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On Aug. 1, 1966, a sniper rode the elevator to the top floor of the University of Texas Tower and opened fire, holding the campus hostage for 96 minutes. The movie shares the untold story of that day, when the worst in one man brought out the best in so many others.

Genre:

Crime, Animation, Documentary

Actors:

Violett Beane, Louie Arnette, Blair Jackson, Monty Muir, Chris Doubek, Reece Everett Ryan, Josephine McAdam, Aldo Ordoñez, Vicky Illk, John Fitch, Karen Davidson, ...»

Director:

Keith Maitland

Country:

United States

Release:

2016

IMDb:

7.9

Quality:

Duration:

82 min

Washington Post

No matter how many years later, no matter how cool your animation technique might be, "Nobody" somehow feels like the wrong answer to that question.

February 13, 2017

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Observer (UK)

Deftly combining archive footage, interviews and handsome rotoscoped animation, Tower is an innovative documentary account of the mass shootings on the University of Texas campus on 1 August 1966.

February 05, 2017

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tonymacklin.net

Tower enlists our humanity, and then preaches to us.

February 16, 2017

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Newsday

A haunting re-creation of a first-of-its-kind tragedy. Fifty years later, it seems, we're no closer to answers or solutions.

February 13, 2017

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Metro

An oral history as a visual poem, director Keith Maitland's Tower attains the woozy, time-standing-still sensation of trauma as it happens.

February 12, 2017

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Q Network Film Desk

effectively dramatizes the horrors of that day with a uniquely humanist perspective

February 24, 2017

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News & Observer (Raleigh, NC)

The story of the sniper attack, which left 16 dead and three dozen wounded, is told in an extremely compelling style that combines interviews, actual film footage and animated recreations. I highly recommend this one.

February 14, 2017

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Boston Globe

"Tower" is, in a sense, about the last day of this country's innocence, or whatever was left of it after Dallas, 1963.

January 19, 2017

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Chicago Reader

Despite the grim topic, Tower offers moments of genuine hope in the acts of bravery and kindness that took place during the siege.

November 03, 2016

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rogercatlin.com

It gains impact when it begins to show many of the eyewitnesses and victims in some case, who in some cases are reuniting 50 years after that hot afternoon to recollect the story.

February 15, 2017

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Salon.com

A gripping examination of human bravery and frailty in the face of barbarity.

February 14, 2017

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