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A devastating, anger-inducing exposé that turns campus sexual assault into a systemic indictment of institutions that protect reputations over survivors. It’s emotionally punishing but important, clear-eyed, and built to provoke action as much as outrage.
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Fri · 1h 44m
Director: Kirby Dick
Starring: Andrea Pino, Annie Clark, Claire Potter
A startling expose of rape crimes on US campuses, their institutional cover-ups, and the devastating toll they take on students and their families. The film follows the lives of several undergraduate assault survivors as they attempt to pursue—despite incredible push back, harassment and traumatic aftermath—both their education and justice.
Kirby Dick
Andrea Pino, Annie Clark, Claire Potter
A devastating, anger-inducing exposé that turns campus sexual assault into a systemic indictment of institutions that protect reputations over survivors. It’s emotionally punishing but important, clear-eyed, and built to provoke action as much as outrage.
The Hunting Ground is one of those documentaries that leaves you angry for all the right reasons. It frames campus sexual assault not as a series of isolated incidents, but as a structural failure: a system of denial, intimidation, and institutional self-protection that compounds the harm done to survivors.
What gives the film its force is the combination of survivor testimony and the broader pattern it reveals. It’s not subtle, and it doesn’t try to be. The movie is built to persuade, to alarm, and to make the viewer feel the scale of the problem rather than merely understand it intellectually.
That urgency is also its biggest strength. Even when the film is emotionally exhausting, it remains focused and accessible, making a difficult subject impossible to dismiss. It’s essential viewing for anyone interested in campus politics, gendered violence, or documentaries that aim to change public conversation.
Scott Anderson (4★) · 150 likes
Lizzy Seeberg. July 30, 1991 - September 10, 2010. Take a second and really let that sink in. Her name was Lizzy Seeberg, and she was a beautiful and bright young woman. She was born in 1991. She died a teenager. If you have followed my reviews before now, you probably know I have a daughter. I write about her a lot. She is my best friend. She is the love of my life. Before she was born, I thought… more
Savannah Oakes (3.5★) · 82 likes
I hate people.
{Todd} (4★) · 62 likes
"So what happens when a girl says no once or twice and the guy keeps going? That's rape now?" - Some dude (the answer is yes btw). - Documentaries Assigned in my Contemporary Social Problems Course: boxd.it/2KB04 Screened this film again to make sure that I still want to show it in my course. I do. The Hunting Ground is one of the best demonstrations of structural inequality and organizational deviance, as it applies to rape, that I have seen.… more
#1 gizmo fan (4★) · 51 likes
I AM SO ANGRY
rach (4.5★) · 48 likes
i’m in TEARS. i am so angry after watching this. this documentary is SO important and everyone needs to see it.
A searing Kirby Dick documentary on sexual assault in the U.S. military, sharing the same investigative urgency and institutional critique.
A methodical exposé of institutional abuse and the machinery that protects it, with a similarly righteous investigative momentum.
Another infuriating true-crime documentary about manipulation, denial, and the failures of adults and authorities to act.
Focuses on abuse, institutional cover-up, and survivor advocacy within a powerful, emotionally charged nonfiction framework.
A painful documentary about sexual assault, online harassment, and the social systems that intensify trauma.
An essential film about injustice, public narrative, and institutional wrongdoing, with strong overlap in outrage and accountability.
For viewers who want activism under pressure, this documentary captures the cost of challenging entrenched power.
A corporate-collapse documentary that shares the same appetite for exposing systemic corruption and moral rot.
Not thematically identical, but it offers a serious, reflective nonfiction approach to power, responsibility, and institutional decision-making.
A dramatized but highly compatible story of persistence against powerful institutions and the fight to make harm visible.
A workplace-assault drama that aligns with the film’s themes of harassment, retaliation, and the cost of speaking out.
A sharp, confrontational film about sexual violence, complicity, and the social rituals that excuse predation.
campus sexual assault, institutional cover-up, survivor testimony, Title IX, higher education accountability, gendered violence, advocacy documentary, systemic injustice
social issue documentary, investigative, activist, traumatic, anger, institutional failure, higher education, gender justice, survivor-led, 2010s