The Oscars are handed out each year in early March. Ahead of this year's festivities, two movies about Britain in 1940 — "Dunkirk" and "Darkest Hour" — have collected plenty of nominations. They notably include Gary Oldman's imitation of Winston Churchill and the remarkable cinematography of "Dunkirk."
Yet, both movies are full of historical nonsense. For that reason, they should be catalogued with World War II propaganda movies. I am thinking of "Objective Burma" (in which Errol Flynn single-handedly defeats the Japanese army). A British sample is "In Which We Serve," made in 1942, where Noel Coward plays the royal family's naval hero Lord Mountbatten, showing British grit at its best.