The Invisible War

Jan 20, 2012

1h 33m

★ 7.2

The Battleground Is Your Barracks

Overview

An investigative and powerfully emotional documentary about the epidemic of rape of soldiers within the US military, the institutions that perpetuate and cover up its existence, and its profound personal and social consequences.

Genres

Documentary

War

Crime

Production Companies

Chain Camera Pictures

ITVS

Rise Films

Fork Films

Cuomo Cole Productions

The Invisible War Trailers

Cast

Self - US Coast Guard

Kori Cioca

Self - US Air Force

Jessica Hinves

Self - US Marine Corps

Ariana Klay

Self - US Marine Corps

Elle Helmer

Self - US Navy

Hannah Sewell

Self - US Navy

Trina McDonald

Self - US Air Force

Robin Lynne Lafayette

Self - US Coast Guard

Rob McDonald

Self - US Army

Jerry Sewell

Self - Interviewer

Kirby Dick

Self - Interviewer

Amy Ziering

Self - US Army

Myla Haider

The lastest neuroscience discoveries show surprising results: false memories, distortion, modification, déjà vus. Our memory is affected in many ways, and deceives us every day. The very fact of recalling souvenirs modifies them. The everyday consequences are manyfold. To what extent can we rely on our souvenirs? How much credit can we give them during trials? Even more shocking, scientists have proved to be able to manipulate our memory: creating artificial souvenirs, deleting, emphasizing or restoring them on demand.

6.2

Hannie Caulder

Nov 8, 1971

Hannie enlists the aid of bounty hunter Tom Price to teach her how to be a gunfighter so she can hunt down the 3 men who killed her husband and raped her.

7.6

Black Box Diaries

Oct 24, 2024

Journalist Shiori Ito embarks on a courageous investigation of her own sexual assault in an improbable attempt to prosecute her high-profile offender. Her quest becomes a landmark case in Japan, exposing the country’s outdated judicial and societal systems.

8.0

Drogues du viol

Nov 28, 2024

No overview available.

3.9

Love Camp 7

Oct 4, 1969

Two female Army agents go undercover at a Nazi prison camp to get information from a scientist being held there.

10.0

Wintopia

Nov 23, 2019

IDFA and Canadian filmmaker Peter Wintonick had a close relationship for decades. He was a hard worker and often far from home, visiting festivals around the world. In 2013, he died after a short illness. His daughter Mira was left behind with a whole lot of questions, and a box full of videotapes that Wintonick shot for his Utopia project. She resolved to investigate what sort of film he envisaged, and to complete it for him.

6.5

Secret Agent Dingledorf and His Trusty Dog Splat

Jul 2, 2021

Overcoming bullies and his own loser mentality, 10-year-old Bernie Dingledorf must destroy Dr. Chuckles’s diabolical Laugh Generator before it sends the world into uncontrollable fits of laughter.

5.2

Hitch Hike to Hell

Jan 1, 1977

Howard is mild-mannered and slightly simple-minded, with a habit of picking up teenage hitchhikers while driving his delivery routes. Sometimes the girls admit to being runaways, and if they claim to hate their mothers it drives Howard into a violent frenzy; his sister ran away from home years ago and was never heard from again, causing his desperate, addled mother to tighten her hold on him. Howard never remembers raping his victims or strangling them with wire coat hangers, though his boss does notice missed deliveries and late arrivals.

5.9

House on the Edge of the Park

Nov 6, 1980

A posh couple experience car trouble on their way to a villa party and stop into a local mechanic's shop for assistance, unaware of his shady background. After he and his mentally challenged assistant fix the car, the couple invite them to the party to return the favor, leading to an evening of mayhem.

4.7

Barbed Wire Dolls

Apr 22, 1976

Maria, an unfortunate young woman, kills her rapist father in self-defense, and is later tried, sentenced, and shipped off to a woman's penitentiary where she and her fellow inmates are subjected to psychological and sexual abuse at the hands of a psychotic lesbian warden.

0.0

Time in a Bottle

Dec 2, 2022

In the 1970s, a bubbly photographer falls in love with a charming man, only to realize that he's not the person she believed him to be.

5.5

The Sin of Nora Moran

Dec 13, 1933

Nora Moran, a young woman with a difficult and tragic past, is sentenced to die for a murder that she did not commit. She could easily reveal the truth and save her own life, if only it would not damage the lives, careers and reputations of those whom she loves.

6.5

The Story of Temple Drake

May 6, 1933

The coquettish granddaughter of a respected small-town judge is stranded at a bootleggers’ hide-out, subjected to an act of nightmarish sexual violence, and plunged into a criminal underworld that threatens to swallow her up completely.

10.0

Drunk on Too Much Life

Nov 6, 2021

The filmmakers' 21-year-old daughter journeys from locked-down psych wards and diagnostic labels toward expansive worlds of creativity, connection, and greater meaning. Featuring insights from trauma experts and others, the film challenges the widespread idea that mental illness should be understood purely in biological terms, revealing the myriad ways that madness has meaning beyond brain chemistry.

6.6

Naked Violence

Nov 10, 1969

Some youngsters rape and kill their teacher; but they won't tell their motivation. The police detective on the case feels some sinister influence behind the young murderers.

4.9

Madness

Mar 20, 1980

An escaped convicted murderer invades the cottage of a man, his wife and the wife's sister, whereupon he proceeds to torment this already dysfunctional trio with rape and violence.

6.4

I Will Fight No More Forever

Apr 13, 1975

Pursued by 2,000 US soldiers and cavalry, Chief Joseph leads his tribe of 800 Nez Perce on a 1,700 mile journey across the West and towards Canada. Based on the true story of the westward expansion of the United States and the military force used to displace Native Americans from their lands.

10.0

Worthy

Oct 31, 2018

Fresh off a winning case that brought her unwanted internet fame, a rising ADA learns of the district's most respected judge allegedly assaulting her best friend. She starts a case but is surprised to be met with resistance by the district attorney who mentored her, her best friend who questions the system and her motives, and the judge himself who knows her own dark secret.

7.2

Surviving 9/11

Aug 30, 2021

9/11 was perhaps the defining historical event of the postwar era. Broadcast live around the world like horrifying theatre, it was a moment in history imprinted onto people's memories. But what was it like to actually live through, and how easy is it to move on from a day that society wants to go on remembering? Twenty years on, this film brings together 13 ordinary people who were caught in an event they weren't able to fully comprehend at the time and which they are still working through.