Britain and the Blitz is a short Netflix documentary that feels like it needed to be a long Netflix documentary. It contains interesting footage and small stories but its not deep enough to breath or inform.

It’s a little over an hour long doc about the Battle of Britain and how it affected the folk on the ground. Which is a big topic no matter how narrowly you focus it… and an hour just isn’t enough time.

But I think the reason the film exists is all the colorized updates of old black & white archival footage. And some of that’s pretty good… but other shots looked off. It’s uneven and inconsistent… which is the same thing I can say about the stories they follow.

I’m not sure it taught me anything really about the blitz. I’m hardly an expert on it but the only people who would learn anything are those who know absolutely nothing. And they won’t learn enough either since it provides a bare-bones overview of what’s even going on.

It’s not a bad film and its nice to see some quality footage enhanced… but it’s also a huge wasted opportunity to really dig into all the nuance behind living under the bombs of the Luftwaffe.

Score: 76