Premiere Set for Clooney-Backed Documentary on Richard Strauss OSU Sex Abuse Scandal

‘Surviving Ohio State’ Details Dr. Richard Strauss’s Decades of Sexual Abuse

Director Eva Orner on her powerful HBO documentary: “They knew that there had been complaints made. They weren’t investigated, and nothing was done for a very long time.”

HBO's ‘Surviving Ohio State’ Documentary Doesn’t Play Politics in Exploring the Abuse Scandal

Let’s get this part out of the way: yes, Republican Rep. Jim Jordan comes off very, very badly in “Surviving Ohio State,” the long-anticipated George Clooney-produced documentary about the sex-abuse scandal involving the university’s wrestling team. Dig a little deeper, though, and the more enduring story is how predators have historically exploited class divisions, counting on those in authority to turn a blind eye. In that, this sobering proje…

Premiere set for Clooney-backed documentary on Richard Strauss OSU sex abuse scandal

Surviving Ohio State Review: Confronting Locker Room Culture Amid #MeToo - POV Magazine

Surviving Ohio State (USA, 107 min.) Dir. Eva Orner   The watershed moment of #MeToo rightly inspired many people to believe women when they came forward with allegations of sexual assault and misconduct against powerful men. That reckoning, however, didn’t quite inspire the same level of support for men who spoke out against abusive men. Particularly if survivors were more “masculine” in appearance, commentators or, worse, people in the commen…