The film boasts a suitably epic score from Hans Zimmer (who previously worked with McQueen on 12 Years A Slave) and stars ​​Harris Dickinson, Benjamin Clementine, Kathy Burke, Stephen Graham, Leigh Gill, Mica Ricketts, CJ Beckford, Alex Jennings, Joshua McGuire, Hayley Squires, Erin Kellyman, and Sally Messham.

Saoirse Ronan is a distraught mother on a mission to find her son in the first trailer for Steve McQueen's World War II drama 'Blitz.'

The first trailer has been released for Steve McQueen's historical drama 'Blitz,' a WWII drama starring Saoirse Ronan, Harris Dickinson and more.

Saoirse Ronan portrays Rita, a single mother who attempted to save her 9-year-old son's life by sending him away. Elliott Heffernan plays George, who tries to get back to Rita. "Why can't you tell me, where's my boy?" Rita says in the trailer.

WWII drama 'Blitz' will premiere at the BFI London Film Festival, hit select theaters on Nov. 1 then stream globally on Apple TV+ on Nov. 22

Sir Steve McQueen's Blitz is set to close the New York Film Festival and then open the BFI London Film Festival this year, the latter a fitting context for the lauded director to send audiences into one of the most terrifying and tragically defining periods of modern British history.