Agree with the choices on the classics and the new stuff both.
Just watched Dunkirk, a total fiasco of incompetence of the Brits and French. Lack of equipment, ships, planes. Who in their right minds stands 400,000 ‘boys’ barely men on a open beach for German fighter planes to strafe and bomb at will, with very little air or Ship protection? The overcrowded evac and ‘hospital’ ships where just sunk with all aboard.
Brits wouldn’t let French on ‘their’ ships, didn’t see any French ships to evac their men stranded on that beach. Men who went overboard into the oil slick waters, many either drown or died in fires when the oil slick caught fire.
Small fishing vessels and yachts rescued many.
40,000 Brits and same for French captured.
“The Lost Battalion”