Dunkirk is now streaming on Paramount+ in the US

Christopher Nolan’s 2017 World War II drama Dunkirk hit Paramount+ in the US on September 1, 2026. Set during the 1940 evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk, France, the film pulls together an ensemble cast that includes Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Harry Styles, Kenneth Branagh, Mark Rylance, and Jack Lowden. It’s also still sitting at a 92% Certified Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

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Quentin Tarantino has been especially enthusiastic about it. In interviews, he’s called Dunkirk his favorite recent WWII film, ranked it as his second favorite movie of the 2010s, and placed it fourth among the best films of the 21st century. He’s also said it took him three viewings before Nolan’s scale, the characters, and the movie’s emotional core fully clicked for him.

A lot of that comes from the way Dunkirk is built: land, sea, and air, all working together. Add the sparse dialogue, the visual storytelling, and Hans Zimmer’s score, and it’s easy to see why the film still lands as one of the defining modern war movies. One caveat, though: online claims that Tarantino singled out a specific favorite WWII shot from Dunkirk don’t seem to be supported by any widely available interviews.

If you subscribe to Paramount+, Dunkirk is well worth streaming on the service in the US right now.