STATESBORO, Ga. -- The children had fashioned blackout curtains for the windows and were tearing newspaper strips to use as toilet paper when the air-raid sirens began howling. Women in green uniforms ...

Director Steve McQueen's Blitz is a historical fiction drama starring Saoirse Ronan Elliot Heffernan as Rita and her son George. The film follows George's evacuation from London amid the Nazi's ...

On Sept. 7, 1940 — 80 years ago tonight — the German air force launched a massive series of attacks on London that would go on for 56 of the next 57 days and nights. The plan was to destroy the Royal ...

“Blitz” is writer-director Steve McQueen’s wartime survival drama, consistently tense and persistently string-pulling. It relays a story of London in 1940 under attack, with a protagonist that never ...

A 97-year-old man has told how their air-raid shelter caved in on the night of the Coventry Blitz, leaving them buried before his father dug them out.

A cardboard depiction of a city's cathedral has been built and demolished to mark its destruction 85 years ago. The building ...

Deb Peretz, from Pennsylvania, and Debby Cuneo, from New Jersey, are fans of the artist behind the project, Olivier Grossetête.

Volunteers are commemorating the 85th anniversary of the Coventry Blitz by rebuilding its cathedral out of cardboard. Over 11 ...

St Michaels Cathedral was destroyed in November 1940 when the Luftwaffe launched a devastating bombing raid on Coventry.

The Gist: Throughout the 77 minutes of Britain and the Blitz, we’ll “meet” several survivors of this horrible ordeal: Eric Brady, who was five years old when he survived the bombing of his school – ...

From the jump, Steve McQueen’s “Blitz” throws audiences into the devastation of World War II–era London. Told from the point of view of 9-year-old George Hanway (Elliott Heffernan) and his mother, ...