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.

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 “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),

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,

"I want to stay with you,” wails George (Elliott Heffernan), the young boy at the heart of Steve McQueen’s World War 2 drama Blitz. About to be separated from his mother Rita (Saoirse Ronan), he’s one of the thousands of children set to be evacuated from London during the blitz, when Nazi forces terrified the capital with frequent bombing raids.

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