The filmmaker explains why his latest is "very different" from other films about the German bombing campaign in London.
Starring Saoirse Ronan as a young mother, the film celebrates Londoners' resilience in the face of an eight-month Nazi aerial ...
I still have a visceral reaction, and that hasn’t changed in all the years that I’ve done this,” says the actress who began ...
Steve McQueen's journey to Blitz began with ... it all sprang out of inspiration from one intimate, unshakeable photo that McQueen couldn't get out of his head. "It was a photograph of this ...
Legendary movie star Steve McQueen loved the fast track, and always wore the same pair of Red Wing boots. Minnesota’s Red ...
Steve McQueen Had Prostrate Cancer Procedure On Eve Of ‘Blitz’ Shoot; He Is Now “Fully Recovered, Fully Functional” ...
Steve McQueen’s latest film, set in 1940 during Germany’s bombardment of the British capital, draws extensively from wartime photos ... London train station, a young Black child clutches ...
McQueen was inspired to create the character after being struck by an image of a young biracial person taken from the time period of the Blitz. That photo is in the Imperial War Museum’s collection.
By showing the blitz through the eyes of a young black Londoner trying to find ... In imagining the story of that small boy in the photo, McQueen helps us to re-imagine not just the blitz, but ...
With the New York City-set "Shame" (2011) and "12 Years a Slave" (2013), the latter winning the best picture Oscar for its brutal portrayal of American slavery, British director Steve McQueen ...
The Blitz ended when the Germans turned their focus toward the Soviet Union. World War II ended in Europe with Nazi Germany’s surrender on May 7, 1945.