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.

In Blitz, George lives in the working class East End of London with his white mother (Saoirse Ronan) and grandfather (rock star Paul Weller). It is set in September 1940 – a year after Britain ...

So declares US war correspondent Quentin Reynolds in the British propaganda short London Can Take It, released in November 1940 as the Nazi bombing campaign over the UK, known as the blitz ...

An exhibition is set to examine London's iconic Blitz club - the 1980s haunt of the likes of Boy George and David Bowie. The Blitz club in Covent Garden was a key hub for the new romantic movement ...

Steve McQueen's latest movie, Blitz, is far from his best work but it proves impressively moving in its most intimate ...

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 a true portrayal of London." Apple TV has just unveiled ... main official trailer for Steve McQueen's Blitz film right here, for even more footage. A boy's journey. A mother's love.

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 ...

George then jumps from his carriage and catches a ride, with nary a scratch, on a moving London-bound goods train. He instantly forms a Just William-like gang with the three likeminded boys already ...

The Blitz doesn’t just plunge London into chaos ... layered over present-day footage) to convey the immense scale of the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam. “Blitz” offers a swifter, more ...