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This study evaluates what kind of representations the Dunkirk (Christopher Nolan, 2017) film offers about the British national identity and questiones the significance of these representations in terms of the militarization and anti-militarization of the nation. The main argument of the study is that while the film builds certain myths about the British national identity and offers a militarist perspective on the heroicity of some soldiers along with civilians, it also shows the traumatic destruction of soldiers, allowing some fractures to penetrate in the story. But Dunkirk generally demonstrates the destruction of the war around the trauma, failures and ethical doubts of the soldiers, but does not use them to put into circulation an anti-war speech. At the end of the film, the victory of the return of the soldiers home, the heroic share of the soldiers who have been dismissed with the support of civilians, and Churchill's future heroic emphasis on the next war, re-products British nationality and militarism. It also makes it possible for the British imperialism to gain a positive content by referring to the future military support from British colonies in the face of German occupation. Keywords: Dunkirk, Christopher Nolan, Nationalism, Militarism

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