Q. How do the films Guns of Navarone (1961, J. Lee Thompson) and Dunkirk (2017, Christopher Nolen) demonstrate how the war genre has changed over time? 

Introduction- 

J. Lee Thompson’s 1961 film “Guns of Navarone” and Christopher Nolen’s 2017 “Dunkirk” are both films which are clearly identified to be in the War film genre. They are both well-known due to the dangerous mission carried out in “Guns of Navarone” to the famous actors and singers which appear in “Dunkirk.” These films were chosen as they are both war films from different eras and clearly show a change in the was genre in 5 and a bit decade. “Guns of Navarone” is about a group of Greek soldiers who have been sent to take down one of the Germans most powerful cannons in Aegean Island while “Dunkirk” is a tense film showing the escape of the British soldiers off the shore of Dunkirk after being pushed back by the German soldiers, it shows the rescue and sacrifices people made to save the British soldiers.