Review of Hillsborough

30 for 30: Soccer Stories: Hillsborough (2014)
Season 1, Episode 1
10/10
Incredibly eye-opening and moving
29 September 2015
I first heard about this incident during a sixth form law class on psychiatric harm. I never read too much into the disaster. I learned about it further when my Dad told me he had been there. Still 4 years later and I am only watching a documentary about it now.

Unbelievable tragedy and corruption, and we only gather the icing of evidence in this documentary. Yet it leaves you gob-smacked and aching for the loved ones. Had my dad not been a Nottingham forest fan, he would have been in the exact spot the tragedy occurred.

Although this documentary pays little tribute to the 96 lost, it pays a greater tribute to the ones fighting for justice to this day. It gives family members a way to overcome years of fighting for justice by giving their story. One can't even comprehend the trauma those involved have had to deal with, so to see that there are people with power still fighting for them leaves you with hope.

As a future lawyer, this was a magnificently narrated documentary on the corruption those with power can obtain. 26 years worth of corruption and still counting.
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