Steve McQueen

In the United Kingdom from September 1940 to May 1941, cities like London were under attack in an eight-month-long aerial bombardment from Nazi Germany known as the Blitz. British director Sir Steve McQueen (“12 Years a Slave”) uses the months long attacks for the backdrop of his newest film “Blitz.

Steve McQueen’s powerful ‘Lynching Tree’ on view at Gardner Museum for just two weeks.