By Stephanie Zacharek November 1, 2024 5:05 PM EDT A mericans have all sorts of ways of learning about the Blitz from movies, chief among them John Boorman’s exuberant 1987 Hope and Glory, a memoir film about Boorman’s own boyhood experience during that period of roughly eight months, from 1940 to 1941, when London suffered persistent air attacks from the Luftwaffe. Steve McQueen ’s beautifully observed Blitz, a fictional story with historical underpinnings, might be considered a companion