Tower

Tower

Movie |

Violence In Schools | Massacre

  • Duration: 1h 23min
  • Music: Osei Essed
  • Award(s): Grand Jury Prize 2016 (Won)
    Movies for Grownups 2017 (Nominated) Awards List
  • Similar To: Last Day of Freedom, What Jennifer Did
  • Story:
    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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7.9/10
IMDb

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STORY AND RATINGS

Story
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.
Ratings

7.9/10

IMDb

AWARDS

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Won
Grand Jury Prize Award

Texas Competition | 2016

Emmy Award

Outstanding Historical Documentary | 2018 | Luke

Jury Prize Award

Feature Documentary | 2017

Cinema Eye Honors Award

Outstanding Achievement in Graphic Design or Animation | 2017 | Craig Matthew

Audience Choice Award

Best Documentary Feature | 2016

Audience Award

Documentary Feature | 2016

SXSW Grand Jury Award

Documentary Feature | 2016

BSFC Award

Best Animated Film | 2016

DFWFCA Award

Best Documentary | 2016

AFCA Award

Best Documentary | 2016

Bruce Sinofsky Prize - Special Jury Prize Award

Innovative Storytelling | 2016

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Nominations
Movies for Grownups Award

Best Documentary | 2017

Emmy Award

Outstanding Music and Sound | 2018

PGA Award

Outstanding Producer of Documentary Theatrical Motion Pictures | 2017

HFCS Award

Best Documentary Feature | 2017

Satellite Award

Best Motion Picture Documentary | 2017

OFTA Film Award

Best Documentary Picture | 2017 | Megan

CIFCC Award

Best Documentary Film | 2017

Best Animated Film | 2017

GMS Award

Best Music Supervision for a Documentary | 2017

Grand Prix Award

Best Film | 2017

Documentary Award

For and | 2017

SFCS Award

Best Animated Feature | 2017

Gotham Independent Film Award

Best Documentary | 2016

VVFP Award

Best Animated Feature | 2016

NTFCA Award

Best Documentary | 2016

AFCA Award

Best Animated Film | 2016

ICP Award

Best Documentary | 2016

CFCA Award

Best Documentary | 2016

Best Animated Feature | 2016

SDFCS Award

Best Documentary | 2016

Grierson Award

Documentary Film | 2016

Best Documentary Award

Over Minutes | 2016

In Spirit for Freedom Award

Best Documentary | 2016

Golden Starfish Award

Documentary Feature | 2016

TRIVIA AND POPULAR DIALOGUES

Trivia

In a Q&A, director Keith Maitland revealed that he filmed locations at the University of Texas with an iPhone in order to obtain the footage animators used for the rotoscoped backgrounds, while most of the actors featured in the re-enactments were filmed in his backyard in front of a greenscreen.

It has been suggested that his violent impulses, with which he had been struggling for several years, were caused due to a tumor found in his brain on autopsy.

The DVD sleeve notes state that this film is "based entirely on first person testimonies from witnesses, heroes, and survivors".

The filmmakers chose not to graphically depict Whitman's death, likely because it is unclear which officer killed him. McCoy claimed Martinez failed to land a shot with his revolver. Martinez claimed he hit Whitman at least once before McCoy fired his shotgun.

Whitman is portrayed by Kurt Russell in the 1975 made-for-TV movie The Deadly Tower.

Popular Dialogues

"John Fox: I remember looking at the Tower, of course, a lot. And from the Main Mall you can see there's a biblical line from the Bible. "Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free." I've thought about it. One of the truths I learned... Is that there are monsters that walk among us. There are people out there that think unthinkable thoughts and then do unthinkable things."

"Walter Cronkite: The horror of these, the sick among us, must be found in the horror of our hyper-civilization. A strange pandering to violence, a disrespect for life, fostered in part by governments which, in pursuit of the doctrine of self-defense, teach their youth to kill and to maim. A society in which the most popular newspaper cartoon strips, television programs, and movies are those that can invent new means of perpetrating bodily harm. A people who somehow can remain silent while their own civilization seems to crumble under the force of the caveman's philosophy - that might makes right. It seems likely that Charles Joseph Whitman's crime was society's crime."