But then there was his audition for "Dunkirk." He says he "got very far" in the process. So much so that he was called in to read with director Christopher Nolan. "He starts reading the scene ...

Listen to eight survivors of the Dunkirk evacuation recount their stories in this audio gallery. In early May 1940, during the first year of World War Two, the British Expeditionary Force (BEF ...