A Grenfell Documentary Is Coming To Netflix This Month

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This Saturday 14 June is the eighth anniversary of the Grenfell Tower Fire – yet residents still don’t have all the answers, and no one has been prosecuted. A new documentary, Grenfell: Uncovered, will amplify the call for justice later this month. Here’s what you need to know.

Grenfell: Uncovered Is Coming To Netflix In June 2025

This feature-length documentary will meticulously reconstruct the chain of events that led up to the Grenfell Tower fire – more widely known as the Grenfell Disaster – which killed 72 people in 2017. Directed by Olaide Sadiq, Grenfell: Uncovered will draw on interviews with survivors, bereaved families and firefighters to recall exactly what happened on that fateful night, supplemented with recordings of real phone calls to the emergency services on 14 June 2018.

The trailer shows how former residents of the tower will recount what they were doing on the right of the fire eight years ago. ‘I say Grenfell was my home,’ Luana Gomes says in the trailer, amid photos of her as a teenager around the time of the disaster. ‘I would always see the London Eye [from my window]. Back in 2017, it was becoming summertime, and that night, we just went out for dinner.’

Former Grenfell Tower resident Luana Gomes in Grenfell: Uncovered

‘It’s vital to convey the significance of the investigative findings, but we are equally committed to highlighting that Grenfell was a home – a place of comfort and safety for the residents – that was sadly compromised to the extent where people’s right to safety was stripped away,’ director Sadiq says. ‘This film has been shaped by the voices of Grenfell’s bereaved and survivors, and those who fought for change long before the tragedy as well as after.’

The Grenfell Disaster is a tale of mismanagement, with residents told by the emergency services to remain in the blazing building long after they should have escaped. In Grenfell: Uncovered, former residents will recall those harrowing moments. ‘They were telling us to stay inside,’ the young woman recalls. ‘But the fire was getting closer. We just dashed it for the stairwell.’

‘My window was alight,’ another former resident, David Badillo, recalls. ‘And it [the fire] just raced towards me. It was just smoke, black. I didn’t have any idea where they [the emergency services] were.’

But Grenfell’s fate was cemented years before the disaster: Grenfell: Uncovered will reveal how a preventable disaster unfolded in plain sight after years of negligence from businesses and the government alike.

‘I honestly believed it would be dealt with because it’s the United Kingdom,’ Bernadette Bernard says in the trailer; her brother Ray was killed in the blaze. Experts will explain how cladding exacerbated the Grenfell Disaster, with recreated experiments showing audiences exactly how dangerous Grenfell Tower was to live in – and how this was an open secret.

‘This was a huge corporate scandal,’ one expert declares, while former prime minister Theresa May herself appears in the documentary to add that, ‘Sadly, companies were able to find a way around regulations.’ May was the UK PM in 2017, when Grenfell blazed and 72 lives were lost; she has previously admitted her response to the disaster was ‘not good enough’.

Former prime minister Theresa May in Grenfell: Uncovered

Of course, cladding is now top of the agenda in the UK. ‘There are thousands of buildings in the United Kingdom that still have combustible cladding,’ Jackie Leger points out in the trailer; she is a friend of Bernadette and thought of Ray like a brother. But it shouldn’t have taken a disaster like Grenfell to make important policy changes – and Grenfell: Uncovered will reveal exactly what went wrong.

‘We just want justice,’ the young woman says. ‘Why did this have to happen? Why?’

Grenfell: Uncovered Trailer

Release Date

Grenfell: Uncovered will be available to stream from 20 June 2025 on Netflix, following the documentary’s world premiere at Sheffield Doc Fest on 19 June 2025.