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A High School Rape Goes Viral: Roll Red Roll

A true-crime documentary that uncovers the deep-seated and social media-fueled 鈥渂oys will be boys鈥 culture at the root of high school sexual assault in America.

This film is a true-crime documentary that goes behind the headlines to uncover the deep-seated and social media-fueled 鈥渂oys will be boys鈥 culture at the root of high school sexual assault in America.

Like many small towns across the country, Steubenville, nestled in a valley in eastern Ohio, lives and dies by its high school football team. So when a teenage girl was sexually assaulted at a pre-season football party in 2012, no one came forward with information.

True-crime blogger Alex Goddard set out to uncover the truth, piecing together the details of the crime through cell phone footage and photos that made their way to YouTube, as well as a nearly minute-by-minute account of events on social media. In the process, she uncovered both the perpetrators and the entire culture of complicity that enabled them. The ensuing trial, which made national headlines, cut to the very heart of nationwide debates about rape culture.

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1 hour, 20 minutes

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Role Contributor
Producer Nancy Schwartzman
Producer Steven Lake
Director Nancy Schwartzman

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