Atentado en Londres: La cacería tras las bombas del 7/7

This was a very interesting documentary about the 7/7 London bombings. The interviews with survivors and people who were there that day were definitely the strongest part.

The interview with the civil rights activist felt out of place and didn't really add anything. Suggesting that the police or investigators were being racist just because they were trying to find suspects based on the info they had isn't fair. Profiling, in the context of a manhunt, is a logical and necessary part of narrowing down suspects, based on the information available at the time, not on prejudice.

It's unfortunate that Netflix appears to include these elements to attract certain viewers or to appeal to activist narratives, rather than to enhance the factual quality of the documentary. Investigators have a duty to act on the best leads available, regardless of race, age, or gender, and suggesting otherwise distracts from the real story and the real victims. Doing otherwise would just mean they'd waste time.

Still, even though it got quite frustrating in the end, the documentary remains a worthwhile watch.

Im an American. I was 10 when 9/11 happened so ive seen plenty of documentaries about it over the decades. So I was excited to see someone had made a proper 7/7 documentary. A terrorist attack that seems to have been largely forgotten as a result of more recent ISIS attacks in Europe with significantly higher casualties. But as you will see in the documentary, it goes deeper than just 4 Jihadists on 7/7 who blew themselves up, and id say, for the most part. They did a great job portraying it.

With footage most of us likely have never seen before, interviews with high ranking police, intelligence operatives, and the warmonger Tony Blair himself, we get an interesting comprehensive look at what happened. Though I personally would not have structured it the way it was, possibly due to the lack of footage (unlike 9/11), this is how the had to do it, and thats ok because it was compelling to watch the scenes unfold. However, while I watched on with interest into the subsequent forensics investigation and later-on failed attack and manhunt, I was displeased with something thats been creeping in to these documentaries as of late. The "poor me, Muslim pity party".

Right in the middle of sections discussing forensics, police investigations, internal discussions at MI-5. We get stopped, jarringly by "human rights activists" and other of that ilk. And they go on and on and on about how THEY were persecuted, not the 50+ people heinously murdered by true Muslims, BUT THEM, apparently 50+ dead isn't enough right? We have to be victims too. I was old enough to clearly remember 9/11, I remember the justifiable backlash against Muslims. When we have a plethora of dead people, I and very few other people want to hear about how its not real Islam, because it is, ive studied it, ive fought it. People complaining about being searched by police. Of course you are, when a white Catholic does the same, go ahead and search me. Get out of here with that nonsense and get back to the true crime investigation I came here for. Not a slew of people pretending that what happened isnt actually true textbook Islam justified by their "Holy" texts.

So while one can just skip through those stupid interviews, the rest is fantastic and another example of how Netflix still can produce good documentaries despite a lull in quality as of late, this one stands above most of the recent Netflix documentaries.

I'm a big true crime fan and also love documentaries. This fit in both categories for me. I only have a vague memory of the events that happened on 7/7/2005 in London. I remember the news but not as much as I would if I had been from the UK. Terrorism had done a number on the United States with 9/11/2001 so that was still huge to us in 2005. The attacks on several trains and buses over the course of two separate days in July, two weeks apart put a lot of stress on the public and greater still on the police. This was full of eye witness accounts, police accounts, film footage, news accounts and even the thoughts of Tony Blair, Prime Minister at that time. 52 dead and over 700 injured, many badly injured. This was the story of the manhunt involved and all the work the police did-even an innocent man losing his life as well. All of this is documented and true so I don't think any of these are spoilers. Even the dead man is mentioned on part one at the beginning. I thought it was well done and as mentioned in my title, pretty fascinating.

At first I didn't want to watch this docu because when the preparators of a crime are muslims, the documentary usually is a lot biased. I like that this documentary also add muslim's viewpoint. Because I also live as a muslim minority and I had a lot of bad experience because of ISIS and other radical muslim terror. Islam that I learn is not bad. Islam that I know and learn is peaceful religion. And I always tried to become a good person so I can change people prespective about Islam. A lot of muslims suffer because of that small number of bad muslims. People are good and bad. Just because someone's faith, doesn't mean that the person is good or bad. I hope that this world become a better place for all good people.

Pros:

It focuses on the title "Hunting the bombers" and just that.

Topic is vastly researched and no bias at all.

Cons:

Can do more. It had a lot of potential and did not cover Samatha Lewthwaite at all except in a 3 second photograph.

Post arrest story is missing. How the govt tackled the terrorism groups and after math of it.

As I started the documentary i was pretty excited in anticipation of how the terror group went down. But as I ended the documentary i left with a feeling of dissapointment since the makers have covered only the bombers not people behind them. I believe the victims would want to know how the evil has been tackled by their government.