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Documentary  •  2025  •  111 min  •  Adults (18+)

Surviving Ohio State (2025)

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Surviving Ohio State (2025)

Rating & Dimensions

Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Political: Leans Left
Diversity: Not Rated
Viewer Rating
8.4

Overview

Surviving Ohio State documents the sexual abuse scandal surrounding Richard Strauss, a team physician at Ohio State University whose abuse of male student-athletes spanned two decades before institutional reckoning arrived. Director Eva Orner centers survivor voices and pursues questions of accountability against university administration and athletics leadership. That focus earns the Progressive label. Documentaries built around institutional failure, survivor advocacy, and demands for powerful organizations to answer publicly tend to sit on the progressive end of the cultural dial, and this one fits that pattern squarely. The subject matter is serious and the R rating reflects the weight of survivor testimony. No religious, LGBTQ, or family-structure angles factor into the label.

Starring Cast

Mark Coleman

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Detailed Bias Analysis

Analyzing...
Leans Progressive

Primary

Political: Leans Left
Confidence: High

The film's central subject of systemic institutional failure to address sexual abuse by a university doctor, with emphasis on survivor voices and calls for accountability from powerful figures and organizations, anchors it in progressive preoccupations around power structures and victim advocacy. The narrative frames the problem as enabling by authorities and the solution as public reckoning and institutional responsibility.

Diversity: Not Rated

The film is a factual documentary examining a university sexual abuse scandal and survivors' pursuit of justice, with no documented evidence of deliberate diversity-focused casting or narrative emphasis on critiquing traditional identities.

Secondary

LGBTQ: N/A
Confidence: Low

The documentary examines the sexual abuse scandal involving Ohio State University athletics doctor Richard Strauss and the experiences of male survivors, with no identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes.

Trans: N/A
Confidence: Low

Documentary examines Ohio State University sexual abuse scandal involving male student-athletes abused by team physician Richard Strauss, with no transgender characters or themes depicted.

Female Combat: N/R

The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.

Gender Swap: No
Confidence: High

Documentary on real Ohio State sexual abuse scandal featuring male athletes and historical figures like Dr. Richard Strauss and coaches, all portrayed consistent with documented male genders; no adapted characters or recasts.

Race Swap: No
Confidence: Low

Documentary using real interviews, survivor testimonies, and archive footage of actual individuals involved in the Ohio State scandal; no scripted portrayals or recast historical figures.

Family Values: N/R

There is not enough publicly available information for AI to assess this category for this movie.

Hinduism: N/A
Confidence: Low

Not depicted in the film.

Viewer Rating Breakdown

8.4

Viewer Rating

Combines user and critic ratings from four sources

User Ratings

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7.7
The Movie Database logo
7.5

Critic Ratings

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10.0
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N/A

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