“Blitz” is writer-director Steve McQueen’s wartime survival drama, consistently tense and persistently string-pulling. It relays a story of London in 1940 under attack, with a protagonist that never ...

On Sept. 7, 1940 — 80 years ago tonight — the German air force launched a massive series of attacks on London that would go on for 56 of the next 57 days and nights. The plan was to destroy the Royal ...

It follows a 9-year-old boy named George, played by the captivating newcomer Elliott Heffernan. It’s 1940, and as the nightly air raids grow worse and worse, George’s mother, Rita, played by a ...

Beginning in the autumn of 1940, German Luftwaffe pilots bombed London for 57 consecutive nights. It began on Sept. 7, when 348 German bombers and 617 Messerschmitt fighters appeared in the clear ...

"Blitz", starring Saoirse Ronan as a mother in 1940s London during German bombing raids, is out in cinemas before a streaming launch on Apple TV+ later in November. Apple/dpa “Blitz” is ...

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 German bombs fall across the city. Ronan relished her ...