Should you watch Tower?
Who it’s good for, who it isn’t, and what’s in it. No ratings, no scores.
Tower
Documentary · 2016
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.
The sides of Tower
- The 1966 shooting at the University of Texas
- Survivors and rescuers telling their story
- Animation drawn over real testimony
Tower is good for you if…
- you can follow one long afternoon minute by minute.
- you want the people who were there, not the gunman, at the centre.
- you like seeing 1966 Austin brought back in animation and archive.
Tower is bad for you if…
- you can't watch a real mass shooting and its victims, even told with care.
- you don't watch animated films, even documentaries.
- you can't stand gunfire and wounded people on screen.
About: courage · survival · trauma
Closest to Tower
More like this
20 Days in Mariupol 2023Good for you if you want to see what the first weeks of the invasion looked like on the ground.
Society of the Snow 2023Good for you if you want to be moved by young men holding each other together.
9/11 2002Good for you if you want to see that morning as the firefighters lived it.
The Last Days 1998Good for you if you want to hear survivors tell their own stories.
12 Years a Slave 2013Good for you if you like performances that are hard to watch and impossible to forget.
Bus 174 2002Good for you if you want to understand a real hostage crisis that Brazil watched live.