A documentary by Kirby Dick. Rated 14A.

Picking up where they left off in their look at the epidemic of rapes in the U.S. military, The Invisible War, director Kirby Dick and producer Amy Ziering now present roughly the same statistics, moved to American college campuses. One in five women involved in the enterprise at hand will experience some kind of sexual assault, and virtually none will see justice done regardless of how they respond.

This outcome has some tragic consonance inside a well-oiled killing machine. But universities are intended to be safe oases of free thought, in which wisdom is imparted to future leaders. Instead, they’ve become the hunting ground of the title in the parlance of a repeat offender who reaffirms, on camera, that just a few sociopaths are supplying most of the terror.

Unfortunately, that climate of male entitlement and female fear is reinforced by the American fraternity system, itself tied in with alumni donations and, even more lucratively, with college sports. It always comes back to money, regardless of what anyone says. In an extended montage providing grim laughs in a sadly repetitive tale, college administrators utter the expected assurance of how “very seriously” they take allegations of on-campus assault—of course. But survivor after survivor here recalls being told to shut up and go away by school deans and security officers (including many women), while support was already in place for the princelings accused of stalking, drugging, and raping female prey.

In the film’s most hopeful twist, this double trauma has prompted some shame-blamed survivors to launch a nationwide network designed to name names and induce state and federal action—on behalf of students still, let’s face it, anachronistically called “coeds”.