(1942) and “Mrs. Miniver” (the Oscar-winning best picture of 1943) came to mind as I watched writer-director Steve McQueen’s ...

While those born years after the months-long 1940 Nazi bombing of London may have no clue about Hitler’s merciless ...

The Royal British Legion’s veteran parade will see 10,000 veterans, representing 326 different armed forces and civilian ...

Blitz opens amid a terrifying conflagration on a nighttime city street. This is the blitzkrieg — the German bombing of London in 1940 in ...

Francis Houlihan, small town Iowa grocery man, only five years removed from his high school graduation, found himself 85 ...

Ultimately, that there is a war on in “Blitz” may not be its defining feature. The London under siege in McQueen’s film is as ...

Yamilka Vaquero-Perez appeared in New London Superior Court on Tuesday where ... was considered to be one of the oldest WWII veterans in the state. Lignelli served as an Army medic with the ...

A new project opening in Connecticut will mark the first-ever museum dedicated to the U.S. Coast Guard, giving Americans a ...

Over the course of the past 16 years, his films have included a biopic about an Irish political prisoner on hunger strike ( Hunger ), a character study of a lonely Manhattan sex addict ( Shame ), a ...

Her character Rita, who works in a munitions factory, has just sent her 9-year-old son George (Elliott Heffernan) to the countryside for safety, away from the bombs falling on London; now she’s ...

Blitz,’’ set in London during World War II ... happened in those precise locations during the Nazi occupation of WWII. In that film, McQueen juxtaposed past and present, death and life ...

“Blitz,” set in London during World War II ... happened in those precise locations during the Nazi occupation of WWII. In that film, McQueen juxtaposed past and present, death and life ...