

Blitz
A boy's journey. A mother's love. Miles of burning city between them.
In World War II London, nine-year-old George is evacuated to the countryside by his mother, Rita, to escape the bombings. Defiant and determined to return to his family, George embarks on an epic, perilous journey back home as Rita searches for him.
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- Released
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- Language
- English
- factory
- london, england
- world war ii
- flooding
- singer
- racism
- train
- biracial
- london blitz
- 1940s
- mother son relationship
- train station
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United Kingdom, United States of America
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Release dates
IndiaIN
- Digital / OTTU/A 16+Apple TV+22 Nov 2024
United StatesUS
- PremiereNew York Film Festival10 Oct 2024
- PremiereMill Valley Film Festival12 Oct 2024
- PremiereHamptons International Film Festival / Hawai'i International Film Festival13 Oct 2024
- PremiereSanta Fe International Film Festival17 Oct 2024
- PremiereNew Orleans Film Festival / Newport Beach Film Festival18 Oct 2024
- PremiereWoodstock Film Festival19 Oct 2024
- PremiereChicago International Film Festival22 Oct 2024
- PremiereFilmColumbia Film Festival23 Oct 2024
- PremierePhiladelphia Film Festival25 Oct 2024
- PremiereMontclair Film Festival / SCAD Savannah Film Festival / Twin Cities Film Fest26 Oct 2024
- PremiereAustin Film Festival29 Oct 2024
- PremiereMiami Film Festival GEMS30 Oct 2024
- PremiereVirginia Film Festival31 Oct 2024
- Theatrical (limited)PG-131 Nov 2024
- PremiereDenver Film Festival2 Nov 2024
- Digital / OTTPG-13Apple TV+21 Nov 2024
United KingdomGB
- PremiereBFI London Film Festival9 Oct 2024
- Theatrical (limited)12A8 Nov 2024
- Digital / OTT12Apple TV+22 Nov 2024
United Arab EmiratesAE
- Digital / OTTApple TV+22 Nov 2024
AustraliaAU
- PremiereAdelaide Film Festival26 Oct 2024
- PremiereBritish Film Festival7 Nov 2024
- Digital / OTTMApple TV+22 Nov 2024
CanadaCA
- Digital / OTTApple TV+21 Nov 2024
American SamoaAS
- Digital / OTTApple TV+21 Nov 2024
AnguillaAI
- Digital / OTTApple TV+21 Nov 2024
Antigua & BarbudaAG
- Digital / OTTApple TV+21 Nov 2024
ArgentinaAR
- Digital / OTT+13Apple TV+21 Nov 2024
ArmeniaAM
- Digital / OTTApple TV+22 Nov 2024
AustriaAT
- Digital / OTT12Apple TV+22 Nov 2024
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Blitz was released on 1 November 2024.
Audience reviews
4- G7/10
griggs79
11/4/2024
Steve McQueen's _Blitz_ is an incredibly watchable and engaging film that vividly portrays wartime London. Through his lens, McQueen challenges the commonly held notion that Londoners weathered the horrors of the Blitz with unwavering cheer, a stiff upper lip, and unity. Instead, _Blitz_ underscores the complex layers of a city already defined by its diversity, which McQueen portrays as teeming with cultural resilien…
- C6/10
CinemaSerf
11/13/2024
With the Nazi bombs raining down around them, single mum "Rita" (Saoirse Ronan) has to take the difficult decision to evacuate her son "George" (Elliott Heffernan) from the London home they share with her father (Paul Weller). He isn't keen and so jumps from the moving train and tries to make it back home through a city populated by some kindly people and some Dickensian-style villains - and he encounters them both. …
- M5/10
Manuel São Bento
11/24/2024
FULL SPOILER-FREE REVIEW @ https://talkingfilms.net/blitz-review-beautifully-crafted-emotionally-hollow/ "Blitz is technically competent and offers isolated moments of genuine emotion, but it falls short in character development and thematic exploration. Steve McQueen delivers a visually engaging film with a promising central performance by Elliott Heffernan but struggles to escape the cliches of WWII survival …
- B6/10
Brent Marchant
12/19/2024
Major historic events often provide solid foundations for epic cinematic storytelling, although the success achieved at this depends greatly on the expertise of the writers and directors who execute these projects. One might readily expect such an outcome from a production chronicling the events surrounding the London Blitz, the German air assault that devastated the city in a series of relentless bombing strikes dur…
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