Dick explores how many top tier schools, such as Harvard Law School, Yale, University of North Carolina, Duke, and others have had well over one-hundred cases of sexual assault reported in the span of a decade, but how just about less than two percent (sometimes none) get any form of punishment, be it suspension or expulsion. I have no doubt it still occurs, but as far as I've seen from my school, I think we've got it handled a lot better than many other schools (also because we're not so concerned about our athletics empire, being a school with a Division III football team). The entire course took roughly an hour and a half (and, no, you couldn't skip through the videos and, yes, you were pervasively quizzed), and even to this day, it's rare I walk around campus for a full day and don't hear something about a campaign to raise awareness about sexual violence or how my college boasts a zero tolerance policy. Before I could even set foot on campus last year, at my private liberal arts school, for my first year of college, I was required to take an online course in sexual conduct and sexual violence. Continuing off of Dick's last film, The Invisible War, which looked intimately at the military's long list of sexual assault cases, The Hunting Ground turns the camera just a little bit to in the other direction to focus on the rape epidemic on America's college campuses. Kirby Dick's latest documentary, The Hunting Ground, is destined to be one of the most important documentaries of the year I'd be seriously surprised if a Best Documentary Feature nomination at next year's Oscar wasn't all but confirmed at this point.
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