Christopher Nolan’s DUNKIRK Trailer Don’t miss the first DUNKIRK trailer! The film, written and directed by Christopher Nolan (Memento, The Dark Knight Rises), stars Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Mark Rylance, Kenneth Branagh, and Harry Styles. DUNKIRK will be released in theaters on July 21. Miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbor of Dunkirk, France, between May 26- June 04, 1940, during Battle of France in World War II.