Active Shooter: America Under Fire

This interesting, sensational, and disturbing docuseries offers detailed accounts of what transpired during each active shooting, and what happened after the fact. Survivors describe how events unfolded, how they managed to get out alive, and the acts of heroism they witnessed. It also describes the challenges law enforcement and medical staff faced during these extraordinary situations, which sometimes required them to violate their own policies in order to save lives.

While some experts and law enforcement officials briefly talk about the murderers, Active Shooter: America Under Fire presents these stories in a way that significantly refocuses the attention off of them. Instead, it underscores the damage that they caused, as well as the celebration of survival and humanity that has resulted from it. Most important, it highlights how mass shootings have risen in number in the United States and points to some of the reasons why.