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.

While those born years after the months-long 1940 Nazi bombing of London may have no clue about Hitler’s merciless destruction of civilian targets or the Brits’ courageous resistance, the subject,

A mericans have all sorts of ways of learning about the Blitz from movies, chief among them John Boorman’s exuberant 1987 Hope and Glory, a memoir film about Boorman’s own boy

WGN Entertainment Reporter Dean Richards sits down Saoirse Ronan and Steve McQueen to talk about new war film, ‘Blitz.’

The man who made '12 Years a Slave' shows the trauma of a family living with the reality of German bombing. Saiorse Ronan, Paul Weller, Elliott Heffernan star

The Oscar-winning director's complicated relationship with Britain informs his latest film, which follows a mixed-race boy during the bombing of London.

Steve McQueen's “Blitz” feels stuck between a conventional war drama and something more adventurous and probing.

It was a single photograph that started Oscar-winning filmmaker Steve McQueen on the journey to make “Blitz.”.

Oscar winner Steve McQueen had long wanted to make a movie about the Blitz - Germany's wartime aerial bombing of British cities - but it was seeing a photo of a Black boy waiting to be evacuated that inspired him to explore the theme through a child's eyes.

British filmmaker Steve McQueen (“12 Years a Slave”), joins to reflect on working with star Saorsie Ronan to create his new World War II drama “Blitz.”