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00:12How did it come to this?
00:16There's so many of us.
00:19It can't end here.
00:23Things can never be the same again.
00:26We're just stuck together.
00:29You know this, eh?
00:31No man is an island, entire of itself.
00:35Any man's death diminishes me.
00:41Never send to know for whom the bell tolls.
00:45It tolls for thee.
01:02In May 1940, Britain came closer to losing the Second World War than at any other time.
01:08The army in France had been defeated and driven to the sea.
01:12For ten days, the future of the country hung in the balance.
01:16This is the story of those desperate days.
01:19All the characters are real.
01:20All the events are from first-hand accounts.
01:34It is the 26th of May, 1940.
01:37At the Admiralty in London, news is coming in of the crisis unfolding across the Channel.
01:45The situation is, uh, fluid.
01:48Fluid.
01:52It's a habit of a challenge.
01:57I pray that my best is good enough.
02:02Captain Bill Tennant is a staff officer at the Admiralty.
02:05For the last week, he has been drawing up contingency plans for evacuating the British Expeditionary Force from France.
02:11Most impressive, Captain.
02:13Thank you, sir.
02:13I would think you'd had a solid eight hours' sleep.
02:16I've asked them to send scrambled eggs up for us.
02:19Speaking.
02:20Now, how much longer?
02:21Clear thinking.
02:22Information's good.
02:24But it's inevitable.
02:26Yes.
02:29The line's definitely gone.
02:31I see.
02:32German panzers pound in Calais.
02:34Town half-abolished and on fire.
02:36Pessimistic report says it's fallen.
02:38More optimistic say they may hold out for another 24 hours.
02:41So, we still have our stand and dunked out.
02:44Precisely.
02:45And an entire army, apparently, blundering back towards them.
02:50Just two weeks ago, Hitler invaded Western Europe.
02:56After months of phony war, the Allies were unprepared for the speed and ferocity of the Nazi attack.
03:03Blitzkrieg, lightning war, has forced the British and French armies into chaotic retreat.
03:10In just 16 days, fast-moving panzers have trapped the Allies against the coast, whilst dive-bombing Stukas drive refugees
03:17into the path of retreating troops.
03:22I don't think this lot have got a clue where they're going, you know.
03:25And you reckon we do.
03:39More than half a million Allied troops are trapped in a shrinking pocket and are making for the coast.
03:45Their only hope of survival is to keep open a corridor down which the armies can escape.
03:50At the western end of this corridor, the French town of Wormont.
03:56Five days ago, D Company, 2nd Battalion, Royal Warwick's, lost all their officers and half their men in battle.
04:03They have marched all night.
04:05They are low on ammunition.
04:08Many, many good men who have died.
04:11Friends.
04:12Good friends.
04:19I'll think about them for the rest of my life.
04:25That's what I think about him.
04:31All right, you lazy bastards.
04:34Let's be having you.
04:36Come on.
04:37Come on, come on.
04:40Come on, Garcite.
04:41Get a move, run.
04:42All right, Gil.
04:43The boy heard you.
04:44Must be bloody well stirring.
04:46Are you on the move again?
04:47No, we're stopping here.
04:49Say, zoo.
04:50Just a rumour.
04:52Just from one minute to the next.
04:54Get off.
04:56I hope he's staying here.
04:58I'm sick of retreating.
04:59Just defend this place.
05:02Dig in and defend it.
05:06Just survival, you know.
05:11I'm going to get home.
05:13I made a promise.
05:16So I'm going home.
05:17That's it.
05:20In Britain, the public are unaware of the depth of the crisis.
05:23But in the Admiralty, an emergency operation is under preparation to rescue the British Army from France.
05:32The operation is codenamed Dynamo.
05:3545,000 are within reach of the coast.
05:37Could be reasonably expected to arrive at Dunkirk over the next 48 hours.
05:42Yes.
05:44Underway, sir?
05:46Underway.
05:48In the lap of the gods.
05:49Ramsey needs someone over at Dunkirk, Bill.
05:51Someone to be his man on the ground.
05:54Someone who can deal with a bit of pressure.
05:55And there's a channel out the back of his hand.
05:57Exactly.
05:58I suggested you.
06:00I know how attached to that desk you've become, Bill.
06:03Not so attached I want to spend the rest of the water here, sir.
06:05I wouldn't get too excited.
06:07I think he'll be back by Wednesday.
06:08What we can't do by then, we can't do at all.
06:11Absolute bloody loser!
06:13Army should have seen this coming.
06:15Yes, sir.
06:21John.
06:28At the other end of Whitehall, ministers and chiefs of staff gather for a crisis meeting
06:32of the War Cabinet.
06:34Prime Minister Winston Churchill has invited Anthony Eden, Secretary of State for War, to
06:39brief them on the military situation.
06:42Churchill became Prime Minister just 16 days ago, when Labour ministers refused to serve
06:48under Neville Chamberlain in a coalition government.
06:53The new Prime Minister may be popular with the country, but some of his cabinet colleagues
06:57regard him as a reckless warmonger, among them Foreign Secretary, Lord Halifax.
07:02We are engaged in a war of attrition, between the German Panzers with their communications
07:07cut, and the British and Belgian armies falling back on Dunkirk and Ostend for supplies.
07:13What about...
07:13I'm not totally glad.
07:15Worst, the fate of the British, Belgian and French First Armies is already settled.
07:21The alternatives we're here to consider today are these.
07:24What can be done to enable the BEF to carry on?
07:27What shall be done to evacuate the BEF if the worst happens?
07:32There is another alternative.
07:37We could try for peace.
07:40Last night I met the Italian ambassador, Signor Bastianini, who made clear soundings as to the
07:46prospect of our agreeing to a peace conference.
07:49I have agreed to meet him this morning to discuss the proposal.
07:57If you will forgive me.
08:03Two days ago, Hitler overruled his high command and halted the advancing panzers.
08:08The success of Blitzkrieg has taken even the Fuhrer by surprise, and he wants his forces to consolidate.
08:14It proves to be a tactical mistake that allows the British expeditionary force to regroup.
08:22On the outskirts of Wormwood, the Warrecks are improvising defensively.
08:26Hey!
08:28Go outside!
08:31Come on, you two!
08:33You've got your positions.
08:34CO's on his way to inspect us.
08:36I don't see who we're doing our bloody best, wouldn't he?
08:38You reckon?
08:38Yeah, I do, Gil.
08:40Because unlike some, you know there's more to rank than bullying other people.
08:43You're only saying that because you've been stuck as a private for years, Tombs.
08:46Is that right?
08:47Or is it because unlike some of these kids, I know bollocks when I hear it?
08:51I'll take that from you, Tombs.
08:53Just about.
08:55If anyone else tries it.
08:59Alf, mate, we're in luck.
09:01Got some ammo?
09:02Yeah.
09:03Thank Christ for that.
09:05Some mortar platoon you're supposed to do without any fucking bombs.
09:07I wouldn't get too excited, Corporal.
09:09How's that?
09:10These are smoke bombs, look.
09:13Sarge?
09:13Yeah?
09:14The ammo they sent from HQ, it's just smoke bombs.
09:16Oh, you're bloody joking me.
09:18Sir, you still haven't got any mortar bombs, sir.
09:22I see what I can do.
09:23But look, bombs or no bombs, when the German infantry come at us,
09:27we must hold to the last man and the last round.
09:30We have Brens, we have rifles, we have bayonets.
09:35We must hold them for as long as possible.
09:38Every hour we can keep them back matters.
09:41Do you understand?
09:43Sir.
09:44Sir.
09:44Good luck.
09:46Sergeant, with me.
09:47Yes, sir.
09:53Bayonets.
09:54What did you expect him to say?
09:55Let's all roll over and lie belly up for them.
09:57That'll be all right.
09:58That's where you aim, I reckon.
09:59Shut up, Garcide.
10:01Hey, don't mind the boy.
10:02He's just showing a bit of enthusiasm.
10:04Is that what you call it?
10:05What have we got there, shorty?
10:08Message from Jerry.
10:12British soldiers, you are surrounded by Germans.
10:16German troops have captured Courtre, Tourne, Valenciennes, St. Omer.
10:23Calais will soon be taken.
10:25Why go on fighting?
10:27Do you believe the rumours that Germans kill their prisoners?
10:30The opposite is true.
10:32The match is over.
10:34A decent enemy will be treated decently.
10:37If my auntie could piss standing up, she'd be my uncle.
10:44In London, the cabinets are in their third meeting of the day.
10:48There is only one item on the agenda.
10:51If we pursue peace now, I admit we may lose our army,
10:55but we will very likely lose them anyway.
10:58If we negotiate before we are beaten,
11:01we may have a chance to save ourselves
11:03and even to save France from the wreck.
11:06I would not like to see France subjected to the Gestapo.
11:10I do not think you will come to that.
11:13I am not so sure.
11:14If it were as simple as giving up Gibraltar or Malta,
11:18I would seize the chance.
11:20But I cannot imagine Herr Hitler offering any terms
11:23that we might be able to accept.
11:32Let us hold our nerve and see how many troops we can get away.
11:44As the army makes its way towards the coast,
11:47a mobile wireless unit is travelling against the flow of traffic.
11:51Signalmen Clive Tonry and Wolf Saunders
11:53had already reached the channel port of Dunkirk,
11:56but now they are being sent back to support the front lines.
12:00Their destination, the Chateau at Wormut,
12:03headquarters of the 144th Brigade.
12:09Slow down, will you?
12:16This is hopeless.
12:17Right, this has just come down from Brigade.
12:19You're going to have to take this on yourself,
12:20or whoever it is is going to chip fast for me.
12:23You're not saying your morse is even worse than I thought, are you?
12:26Your source seems to be collapsing.
12:32We're jamming us.
12:35They're closed.
12:37Don't think about it.
12:41I wanted to avoid the infantry.
12:44Didn't think that was for me,
12:46not after what I'd heard anyway.
12:49It hasn't done us much good, though.
12:50Well, everyone's on half-rations.
12:54Been living off food from deserted houses and shops.
13:01Anyway, they said on the news we're doing all right.
13:12Operation Dynamo is conducted from a network of tunnels
13:15deep inside the chalk cliffs above Dover,
13:17where a staff of 16 is massing ships
13:20for the improvised evacuation.
13:22We're down here, Bill.
13:23Captain Bill Tennant arrives in Dover
13:26on the morning of the 27th of May.
13:28Much enemy fire?
13:29Yes.
13:29The Bearritz, the Archangel,
13:31and the Sequacity have all been hit this morning.
13:34Extent of damage?
13:35None are expected to take any further part in the operation.
13:38Some of our ships aren't even getting through,
13:39so we're abandoning the usual routes
13:41and having the new one swept for use
13:44via the Dick Whistleboy and the Zoitgood Pass.
13:46That'll take twice as long.
13:48I know, but...
13:48How long will it take to clear?
13:50Sometime.
13:50For now, we'll have to use a somewhat shorter route
13:52via the writing and pass.
13:54The Invincible and the Minesweepers
13:56Skipjack and Halsey,
13:57and we'll get to work on it this morning.
13:59In charge of operations are Captain Michael Denny
14:01and Vice-Admiral Bertram Ramsey.
14:04Sir.
14:04Tennant.
14:05I'm glad you're available to do this.
14:07As I am, sir.
14:08Clear about the job?
14:09Embark as many as possible, as swiftly as possible.
14:12Advise you from over there for how best to achieve it.
14:14Precisely.
14:16I've assembled a team of 12 officers,
14:18160 ratings-plus communications staff.
14:20Good.
14:21You'll sail for Dunkirk on HMS Wolfhound this afternoon.
14:24Sir.
14:39You can see the oil refinery here to the west of the port.
14:42To the east are the beaches.
14:44They're big, but very shallow.
14:46Any work here will involve ferrymen out in whalers.
14:49The ships will have to stand off about a mile.
14:52Conway, take a look at the beaches as soon as we arrive.
14:54Sir.
14:55Now, the bulk of our work will be here at the port.
14:57There are five miles of keys to load up from
15:00and seven deep-water basins,
15:01so our destroyers will be able to come right in.
15:04The trick will be getting them out again quickly.
15:06And what sort of state is the army in, sir?
15:08All divisions are making their way to the port.
15:10That's all I know.
15:13Well, we should have a decent view of things any time now.
15:15Gentlemen, shall we take a look?
15:17Yes, sir.
15:18Yes, sir.
15:21Captain.
15:45In the last four hours, the Luftwaffe have dropped 30,000 incendiary devices
15:50and 15,000 high-explosive bombers.
15:541,000 civilians have died, and the port of Dunkirk is beyond use.
16:05It takes Captain Tennant and his team an hour
16:07to cover the half-mile to French headquarters.
16:14The early stages of evacuation have been conducted
16:17by a colonel in the supply corps.
16:19He's been working entirely without support.
16:22Colonel Whitfield.
16:23Captain Tennant.
16:27Captain.
16:29You've advised I was on my way.
16:31Indeed.
16:32I, uh...
16:34I gather you ought to supervise the embarkation.
16:37By several ramps, he thought it'd be sensible
16:38to have the embarkation supervised by naval personnel.
16:42Yes, we did, too.
16:44He seems bloody sensible to me, too.
16:47Just hope he knows what he's letting you in for.
16:50I can see things are difficult.
16:54Difficult?
16:56Yes, well, I, uh...
16:58I don't care for euphemism, Captain.
17:00It's a bloody shambles.
17:02Order has broken down.
17:04Hundreds of men arriving every hour,
17:05adrift from their units.
17:06No idea whether they're there to stand
17:08and defend the town
17:10or get on a boat
17:11or just fall into the nearest wine cellar
17:14and get blind drunk.
17:17I wish you luck, Captain.
17:18All the luck in the world
17:19because you are going to need it.
17:27I, um...
17:28I don't know what you're planning to do
17:29with the wounded.
17:29I...
17:31I opened up a hospital at Rosendahl this morning
17:33which I think is comparatively safe.
17:35You, um...
17:37You might want to arrange transport.
17:42Oh, the...
17:44The latest estimates are
17:45the German tanks will be rolling down the beach
17:47in 36 hours.
17:54All right.
17:57Yesterday you were talking about giving up Malta.
17:59Today you want to fight on.
18:01But nothing has changed in our favour.
18:03Where is the logic in that?
18:05Lord I was being illogical.
18:08Divisions between Churchill and Lord Halifax
18:10are deepening.
18:11If the foreign secretary resigns,
18:13a leadership crisis could spell disaster
18:15for the country.
18:16The issue between them remains the same.
18:19Should the Allies sue for peace
18:20using Italy as an intermediary?
18:23Monsieur Ueno believes that the French
18:25may be able to commit
18:26ten divisions in the north
18:27if Italy undertakes to stay out of the war.
18:30And you believe we should join
18:31in an approach to the Italians
18:33in order to achieve this favourable outcome.
18:36I cannot believe anyone shares your opinion.
18:39It can do no harm.
18:41The French already appear to believe
18:42that we have let them down.
18:44It would be unfortunate
18:45if they could claim
18:46that we had forbidden them
18:47the chance to negotiate.
18:49I doubt the army of Marshal Foch
18:51is as weak in spirit
18:52as Monsieur Ueno suggests.
18:53Winston, this is not Foch's army.
18:55But even if it is,
18:57we should avoid being dragged
18:59down the slippery slope with them.
19:01If the worst comes to the worst,
19:03it will be no bad thing
19:04for our own sake
19:05and for the sake
19:06of the other countries
19:07already oppressed
19:08by Nazi tyranny
19:09to go down fighting.
19:10If we are offered terms
19:13that would save the country
19:14from an avoidable disaster,
19:16we would be unutterably foolish
19:19not to accept them.
19:25Hurry, people!
19:28Hurry, people!
19:54They're drinking anything
19:55they can find, sir.
19:56if there's no water
19:57then water better be found.
20:03Get these soldiers out of here
20:05and onto the beach
20:05and get the wounded
20:06to a first aid post.
20:07Any serious disobedience
20:09you will rise to shoot.
20:10We cannot evacuate an army
20:12that is hiding in cellars.
20:30Gallant, vivacious, Windsor,
20:33Vimy, Calcutta,
20:36Antony, impulsive.
20:37Close all beaches
20:39one to three miles
20:40east of Dunkirk
20:42with utmost dispatch
20:43and embark all possible troops
20:46using your own boats.
20:49You'd better add
20:49this is our last chance
20:52of saving them.
21:04All right!
21:05Now go!
21:07Come back!
21:08Go!
21:10The boats carry 25 men
21:13and take an hour
21:13to make the round trip.
21:15It takes eight hours
21:16for each destroyer
21:17to load just 400 men.
21:1945,000 men are expected
21:21to reach the beaches
21:22in the next 36 hours.
21:32We're going to be here
21:33until Christmas
21:34at this rate.
21:35Liberty the Nazis
21:36are unlikely to grant us.
21:40Look at that.
21:45What do you think?
21:48What am I meant
21:49to be looking at?
21:50The eastern breakwater.
21:55You suppose we could get
21:56a ship alongside it?
22:01Yes.
22:02All right.
22:04Let's try it.
22:11At 2230 on the 27th of May,
22:14Captain Tennant signals
22:15for a personnel ship
22:16to come alongside
22:17the eastern mole,
22:18a flimsy wood
22:19and concrete structure
22:20which separates
22:21the harbour
22:22from the beaches.
22:26Ready to go!
22:29Ready to go!
22:30Go, boys!
22:32Go, boys!
22:33Violence is coming!
22:35Come on now, boys!
22:40Stronger than it looks.
22:42You will hope.
22:44All right, men!
22:47All right, men!
22:47It's time to go home!
22:50In one hour,
22:52the personnel vessel,
22:53Queen of the Channel,
22:55board 700 men.
23:02And it's time to go home!
23:05And it's time to go home!
23:10That's now five personnel vessels
23:12that have completed round trips.
23:14Lifting the region of what?
23:164,000?
23:17Roughly.
23:17Plus, we now have
23:1817 drifters
23:20out of Dover Command
23:21either at or on their way
23:22to Marlow Beach.
23:23Iris!
23:25Six scoots have sent
23:26from South End
23:27to help with the evacuation
23:28plus a further
23:29forward supplies
23:30from the Army.
23:31What about destroyers?
23:33Everyone from the Channel
23:34on the East Coast
23:34commands now afloat.
23:35Question is
23:36how best to deal with them.
23:38Sir?
23:39Sir?
23:41Sir?
23:48Six a.m. on the 28th of May.
23:50The men of the Second Warwick's
23:51are dug into the fields
23:52south of Wormoot.
23:54Robert.
23:55Robert.
23:56All right, son.
23:58What's happened?
24:00Son's coming up.
24:00That's what's happened.
24:04All quiet in the night?
24:05All quiet.
24:10A mile to the east
24:11in the grounds of Wormoot Chateau,
24:13the mobile wireless unit
24:14is running communications
24:15for three brigades
24:17on the front line.
24:18Clive Tonnery
24:19and Wilf Saunders
24:20were at school together
24:21and joined the Territorial Army
24:23before the war.
24:24At 6.15 on the 28th of May,
24:27they're among the first
24:28to learn of new
24:29enemy troop movements.
24:37Panzer Division's
24:38less than two miles away.
24:39Beautiful place anyway, Corp.
24:42Beautiful target too, Wilf.
24:503,000 men of the SS
24:52Leibstandard Adolf Hitler,
24:53the Führer's personal guard,
24:55are making their final
24:56preparations for an assault
24:58on the Allied corridor.
24:59Hitler's halt order
25:00has been lifted
25:01and the German generals
25:03are planning a pincer movement
25:04to cut off the remnants
25:05of the British army
25:06from the coast.
25:14decent scoff, that.
25:15Yeah, not bad.
25:16What was it?
25:17Dunno.
25:19Think it had peas, innit?
25:21Anybody know what was in that?
25:23Never ask that guy aside.
25:24You may not want to know the answer.
25:28Bloody hell!
25:33Fire!
25:37Come on, first sight!
25:39Come on, lad,
25:40even if we have only got
25:41smoke bombs!
25:42Fire!
25:42Bloody more to go in!
25:44Things we can do
25:45is make ourselves
25:46order to IMAX!
25:47Fire!
25:50Fire!
25:53Fire!
25:56Fire!
26:06Let's have these.
26:09Bloody hell!
26:10Let's find some cover!
26:12Let's get out, houses!
26:15Fire!
26:15Fire!
26:19Fire!
26:19Fire!
26:21Fire!
26:21Fire!
26:22Fire!
26:27Fire!
26:28Fire!
26:28Fire!
26:42Fucking homeless!
26:43Last man, last round deal!
26:45That's what we were told!
26:47and don't pretend you didn't hear him.
26:52Come on, Robert, say it! Say what?
26:54This is more like it!
27:08Sir!
27:09I can't get through to HQ.
27:12You think I can hit, sir?
27:14Maybe we need to pull back in that direction
27:18and form a section.
27:19You want to abandon the position, sir?
27:22Yes.
27:24We'll move along over there by the ditch.
27:31The ground floor of Woomont Chateau
27:33has been turned into a regimental aid post.
27:36Wolf Saunders and Clive Tonry
27:37have set up their wireless in the cellar.
27:43Nothing at all from Division.
27:45Just keep trying.
27:49Jesus! That's close!
28:06Change of plan. Get the set back on the truck.
28:08What's that then?
28:09I've just seen the sergeant.
28:10He's had to send up some men to support the front line
28:11and we've got to take over their positions over there.
28:16Do you hear me?
28:19Come on!
28:31If I got maimed, I'd try and live.
28:35I'd try and get through it.
28:40Better than lying down like a dog and just dying.
28:45I've got to hope that count on the people around me
28:47that will help me.
28:48I'll get me back safe then.
28:54I don't know what I'd do if I didn't get home in one piece.
29:02Jesus Christ!
29:04Happy as a pig in shit.
29:06Go that far!
29:07I'd rather be doing this than back in the factory back in Brump.
29:10Have you heard that, Shorty?
29:11You're mad, Garcide!
29:13Boys, let's move out!
29:15I thought it was bad enough work at the Austin,
29:16but compared to this...
29:23Oh, Jesus!
29:25You shot him!
29:26I'm fired!
29:27You shot Gordon!
29:28I got him!
29:28You shot him!
29:29I didn't mention him!
29:30What happened?
29:31It was my gun, sir.
29:33I don't know.
29:34It just went off.
29:35You must have let the safety catch off your mind about that now.
29:38I've got to move my leg.
29:39Let's take a look at this.
29:47I'm afraid we're going to have to leave you.
29:53We'll put you over there in as visible a position as possible
29:55till either we or the other side can give him medical help.
29:59Right?
30:01Right?
30:01Right.
30:02All together.
30:03That's right.
30:03Let's get him out.
30:05I'm sorry, Goldie.
30:06Cover us here.
30:07Come in.
30:09Come on.
30:11Get him out.
30:12Got him.
30:14Get him out.
30:16Get him out.
30:17Come on.
30:18Come on.
30:19Come on.
30:20Come on.
30:24Come on.
30:33Come on.
30:34You've got him.
30:35Come on.
30:36Come on.
30:37Come on.
30:38Come on.
30:40Come on.
30:50Wulf Saunders and Clive Tunley are east of the town of Wormut.
31:05Why is no one coming at us?
31:18I know we're going to be alright.
31:25Just got to hang on.
31:37What are you firing at?
31:39I don't know.
31:43When the attack comes, it comes from the south, where the SS, frustrated by our lack of progress, have called
31:49on the 3rd Panzer Regiment for support.
31:53Could have happened to any of us, mate.
31:56You'll feel right. You'll get found and treated.
32:00Sir!
32:01Look!
32:03Alright, fire!
32:09Just from one minute to the next. Get through the next minute.
32:13I think five minutes have passed. Get through the next five minutes.
32:16And then hours passed.
32:20Everything that I thought was the way it worked has stopped working like that.
32:33For nine hours, the Borics had held up the German advance.
32:37Seat fire! Seat fire!
32:40We were closing those!
32:45We are closing those.
32:46All of you!
32:49We are closing those.
32:52Go!
32:52Ost o MR!
32:55We are closing those!
32:56Pulling those
32:56So you are?
32:56We should get this out of the Kirsa.
33:00We will open those!
33:02Avoid the gate then!
33:10In London, the cabinet has reached stalemate.
33:16We agreed this two days ago.
33:20France is finished.
33:22When their everdoms fall into German hands,
33:25ours will be bombed.
33:27And we shall get better terms if we negotiate now
33:30than if we wait until we have lost the Air Force as well as the BEF.
33:35If we let Signor Mussolini mediate between our nations,
33:40he will exact his price.
33:42And it's impossible to imagine Herr Hitler
33:44being so foolish as to let us rearm.
33:49We would be at his mercy.
33:51We will do no worse if we continue fighting.
33:55There are obvious risks in pursuing the battle,
33:58but there is no doubt, Edward,
33:59that the alternatives to fighting on
34:00represent a considerable gamble also.
34:03Nations which go down fighting rise again.
34:06Those which surrender tamely are finished.
34:10The chances of our being offered decent terms
34:14is a thousand to one against.
34:16Nothing in what I suggest
34:18could even be remotely described
34:21as surrendering tamely.
34:29If you will forgive me,
34:31I must adjourn the meeting for a short time.
34:34I have arranged to address
34:35the rest of the cabinet at five o'clock.
34:54What is still there?
34:55Keep quiet, lads.
34:57Freigen!
34:59Fuck!
34:59Fuck!
35:01The soldier is in my company.
35:04Er braucht driggend erzliche Hilfe.
35:07Verstehen Sie mich?
35:09Er kann nicht mehr kämpfen.
35:11Und hat aufgegeben.
35:13Und aus diesem Grund, du musst nicht...
35:22Oh, Jesus, no!
35:29That incident has been noted.
35:31That is in clear contravention.
35:38Jesus Christ!
35:40He will take it.
35:45He will take it.
35:48He will take it.
35:50He will take it.
35:52He will take it.
35:53He will take it.
35:54He will take it.
35:55He will take it.
36:00It has taken the SS-Leibstandard Adolf Hitler a full day to crush the defence of Wormut.
36:05The delay has disrupted German plans.
36:08The SS round up 85 men from several British units including the second warrants.
36:16No!
36:39This is no way to treat prisoners of war.
36:49What are you doing yourself?
36:53As the front line moves back, Wilf Saunders and Clive Tunnery are left dangerously exposed.
37:03You all right?
37:06Yeah.
37:08You.
37:10Yeah.
37:11Right, lads.
37:12Dunkirk, here we come.
37:14You're joking.
37:16Come on.
37:17Everyone for himself, the sergeant said.
37:19I think it would be better if we at least stick together.
37:22Yeah, of course.
37:23Come on.
37:24Come on.
37:27Fire down!
37:29Fire up!
37:31Fire up!
37:32Fire up!
37:35Fire up!
37:36Fire up!
37:36You think they're taking us off?
37:38Just do as I say.
37:40Don't annoy him.
37:41Hey, he'll be all right.
37:42There's only corporals in the buff they want to kill.
37:44Who says?
37:46Who says tombs?
37:48Someone did.
37:49Back there.
37:50Kill.
37:51Bollocks.
37:52My beat is.
37:53My beat isn't.
37:54Bollocks.
37:57What are you doing, corporal?
37:59Ex-corporal body looks a bit.
38:01Steal!
38:02Go!
38:03Go!
38:05Go!
38:07Go!
38:08Go!
38:09Go!
38:11Go!
38:12Go!
38:14Go!
38:14Go!
38:16Go!
38:17Elside!
38:18Elside!
38:19Elside!
38:20Why are you doing this?
38:21Don't pretend you don't know what I'm saying.
38:24These men must be treated properly.
38:26My men are tired.
38:28They're thirsty.
38:30Why are you doing this?
38:34Don't pretend you can't hear what I'm saying.
38:41What's the matter?
38:42I demand that you treat my troops properly.
38:45They're thirsty.
39:15They're tired
39:16Don't you bloody move Robert
39:19Someone's got to go first
39:26Four more
39:30Out
39:37I'm making a formal request that these men be treated in accordance with the Geneva Convention
39:42I demand that you answer me
39:44I demand that you listen to what I'm saying
40:11Oh Jesus
40:22Oh God
40:23Five more
40:25Five more
40:27Get out of here
40:29I can't
40:30You're not this shooting us anyway
40:32I'm getting out of here
40:34You're not this shooting us
40:34Get out of here
40:34Get out of here
44:19Give him an audience and he'll fool them into believing anything.
44:24Marvelous.
44:26I wonder if they'll feel the same when he's taken them into the abyss.
44:49They've gone.
44:51You sure?
44:53I can't hear nothing.
44:57Where's Stan?
45:08You can't do nothing for him.
45:20You all right?
45:27Let's get out of here.
45:29Shouldn't we wait till night?
45:30What's the difference?
45:46Come on, Alf.
45:48Let's go.
46:05The mobile wireless unit is back on the road to Dunkirk.
46:17So you reckon that's it then?
46:19No more fighting, just back to the coast?
46:22That's what they've said.
46:23They've said that before.
46:28I'd rather be here than where we were anyway.
46:39As the corridor collapses, 300,000 Allied troops are pushed into a thin strip of land 25 miles wide and
46:466 miles deep.
46:47They're trapped between the enemy and the sea.
47:02Gentlemen, it seems there are hundreds of men arriving on the beaches every hour, most of them without officers.
47:08I've just heard there are 5,000 at Bray Dunes alone.
47:10They have no idea what to do next.
47:12You and Commander Kerr take a party to Bray Dunes.
47:14Commander Kloosin, you and I will take them all.
47:16Let's get this show on the road.
47:25As more and more units arrive at the beaches, the job of lifting them has slowed even further.
47:30The boats are impossible to handle in the rising surf.
47:34The only place from which the men can now be evacuated is the Mole.
47:49Troop carriers coming in in 20 minutes, sir. Destroyers every 20 minutes after that.
47:54We've got to speed things up.
47:57Can you get the Mole in at once?
47:58That'll make us a hell of a target for the Stukas.
48:00A hell of a target, anyway.
48:02At least the weather's in our favour.
48:04Then we should get a number in right under this cloud.
48:09Signal from Captain Tennant, sir.
48:16Sir, signal from Captain Tennant.
48:18No enemy interference at present. Embarkation going at 2,000 an hour.
48:24Swell prevents use of beach, so all ships to Dunkirk.
48:28Any air attack would be disastrous.
48:30Can you get me the latest weather reports?
48:33These are the weather reports from 0600.
48:37Winds due to drop and veer south-westerly.
48:39Well, that will help the surf.
48:42It's probably not good news for the cloud cover.
48:44No, sir.
48:45Clear skies by 1300.
48:4947 airfields built by the British in northern France have fallen into German hands.
48:54The Stukas and Messerschmitts of Luftwaffe Air Fleet 2 are now in easy reach of the coast.
49:03The British Army has been forced to abandon all of its heavy equipment and artillery on the congested roads leading
49:09to Dunkirk.
49:21Oh!
49:21Oh, this.
49:34There's no trucks anymore.
49:36Everyone's going. Why don't we just go, corp?
49:38Got a job for you.
49:39What?
49:39We've got to destroy the set and the gym palace.
49:42Why?
49:43Orders. We're moving out at midnight and we don't need them anymore.
49:46Moving where?
49:47Dunkirk.
49:49That's miles away. Why do we have to destroy the truck?
49:52Orders? What's the matter with you?
49:54Very young lads like you, afraid of a bit of a walk. I don't think so.
49:57Right. Who's going to do the honours?
50:00Go on. I want to drive you.
50:11With the situation as it is, we must give serious consideration
50:14to the strength of our forces should the bulk of the BEF not be brought home.
50:18What I'm saying is that we should not succumb to negative thinking.
50:21Mr. Forgive me, but we're not addressing the public.
50:24We're in private session and there are certain uncomfortable issues which must be addressed.
50:28The brutal reality is that the quarter million men of the BEF could not be replaced in less than a
50:32year.
50:34Every man of 18 or over is already either in service or in training.
50:37Well, then, perhaps we should withdraw to this country,
50:39the eight battalions currently deployed in Palestine.
50:42Indeed.
50:44The defence of this island must take precedence over our commitments in Palestine and elsewhere.
50:59We just stuck together, Clive and Titch and me.
51:06I'm hungry and we're tired.
51:09I do at rest, but the rest is the worst bit.
51:16It's hard to start again after.
51:24Halt!
51:25Where did the Dewey?
51:27Pull it out!
51:27Why don't they just keep us going?
51:29If you want to carry on, I don't think anyone will stop you.
51:38But you won't see me again if you do.
51:41Don't worry, Corp.
51:43We've put up with you for this long.
51:47It seems there are certain logistical difficulties in evacuating wounded men from the beaches.
51:52No wounded.
51:57Inevitably, a stretcher will take up more space than a fit man.
52:01Give priority to the fighting men.
52:03Tell the Admiralty.
52:21I don't think I can do this.
52:24Yes, you can.
52:27Come on, Corp.
52:29Up you get.
52:30Come on, come on!
52:36Watch out!
52:38Hold it!
52:40Wilf, Clive and Titch have had no food for three days,
52:44no sleep for the last four,
52:46and are still ten miles from Dunacore.
52:50Sir.
52:51Figures in from the Admiralty about number of evacuated.
52:54It's not what we'd hoped for.
52:5747,000.
52:59Still, it's better than yesterday.
53:08On the captured airfields to the south,
53:10180 Stukas of Swieger Corp VIII,
53:13reinforced by 220 Messerschmitts and Dorniers,
53:16are arming their payloads.
53:18The low cloud that has grounded them for the last 24 hours is lifting.
53:32Hold!
53:33Steam line!
53:34Stay where you are!
53:36Hold!
53:41Vicinzi!
53:43Who are you?
53:44Where do you come from?
53:46You are at the barn!
53:50We got detached from our unit.
53:53All right.
53:54Move on.
53:56Come on.
54:18Nehmen Sie meine Hand.
54:59Well, can he have the sea?
55:05Come on, Flop.
55:07Keep going.
55:20Let's go.
55:54Let's go.
55:55Where are you going?
55:56I'm waiting for those bloody bombs, sir.
55:58You're running towards the bombing.
55:59Look, man, look.
56:19Give me a weapon.
56:20Give me a weapon.
56:23Now keep moving forward.
56:26I'm not a bad shot, but the lieutenant here is a better one.
56:31Now get on the ship.
56:33Move!
56:41By the fifth day of Operation Dynamo, the Royal Navy has lost 26 ships.
56:4673,000 men have been returned to Britain.
56:49An estimated 400,000 Allied soldiers are still trapped at Dunkirk.
57:05How did it come to this?
57:08This thing that cost us so much.
57:14We just stuck together.
57:19I know now what they mean when they say,
57:22No man is an island, entire of itself.
57:27Every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.
57:33Any man's death diminishes me.
57:38Never send to know for who the bell tolls.
57:41It tolls for thee.
57:54Alftun spent the next five years as a prisoner of war.
57:58And was eventually repatriated in 1945.
58:10Anyway, I've been thinking, lads.
58:12If they're going to be taking the boat,
58:15why don't we go with her?
58:17Come on.
58:19Let's have another go.
58:22Hey, ho!
58:23Time, as you know better than I do, is running out.
58:26Surely we should be using the swiftest possible means of evacuation
58:29for all your troops.
58:32You are, mate.
59:01You are, mate.
59:05I'm, mate.
59:07You are, mate.
59:16Here are you.
59:17You are, mate.
59:17You are, mate.
59:19You are, mate.
59:24In the light of дляз mexization,
59:24you will always be very kind of move.
59:24You are, mate.
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