Sheffield may be 5,000 kilometres across the world from Toronto but even here, soccer fans can still see the effects of the 1989 Hillsborough disaster. The tragic incident took the lives of 96 Liverpool supporters, and forever changed the way stadiums around the world are constructed.
Filmmaker Daniel Gordon’s documentary Hillsborough carefully recounts the events leading up to the horrifying crowd crush, as well as the years of investigation that followed. Gordon has pedigree in sport filmmaking, directing the 2002 doc The Game of Their Lives about the North Korean team at the 1966 World Cup.