Tower
2016 · Movie · 82 min · ★ 7.6 · 96% critics
This documentary revisits a shocking campus shooting through eyewitness accounts, archival material, and animated reenactments. As chaos spreads and help is hard to reach, it follows the split-second choices of students, bystanders, and responders, highlighting both the terror of the moment and the courage that emerged.
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Details
- Years
- 2016
- Release date
- 2016-03-13
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 82 min
- Max quality
- HD
- Critic score
- 96/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.6/10 (202 votes)
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you want an intense, human-focused true-crime documentary that prioritizes witnesses and survivors over the perpetrator; Not for you if you avoid traumatic real-world violence or prefer lighter docuseries like The Mind, Explained.
Pros: gripping real-time tension; powerful survivor perspectives; inventive animation approach | Cons: limited perpetrator context; visuals may feel rough; emotionally heavy subject
Themes
- violence in schools
- massacre
- adult animation
- school shooting
- animated documentary
Cast & crew
Violett Beane
as Claire Wilson James
Chris Doubek
as Allen Crum
Blair Jackson
as Houston McCoy
- LA
Louie Arnette
as Ramiro "Ray" Martinez
Josephine McAdam
as Rita Starpattern
- AO
Aldo Ordoñez
as Aleck Hernandez Jr.
- SB
Seamus Bolivar-Ochoa
as John "Artly" Fox
- MM
Monty Muir
as Neal Spelce
- CW
Cole Bee Wilson
as Tom Eckman
- VI
Vicky Illk
as Brenda Bell
Directed by Keith Maitland