Where was Dunkirk filmed?
2017 film by Christopher Nolan
Dunkirk (2017) was filmed in Los Angeles, Dunkirk, Urk, Lelystad Airport, Hoogeveen Airport, Calais–Dunkerque Airport and 3 more places — 9 recorded filming locations in the United States, France, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom. Every one is a filming-location statement on Wikidata, not a guess.
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Filming locations
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🏙 Towns & cities
Los Angeles
🇺🇸 United States
seat of Los Angeles County, and largest city in California, United States
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🏙 Towns & cities
Dunkirk
🇫🇷 France
commune in Nord, France
“Filming in Dunkirk took place at the location of the real evacuation, while the street scenes were shot in nearby Malo-les-Bains because most of the buildings in Dunkirk were destroyed in the war.” Wikipedia
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🏛 Landmarks & buildings
Lelystad Airport
🇳🇱 Netherlands
airport in Lelystad, Netherlands
“A Yakovlev Yak-52TW was modified to resemble a Supermarine Spitfire, and two Supermarine Spitfire Mark IAs, a Spitfire Mark VB, and a Hispano Buchon painted to look like a Messerschmitt Bf 109E, were also used for the combat scenes, flying to Urk from Lelystad Airport.” Wikipedia
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Hoogeveen Airport
🇳🇱 Netherlands
airport
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🏛 Landmarks & buildings
Maillé-Brézé
🇫🇷 France
1953 T 47-class destroyer
“On 21 February 2016, director Christopher Nolan announced plans to feature the ship in his then upcoming World War II film Dunkirk.” Wikipedia
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🏞 Landscapes & nature
Weymouth Port
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
port in Dorset, England, UK
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Urk
🇳🇱 Netherlands
town and municipality in Flevoland, the Netherlands
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Calais–Dunkerque Airport
🇫🇷 France
airport in France
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🏛 Landmarks & buildings
Swanage railway station
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
railway station in Swanage, Dorset, England, UK
Also per Wikipedia's Filming section
Wikipedia’s Filming section names 7 more places. A sentence in an article is weaker evidence than a Wikidata statement, so these are listed apart, never mixed into the statement list, and the claim links straight to where it came from.
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🏞 Landscapes & nature
Point Dume
🇺🇸 United States
promontory on the coast of Malibu, California, United States
“To get acclimatised to cold water scenes, Styles and Whitehead underwent training sessions at Point Dume.” Wikipedia
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🏙 Towns & cities
Rancho Palos Verdes
🇺🇸 United States
city in Los Angeles County, California, United States
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🏛 Landmarks & buildings
Imperial War Museum Duxford
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Britain's largest aviation museum
“The real Spitfires were provided by the Imperial War Museum Duxford, and owner Dan Friedkin piloted the one that was filmed landing on the beach in Dunkirk.” Wikipedia
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🏙 Towns & cities
Swanage
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
coastal town and civil parish in the south east of Dorset, England
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🏛 Landmarks & buildings
Point Vicente Light
🇺🇸 United States
lighthouse in California, United States
“The lighthouse has been used as a filming location in the 2001 film Pearl Harbor and 2017 film Dunkirk.” Wikipedia
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🏞 Landscapes & nature
IJsselmeer
🇳🇱 Netherlands
artificial lake in the Netherlands
“A small 1930s motor yacht called Moonstone served for six weeks of filming; its most demanding scenes, with up to sixty people on a boat designed for fewer than ten, were shot on the Dutch lake IJsselmeer to avoid the challenge of the Dunkirk tides.” Wikipedia
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🏛 Landmarks & buildings
Royal Naval Air Station Lee-on-Solent
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
former Royal Naval Air Station near Lee-on-Solent in Hampshire, England, United Kingdom; now a civilian airport
“Dogfights over the Channel were shot by an aerial unit based at Lee-on-Solent Airfield and one at Lelystad Airport in the Netherlands.” Wikipedia
Places whose own article says it was shot there
1 place whose own Wikipedia article names this film as something shot there, where Wikidata records nothing and this film’s own article does not say so either. The weakest evidence on this atlas: no pin on the map, and nothing in the downloads. Each sentence is quoted whole and linked to the article it came from, so it can be judged rather than taken on trust.
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Weymouth United Kingdom
“Other war films filmed in areas in and around the town are The Dam Busters (1954) and the 2017 adaptation of Dunkirk.” Wikipedia
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Frequently asked questions
How many filming locations does Dunkirk have?
9 places recorded on Wikidata, and 7 places named in its Wikipedia article, labelled per Wikipedia, across 4 countries.
In which countries was Dunkirk filmed?
the United States, France, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
Which other productions were filmed at the same places?
Pulp Fiction (1994), The Dark Knight (2008), Back to the Future (1985), Fight Club (1999) and 8 more, each listed on this page.
Where does this information come from?
Filming location statements on Wikidata, plus places named in the production's own Wikipedia article, which are labelled per Wikipedia. Nothing is scraped from listicles and nothing is generated.