GamerTab That was an excellent one.

Lawbolisted Powerful

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Suman Roberson It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

tenshi_ippikiookami It is as easy as that. You have to watch this film. Everyone should watch it and then have a conversation of why this may be happening."The Hunting Ground" is a documentary about rape crimes in US colleges and how many of these stories get covered up for different reasons, including prestige, money or influence. It brings many of the victims and victims' families stories to the light, and a chance for them to be heard.Even if it dedicates a fair amount of time to the "work" of the universities and the system in keeping these rapes silenced, this is not just a documentary on the reasons behind the cover-ups, but much more. It is the story of the victims and of how some of them have gotten together to try to stop the culture that protects the attackers from being persecuted.The filmmakers do a very good job in explaining the situation and in giving all the victims a fair amount of time. The stories are balanced and all the factors are easily explained so the viewer can understand how it is these rapes are being, in the majority of cases, just plain ignored.As said in the summary, this is one of those movies that everyone should watch.

Sandy Lynn This is a shocking expose of how, for decades, colleges have ignored sexual assaults of their students. If the true number of rapes on campus were known, the school would suffer tremendous financial repercussions. For starters, who wants to send their daughter to a college with high rape rate. Then the school wants to protect the student athletes from responsibility to keep the lucrative sports programs successful, and finally, they need to keep the fraternity system going so need to ignore rapes there. It turns out that all colleges have a high rape rates, the stats are just falsified. About 100,000 college students will be sexually assaulted this coming school year if things don't change. It's also the story of two very brave young women who are changing things. After their sexual assault complaints were ignored by the University of North Carolina, they dedicate themselves to giving victims / survivors at colleges throughout country a voice. That voice is the filing of Title IX complaints. First they file their own, and then they go on the road, helping students at colleges around the country file their own Title IX complaints. Without the assistance of lawyers, these 20 year old young women are really helping change the whole system. Since all the colleges apparently care about is finances, this turns out to be brilliant because the penalty if the college is found responsible is the loss of its federal funding. Now almost 100 colleges are under investigation by the Department of Education for violations of Title IX and thanks to pressure from these same women the Department of Education has released the list of the colleges under investigation. Rape victims are suddenly a lot more important to colleges. These young women are doing great, important work even as they are being re-traumatized by repeatedly having to hear other victims stories, not to mention the threats they have to repeatedly endure. There were at least two moments in the film where I had goose bumps because of what was being presented, which I can't say happens in every documentary, so it was very riveting as well.

gmiddlefield This is an activist film designed to promote a "culture of rape" that is created by activists, for activists. This movie pretends to be journalism, but it hides behind fantasy to avoid legal scrutiny. This movie is a sales attempt to sell an idea, "rape culture" most likely to further profit women's activist groups with more government funding. This movie is socially destructive by claiming rape is thought of as acceptable, and the rape culture it has created is a "witch hunt culture" where a mere fantasy of a false rape claim (i.e. UVA/Rollingstone False Rape claim) cause protest and hate against innocent men and i.e. UVA false rape, mattress girl).Movies like these have made feminists groups the most power political group in the USA. At the mere mention of rape, with evidence proving the rape claim was a lie, feminist groups were able to get the administration of UVA to reprimand an entire group of men and boys solely based on their gender.Movies like this are not only wrong, it's socially detective and socially irresponsible.

loco_73 "The Hunting Ground" is an important documentary, dealing with the disturbing and pressing issue of rape on college and university campuses throughout the United States.It is perhaps one of the most important documentaries in recent times.A lot of people have seen the news stories, heard from some of the victims and the accused and are somewhat familiar with this issue.Yet "The Hunting Ground" takes all those statistics and oftentimes "faceless accusers", and makes it all-personal, raw and real, by putting faces and names to all those who have been victims and are survivors of rape and sexual assault/harassment. You get to see the cost for everyone of these people who have lived through this harrowing experience, as well as the continuing aftermath and all the implications that go along.However, recently, because of the unfortunate incident with the Rolling Stone article and the unproven allegations in that particular case, a huge backlash has ensued against not only this movie, but also actual victims of rape, sexual abuse and harassment.Are there false claims? Yes, as there are in any other number of criminal categories and offences! However, as it was proved again and again, the number of false rape claims is minuscule when comparing to the number of actual claims brought forward by actual victims.Now, a myriad of right-wing mouthpieces, deniers, pundits, bloggers and "men's rights" warriors, are pouncing and using the Rolling Stone example as proof positive that rape on college and university campuses is a massive hoax being perpetrated by liberals, bleeding hearts, do-gooders and of course the perennial villains of this whole "debacle"...feminists, who apparently are the new evil incarnate in the 21st century, and the greatest threat to male identity and primacy in society at large.In fact these deniers insist that this is a massive public smear campaign against men, specifically all the good ol'boy networks of fraternities and athletic organizations.The venom, vitriol and poisonous bile spewed by these rape, sexual abuse and assault deniers is painful, sad, depressing and it really lives a bitter after-taste of frustration and disbelief.Not only are victims traumatized by the savage nature of the crime perpetrated against them, then victimized again by a system that was supposedly designed to support and help them, no...they get to be insulted, threatened and harassed once more by people who have never been exposed to or have any idea how devastating of a crime rape can be, as the movie makes it clear, for women, but also for men.Yet fame, money, popularity and connections, always come into play when these victims seek justice and redress for what they were forced to endure and live through.Should false claims and cases of this type of crime be dismissed and even prosecuted? Of course. No one being falsely accused should have to be punished or go to jail for a crime he or she did not commit. Innocent until proved guilty must hold for everybody.But to dismiss all cases of rape on campus out of hand is dangerous, ignorant and terribly narrow-minded.The naysayers seem to revel in proving that this entire issue is a sham. I would advise against being too gleeful, lest you or someone you know is ever affected by the blight of sexual violence.Watch the movie, try to be unbiased and make up your own mind as to what is what! Ask yourself...especially men, what if one of the victims was your mother, sister or girlfriend? What would you do and how would you react?