Joe Wright depicted Dunkirk better in less than 10mins than Nolan got in 2hrs.

Filmed at Redcar Beach in the UK, this is a more realistic Dunkirk beach than the real Dunkirk beach in Christopher Nolans movie.

Certainly made it look a lot more crowded than Dunkirk did. They got four hundred thousand people out of there, Nolan could barely show four hundred. Plus, I like the emphasis on how they have to destroy their own equipment to keep it out of the enemy's hands. The materiel losses of the evacuation put Britain on the back foot something nasty. Got plenty of men out, but vehicles and heavy weapons had to be replaced from scratch.

This film is barely 15 years old, and it already feels like a relic of another (better) era of film-making.

I was an extra in this scene, just as you see the horses been shot, you see a group of men running across the screen, im wearing the big overcoat near the back of the group. Amazing 3 days i wont ever forget. Filmed in my home town of Redcar, Yorkshire.

The fact that the Oscars couldn't even manage to give Joe Wright a nomination for Best Director for this film is a travesty. This scene alone warranted a nomination for him. I'm consistently disappointed by the Oscars.

The Dunkirk scenes in "Atonement" are so much better than the entire film "Dunkirk." Far more accurate and realistic, despite the fact that they make up only about ten minutes of "Atonement", as opposed to the entire film "Dunkirk." The character development is far superior as well.

I was lucky enough to be an extra in this scene, as the white horses rumble past James shoulder after the bandstand scene im sat on a pile of bricks smoking a fake cig! Brilliant 3 days shot at Redcar near where I live.

This is still epic, even 15 years after the release.

This scene is more epic than Dunkirk movie

I really love the part where the men are singing, especially the song. It's a pocket of peace in a sea of madness.

Amazing how the musical score matches with the dude's singing.

a masterpiece. JAMES MCAVOY DESERVES AN OSCAR

One of the most impressive and haunting sequences in British cinema. Dario Marianelli's music here breaks your heart as you remember all those who never made it back and all those who did but were so horribly scarred. The sequence was famously filmed on Redcar beach with the locals as extras. This morning at 9 am (23 11 22) the blast furnace at the steel works that can be seen in the background was demolished by controlled explosion and the last vestiges of Redcar's biggest employer was no more. I guess as well as being an Elegy for Dunkirk this is now an Elegy for Redcar...

You see so many facets of the human condition during a retreat. The dread and desperation, the fear and hopelessness

James McAvoy is a truly excellent narrator. I could listen to him speak for hours on end…

The greatest scene ever captured on film.

A personal drama set against the backdrop of a war

This scene with Dario Marinelli’s score destroyed me, not knowing what was to come in the Denouement 😩

An unforgettable scene...masterfully done!!