Probably the most historically inaccurate war movie

Rating: Null/10 (2 August 2017)

As a person who respect Christopher Nolan as a director, I was so excited that he is finally making a war movie, but Dunkirk left me disappointed. It is probably the most historically inaccurate war movie that has ever made.There is no mention of Indian soldiers who were also fighting in Battle of Dunkirk. Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk, claimed that Britons stood alone against Germany once France fell,when, in fact, hundreds of millions of Indian soldiers were also fighting with them.They were led by Mr Dawson who answers the call for a civilian armada and sets across the channel in his little boat to take part in the great evacuation.
There is no room in the film for the pluck of the hundreds of thousands of soldiers from undivided India who fought for the British in that war, the largest volunteer army in history. At least four companies of the Royal Indian Army Service Corps served in France during the campaign and three contingents were evacuated from Dunkirk and one taken prisoner by the Germans.
One of the evacuated officer, Jemadar Maula Daud Khan even won a Distinguished Service Medal for showing magnificent courage, coolness and decision. When his troop was shelled from the ground and bombed from the air by the enemy he promptly reorganised his men and animals, got them off the road and under cover under extremely difficult conditions, but there is nothing about him in Dunkirk.
Nor does the film have any room for the many lascars who operated the merchant ships that came to rescue the British troops stranded on the beach. By 1938, one in four crewmen on merchant ships were lascars mostly from South Asia and East Africa. Instead the only brown to be seen in the film is the tea that the Englishwomen offer the English soldiers scrambling aboard the rescue boats and ships.Even the Indian mules, some 2,500 were shipped from Mumbai to Marseilles, did not get a cameo.
Like I said I respect Nolan as a director but now I have realised that making a war movie is not his forte. How I wish another director or director/actor who has proved himself in making a war movie and still currently active in the Hollywood would have directed it because Dunkirk was an very important part of history that I am sorry to say, have gone bad in the hands of Nolan. I hardly write a review but others were claming it "the mother of all realistic war movies" and I couldn't just let that go so Dunkirk compelled me to write one. My rating is 1/10 for balancing out the unwarranted 10s full of biased reviews.