When an American fighter plane crashes in Vietnamese wilderness, it’s pilot Dieter is captured by local tribesmen. Narrating the incidents in a near documentary methodology, Werner Herzog scraps the survival instinct of human spirit against natural hurdles clubbing them with the ones caused by warfare.

With Christian Bale giving an electric central performance, Rescue Dawn might not lie in the top echelons of Herzog’s works but is still an eccentric and often poetic take upon necessity of hope in times of crisis.

One week at the hauntingly beautiful beach, one hour in the treacherously serene skyline and one day riding over the hurricane tides at sea; Christopher Nolan stirred the ingredients in a potion of survival and hope, giving us the monumentally mounted and astoundingly ambitious magic, Dunkirk.

The rescue of Allied Forces is saddled with Nolan’s signature blend of juggling alternate timelines, nearly nerve wrecking background score by Hans Zimmer and beautiful shots through 70 mm reel. Dunkirk, in its totality, is a knockout stunner.