News

From Stratford we did Coventry, I did the big blitz on Coventry, 14th/15th November. I have been to Birmingham, Bristol, London ... Of course there was a lot of firemen killed down there, you ...
The Thames was at a low ebb so firemen couldn’t cross the ... What would you have done when the bombs fell? The Blitz of WW2, sometimes known as the London Blitz, was the German bombing campaign ...
Blitz follows the journey of a young English boy (Elliot Heffernan, in his feature film debut) who is evacuated from London ...
Oscar-winner Steve McQueen's latest film offers a new perspective on life in the capital during the devastating 1940-41 Nazi bombing campaign – dispelling myths and clichés. "I can assure you ...
And so, not long into his journey, George leaps from the train and heads back to London. Blitz follows him from one peril to the next. There are sweet moments of uplift, like when he rides the ...
An underground London wartime raid shelter has reopened ... what life would’ve been like for Londoners in WW2 during the blitz like never before. The shelter that originally opened in 1944 ...
The director of Blitz talks us through the choices he made to create his dreamlike love letter to wartime London It wasn’t about ticking boxes. It’s a story about a boy, and it started with a ...
Image The boy, carrying his small suitcase as he evacuated London in 1940, inspired the character of George in “Blitz.”Credit...Alamy The film is told from the perspective of George (Elliott ...
It’s why “Blitz,” set in London during Nazi Germany’s cataclysmic bombing of the city, centers on the perspective of a munitions factory worker (Saoirse Ronan) and her mixed-race son ...