Overview

• The 2017 film Dunkirk, directed by Christopher Nolan, leads a new poll as the UK’s favourite Second World War movie, topping a list of ten films.
• Saving Private Ryan (1998) and The Great Escape (1963) ranked second and third, followed by The Dam Busters (1955) and Battle of Britain (1969).
• The poll, conducted by Deltapoll for the War Movie Theatre podcast, surveyed 1,077 British adults and highlighted a preference for fact-based war narratives.
• Half of the top ten films come from the 1950s and 1960s, reflecting enduring nostalgia for the golden era of British war cinema.
• The survey coincided with the 80th anniversary of VE Day, linking the results to broader patterns of wartime commemoration and cultural memory.