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

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,

It may come as a surprise then, that filmmaker Steve McQueen , best known for films like Twelve Years A Slave (2013) and Grenfell (2023) that challenge audiences with uncomfortable, often difficult, material,

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

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

“Blitz” also introduces audiences to people they’ve likely not heard of: Mickey Davies (played by Leigh Gill), a man known as “Mickey the Midget” who turned the Spitalfields Fruit and Wool Exchange into a shelter; and Ife (Benjamin Clémentine), a Nigerian air-raid warden who bonds with George, who was also inspired by a real person.

Small Axe is an unparalleled achievement in bending the mediums of television and film together, and just may rank as the single most ambitious project that McQueen has taken on thus far. The five segments of Small Axe don’t have direct continuity with one another,

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.”

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