Channel Incident

For the 1946 incident, see Corfu Channel incident.

Channel Incident is a 1940 British short (15 minutes) drama film directed by Anthony Asquith and starring Peggy Ashcroft, Gordon Harker, Robert Newton and Kenneth Griffith. It combines documentary footage with acting.

Anthony Asquith (centre) directs Peggy Ashcroft and Gordon Harker in Channel Incident, a short film made for the Ministry of Information in 1940 about the evacuation of Dunkirk. Kenneth Griffith is in the smaller boat.

The film is a propaganda effort, made during the Second World War, that depicts the female owner (Ashcroft) of a yacht, the Wanderer, heading across the English Channel to help evacuate British troops from Dunkirk.^[1][2] Other ships referenced, as the larger vessels to which the civilian small craft are ferrying troops lifted from the beaches, are the SS Princess Louise, SS Blackburn Rovers and Devonia.