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The Invisible War is a vital and frank expose on sexual assault in the U.S. military, shot by master filmmaker Kirby Dick (This Film is Not Yet Rated).
SUPER REVIEWER
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The Invisible War is as compelling as Silence in the House of God, Alex Gibney's study of abusive Catholic priests. Mar 14, 2014 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
The Invisible War is as compelling as Silence in the House of God, Alex Gibney's study of abusive Catholic priests.
Charlotte O'Sullivan
What calibre of male personnel is the military attracting? And how will this dysfunction affect its relations with foreign civilian populations? It is a grim picture. Mar 6, 2014 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
What calibre of male personnel is the military attracting? And how will this dysfunction affect its relations with foreign civilian populations? It is a grim picture.
Peter Bradshaw
I can hardly wait to see which closet Dick will throw open next. Jan 7, 2013 | Full Review…
I can hardly wait to see which closet Dick will throw open next.
David Edelstein
A must-see exposé of the abuse of power in an institution that is supposed to serve and protect. Jan 7, 2013 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
A must-see exposé of the abuse of power in an institution that is supposed to serve and protect.
Gayle MacDonald
I have rarely been more righteously riled up than I was while watching the documentary The Invisible War. Jan 7, 2013 | Rating: A | Full Review…
I have rarely been more righteously riled up than I was while watching the documentary The Invisible War.
Peter Rainer
Interview after interview, statistic after statistic, Dick's advocacy project thoroughly incenses -- and appears to be having results. Jan 7, 2013 | Full Review…
Interview after interview, statistic after statistic, Dick's advocacy project thoroughly incenses -- and appears to be having results.
Melissa Anderson
Although The Invisible War hardly breaks the mould in its execution, it makes for compelling -- if appalling -- viewing. Mar 7, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Although The Invisible War hardly breaks the mould in its execution, it makes for compelling -- if appalling -- viewing.
Ben Nicholson
"The Invisible War" is infuriating, but in a positive way. Feb 21, 2018 | Full Review…
"The Invisible War" is infuriating, but in a positive way.
Steve Erickson
This is a horrifying situation. Aug 9, 2017 | Full Review…
This is a horrifying situation.
Sr. Rose Pacatte
Where this picture is truly triumphant, is within the significance of its very existence. This film simply needs to have been made, and it needs to be seen. Mar 10, 2014 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Where this picture is truly triumphant, is within the significance of its very existence. This film simply needs to have been made, and it needs to be seen.
Stefan Pape
Directed with straightforward economy, The Invisible War sheds much-needed light on a very dark secret. Mar 10, 2014 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Directed with straightforward economy, The Invisible War sheds much-needed light on a very dark secret.
Ken McIntyre
Kirby Dick's typically insightful and compassionate documentary presents a harrowing picture of an epidemic of sexual assault and rape within the US military. Mar 9, 2014 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Kirby Dick's typically insightful and compassionate documentary presents a harrowing picture of an epidemic of sexual assault and rape within the US military.
Mark Kermode
Well, there's the good part of the American experiment, and then there's the rest. This is a piece about some of that other, wherein representatives of the land of the free and home of the brave justify rape by your colleagues as simply an "occupational hazard". A national disgrace, not only for the crime against our sons and daughters but more so for the sanctioned cover-up after the fact, protecting the abusers. Got a Leave it to Beaver view of America, of its military (the highest example of The Dream), then this is not for you.
Super Reviewer
Trigger Warning: descriptions of women going through reporting after sexual assault. Though I knew a bit about the inner workings of the US military, their treatment of women was a complete mystery. It turns out, female soldiers are treated as commodities even when they are risking their lives for this country. Not only that, but women in the military are forced into silence and their assailants go unconvicted. Various women come forward to tell their horrifying stories in this film, and the way they were mishandled by the military is terrifying. The system in place is hurting, and giving PTSD, to hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of women, and it needs to end permanently. This is a seriously emotional look into an institution that devalues women and, worst of all, creates an environment where women feel unsafe. These women joined the military to serve their country, but by the end of the film they hate the institution that they triumphed. That, above all else, is the most disheartening thing to see.
Disturbing and maddening, Kirby Dick's "The Invisible War" is an unfortunate document on the rampant rape and sexual violations that occur within the U.S. military, and how a corrupt system allows such acts to go unpunished on a continuous basis. Dick keenly steps aside and allows the victims of these atrocities and their gut-wrenching testimonies to be the heart of the film... rendered in the simplest, most straightforward of fashions. Much to nearly all of the visual inventiveness and on-screen director input present in "This Film is Not Yet Rated" (a great film also by Dick) has been stripped away and the film is more unshakable because of it. This is indeed heavy, uncomfortable content, but a powerful account that should be considered mandatory viewing for every single man and woman considering a career in the U.S. armed forces. It's sure to change a mind or two.
A disturbing and essential documentary that exposes the outrageous and horrifying rape and cover-up inside the US military, leading to numerous lives ruined by psychological damage - which hopefully will make women rethink before joining the armed forces.
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