Steve McQueen defends scale of four-hour film on Amsterdam’s Nazi occupation

Sir Steve McQueen says the film just fell into place (Jordan Pettitt/PA)

Sir Steve McQueen has defended the length of his new four-hour documentary which tracks how life was in Amsterdam under Nazi occupation.

Titled Occupied City, the film seeks to collide past and present as it explores this period in the Second World War alongside moments from recent years of the pandemic and protests.