Five things to watch this week
The Blitz, navigating New York, performing monkey, bike travelogue and vintage Vegas
Britain and the Blitz — Netflix
It’s more than 80 years since the bombing of British cities by the Luftwaffe helped to create the “keep calm and carry on” legend of the UK sticking together in the face of seemingly insurmountable obstacles. World War 2 documentaries are a dime a dozen on the History Channel, but director Ella Wright, taking a page from Peter Jackson’s moving 2018 World War 1 documentary They Shall Never Grow Old, mostly breathes new life into her rich, colourised archive footage of the devastation of the period. Snippets of interviews from those who lived through it to paint a riveting portrait of a bygone era that shaped the national psyche of post-war Britain...
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