Two documentaries about the same disaster, four days apart, and both have a problem.
Watch the Netflix one first, then the Hulu one, and know what is wrong with each before you start. Two production teams raced to put out a documentary about the same collapsed music festival, four days apart in January 2019, and each took a shortcut the other one attacked them for. Neither is dishonest about the festival. Both are compromised about how they got their material, and knowing which is which changes how you watch them.
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The Netflix one, released 18 January and directed by Chris Smith. Better made, better paced, and the one people quote. Its problem: it was produced with Jerry Media, the marketing company that promoted the festival, and the film does not say so.
The Hulu one, released 14 January and four days earlier, directed by Jenner Furst and Julia Willoughby Nason. It has the thing the Netflix film does not, an interview with Billy McFarland himself. Its problem: they paid him for it.
Then what? Nothing else is needed. There is a third, crowd-funded piece from February 2019 which is a joke rather than a documentary and is not listed here.
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