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Dunkirk(2017)
Released
2017 · FILM

Dunkirk

A British soldier stranded on the beaches of Dunkirk must survive relentless air attacks, chaotic evacuations, and the race against time as Allied forces fight to escape in the final hours of the Battle of France.

“When 400,000 men couldn't get home, home came for them.”

Directed by
Christopher Nolan
Written by
Christopher Nolan
Rated
MPA · PG-13
Runtime
106 min
ActionDramaHistory
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

The film depicts the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada, and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army on the beaches and harbor of Dunkirk between May 26th and June 4th, 1940, during World War II.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 270+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Lee SmithShot by Hoyte Van HoytemaScored by Hans ZimmerDesigned by Nathan Crowley

Box Office

2017 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 3.7× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$549.1M

Budget$150.0M
Worldwide gross$549.1M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $188.0M — 34% of worldwide · International: $361.1M (66%)

Opening weekend: $50.5M — 27% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $74.7M — 40% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 3,720 theaters

Re-release box office

201753 theaters
$530K($715K today)

Domestic gross earned in theatrical re-release, by year · adjusted for inflation

Full synopsis

Also known as

  • Dünkirchende
  • Dunkirkde
  • Escapadeen
  • Dunkerquefr

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