Homeless children sit in front of their wrecked home, in London's East End during the blitz of World War Two 1940. Londoners sheltering in an underground station during an air raid, 1940.

Outside the Blitz, just under 30,000 additional civilians would be claimed by the war. Casualties among London civilians also occurred due to things like food rationing and U-boat attacks that ...

Steve McQueen’s latest film, set in 1940 during Germany’s bombardment of the British capital, draws extensively from wartime photos, and much of it was shot outside London.

Steve McQueen The director of Blitz talks us through the choices he made to create his dreamlike love letter to wartime London 1 — Don’t look back None of my films have been similar to any ...

Steve McQueen set out to bring the 'ghosts' of wartime London to light in 'Blitz,' a movie centered on the love between a single mother and her son.

For all these stark and apocalyptic images, the London we see in Blitz also pulses with life. The use of music throughout is inspired, and I don’t just mean Hans Zimmer ’s brooding score.

In Blitz, newcomer Elliott Heffernan plays George, a young boy experiencing the London bombings during World War II. Saoirse Ronan stars as Rita, George’s mother, and Paul Weller plays Gerald ...

A mother and her son are separated in wartime London in "Blitz," director Steve McQueen's searing drama about clinging onto hope in the midst of chaos. Saoirse Ronan is Rita, who has to part with ...

Blitz is McQueen’s third LFF opening film and will be released in the U.S. and U.K. on Nov. 1 before becoming available to stream on Apple TV+ on Nov. 22.

Steve McQueen, right, writer/director of "Blitz," poses with cast members Saoirse Ronan, left, and Elliott Heffernan at the Four Seasons Hotel, Monday, Oct. 14, 2024, in Los Angeles.

That said, Blitz is based on a true story in the sense that “The Blitz” was a real thing that happened, when German forces spent eight months bombing London during World War II, from September ...