what war was going on during the movie atonement
as depicted in Atonement. In Atonement, directed by Joe Wright and adapted by Christopher Hampton from Ian McEwan's novel, we see visualized one of the low points in the Allies' war against Hitler â the British evacuation of Dunkirk between May 26 and June 4, 1940.Robbie Turner (James McAvoy) arrives in Bray-Dunes outside of Dunkirk, France.At the time, 50 years had passed since the end of that war.) The Birth of a Nation, adapted from Thomas Dixon's 1905 novel, The Clansman, an homage to the Ku Klux Klan, was the most profitable film ever made-that is up until 1937 when it was surpassed by Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.