The individual accounts of these people don’t just emphasize what happened during that time – they share personal stories of love and romance, of tragedy and heartbreak, as these people, all notably quite young, came of age during a time of extreme hardship that ultimately defined the rest of their lives. Our Take: Britain and the Blitz states right up front that immersion is the goal here, and unlike many traditional historical docs that tend to relay audio and visual information with dry detachment, it often creates a tactile sensation of being on the ground and present for the bombings. Obviously, no documentarian is going to cover both right- and left-brain angles on the Blitz in 77 minutes, so Britain and the Blitz leans heavily to the former (and likely assumes we can fill in historical gaps with a trip to Wikipedia, which helped refresh me on, say, why Hitler gave up on the bombing campaign (his strategy was disorganized and he had shifted his attention to Russia)).
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Published at: 2025-05-05 21:45:00
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