The British ability to treat the two imposters of success and failure just the same is summed up by Dunkirk, the punishing WWII defeat from which Britain bounced back to enjoy its finest hour.Directed by Barry Norman's father Leslie, Dunkirk marries two stories; on the one hand a band of British soldiers, led by John Mills' Corporal Bins, are trying to make their way to the Belgian coast while - on the other - civilians - whose number includes Richard Attenborough's John Holden - make the journey across the Channel to rescue the stranded squaddies. A film that didn't so much document the defeat as bottle the Dunkirk spirit so that future generations might sample it.

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