The Invisible War

With “The Invisible War,” filmmakers Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering lift the veil on what they contend is one of the U.S. military’s dirtiest secrets -- an epidemic of rape and sexual violence that is ignored by top brass.

Of the battery of damning statistics about female sexual assault in the military, the first rolled out in Kirby Dick’s documentary The Invisible War is the most startling: More than 20 percent of active-duty female soldiers are sexually assaulted.

Directed by Kirby Dick, The Invisible War is an investigative documentary revolving around the epidemic of rape within the United States Armed Forces - as Dick interviews several women (and one man) who were sexually assaulted while serving under the...

The anguished soldiers who tell their stories in this effectively infuriating doc speak first about their commitment to the U.S. armed forces. Then each describes the rape she (and one he) suffered at the hands of military men — a violation made even...

According to Department of Defense statistics, there were 22,800 violent sexual assaults in the armed forces in 2011. While it’s estimated that 20% of female veterans were victimized while serving, few reported attacks, perhaps because prosecution...

A female soldier in Iraq and Afghanistan is less likely to be hit by enemy fire than she is to be sexually assaulted by a fellow soldier. If that doesn’t chill you to the bone and make your blood boil, I don’t want to know you.

For sheer infuriation value, you can’t do much better than Kirby Dick’s quietly scathing documentary on rape in the US military. It’s a chronic but shockingly underreported problem, illustrated with extended interviews and cold, hard numbers: Since 2006,

This is one of those documentary films that makes me so angry I could just chew nails. This is because of the awful way the victims of sexual assault are treated by the military establishment, the terrible injustices, and the permanent damage done to...

A few years ago, documentarian Kirby Dick read an article about rape among the troops and was shocked to see that no one had made a movie on the subject. So the director of Twist of Faith (2004) and This Film Is Not Yet Rated (2006) decided to make his...