The director illuminates his new World War II epic, focused on a boy’s fight to get back home amid the rubble of war-torn London.

Seeing war through a child’s eyes is sobering. It helps us reconnect to a situation that’s ongoing and unfortunately very familiar."

Steve McQueen’s “Blitz” is a triumph of production design; unfortunately, what it triumphs over is story. An epic re-creation of life in London during Hitler’s bombing campaign of 1940 and 1941, the film is the latest from the prodigiously talented director of “12 Years a Slave” (2013),

The Oscar-winning filmmaker joins Q’s Tom Power to talk about his new film, and why the story is still relevant in 2024.

Steve McQueen's latest movie, Blitz, is far from his best work but it proves impressively moving in its most intimate segments.