Dunkirk: parents' guide

Soldiers are shot on the beach, thrown into the air by bombs, and drown when ships are torpedoed; men swimming under an oil slick surface into flames. A teenage boy dies after a head injury. Bodies float in the surf, but blood is minimal.

At least two f-words and a few s-words, some hard to hear over the noise, plus several British uses of bloody, single uses of damn and hell, and a few exclamations using God's or Jesus' name.

No romance, kissing, sexual references or nudity. One soldier is seen squatting to relieve himself on the beach, which is crude but not sexual.

Rescued soldiers are handed bottles of beer on the way home, and a soldier digs a half-smoked cigarette out of an ashtray. No drunkenness or drug use.

Near-constant tension: men trapped in flooding hulls in the dark, a pilot struggling in a sinking cockpit, and screaming dive bombers. A shell-shocked soldier lashes out, and another walks into the ocean, apparently to take his own life.