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Massacre at Virginia Tech
Production Company ORTV International
Commissioning Network BBC2 and Discovery
Number of Programmes 1 x 58 minutes
Year of production 2008
Early in the morning on 16 April 2007, on the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, VA., a 23-year-old student called Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 people and wounded 25 others before turning his gun on himself. The incident became the biggest mass shooting in peacetime US history. This film recounts this disturbing story and explores what made Cho a mass murderer.
Massacre at Virginia Tech was greeted with critical acclaim.
“Excellent” The Times
“Articulate & Carefully Argued” The Daily Telegraph
“Must see TV – Five Stars” Mail on Sunday
“Chilling” Time Out
Director/Producer: Jonathan Hacker
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