The Hunting Ground (2015) on Netflix
PG-1320151h 43mDocumentary
Assaulted at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Andrea Pino and Annie Clark file a Title IX complaint against the school. Others describe administrators who ignore their reports.
- Netflix4.3/5
- IMDb7.5/106,673 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes93%
Trailer
Plot summary
At colleges and universities across the United States, students who report sexual assault describe administrative responses they call inadequate. Andrea Pino and Annie Clark, assaulted while enrolled at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, file a Title IX complaint against the school and co-found End Rape on Campus. The accounts come from women and men, and from parents, faculty and administrators; some administrators say they were pressured into suppressing rape cases. Institutions including Harvard, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Amherst College and Notre Dame are criticized, along with fraternities such as Sigma Alpha Epsilon. A former Notre Dame police officer describes how rape cases were handled there, and Erica Kinsman discusses an accusation against Jameis Winston at Florida State University. Experts say a small number of repeat offenders commit most assaults.
Cast
- Andrea Pinoas Self
- Claire Potteras Self - Professor of History
- Melinda Manningas Self - Assistant Dean of Students, University of North Carolina
- Kimberly Theidonas Self - Medical Anthropologist and Former Harvard Professor
- Kamilah Willinghamas Self
- Caroline Heldmanas Self - Associate Professor of Politics, Occidental College
- David Lisakas Self - Clinical Psychologist
- Leslie Strohmas Self - General Counsel, University of North Carolina
- Danielle Dirksas Self - Assistant Professor of Sociology, Occidental College
- Diane Rosenfeldas Self - Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School
- Pat Cottrellas Self - Former University Campus Police Officer, Saint Mary's College
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Hunting Ground (2015)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- One day before the film's theatrical release, on February 26, 2015, a bipartisan group of twelve U.S. Senators, joined by its lead subjects Annie Clark and Andrea Pino, reintroduced the Campus Accountability and Safety Act, which would require universities to adopt standard practices for weighing sexual assault charges and to survey students on assault's prevalence.
- Lawyers for Jameis Winston sent CNN president Jeff Zucker a letter threatening legal action if the network aired the film; CNN aired it on November 22, 2015 anyway, followed by a discussion hosted by Alisyn Camerota.
- New York governor Andrew Cuomo presented the film at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts on June 2, 2015, to promote and help pass new legislation addressing sexual assault at New York colleges and universities.
- After Harvard Law School professors wrote an open letter criticizing the film, director Kirby Dick and producer Amy Ziering called the letter "irresponsible" and said the professors' public bias in favor of an assailant contributes to a hostile climate at Harvard Law.
- A controversy surrounded producer Amy Herdy's emails soliciting interviews, which said the film was "very much in the corner of advocacy for victims," with no need for the perpetrator's side, and that the filmmakers wanted an alleged perpetrator to "get complacent because then we will ambush him"; the filmmakers called the singling out of those emails a diversionary tactic.
