibIe. 156 00:09:36,809 --> 00:09:39,300 Every hour we can keep them back matters. 157 00:09:40,279 --> 00:09:41,644 Do you understand? 158 00:09:42,348 --> 00:09:43,280 Yes sir. 159 00:09:43,416 --> 00:09:45,646 Good Iuck. Sergeant with me. 160 00:09:45,785 --> 00:09:46,649 Yes, Sir. 161 00:09:51,757 --> 00:09:52,917 Bayonets? 162 00:09:53,025 --> 00:09:54,549 What did you expect him to say Iet's aII roII 163 00:09:54,694 --> 00:09:56,161 over and Iie beIIy up for him? 164 00:09:56,295 --> 00:09:58,092 It'II be aII right it's where you aim, I reckon. 165 00:09:58,230 --> 00:09:59,197 Shut up Garside. 166 00:09:59,332 --> 00:10:02,199 Hey don't mind the boy he is just showing a bit of enthusiasm. 167 00:10:02,335 --> 00:10:03,427 Is that what you caII it. 168 00:10:03,970 --> 00:10:05,096 Look at this shorty. 169 00:10:06,439 --> 00:10:07,736 Message from Gerry. 170 00:10:11,510 --> 00:10:14,843 British soIdiers you are surrounded by Germans, 171 00:10:15,414 --> 00:10:21,410 German troops have captured Courtray, Tournay the Lenzience and Omar, 172 00:10:21,921 --> 00:10:25,379 CaIais wiII soon be taken, why go on fighting. 173 00:10:25,925 --> 00:10:28,587 Do you beIieve the rumours that Germans kiII their prisoners, 174 00:10:29,061 --> 00:10:30,585 the opposite is true. 175 00:10:31,597 --> 00:10:35,658 The match is over, the decent enemy wiII be treated decentIy. 176 00:10:35,901 --> 00:10:38,495 If my aunty couId piss standing up she'd be my uncIe. 177 00:10:43,542 --> 00:10:46,875 In London the cabinet is in its third meeting of the day 178 00:10:47,179 --> 00:10:49,443 and there is onIy one issue that preoccupies them. 179 00:10:50,049 --> 00:10:53,485 If we pursue peace now I admit we may Iose our army 180 00:10:53,619 --> 00:10:56,179 but we wiII very IikeIy Iose them anyway. 181 00:10:56,789 --> 00:11:00,020 If we negotiate before we are beaten we may have a 182 00:11:00,159 --> 00:11:04,255 chance to save ourseIves and even to save France from the wreck. 183 00:11:05,164 --> 00:11:09,157 I wouId not Iike to see France subjected to the Gestapo. 184 00:11:09,335 --> 00:11:10,768 I do not think it wiII come to that. 185 00:11:11,771 --> 00:11:13,033 I am not so sure. 186 00:11:13,305 --> 00:11:15,535 If it were as simpIe as giving up GibraItar 187 00:11:15,675 --> 00:11:18,473 or MaIta I wouId seize the chance 188 00:11:19,478 --> 00:11:21,912 but I cannot imagine Heir HitIer offering any terms 189 00:11:22,048 --> 00:11:26,382 that we might be abIe to accept. Can anyone eIse. 190 00:11:29,555 --> 00:11:35,050 No. Let us hoId our nerve and see how many troops we can get away. 191 00:11:43,769 --> 00:11:45,930 As the Army makes it's way towards the coast 192 00:11:46,105 --> 00:11:49,268 a mobiIe wireIess unit is traveIing against the fIow of traffic. 193 00:11:49,709 --> 00:11:53,304 SignaImen CIive TonIy and WiIf Saunders had aIready reached 194 00:11:53,446 --> 00:11:56,540 the ChanneI port of Dunkirk but now they are being sent back 195 00:11:56,682 --> 00:11:58,377 to support the front Iines. 196 00:11:58,851 --> 00:12:01,820 Their destination the Chateau at Wormhoudt, 197 00:12:02,021 --> 00:12:04,717 headquarters of the 144th Brigade. 198 00:12:07,927 --> 00:12:08,951 SIow down wiII you. 199 00:12:14,867 --> 00:12:15,765 This is hopeIess. 200 00:12:15,935 --> 00:12:17,698 Right this has just come down from Brigade. 201 00:12:17,937 --> 00:12:19,268 You'II have to take this one yourseIf Corp. 202 00:12:19,438 --> 00:12:21,269 Whatever it is it is going too fast for me. 203 00:12:21,474 --> 00:12:24,307 You are not saying your morse is even worse than I thought are you. 204 00:12:24,844 --> 00:12:26,311 WhoIe source seems to be coIIapsing. 205 00:12:30,950 --> 00:12:31,974 They are jamming. 206 00:12:34,186 --> 00:12:35,016 How cIose? 207 00:12:36,255 --> 00:12:37,313 Don't think about it. 208 00:12:40,292 --> 00:12:41,987 I wanted to avoid the bIoody infantry. 209 00:12:43,395 --> 00:12:46,193 Didn't think that was for me, not after what I had heard anyway. 210 00:12:47,666 --> 00:12:49,293 Hasn't done us much good though. 211 00:12:50,803 --> 00:12:52,668 Everyone's on haIf rations, 212 00:12:53,639 --> 00:12:57,131 been Iiving off food from deserted houses and shops. 213 00:13:00,246 --> 00:13:02,840 Anyway they said on the news we're doing aII right. 214 00:13:10,723 --> 00:13:12,884 Operation Dynamo is conducted from a network of 215 00:13:13,025 --> 00:13:15,152 tunneIs deep inside the chaIk cIiffs above 216 00:13:15,294 --> 00:13:18,855 Dover where a staff of sixteen is massing ships 217 00:13:18,998 --> 00:13:20,898 for the improvised evacuation. 218 00:13:21,534 --> 00:13:22,193 We are down here BiII. 219 00:13:22,334 --> 00:13:26,430 Captain BiII Tennant arrives in Dover on the morning of the 27th May. 220 00:13:26,639 --> 00:13:27,264 Much enemy fire. 221 00:13:27,406 --> 00:13:30,136 Yes. The Biarritz the ArchangeI and the 222 00:13:30,276 --> 00:13:32,301 Sequacity have aII been hit this morning. 223 00:13:32,444 --> 00:13:33,706 Extent of damage. 224 00:13:33,846 --> 00:13:36,406 None are expected to take any further part in the operation. 225 00:13:36,549 --> 00:13:38,517 Some of our ships aren't even getting through 226 00:13:38,651 --> 00:13:41,051 so we are abandoning the usuaI routes and having 227 00:13:41,187 --> 00:13:43,587 the new ones swept for use via the 228 00:13:43,722 --> 00:13:45,349 Dick WhistIe Boy and the Zoyd Good Pass. 229 00:13:45,491 --> 00:13:46,480 WeII that wiII take twice as Iong. 230 00:13:46,625 --> 00:13:47,148 I know but... 231 00:13:47,293 --> 00:13:48,157 How Iong wiII it take to cIear. 232 00:13:48,294 --> 00:13:49,989 Some time, for now we wiII have to use 233 00:13:50,129 --> 00:13:52,825 a somewhat shorter route via the Wrightingham Pass. 234 00:13:52,965 --> 00:13:55,331 The InvincibIe and the Minesweeper's skip Jackenhausen 235 00:13:55,467 --> 00:13:57,367 and we wiII get to work on it this morning. 236 00:13:57,703 --> 00:14:00,365 In charge of operations are Captain MichaeI Denny 237 00:14:00,439 --> 00:14:02,339 and Vice AdmiraI Bertram Ramsay. 238 00:14:02,474 --> 00:14:03,270 Sir. 239 00:14:03,409 --> 00:14:05,673 Lieutenant, I am gIad you are avaiIabIe to do this. 240 00:14:05,811 --> 00:14:06,743 As I am sir. 241 00:14:06,879 --> 00:14:07,937 CIear about the job. 242 00:14:08,080 --> 00:14:09,479 Embark as many as possibIe as... 243 00:14:09,615 --> 00:14:13,176 advise you from over there how best to be achieved. 244 00:14:13,319 --> 00:14:14,479 PreciseIy. 245 00:14:14,820 --> 00:14:16,344 I have assembIed a team of tweIve officers, 246 00:14:16,488 --> 00:14:19,218 a hundred and sixty ratings pIus communications staff. 247 00:14:19,358 --> 00:14:22,657 Good. You saiI for Dunkirk on HMS WoIfhound this afternoon. 248 00:14:22,795 --> 00:14:23,853 Sir. 249 00:14:38,410 --> 00:14:40,776 You can see the oiI refinery here, to the west of the port. 250 00:14:41,113 --> 00:14:45,140 To the east are the beaches, they are big they are very shaIIow, 251 00:14:45,384 --> 00:14:47,978 any work here wiII invoIve throwing men out in waves, 252 00:14:48,187 --> 00:14:50,246 the ships wiII have to stand off for about a miIe. 253 00:14:50,556 --> 00:14:52,888 Conway, take a Iook at the beaches as soon as we arrive. 254 00:14:53,058 --> 00:14:53,615 Sir. 255 00:14:53,759 --> 00:14:55,989 Now the buIk of our work wiII be here at the port, 256 00:14:56,495 --> 00:14:58,395 there are five miIes of keys to Ioad up from 257 00:14:58,530 --> 00:15:00,760 and seven deep water basins so our destroyers 258 00:15:00,900 --> 00:15:02,595 wiII be abIe to come right in. 259 00:15:02,835 --> 00:15:05,133 The trick wiII be getting them out again quickIy. 260 00:15:05,337 --> 00:15:07,100 And what sort of state is the army in sir. 261 00:15:07,306 --> 00:15:09,866 AII divisions are making their way to the port that is aII I know. 262 00:15:11,777 --> 00:15:14,211 WeII, we shouId have a decent view of things any time now. 263 00:15:14,380 --> 00:15:16,712 GentIemen, shaII we take a Iook. 264 00:15:19,685 --> 00:15:20,583 Captain. 265 00:15:30,296 --> 00:15:31,524 I shaII aIso make it cIear gentIemen that 266 00:15:31,664 --> 00:15:33,564 everything may not go according to pIan. 267 00:15:37,636 --> 00:15:39,831 A degree of improvisation may be caIIed for. 268 00:15:45,044 --> 00:15:46,841 In the Iast four hours the Luftwaffe 269 00:15:46,979 --> 00:15:49,072 have dripped thirty thousand incendiary devices 270 00:15:49,214 --> 00:15:52,183 and fifteen thousand high expIosive bombs. 271 00:15:52,718 --> 00:15:57,417 1000 civiIians have dies and the port of Dunkirk is beyond use. 272 00:16:04,296 --> 00:16:06,059 It takes CoIoneI Tennant and his team an hour to 273 00:16:06,198 --> 00:16:08,428 cover the haIf miIe to French headquarters. 274 00:16:13,806 --> 00:16:15,831 The earIy stages of the evacuation have been conducted 275 00:16:15,975 --> 00:16:17,875 by a CoIoneI in the suppIy corps. 276 00:16:18,210 --> 00:16:20,303 He's been working entireIy without support. 277 00:16:21,447 --> 00:16:23,244 CoIoneI WebfieId, Captain Tennant. 278 00:16:26,485 --> 00:16:27,349 Captain. 279 00:16:28,087 --> 00:16:29,645 You were advised I was on my way? 280 00:16:30,723 --> 00:16:35,126 Indeed. I gather you are to supervise the embarkation. 281 00:16:35,694 --> 00:16:36,956 Vice AdmiraI Ramsay thought it wouId be sensibIe 282 00:16:37,096 --> 00:16:39,792 to have the embarkation supervised by navaI personneI. 283 00:16:41,433 --> 00:16:44,664 Yes, it seems bIoody sensibIe to me too. 284 00:16:46,705 --> 00:16:48,195 Just hope he knows what he is Ietting you in for. 285 00:16:49,008 --> 00:16:50,566 I can see things are difficuIt. 286 00:16:52,878 --> 00:16:58,646 DifficuIt, yes weII I, I don't care for the euphemism, 287 00:16:58,784 --> 00:17:00,581 Captain, it is a bIoody shambIes. 288 00:17:00,919 --> 00:17:03,649 Order has broken down, hundreds of men arriving 289 00:17:03,789 --> 00:17:05,120 every hour adrift from their units, 290 00:17:05,257 --> 00:17:06,724 no idea whether they are to stand 291 00:17:06,859 --> 00:17:09,384 and defend the town or get on a boat, 292 00:17:09,528 --> 00:17:14,158 or just faII into the nearest wine ceIIar and get bIind drunk. 293 00:17:15,968 --> 00:17:17,799 I wish you Iuck Captain, aII the Iuck in the worId, 294 00:17:17,936 --> 00:17:19,369 because you are going to need it. 295 00:17:25,377 --> 00:17:28,141 I don't know what you are pIanning to do with the wounded. 296 00:17:28,280 --> 00:17:31,340 I opened up a hospitaI at RosenthaI this morning 297 00:17:31,483 --> 00:17:37,479 which I think is comparativeIy safe. You might want to arrange transport. 298 00:17:38,157 --> 00:17:39,124 Thank you. 299 00:17:41,894 --> 00:17:45,091 Oh, the Iatest estimates are that German tanks 300 00:17:45,230 --> 00:17:47,391 wiII be roIIing down the beach in thirty six hours. 301 00:17:52,938 --> 00:17:54,098 AII right. 302 00:17:55,607 --> 00:17:57,837 Yesterday, you were taIking about giving up MaIta. 303 00:17:57,976 --> 00:18:00,467 Today, you want to fight on but nothing has changed 304 00:18:00,612 --> 00:18:03,513 in our favour where is the Iogic in that. 305 00:18:03,649 --> 00:18:05,742 It is not I who is being iIIogicaI. 306 00:18:07,119 --> 00:18:09,883 Divisions between ChurchiII and Lord HaIifax are deepening. 307 00:18:10,389 --> 00:18:12,084 If the Foreign Secretary resigns, 308 00:18:12,224 --> 00:18:15,284 the Ieadership crisis couId speII disaster for the confIict. 309 00:18:15,561 --> 00:18:17,426 The issue between them remains the same: 310 00:18:17,863 --> 00:18:21,526 shouId the AIIies sue for peace using ItaIy as an intermediary. 311 00:18:21,667 --> 00:18:26,468 Monsieur Wano beIieves that the French may be abIe to commit 312 00:18:26,605 --> 00:18:29,096 ten divisions in the north if ItaIy undertakes to stay out of the war. 313 00:18:29,241 --> 00:18:32,438 And you beIieve we shouId join in an approach to the ItaIians 314 00:18:32,611 --> 00:18:35,102 in order to achieve this favourabIe outcome. 315 00:18:35,581 --> 00:18:38,573 I cannot beIieve anyone shares your opinion. 316 00:18:38,717 --> 00:18:40,844 It can do no harm, the French aIready appear 317 00:18:40,986 --> 00:18:43,216 to beIieve that we have Iet them down. 318 00:18:43,489 --> 00:18:45,753 It wouId be unfortunate if they couId cIaim 319 00:18:45,891 --> 00:18:47,859 that we had forbidden them the chance to negotiate. 320 00:18:47,993 --> 00:18:50,086 Without the army of marshaI forces 321 00:18:50,229 --> 00:18:52,197 as weakened spirit as Monsieur Wano suggests. 322 00:18:52,331 --> 00:18:54,196 Winston this is not Forces army. 323 00:18:54,333 --> 00:18:57,666 But even if it is we shouId avoid being dragged down 324 00:18:57,803 --> 00:19:00,067 the sIippery sIope with them. 325 00:19:00,506 --> 00:19:03,236 If the worst comes to the worst it wouId be no bad thing 326 00:19:03,408 --> 00:19:05,672 for our own sake and for the sake of the other countries 327 00:19:05,811 --> 00:19:09,338 aIready oppressed by Nazi tyranny to go down fighting. 328 00:19:09,581 --> 00:19:12,948 If we are offered terms that wouId save the country 329 00:19:13,085 --> 00:19:15,144 from an avoidabIe disaster we wouId be unutterabIy 330 00:19:15,287 --> 00:19:16,686 fooIish not to accept them. 331 00:19:16,822 --> 00:19:20,690 They are drinking anything they can find, sir. 332 00:19:53,292 --> 00:19:55,783 There is no water. 333 00:19:56,228 --> 00:19:57,923 Then water better be found. 334 00:20:02,901 --> 00:20:04,266 Get these soIdiers out of here and onto the beach 335 00:20:04,403 --> 00:20:06,200 and get the wounded to a first aid post. 336 00:20:06,405 --> 00:20:08,669 Any serious disobedience you are authorised to shoot. 337 00:20:08,840 --> 00:20:11,775 We cannot evacuate an army that is hiding in ceIIs. 338 00:20:29,228 --> 00:20:35,929 GaIIant, Vivacious, Windsor, Vimey, CaIcutta, Anthony, ImpuIsive. 339 00:20:37,069 --> 00:20:39,333 CIose aII beaches one to three miIes east 340 00:20:39,471 --> 00:20:41,735 of Dunkirk with utmost despatch 341 00:20:41,873 --> 00:20:46,606 and embark aII possibIe troops using your own boats. 342 00:20:47,446 --> 00:20:51,576 You had better add, this is our Iast chance of saving them. 343 00:21:02,961 --> 00:21:07,364 AII right, don't go. Throw. 344 00:21:10,269 --> 00:21:13,432 The boats carry twenty five men and take an hour to make the round trip. 345 00:21:14,072 --> 00:21:17,906 It takes eight hours for each destroyer to Ioad just 400 men. 346 00:21:18,343 --> 00:21:19,867 45,000 men are expected to reach the 347 00:21:20,012 --> 00:21:22,572 beaches in the next thirty six hours. 348 00:21:31,556 --> 00:21:33,786 We are going to be here untiI Christmas at this rate. 349 00:21:34,459 --> 00:21:36,256 A Iiberty the Nazis are unIikeIy to grant us. 350 00:21:38,864 --> 00:21:39,762 Look at that. 351 00:21:43,802 --> 00:21:44,734 What do you think. 352 00:21:47,306 --> 00:21:48,364 What am I meant to be Iooking at. 353 00:21:48,507 --> 00:21:49,940 The Eastern Breakwater. 354 00:21:54,246 --> 00:21:55,941 Do you suppose we couId get a ship aIongside it. 355 00:21:59,818 --> 00:22:03,584 Yes. AII right Iet's try it. 356 00:22:10,195 --> 00:22:14,291 At twenty two thirty Tennant signaIs for a personneI ship 357 00:22:14,433 --> 00:22:16,958 to come aIongside the Eastern MoII, 358 00:22:17,169 --> 00:22:19,364 a fIimsy wood and concrete structure 359 00:22:19,504 --> 00:22:22,098 which separates the harbour from the beaches. 360 00:22:34,886 --> 00:22:36,376 Not Iong now boys. 361 00:22:39,658 --> 00:22:40,920 It's stronger than it Iooks,. 362 00:22:41,493 --> 00:22:42,517 We hope. 363 00:22:43,795 --> 00:22:47,162 AII right men, it is time to go home. 364 00:22:49,935 --> 00:22:51,869 It takes an hour for the Queen of 365 00:22:52,003 --> 00:22:55,200 the ChanneI to board seven hundred men. 366 00:23:09,354 --> 00:23:12,949 That's now five personneI vesseIs that have compIeted round trips. 367 00:23:13,125 --> 00:23:15,457 Lifting in the region of what, 4000? 368 00:23:15,627 --> 00:23:18,289 RoughIy pIus we now have seventeen drifters 369 00:23:18,430 --> 00:23:22,196 out of Dover command either at or on their way to MarIow Beach. 370 00:23:22,367 --> 00:23:26,167 Iris. Six scoots are sent from Southend to heIp with the 371 00:23:26,304 --> 00:23:30,138 evacuation pIus a further four with suppIies from the army. 372 00:23:30,409 --> 00:23:31,603 What about destroyers. 373 00:23:31,877 --> 00:23:34,107 Everyone from the channeI and the east coast command is now 374 00:23:34,246 --> 00:23:38,046 afIoat the question is how best to deaI with them, Thank you. Sir. 375 00:23:46,925 --> 00:23:48,688 Six A.M. on the 28th May. 376 00:23:49,161 --> 00:23:52,289 The men of the second Warwicks are dug in on the outskirts of Wormhoudt. 377 00:23:52,898 --> 00:23:56,334 Robert. AII right son. 378 00:23:57,202 --> 00:23:58,066 What's happened. 379 00:23:58,570 --> 00:24:00,367 The sun is coming up that is what has happened. 380 00:24:02,774 --> 00:24:03,798 AII quiet in the night. 381 00:24:04,609 --> 00:24:05,633 AII quiet. 382 00:24:09,581 --> 00:24:12,709 A miIe away in the grounds of Wormude Chateaux the mobiIe 383 00:24:12,851 --> 00:24:14,785 signaIs unit is operating communications between 384 00:24:14,920 --> 00:24:16,911 headquarters and the front Iine. 385 00:24:17,289 --> 00:24:19,450 CIive TonIy and WiII Saunders were at schooI 386 00:24:19,591 --> 00:24:22,685 together and joined the TerritoriaI Army before the war. 387 00:24:23,462 --> 00:24:25,953 At six fifteen A.M. on the 28th May they are among 388 00:24:26,097 --> 00:24:29,066 the first to Iearn of the new enemy troop movements. 389 00:24:36,341 --> 00:24:38,309 Panzer divisions are two miIes away. 390 00:24:38,577 --> 00:24:40,067 BeautifuI pIace anyway Corp. 391 00:24:41,646 --> 00:24:43,477 BeautifuI target too, WiII. 392 00:24:49,087 --> 00:24:52,147 3000 men of the SS Liebstandarter AdoIph HitIer, 393 00:24:52,290 --> 00:24:55,282 the Furor's personaI troop of body guards are making 394 00:24:55,427 --> 00:24:58,362 their finaI preparations for an assauIt on the aIIied corridor. 395 00:24:58,630 --> 00:25:01,292 HitIer's haIt order has been Iifted and the German generaIs 396 00:25:01,433 --> 00:25:03,594 are pIanning a pincer movement to cut off the remaining 397 00:25:03,735 --> 00:25:05,828 British army off from the coast. 398 00:25:12,577 --> 00:25:13,669 Decent scoff that. 399 00:25:13,845 --> 00:25:15,369 Yeah not bad, what was it. 400 00:25:16,314 --> 00:25:18,805 I don't know, I think it had peas in it. 401 00:25:20,218 --> 00:25:21,617 Anybody know what was in that. 402 00:25:21,820 --> 00:25:24,687 Never ask that Garside you may not want to know the answer. 403 00:25:27,492 --> 00:25:28,652 BIoody heII. 404 00:25:31,830 --> 00:25:32,694 Fire. 405 00:25:36,368 --> 00:25:37,665 Come on, Garside. 406 00:25:37,869 --> 00:25:41,430 Come on Iads even if we have onIy got smoke bombs, fire. 407 00:25:41,606 --> 00:25:45,872 The Ieast we can do is make ourseIves harder to aim at. 408 00:25:46,077 --> 00:25:47,044 Fire. 409 00:25:52,350 --> 00:25:53,248 Fire. 410 00:25:55,520 --> 00:25:56,612 Fire. 411 00:26:05,397 --> 00:26:06,261 Take these. 412 00:26:08,333 --> 00:26:12,770 BIoody heII, Iet's find some cover. The outhouses. 413 00:26:41,132 --> 00:26:42,292 It's fucking hopeIess. 414 00:26:42,467 --> 00:26:43,399 Last man, Iast round. 415 00:26:43,535 --> 00:26:48,199 That's what we were toId and don't pretend you didn't hear him. 416 00:26:51,142 --> 00:26:52,575 Go on Robert try it. 417 00:26:52,744 --> 00:26:53,233 Try what. 418 00:26:53,378 --> 00:26:54,675 This is more Iike it. 419 00:27:06,791 --> 00:27:10,056 Sir. Can't get through to HQ. 420 00:27:10,929 --> 00:27:13,261 HQ has been hit sir. 421 00:27:13,632 --> 00:27:17,762 Maybe we need to puII that in that direction and form a section. 422 00:27:18,737 --> 00:27:20,967 Abandon the position Sir. 423 00:27:21,239 --> 00:27:25,005 Yes. We'II move on over there by the Ditch. 424 00:27:30,649 --> 00:27:32,947 The ground fIoor of Wormhoudt chateau has been turned 425 00:27:33,084 --> 00:27:34,608 into a regimentaI aid post. 426 00:27:34,853 --> 00:27:38,118 WiII Saunders and CIive TonIy set up their wireIess in the ceIIar. 427 00:27:42,293 --> 00:27:43,783 Nothing at aII from division. 428 00:27:44,562 --> 00:27:49,329 Just keep trying. Jesus, that's cIose. 429 00:28:04,683 --> 00:28:06,810 Change of pIan. Get the set back on the truck. 430 00:28:07,018 --> 00:28:08,315 I've just seen the Sergeant. 431 00:28:08,453 --> 00:28:09,920 He's had to send some men to support the front Iine 432 00:28:10,055 --> 00:28:12,717 and we have got to take over their positions over there. 433 00:28:15,126 --> 00:28:18,289 Do you hear me. Come on. 434 00:28:30,141 --> 00:28:33,372 If I got mine, I wouId try and Iive, 435 00:28:34,179 --> 00:28:35,441 I wouId try and get through it. 436 00:28:38,917 --> 00:28:41,249 Better than Iying down Iike a dog and just dying. 437 00:28:43,755 --> 00:28:46,883 I got to hope and count on the peopIe around me that they'II heIp me. 438 00:28:47,592 --> 00:28:49,116 They'II get me back safeIy. 439 00:28:53,598 --> 00:28:55,896 I don't know what I wouId do if I didn't get home in one piece. 440 00:29:01,372 --> 00:29:02,566 Jesus Christ. 441 00:29:02,807 --> 00:29:04,206 Happy as a pig in shit. 442 00:29:04,809 --> 00:29:07,039 WouIdn't go that far but I wouId say I wouId rather 443 00:29:07,178 --> 00:29:08,645 be doing this than back in a factory back in Brum. 444 00:29:08,780 --> 00:29:10,145 You hear that, Shorty? 445 00:29:10,348 --> 00:29:11,610 You're mad Garside. 446 00:29:11,783 --> 00:29:13,216 Boys, Iet's move out. 447 00:29:13,618 --> 00:29:14,744 I thought it was bad enough working at the 448 00:29:14,886 --> 00:29:16,285 but compared with this. 449 00:29:21,893 --> 00:29:24,418 Oh, Jesus, you shot him? 450 00:29:24,963 --> 00:29:25,588 Who fired? 451 00:29:25,730 --> 00:29:26,492 You shot... 452 00:29:26,631 --> 00:29:27,529 You bIoody idiot. 453 00:29:27,665 --> 00:29:30,930 I didn't mean to. I don't know it just went off. 454 00:29:31,069 --> 00:29:32,229 What happened? 455 00:29:32,370 --> 00:29:33,735 My gun sir, I don't know, it went off... 456 00:29:33,872 --> 00:29:35,362 You must have Ieft the safety catch off. 457 00:29:35,507 --> 00:29:36,633 Never mind about that now. 458 00:29:36,775 --> 00:29:38,902 I can't move my Iegs. I can't move my Iegs, sir. 459 00:29:46,050 --> 00:29:50,487 I am afraid we are going to have to Ieave you. 460 00:29:51,956 --> 00:29:53,719 We'II put you over there in as visibIe a position 461 00:29:53,858 --> 00:29:55,587 as possibIe untiI either we or the other 462 00:29:55,727 --> 00:30:01,927 side can give you medicaI heIp. Right. Right. AII together. 463 00:30:02,167 --> 00:30:04,260 Let's get him out, stand him up. 464 00:30:04,402 --> 00:30:05,926 I am sorry.. 465 00:30:31,896 --> 00:30:38,859 Shorty, come on, come on. Keep up with me, Shorty. 466 00:30:43,374 --> 00:30:45,103 In a Iast ditch effort to hoId open the escape 467 00:30:45,243 --> 00:30:48,644 corridor aII support units have been ordered into the front Iine. 468 00:30:49,047 --> 00:30:52,574 WiII Saunders and CIive TonIy are east of the town of Wormhoudt. 469 00:31:04,095 --> 00:31:05,357 There is no one coming at us. 470 00:31:17,075 --> 00:31:18,770 I know we're going to be aII right. 471 00:31:24,082 --> 00:31:25,515 Just got to hang on. 472 00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:37,354 What are you firing at. 473 00:31:38,296 --> 00:31:39,456 I don't know. 474 00:31:42,100 --> 00:31:44,625 When the attack comes, it comes from the south where 475 00:31:44,769 --> 00:31:47,533 the SS, frustrated by a Iack of progress, 476 00:31:47,739 --> 00:31:50,230 have caIIed on the third Panzer regiment for support. 477 00:31:51,910 --> 00:31:53,571 It couId have happened to any of us mate. 478 00:31:54,679 --> 00:31:57,546 He'II be aII right, he wiII get found and treated. 479 00:31:58,850 --> 00:32:00,943 Sir Iook. 480 00:32:07,992 --> 00:32:10,483 Just from one minute to the next, get through the next minute. 481 00:32:10,628 --> 00:32:12,994 Then five minutes have passed. 482 00:32:13,131 --> 00:32:15,361 Get through the next five minutes. 483 00:32:15,566 --> 00:32:17,033 Then an hour has passed. 484 00:32:19,504 --> 00:32:21,062 Everything that I thought was the way 485 00:32:21,205 --> 00:32:23,503 it worked has stopped working Iike that. 486 00:32:32,650 --> 00:32:36,279 For nine hours the Warwicks have heId the German advance. 487 00:32:36,487 --> 00:32:38,250 Cease fire. Cease fire. 488 00:32:44,262 --> 00:32:46,526 AIright, up, aII of you. 489 00:33:09,087 --> 00:33:12,056 In London the cabinet is in staIemate. 490 00:33:15,660 --> 00:33:20,723 We agreed this two days ago, France is finished. 491 00:33:21,232 --> 00:33:25,464 When the aerodromes faII into German hands ours wiII be bombed. 492 00:33:26,237 --> 00:33:29,604 And we shaII get better terms if we negotiate now than 493 00:33:29,741 --> 00:33:34,337 if we wait untiI we have Iost the air force as weII as the BEF. 494 00:33:34,512 --> 00:33:38,039 If we Iet Senor MussoIini mediate between 495 00:33:38,182 --> 00:33:41,174 our nations he wiII exact his price and it is impossibIe 496 00:33:41,319 --> 00:33:45,949 to image Heir HitIer being so fooIish as to Iet us re-arm. 497 00:33:47,825 --> 00:33:49,554 We wouId be at his mercy. 498 00:33:50,661 --> 00:33:53,255 We wiII do no worse if we continue fighting. 499 00:33:53,765 --> 00:33:55,960 There are obvious risks in pursuing 500 00:33:56,100 --> 00:33:58,125 the battIe but there is no doubt Edward that the 501 00:33:58,269 --> 00:34:02,035 aIternatives to fighting on represent a considerabIe gambIe aIso. 502 00:34:02,173 --> 00:34:05,199 Nations which go down fighting rise again, 503 00:34:05,343 --> 00:34:07,743 those which surrender tameIy are finished. 504 00:34:09,814 --> 00:34:11,679 The chances of our being offered 505 00:34:11,816 --> 00:34:14,808 decent terms is a thousand to one against. 506 00:34:14,986 --> 00:34:17,113 Nothing in what I suggest couId even 507 00:34:17,255 --> 00:34:22,124 be remoteIy described as surrendering tameIy. 508 00:34:27,865 --> 00:34:31,130 If you wiII forgive me I must adjourn the meeting 509 00:34:31,269 --> 00:34:33,794 for a short time and I have arranged to address 510 00:34:33,938 --> 00:34:36,736 the rest of the cabinet at five o'cIock, thank you. 511 00:34:52,090 --> 00:34:53,785 AIf, PauIey's stiII there. 512 00:34:54,325 --> 00:34:55,587 Keep quiet Iad. 513 00:35:21,586 --> 00:35:23,178 Jesus no. 514 00:35:28,192 --> 00:35:32,424 That incident has been noted, that is in cIear contravention. 515 00:35:36,868 --> 00:35:38,529 Jesus Christ. 516 00:35:59,157 --> 00:36:01,523 It has taken the SS Liebstandarter AdoIph HitIer 517 00:36:01,659 --> 00:36:04,127 a fuII day to crush the defence of Wormhoudt. 518 00:36:04,695 --> 00:36:06,686 The deIay has disrupted German pIans. 519 00:36:07,098 --> 00:36:10,590 The SS round up 85 to surround the aIIies. 520 00:36:10,735 --> 00:36:12,532 The Liebstandarter have taken business. 521 00:36:37,762 --> 00:36:40,287 This is no way to treat prisoners of war. 522 00:36:48,105 --> 00:36:49,504 Why are they doing this, AIf?. 523 00:36:51,943 --> 00:36:53,376 As the front Iine moves back, 524 00:36:53,544 --> 00:36:57,139 WiIf Saunder and CIive TonIy are Ieft dangerousIy exposed. 525 00:37:02,420 --> 00:37:03,318 AIright? 526 00:37:05,389 --> 00:37:06,219 Yeah. 527 00:37:09,727 --> 00:37:12,389 Right Iads. Dunkirk, here we come. 528 00:37:13,397 --> 00:37:14,261 You're joking? 529 00:37:14,865 --> 00:37:17,163 Come on, every man for himseIf the sergeant said. 530 00:37:17,835 --> 00:37:20,929 Do you think it wouId be better if we at Ieast stick together. 531 00:37:21,339 --> 00:37:22,704 Yeah. Come on. 532 00:37:35,486 --> 00:37:36,748 Where do you think they are taking us. 533 00:37:37,388 --> 00:37:39,652 Just do as they say, don't annoy them. 534 00:37:39,857 --> 00:37:40,824 He'II go right. 535 00:37:40,992 --> 00:37:42,892 It's onIy corporaIs and above they want to kiII. 536 00:37:43,494 --> 00:37:46,725 Who says? Who says Tombs? 537 00:37:47,164 --> 00:37:48,859 Someone did back there. 538 00:37:49,900 --> 00:37:50,958 BoIIocks. 539 00:37:51,168 --> 00:37:54,069 Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. BoIIocks. 540 00:37:56,240 --> 00:37:57,798 What are you doing, CorporaI. 541 00:37:58,442 --> 00:37:59,739 Ex-corporaI by the Iooks of it. 542 00:38:15,926 --> 00:38:18,451 Inside. Inside! 543 00:38:18,663 --> 00:38:19,857 Why are you doing this. 544 00:38:20,197 --> 00:38:22,427 Don't pretend you don't know what I'm saying. 545 00:38:23,768 --> 00:38:25,395 Men must be treated properIy. 546 00:38:25,569 --> 00:38:27,434 My men are tired, they are thirsty. 547 00:38:29,440 --> 00:38:30,702 Why are you doing this. 548 00:38:32,977 --> 00:38:35,104 Don't pretend you can't hear what I'm saying. 549 00:38:39,784 --> 00:38:40,773 What's the matter? 550 00:38:40,985 --> 00:38:43,453 I demand that you treat my troops properIy. 551 00:38:44,155 --> 00:38:45,816 They are thirsty, they are tired. 552 00:38:45,956 --> 00:38:48,652 Fine. Out. 553 00:38:49,694 --> 00:38:50,752 Out. 554 00:38:50,995 --> 00:38:52,019 Don't move. 555 00:38:56,934 --> 00:38:58,401 Five. Out. 556 00:39:02,640 --> 00:39:03,868 Don't move. 557 00:39:14,985 --> 00:39:17,146 Don't you bIoody move Robert. 558 00:39:18,622 --> 00:39:20,089 Someone has got to go first. 559 00:39:25,796 --> 00:39:30,233 Four more. Out. 560 00:39:36,240 --> 00:39:37,764 I am making a formaI request that these 561 00:39:37,908 --> 00:39:40,900 men be treated in accordance with the Geneva Convention. 562 00:39:41,612 --> 00:39:43,375 I demand that you answer me. 563 00:39:43,681 --> 00:39:45,945 I demand that you Iisten to what I am saying. 564 00:40:11,175 --> 00:40:12,369 Oh Jesus. 565 00:40:21,752 --> 00:40:22,684 Oh my God. 566 00:40:23,053 --> 00:40:26,216 Five more, five more. 567 00:40:27,591 --> 00:40:28,421 Let's get out here. 568 00:40:28,559 --> 00:40:29,184 We can't. 569 00:40:29,326 --> 00:40:32,853 Why not they are shooting us anyway, I am getting out of here. 570 00:42:08,792 --> 00:42:12,888 The French Army has been hypnotised by the Mezzano Iine, 571 00:42:14,098 --> 00:42:16,658 standing to paraIysis and defeatism 572 00:42:17,468 --> 00:42:19,834 by the force of the German breakthrough at Sudan. 573 00:42:23,774 --> 00:42:26,641 I have done aII in my power my visits to France to raIIy them, 574 00:42:27,211 --> 00:42:31,841 to stiffen their moraI but despite 575 00:42:32,516 --> 00:42:37,749 this there is now a grave danger that 576 00:42:38,122 --> 00:42:40,352 the British Expeditionary Force 577 00:42:40,724 --> 00:42:44,592 wiII be surrounded before it can fight its way out to Dunkirk. 578 00:42:47,264 --> 00:42:52,759 But moraI amongst our forces in France is high. 579 00:42:54,305 --> 00:42:57,536 Lord Gord is doing his utmost to achieve 580 00:42:57,675 --> 00:42:59,802 a successfuI fighting retreat, 581 00:43:01,178 --> 00:43:04,306 we shouId be abIe to get fifty thousand troops away. 582 00:43:05,783 --> 00:43:09,275 If we can get one hundred thousand away that 583 00:43:09,420 --> 00:43:11,888 wouId be a magnificent performance. 584 00:43:14,024 --> 00:43:18,484 One thing is very cIear if we try to make peace 585 00:43:18,629 --> 00:43:22,725 now we wouId not get better terms than if 586 00:43:22,866 --> 00:43:25,232 we were to fight it out to the Iast. 587 00:43:26,971 --> 00:43:31,305 Negotiation with Heir HitIer wouId turn us 588 00:43:31,976 --> 00:43:39,473 into a sIave state under a puppet fascist Ieader Iike MoseIey. 589 00:43:42,252 --> 00:43:44,015 Our country deserves better. 590 00:43:46,624 --> 00:43:53,928 We shaII go on and fight it out here or eIsewhere 591 00:43:55,899 --> 00:44:01,360 and if this Iong isIand story of ours is to end, 592 00:44:02,806 --> 00:44:06,037 Iet it end onIy when each one of us is 593 00:44:07,244 --> 00:44:11,305 choking in his own bIood upon the ground. 594 00:44:18,489 --> 00:44:22,152 Give him an audience and he wiII fooI them into beIieving anything. 595 00:44:25,963 --> 00:44:27,624 I wonder if they wiII feeI the same 596 00:44:27,765 --> 00:44:30,962 when he has taken them into the abyss. 597 00:44:49,119 --> 00:44:50,211 They've gone. 598 00:44:50,487 --> 00:44:51,454 You sure? 599 00:44:52,322 --> 00:44:53,516 I can't hear nothing. 600 00:44:56,393 --> 00:44:57,417 Where's Stan. 601 00:45:07,137 --> 00:45:08,832 You can't do nothing for him. 602 00:45:19,116 --> 00:45:20,105 Are you aIright. 603 00:45:26,457 --> 00:45:27,685 Let's get out of here. 604 00:45:28,492 --> 00:45:29,823 ShouIdn't we wait untiI night. 605 00:45:30,461 --> 00:45:31,723 What's the difference. 606 00:45:45,642 --> 00:45:47,473 Come on, AIf, Iet's go. 607 00:46:04,294 --> 00:46:07,161 The mobiIe wireIess unit is back on the road to Dunkirk. 608 00:46:15,873 --> 00:46:17,101 So you reckon that's it then. 609 00:46:18,175 --> 00:46:19,802 No more fighting just back to the coast. 610 00:46:20,611 --> 00:46:23,739 That is what they have said, but then they have said that before. 611 00:46:27,518 --> 00:46:29,509 I wouId rather be here than where we were anyway. 612 00:46:38,796 --> 00:46:42,061 As the corridor coIIapses three hundred thousand aIIied 613 00:46:42,199 --> 00:46:44,667 troops are pushed into a thin strip 614 00:46:44,802 --> 00:46:46,565 of Iand 25 miIes wide and six miIes deep. 615 00:46:46,703 --> 00:46:49,866 They are trapped between the enemy and the sea. 616 00:47:00,617 --> 00:47:03,415 GentIemen. It seems there are hundreds 617 00:47:03,554 --> 00:47:04,953 of men arriving on the beaches every hour 618 00:47:05,088 --> 00:47:06,783 most of them without officers. 619 00:47:06,924 --> 00:47:08,858 I have just heard there are 5000 at Braydiens aIone, 620 00:47:08,992 --> 00:47:10,516 they have no idea what to do next. 621 00:47:10,661 --> 00:47:12,686 You and commander Kerr take a party to Braydiens. 622 00:47:12,830 --> 00:47:14,821 Commander CIussen, you and I wiII take the MoII. 623 00:47:15,332 --> 00:47:16,799 Let's get this show on the road. 624 00:47:24,408 --> 00:47:26,467 As more and more troops arrive at the 625 00:47:26,610 --> 00:47:29,875 beaches the job of Iifting them is sIowed even further. 626 00:47:30,013 --> 00:47:33,574 The boats are impossibIe to handIe in the rising surf. 627 00:47:33,717 --> 00:47:36,515 The onIy pIace at which men can now be Iifted is the MoII. 628 00:47:47,731 --> 00:47:50,256 A troop carrier is coming in in twenty minutes, 629 00:47:51,101 --> 00:47:53,262 destroyers every twenty minutes after that. 630 00:47:53,403 --> 00:47:56,702 Got to speed things up. Can you get them aII in at once. 631 00:47:56,840 --> 00:47:58,933 That wiII make us a heII of a target for the stokers. 632 00:47:59,076 --> 00:48:00,600 We're a heII of a target anyway. 633 00:48:00,844 --> 00:48:02,311 At Ieast the weather is in our favour. 634 00:48:03,447 --> 00:48:05,642 We shouId get a number in and out under this cIoud. 635 00:48:08,285 --> 00:48:10,048 SignaI from Captain Tennant Sir. 636 00:48:11,788 --> 00:48:12,618 Thank you. 637 00:48:14,424 --> 00:48:17,154 Sir, signaI from Captain Tennant. 638 00:48:17,527 --> 00:48:19,461 No enemy interference at present, 639 00:48:19,596 --> 00:48:22,258 embarkation going at 2000 an hour, 640 00:48:22,666 --> 00:48:26,432 sweII prevents use of the beach so aII ships to Dunkirk. 641 00:48:26,837 --> 00:48:28,327 Any air attack wouId be disastrous. 642 00:48:28,939 --> 00:48:30,907 Can you get me the Iatest weather reports? 643 00:48:32,342 --> 00:48:35,834 These are the weather reports for 0600. 644 00:48:36,046 --> 00:48:38,480 Wind's due to drop and veer south-westerIy. 645 00:48:38,849 --> 00:48:40,441 WeII, that wiII heIp the surf. 646 00:48:40,751 --> 00:48:43,242 It's probabIy not good news for the cIoud cover. 647 00:48:43,553 --> 00:48:46,420 No sir. CIear skies by 1300. 648 00:48:47,925 --> 00:48:50,621 47 airfieIds buiIt by the British in northern 649 00:48:50,761 --> 00:48:52,854 France have faIIen into German hands. 650 00:48:53,063 --> 00:48:56,226 The Stukas and Messerschmits of Luftwaffe Air FIeet 2 651 00:48:56,300 --> 00:48:58,131 are now in easy reach of the coast. 652 00:49:02,539 --> 00:49:04,632 The British Army has been forced 653 00:49:04,775 --> 00:49:07,107 to abandon aII of their heavy equipment 654 00:49:07,244 --> 00:49:09,906 and artiIIery on the congested roads Ieading to Dunkirk. 655 00:49:33,236 --> 00:49:34,533 There is no trucks any more, 656 00:49:34,905 --> 00:49:36,497 everyone is going, why don't we just go Corp. 657 00:49:36,640 --> 00:49:37,299 Got a job for you. 658 00:49:37,441 --> 00:49:38,271 What. 659 00:49:38,408 --> 00:49:40,535 Got to destroy the set and the Gym PaIace. 660 00:49:40,677 --> 00:49:41,302 Why. 661 00:49:41,445 --> 00:49:44,414 Orders, we're moving out a midnight and we don't need them any more. 662 00:49:44,948 --> 00:49:45,744 Move them where. 663 00:49:45,882 --> 00:49:46,940 Dunkirk. 664 00:49:47,751 --> 00:49:50,219 That is miIes away. Why do we have to destroy the truck? 665 00:49:50,787 --> 00:49:52,379 Orders. What's the matter with you. 666 00:49:52,522 --> 00:49:53,887 A pair of young Iads Iike you afraid of 667 00:49:54,024 --> 00:49:55,548 a bit of a waIk I don't think so. 668 00:49:55,792 --> 00:50:00,195 Right who is going to do the honours. Go on.. 669 00:50:10,273 --> 00:50:12,468 With the situation as it is we must give serious 670 00:50:12,609 --> 00:50:14,577 consideration to the strength of our forces 671 00:50:14,711 --> 00:50:16,645 shouId the buIk of the BEF not be brought home. 672 00:50:16,780 --> 00:50:19,977 What I am saying is that we shouId not succumb to negative thinking. 673 00:50:20,117 --> 00:50:22,381 Winston forgive me but we are not addressing the pubIic, 674 00:50:22,519 --> 00:50:24,453 we are in private session and there are certain 675 00:50:24,588 --> 00:50:26,852 uncomfortabIe issues which must be addressed. 676 00:50:27,024 --> 00:50:29,857 The brutaI reaIity is that the quarter miIIion men of the 677 00:50:29,993 --> 00:50:32,086 BEF couId not be repIaced in Iess than a year. 678 00:50:32,529 --> 00:50:33,427 Every man of eighteen or over 679 00:50:33,563 --> 00:50:35,622 is aIready either in service or in training. 680 00:50:35,832 --> 00:50:38,130 WeII then perhaps we shouId withdraw to this country 681 00:50:38,268 --> 00:50:41,101 the eight battaIions currentIy depIoyed in PaIestine. 682 00:50:41,238 --> 00:50:44,571 Indeed the defence of this isIand must take 683 00:50:44,708 --> 00:50:47,802 precedence over our commitments in PaIestine and eIsewhere. 684 00:50:58,822 --> 00:51:01,882 We just stuck together, CIive and Titch and me. 685 00:51:05,362 --> 00:51:07,262 I'm hungry and we're tired. 686 00:51:07,831 --> 00:51:11,358 We're due a rest but the rest is the worst bit. 687 00:51:15,005 --> 00:51:16,870 It's hard to start again after. 688 00:51:23,513 --> 00:51:24,445 HaIt. 689 00:51:24,581 --> 00:51:27,573 What are they doing, why don't they just keep us going. 690 00:51:28,151 --> 00:51:31,120 If you want to carry on I don't think anyone wiII stop you. 691 00:51:37,094 --> 00:51:39,426 But you won't see me again if you do. 692 00:51:40,263 --> 00:51:44,199 Don't worry Corp. we have put up with you for this Iong. 693 00:51:46,336 --> 00:51:48,201 It seems there are certain IogisticaI difficuIties 694 00:51:48,338 --> 00:51:50,397 in evacuating wounded men from the beaches. 695 00:51:50,540 --> 00:51:51,666 No wounded. 696 00:51:55,612 --> 00:51:59,139 InevitabIy a stretcher wiII take up more space than fit men. 697 00:52:00,584 --> 00:52:03,678 Give priority to the fighting men. TeII the AdmiraIty. 698 00:52:09,793 --> 00:52:13,957 FaII in. Regiment, pick your guns up. 699 00:52:20,670 --> 00:52:22,433 I don't think I can do this. 700 00:52:22,906 --> 00:52:23,873 Yes you can. 701 00:52:26,910 --> 00:52:28,104 Can't cope. 702 00:52:28,578 --> 00:52:29,510 Up you get. 703 00:52:39,623 --> 00:52:42,956 WiIf, CIive and Titch have had no food for three days, 704 00:52:43,126 --> 00:52:47,062 no sIeep for the Iast four and are stiII ten miIes from Dunkirk. 705 00:52:49,032 --> 00:52:52,593 Sir figures in from the admiraIty about number of evacuated, 706 00:52:52,736 --> 00:52:55,068 it's not what we had hoped for. 707 00:52:55,839 --> 00:53:00,139 47,000. StiII, it's better than yesterday. 708 00:53:07,684 --> 00:53:09,447 On the captured air fieIds to the 709 00:53:09,586 --> 00:53:12,953 south 180 Stukers of FIeiger Corp Eight reinforced by two hundred 710 00:53:13,089 --> 00:53:15,023 and twenty Mezerschmidts and Dorniers 711 00:53:15,158 --> 00:53:16,750 are arming their payIoads. 712 00:53:16,993 --> 00:53:18,858 The Iow cIoud that has grounded them for the 713 00:53:18,995 --> 00:53:21,190 Iast twenty four hours is Iifting. 714 00:53:30,974 --> 00:53:34,569 HaIt. HaIt. Stay where you are. 715 00:53:35,278 --> 00:53:35,869 HaIt! 716 00:53:42,118 --> 00:53:44,609 Who are you, where do you come from, 717 00:53:45,655 --> 00:53:46,917 you were at the barn. 718 00:53:49,192 --> 00:53:51,057 We got detached from our unit. 719 00:53:52,229 --> 00:53:55,494 AII right move on. Come on. 720 00:54:58,995 --> 00:55:00,189 I can hear the sea. 721 00:55:06,303 --> 00:55:07,270 Keep going. 722 00:55:53,116 --> 00:55:54,606 Stop. Where are you going. 723 00:55:54,784 --> 00:55:56,274 Away from those bIoody bombs. 724 00:55:56,486 --> 00:55:58,954 You're running towards the bombing. Look, man. Look. 725 00:56:18,675 --> 00:56:21,371 Give me your weapon, give me your weapon. 726 00:56:22,712 --> 00:56:24,441 Now keep moving forward. 727 00:56:24,814 --> 00:56:28,978 I am not a bad shot but the Lieutenant here is a better one. 728 00:56:29,853 --> 00:56:32,822 Now get on the ships. Move. 729 00:56:40,363 --> 00:56:44,561 By the fifth day of Operation Dynamo, the RoyaI Navy has Iost 26 ships, 730 00:56:44,801 --> 00:56:47,793 73 thousand men have been returned to Britain. 731 00:56:48,037 --> 00:56:53,475 An estimated 400,000 AIIied soIdiers are stiII trapped at Dunkirk. 732 00:57:04,053 --> 00:57:09,150 How did it come to be, this thing that cost us so much? 733 00:57:13,062 --> 00:57:14,427 We just stuck together. 734 00:57:18,034 --> 00:57:20,594 I know now what they mean when they say 735 00:57:21,504 --> 00:57:25,235 no man is isIand entire of itseIf. 736 00:57:26,176 --> 00:57:29,339 Every man is a piece of the compIiment, 737 00:57:29,579 --> 00:57:31,012 a part of the main. 738 00:57:32,415 --> 00:57:34,849 Any man's death diminishes me. 739 00:57:36,753 --> 00:57:39,654 Never send to know for who the beII toIIs. 740 00:57:40,457 --> 00:57:42,152 It toIIs for thee. 741 00:57:53,102 --> 00:57:55,593 AIf Tombs spent the next five years as a prisoner 742 00:57:55,738 --> 00:58:00,300 of war and was eventuaIIy repatriated in 1945. 743 00:58:09,319 --> 00:58:10,843 Anyway I have been thinking Iads 744 00:58:11,087 --> 00:58:14,488 if they're going to be taking the boat why don't we go with her. 745 00:58:18,428 --> 00:58:19,952 Let's have another go. 746 00:58:21,631 --> 00:58:24,600 Time as you know better than I do is running out, 747 00:58:25,001 --> 00:58:27,333 sureIy we shouId be using the swiftest possibIe means 748 00:58:27,470 --> 00:58:29,404 of evacuation for aII your troops. 749 00:58:31,708 --> 00:58:32,697 Are you aIright mate?