Recently released on DVD and Blu-ray via The Criterion Collection, the movie is also notable for what inspired it: the University of Texas tower shooting in 1966.

He eventually killed 16 people — including his wife and mother before entering the tower — and wounded about 30 others before he was killed by police. The incident introduced the nation to the ...

Movie review of “Tower”: Using newsreel footage, rotoscoped animation and talking-head interviews, this documentary re-creates the events surrounding the 1966 Texas Tower massacre with a ...

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He had killed his wife and mother prior to heading to the tower, one victim died a week later and medical examiners eventually attributed a 17th death to Whitman in 2001.

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- "Tower" is a documentary about the Aug. 1, 1966, mass shooting at the University of Texas by the deranged former Marine sniper Charles Whitman.

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The UT Tower shooting is infamous as America’s first mass school shooting. Meet the survivors and heroes of that day in “Tower,” an animated documentary film. Keith Maitland's feature-length ...