In Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk, what is the code name of the evacuation operation?

The evacuation operation in Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk is called Operation Dynamo.

Operation Dynamo was the British military code name for the evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk, France, during the Second World War. The operation ran from 26 May to 4 June 1940 and brought hundreds of thousands of soldiers to Britain across the English Channel.

Nolan’s 2017 film dramatizes the event through three interlocking timelines: the mole, the sea, and the air. Rather than following one conventional protagonist, it presents different civilian and military perspectives on the evacuation. The film stars Fionn Whitehead, Tom Glynn-Carney, Jack Lowden, Harry Styles, Mark Rylance, Kenneth Branagh, and Tom Hardy.

Operation Dynamo is sometimes confused with Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy in 1944. Operation Sea Lion was Nazi Germany’s planned invasion of Britain, while Market Garden was a 1944 Allied operation in the Netherlands.