On the face of it, this is a disturbing, brilliant documentary that should rate ten out of ten, but people who have studied the subject matter will see it for what it is: propaganda for proper geese. The bedrock of "The Hunting Ground" is contrived statistics and plausible liars. Late in the film is an appearance from Barack Obama. On January 22, 2014, the President told the press it was estimated that one in five women had been sexually assaulted during their time at college, although he didn't say estimated by whom. Three years later, he sent his eldest daughter to Harvard. Would he really have done so had he believed that rubbish? Harvard alumnus Kamilah Willingham appears herein, implying that she was drugged before she was sexually assaulted by the (unnamed) Brandon Winston. She didn't mention the cocaine that she brought out after a night of hard partying. Cocaine can cause hallucinations without alcohol, and let's not talk about lowering inhibitions. She ended up putting this poor kid through four years of Hell and nearly trashing his career before it began.Another Winston falsely accused herein is Jameis Winston, who was said to have raped Erika Kinsman. She too implies she was drugged. In reality, hers was a case of instant regret sex. We are told that Winston was protected by the establishment because he was a top college football player. Florida is the state where young black men are fined by the police if they wear their trousers an inch too low, so the suggestion that white cops would protect a black athlete who'd violated a young white woman is too stupid to comment on. The hostility Kinsman received from other students - female as well as male - is because they knew she was lying.Male feminist David Lisak is brought in to give the film an air of academic credibility. He endorses both the 2% claim for false reports and the absurd 1987 Koss "study" claiming that since then the statistics have been extremely consistent. Koss has been debunked numerous times; the loaded questions in her so-called survey don't even include a direct: Has a man ever forced himself upon you when you told him emphatically "No!"Other contributors include Annie Clark, an athlete with cross-country running and soccer on her sporting CV - she was, she says, raped outside in a quite brutal manner. She didn't tell anybody for a very long time - she didn't know how to report a rape. How dumb are these college girls? Rape is a felony. If it happens to you, you need to dial 911, on campus or anywhere else.Andrea Pino's account is almost as unconvincing as Clark's; she was a virgin, she said, and didn't want to admit it had happened. Or maybe she didn't want to admit she had lost her virginity in sordid circumstances? And so it goes on. Is there really a problem with rape on campus? In recent years, with the single spectacular exception of the Vanderbilt case, every highly publicised campus rape has been a hoax. Furthermore, we are asked to believe that university administrators - many of them women - are complicit in this massive cover-up of the sexual violation of the cream of American youth. Maybe they know something the public doesn't.Male so-called survivors are dragged in, they appear to be homosexuals, but even if they aren't, their presence has an obvious reason, to garner much needed male support for the continued attack on due process. The attention-seeking Mattress Girl puts in an appearance, but not the clearly deranged Landen Gambill. No one should be deceived by the tears displayed in or the rhetoric of this film. There are better ways of tackling sexual assault on campus and everywhere else without eroding due process. One way is to teach young women to take responsibility for their own actions by not drinking themselves senseless and getting into cars with men they don't know. Apart from common sense, new technology can play a major part in both holding rapists to account and preventing them raping women in the first place. These though are beyond the scope of this review, and way beyond the scope of "The Hunting Ground".

When reading the reviews for this film, a lot of the problems our society is facing today become obvious. There is a lot of victim shaming and people citing these girls as liars or attention whores. This could not be further from the truth. To dismiss these women for having the courage to say what happened to them is despicable. Rape culture is alive and well in this country, and there is no excuse for it. Victims should not be asked what they were wearing or what they had to drink. How is any of this relevant to the fact that they were assaulted? Anyone who points the finger at a victim is deplorable. Watch this movie and stand with these women. They deserve our support.

Thought provoking documentary, exposing weaknesses in the processes and mechanisms in universities for survivors of sexual assault. A brave move. Other reviewers have focused in on one ongoing case - do not let that stop you from watching this documentary; it has a lot to tell.The two survivors who give up their own dreams in order to assist others, surviving on little and sleeping in cars, demonstrate the tenacity required to stand up to institutions (such as fraternities) where power balance does not sit in your favour. This movie is about what you can do as an individual to make a change. For those that don't believe this happens, or believe that funding of "feminist" causes gets more money than anything else, perhaps you should do some actual research. There are numerous peer reviewed papers published that demonstrate the breadth of this problem, which more often that not is swept under the carpet.

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.