"Investigative Reports" Columbine: Understanding Why (2002)
*** 1/2 (out of 4)
The THREAT Assessment Group heads out to Columbine High School to try and understand why students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold would go on a rampage that would leave thirteen people dead in 1999. The group of violence experts and psychiatrist try to understand what was going on in the mind's of the two dead gunmen as they came up with their plan and eventually carried it out. I guess people will always debate what happened, what should have happened and why everything happened the way it did but overall I thought this was a pretty good entry in the Investigative Reports series. The documentary at least does a very good job at talking and going over the various bits of evidence the two killers left behind including their various writings, school assignments which talked about the violence as well as other bits of evidence, which seems to have been ignored. The documentary also takes a look on whether or not the entire thing could have been avoided. The various warning signs are discussed and it seems everyone involved knew that these two kids, as well as many others, were being bullied and pretty much tortured at school so perhaps this led to what happened. We even hear about a time when the picked on boys had fecal matter thrown on them. I will say that I didn't agree with the segment where it was asked if the music, movies or video games had anything to do with what happened.