Get to know the actual people and events that inspired Steve McQueen's new film "Blitz," now streaming on Apple TV+.

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 ...

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. "I can assure you ...

Saoirse Ronan is Rita, who has to part with her son George (newcomer Elliott Heffernan, in his first role), who joins the ...

The German air force’s bombing of London from Sept. 7, 1940, to May 11, 1941, left about 43,500 people dead and many more homeless. The attack campaign became known as "the Blitz." While the ...

Blitz’ director Steve McQueen and star Saoirse Ronan talk about creating esoteric authenticity for World War II London.

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 ...

It was a single photograph that started Oscar-winning filmmaker Steve McQueen on the journey to make “Blitz ... a 9-year-old biracial child in East London whose life with his mother, Rita ...

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 ...

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 ...