Attack on Pearl Harbor: Minute by Minute

If you think you know all about that fateful day, you don't.

This is an excellent and complete account. Very well done. I wish every Netflix documentary was this intelligent and classy.

Basically, I like the narrative of the script. It does encompass the key points of the raid and the aftermath. For people who know little or nothing of the attack on December 7, 1941, I highly recommend it.

However, for a documentary that claims it uses only "archival footage" of the attack, I was sorely disappointed to see practical special effects scenes from the movie "Tora! Tora! Tora!" included. In my opinion this cheapens the whole experience. Why did the producers do this? For dramatic effect? Was not the iconic image of the destroyer USS Shaw exploding not enough?

In my opinion, there was enough actual film in the Pearl Harbor raid, as well as footage from the Imperial Japanese Navy (iJN) that the producers did not have to resort to plagiarizing Hollywood to get the required content.

I love studying military history. And I know the story of Pearl Harbor quite well. Even still, I found myself gripped by this well-paced and thoroughly researched series that does justice to this critical event in American history.

Terrible footage was used in this documentary. In some cases they showed footage featuring American dauntless dive bomber when they were describing the Japanese bombers attacking Pearl Harbor. In other cases they were using footage from other battles that had nothing to do with Pearl Harbor. What was even worse was there using footage that look like models from an old Godzilla movie. Very disappointing. I realize there is limited footage but don't use fake stuff or inaccurate footage. I have seen better documentaries about Pearl Harbor. This seems to have been made on a low budget and many other scenes describe was using canned or previously used film footage. In some cases it was shown over and over again in the same chapter.

It's a good documentary on Pearl Harbor. If you are a history buff and like WW II documentaries, you've seen ever clip and heard every story already. It's basically like watching a repeat when you're bored.