30 for 30: Soccer Stories: Hillsborough (2014)
Season 1, Episode 1
8/10
Very detailed documentary about the tragedy and the injustice surrounding it
12 July 2022
Very detailed documentary, with a lot of information and footage about (and prior) the tragedy of Hillsborough stadium in Sheffield, in the match between Liverpool and Notts Forest in 1989 FA Cup, resulting in 96 deaths and hundreds of injured people. It is plenty of testimonies of survivors, relatives of victims, and policemen who were there (many of them helped in trying to save the victims, although the commands were not in favor of it). It is very impressive, despite somewhat sluggish, how they narrate all the elements in the administration of the match and in the police enforcement there that led to the overcrowding and crashing of people in the stadium. There is a very sharp criticism about the shame of the judgement that accused the victims, and the fans of Liverpool, of being the responsible for the tragedy, linking the catastrophe to the level of alcohol in the blood of the dead and to crime and hooliganism. Even worse: there is the discussion of the distortion by authorities of testimonies of policemen that were working in the match in that day and told the truth about what they saw and what did happen. This was eventually converted into the book "Hillsborough: The Truth" by Professor Scruton. Both the institutionalized injustice (biased evidences and upside-down courts) against the victims and the irresponsibility of the press in the first moment were addressed in the movie. Indeed, the waves of investigations om the incident (be them serious or not) through the decades after it have been quite detailed too in the documentary. An encompassing documentary for the 96.
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