A single photograph started Oscar-winning filmmaker Steve McQueen on the journey to make “Blitz.” As a Londoner, the German bombing raids on the city during World War II are never far from his mind.

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 ...

But Blitz, the new film from British writer-director Steve McQueen, ends in just that way. Following a mother and son during the London Blitz — Nazi Germany's sustained and devastating bombing c ...

In a film that has powerful moments of wonderment, humor and joy, Saoirse Ronan plays a London factory worker trying to protect her young son as... A mother and son are separated by the London ...

As a result, McQueen curdles the expected optimism with a realistic look at how Black people and African and Indian immigrants were treated in London. “Blitz” is the director’s second recent ...

“Blitz,” set in London during World War II, might technically be Steve McQueen ’s first war movie. But struggle and survival has long marked the filmmaker’s tough and tortured wor ...

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 ...