Tower

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2016

1h 22m

English

Animation, Crime, Documentary

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Combining archival footage with rotoscopic animation, Tower reveals the action-packed untold stories of the witnesses, heroes and survivors of America’s first mass school shooting, when the worst in one man brought out the best in so many others.

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Tower

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2016

1h 22m

English

Animation, Crime, Documentary

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Cast

Claire Wilson James

Allen Crum

Houston McCoy

Ramiro "Ray" Martinez

Rita Starpattern

Aleck Hernandez Jr.

John "Artly" Fox

Neal Spelce

Tom Eckman

Brenda Bell

Lee "Junior" Zamora

Comforting Woman

Phil Miller

Kent Kirkley

Margaret C. Berry

Jerry Day

James Love

Student With Rifle

Billy Speed

Man in Suit

Billy Snowden

John Pipkin

Baby Boy Wilson

Directed By: Keith Maitland

Written By: Sarah Wilson, Keith Maitland

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CptArius says...

7 years ago

Hopefully the people behind this documentary are able to make more documentary's centred on history in this style because it was truly captivating.

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Jordyep says...

8 months ago

Reminded me of _Dunkirk_. Tense and memorable because of the presentation, but could've used stronger character development. I did enjoy the focus on a tragic experience like that revealing one's true character and it changing you as a person, similar to a film like _Force Majeure_. However, other times it can feel repetitive or predictable, it's not the most cinematic version of this type of story. Very much preferable over the Hollywood treatment, of course, but to me this is really carried by the sound and visuals. The ending leaves things on a heartwarming note, which is nice after all the misery preceding it. 6.5/10

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faithful soul says...

6 years ago

From the worst of humanity to the best of humanity, this is a compelling documentary capturing that tragic Texas day in imaginative style. Sad, yet hopeful. Soul destroying, yet life affirming.

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Audioworm says...

7 years ago

How do you cover a tragic event, a massacre on a college campus, without turning it into an action movie, without giving any special standing to the killer, and while respecting the victims and their stories? Tower found a highly successful approach by using a sort of rotoscoped animation style, overlayed and played alongside the real footage, so to humanise those involved and what they were thinking as it all went down. Truly captivating and engrossing the whole time, while giving you direct access to the thoughts of those involved. Also, given the way the events were treated UT Austin by immediately moving on it gave a sense of closure to those involved, and exposed us to heroes we didn't know existed, like the astonishing tale of Rita Starpattern.

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Reno

6 years ago

**About the first such incident in the US history.**

It was like another documentary film that I saw one last week. But this time it was an even bigger scale. This, the original event took place exactly 50 years ago and first of its kind. Since then hundreds of similar events have been recorded. More

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