Steve McQueen says “Blitz” captures WWII in a way that ‘hasn't been depicted before in cinema’

The filmmaker explains why his latest is "very different" from other films about the German bombing campaign in London.
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Writer/director Steve McQueen reframes the whitewashed image of WWII's London bombings via a harrowing childhood adventure

Blitz opens amid a terrifying conflagration on a nighttime city street. This is the blitzkrieg — the German bombing of London in 1940 in the early days of World War II. But as writer/director Steve ...

Blitz: Steve McQueen’s odyssey ranks among the greatest war films ever made

Steve McQueen’s sensational new film might be set in London as it was seven decades after Charles Dickens’ death, but the city on screen has seldom felt deeper in the great novelist’s debt. Blitz ...