The skies over Britain once turned black with smoke, and the world witnessed cities struggling to stay alive. What was it like to live through the relentless chaos of one of the greatest battle crises ...
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 – ...
Filmmaker Ella Wright's documentary film Britain and The Blitz captures the eight-month bombing campaign, The Blitz, against the United Kingdom perpetrated by the Nazi German forces from the September ...
LONDON — Steve McQueen is hopeful. It’s a viewpoint that’s admittedly discordant with what’s happening in the world, but the British director embraces a flame of optimism. The sensibility is apparent ...
LONDON – LONDON (AP) — The bombers and fighters flew across the English Channel by the hundreds, London in their sights, intent on forcing Britain out of the war, and Hitler's way. The barrage ...
Documentary series examining the effects of individual bombs that fell during the Blitz, from their initial impact on individual lives right through to their consequences for World War Two and the ...
The legendary stoicism of Britons during the 1940-41 period when London and other cities were being bombed almost nightly has made them such cultural archetypes that the effects of living through that ...
The greatest battle of World War II may still be fought on English soil. If it is, one of many reasons that Hitler may be beaten will be the new and growing British People’s Army opposing him: Brit ...
The artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen has said he was inspired to write Blitz "after seeing a faded photograph of a black child with other evacuees at the height of the Luftwaffe's bombing of London" ...