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

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,

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

It also takes on enough sacred cows that, eventually, McQueen does admit a certain sense of risk. “But if risk comes with the truth, let it be a risk.” Anyone who knows the UK will know too the role of the Blitz in the national psyche: a triumph of mass endurance in the face of the abyss.

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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.”