Grenfell: Uncovered

Name: Grenfell: Uncovered
Director: Olaide Sadiq
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2025
Duration: 1 h 40 min

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2025
Olaide Sadiq
100 mins
12

Summary

On June 14, 2017, fire spread through Grenfell Tower in North Kensington and eventually 72 people lost their lives, 18 of whom were children. In the days and months that followed, uncomfortable questions revealed how decisions taken by government and businesses impacted events that fateful day and how the tragedy might have been prevented. Ahead of work beginning to take down the 23-storey building, a feature-length documentary directed by Olaide Sadiq allows survivors, bereaved families and firefighters to share their stories about one of modern London's most heartbreaking disasters

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Frances Taylor

Questions quickly emerged in the wake of the Grenfell Tower tragedy. How had a small fire, which started as an electrical blaze in a fourth-floor kitchen, spread so rapidly? Why hadn’t previous concerns from residents about fire safety been acted upon? And, ultimately, if action had been taken, could the deaths of 72 people have been prevented? This documentary seeks answers.

Survivors, relatives and firefighters recount the horrifying events of that night in June 2017, while fire experts and a journalist who’s covered the story from day one, explain the corruption and incompetence from businesses and the government that led to the catastrophe.

As well as hearing stupefying testimony given at the Grenfell Tower Inquiry (a special dishonourable mention must go to Eric Pickles), there are jaw-dropping internal emails regarding the cladding. The material used is chillingly compared to sticking a petrol tanker to the outside of the tower. Yet what’s almost as shocking is that even today, hundreds of thousands of people still live in buildings clad with unsafe material. It’s a national scandal.

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7.4/10