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“Stunning, muckraking documentaries are a staple at Sundance, but even by the film festival's impressive standards, Kirby Dick’s THE INVISIBLE WAR is exceptional—both for its scandalous nature as well as its emotional impact.”

— Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times


“Puts the US Defense Department on a sex offenders' list…poignant and richly dramatic.”

— David D'Arcy, Screen Daily


“THE INVISIBLE WAR profoundly shocked the audience.”

— Sharon Waxman, The Wrap


“What Dick has done with THE INVISIBLE WAR is make an audience-mobilizing documentary that hits you in the gut in the opening minutes and doesn't let up…a documentary with a chance to make a tangible difference, which is something many films aspire to, but few films ever pull off.”

— Daniel Fienberg, Hitfix


“An aptly infuriating expose of sexual abuse within the U.S. military, Kirby Dick's docu…demands that the pic receive the widest possible exposure, certainly beyond the extensive fest play that appears guaranteed.”

— Rob Nelson, Variety


“Powerful”

— Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor


“Impeccably assembled…this bitter, powerful film is a howl of anger and a cry of injustice.”

— Jason Bailey, Fourth Row Center


“Upsetting and affecting.”

— Rebecca Sinn, Glamour


“It's reasonable that at least one of Sundance's docs will end up an Oscar nominee, if not two, three or four. How To Survive a Plague, The Invisible War, The House I Live In and Searching For Sugar Man seem like the strongest possibilities at this point.”

— Peter Knegt, indieWIRE


“Dick and Ziering have been crafting wonderful docs for the last three decades, but this is quite possibly their most imperatively urgent work yet…a doc of rich emotion and high stakes that has a real chance to make a difference in the lives of future US soldiers.”

— Jordan Smith, ioncinema


“Destined to draw major editorial attention, this hard-hitting advocacy film is arguably his most urgently affecting work to date.”

— David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter


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The Invisible War

ABOUT THE FILM:

Casualties of war rage beyond the battlefield. As ranks of women in the American military swell, so do incidents of rape. An estimated 30 percent of servicewomen and at least 1 percent of servicemen are sexually assaulted during their enlistment. And not by the enemy, but at the hands of fellow soldiers. With stark clarity and escalating revelations, The Invisible War exposes a rape epidemic in the armed forces, investigating the institutions that perpetuate it as well as its profound personal and social consequences.

We meet characters who embraced their service with pride and professionalism, only to have their idealism crushed. Their chilling stories of violent sexual assault become even more rattling as they seek justice in a Kafkaesque military legal system. As a courageous few defy victimhood, they face their most challenging fight yet: penetrating a closed circuit where officers collude, cases are routinely swept under the rug, and few perpetrators are tried or convicted.

2011 | USA | 95 min.

Writer & Director Kirby Dick
Producers Amy Ziering, Tanner King Barklow
Executive Producers Regina Kulik Scully, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, Geralyn White Dreyfous, Abigail Disney, Maria Cuomo Cole, Sarah Johnson Redlich, Teddy Leifer, Sally Jo Fifer, Nicole Boxer-Keegan
Co-Producer Kimball Stroud
Editors Doug Blush, Derek Boonstra
Cinematographers Thaddeus Wadleigh, Kirsten Johnson

FESTIVALS
Sundance 2012 (Audience Award, Documentary), Dallas International 2012 (Silver Heart Award), Hot Docs 2012, San Francisco International Film Festival, Seattle International Film Festival, Human Rights Watch Film Festival

FESTIVAL TERRITORIES
The World

EXHIBITION FORMATS
HDCAM, Digibeta, Blu-Ray, DVD

PRESS KIT
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