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If you're looking for a documentary about the Columbine Tragedy from Susan Klebold's perspective, this isn't it.

While she is open about certain aspects of her son's life, she is not an open book. I didnt expect anything new or enlightening, but I was interested in hearing her speak about their lives up until April 20. Unfortunately, it felt like the filmmakers used her name & the tragedy to market an 80 minute Public Service Announcement about their ideas on Mental Health.

While I appreciate the personal hell Sue Klebold had experienced, where was "Dad" in all this? Ignoring the role of the father, pretending that fathers have no bearing on the positive mental health of young men, will not get us to a place of enlightenment. Breathing exercises are not a substitute. If we're going to address this issue head on, then everything has to be included and this documentary is extremely insufficient in that regard. I believe Dylan's parents are divorced; what happened? Unfortunately, this documentary is painting an incomplete picture in that the male's influence is ignored.

Mother of Dylan Klebold, one of the Columbine school shooters, is who this documentary mainly circulates around. She tries to grapple with how her son became the monster that shot up a school. When Columbine happened in 1999, at the time such an incident was unheard of although now it has sadly become so common in occurrence. Sue Klebold attempts to look back at the moments she missed, what she didn't see in Dylan, how she didn't notice the arcinary he was building in their garage. This documentary brings up interesting points about how America should be concentrating on preventative care as a way to curb future mass shooter creations. With so many aspects of physical health, we promote healthy eating and exercise but with school shootings we teach people what to do in the moment when it's already occurring. The documentary pushes for mindfulness which is great and all but we all know that the real problem is how easily youth can gain access to assault type riffles is what is problematic.

I thought this was going to be an open account from the family of a mass murderer. Instead it was positioned as a mental health piece where she describes herself as a parent of a suicide child? Huh? Yes he committed suicide and he obviously had mental health issues but he intentionally and vindictively murdered and attempted to murder lots of people first. They have other parents discussing their kids actual suicides, again how is that relent to her? I do feel sorry for her to have had the loss of her son but she isn't looking at it rationally. I would have imagined she would have went on to help other parents of mass murders or spoke in schools about how school shootings are not the answer in addition to mental health awareness. Also low quality actors to show vignettes from the past just poorly done, actual images and videos would have sufficed. They kept showing Dylan in photos before he looked like the kid with long hair that shot up the school. Felt more they were trying to have you sympathize with Dylan rather than the actual victims.

A movie every parent should watch. Any parent could find themselves in the shoes of Sue Kiebold. The movie demonstrates the struggles kids go through and how parents don't always see the signs. A real life drama highlighting the need for more focus on mental health...particularly with our kids. An eye-opener that all parents should see.

So much has come out since Columbine that it's unbelievable to me that a 2019 documentary would act like there were "no warning signs."

Dylan was arrested multiple times before the shootings, his friends knew he was acquiring guns, and most importantly, the police knew that both Eric and Dylan were troubled youth.

There was a 2-year paper trail and even an instance where a teacher reported a story Dylan had wrote (about watching a madman shoot up a place) to the school, and the school spoke to him about it and dismissed it.

The tragedy of Columbine isn't that no one saw it coming but that everyone should have seen it coming. Eric documented things in meticulous detail on his public website that police had access to. He talked about physical evidence that they later found (pipe bombs). There was a search warrant made up for his house a few months before the shootings that the police never took to a judge.

They were both known to police, Eric's dad knew he was making bombs, and Dylan had also been in felony trouble to the extent that his room would have been searched by any reasonable parent.

They left blazing signs they were going to hurt someone, and everyone just ignored it.

Very little covered in this film. It uses low-quality re-enactments. It is terribly slow. Worse, however, is that it doesn't reach for anything. It's Mrs. Klebold watching 1st graders learn to be mindful and smiling in the background. No grit, no depth, very little vulnerability. It's a plea for suicide awareness (that's how she frames her son's acts: suicide-with murder). It ends with a long, long monologue on the importance of mental health awareness. Very disappointing. Not worth watching or discussing. The trailer would suffice for the entire content of the film.

Sooo much talk about mental health, preventing suicide with mindfulness (!?) But not a word about two major problems in the US - gun control and bullying in schools! Why do school shootings only happen in the US??? I live in Europe, we don't have "active shooter-drills" in schools here.

I have personal connection to this topic and cannot stress enough that society MUST start preventing these tragedies. People are dying both inside and out. Much love and respect to Ms. Klebold.

It was significantly drawn out with a ton of unnecessary and super slow reenactments. While reenactments are fine and a typical part of stories like this, they are generally quick and to the point. That's not the case here and I lost interest less than halfway through. The story itself is interesting and deserves to be told but this missed the mark.

I am so emotional after watching. As someone who has spent 30 years working in Early Childhood, teaching mental wellness can and should be the norm. Mindfulness can be taught as young as toddlers. Thank you for sharing the work that is being done. I did not learn this as a kid but now have a daily mindfulness practice that has saved me. I now encourage this to home visitors who work with families in danger of abusing their kids. It is a remarkable tool for their own secondary trauma.

I am left feeling lost as to the point of the film. I kept thinking "ok, now they will tell me, as a parent, what to do to prevent it from happening." Realistically, I know they can't tell me what to do, but give me some tools to use to at least send me in the right direction. They did give me #committobrainfit. Unfortunately, the website is not made for cell phone browsers, so I can't even see what it's about.

This film has become increasingly applicable in the wake of COVID-19. Mental health skills are more important than ever. Parents need resources for themselves and their kids.

Lots of teenagers are depressed but almost none murder their friends and classmates in a murderous rampage. Mother is in denial trying to ease her conscience. Her son was evil.

CW: mental health, suicide

Unfortunate to see several other reviewers who came into this documentary with their minds already made up with preconceived notions and 20+ years of misinformation about Columbine.

This documentary essentially covers the main takeaways from Sue Klebold's book A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy. I highly recommend watching this doc, but Sue's book should be essential reading for all parents, family members, educators and lawmakers. I listened to the audiobook (narrated by Sue herself) a few years ago, and in all my years of avid reading, I've never read another book that sits in the back of my mind every single day like hers.

I dealt with suicidal depression as a teenager and I'm now a 26-year-old who still lives with depression, anxiety and OCD. When I finished A Mother's Reckoning, I immediately recommended it to my mom. We've never had a great relationship, but I wanted to see if she could recognize any of myself as a teenager in Sue's descriptions of Dylan. She texted me after she'd read it and I asked, "Did it help you understand why I acted like I did as a teenager?" And she said, "Yes, definitely. I thought about that a lot." The "laziness," the oversleeping, the loss of interest, the irritability, the withdrawal...so many symptoms Sue described applied to my own experience with depression.

I find it so inspiring that Sue has dedicated her life to fighting brain disease in the hopes of preventing any more tragedies like Columbine and to help us all improve our mental well-being and our relationships with each other. I recommend her book every chance I get, and those who do read it have reached out to me afterward to express what a profound impact it had on them.

I met Sue in the spring of 2019 after attending a symposium where she and survivors of other mass shootings spoke on "survival and moving forward." I expressed my thanks to her for writing her book and said I wished it had been around when I was in high school for my parents to read. But then she looked at the friend who was with me, who happens to bear a striking resemblance to Dylan, and said, "You remind me of my son Dylan, which of course just breaks my heart." And I wished I could have given her a hug.

Despite the (quite irresponsible) media frenzy, all the police reports and countless other Columbine documentaries, Dylan is still Sue's son, and she's clearly still grappling with the circumstances of his death. However, she's also using her experience to help inspire change in how we view and treat mental health, and I find her strength to do that incredibly admirable.

I know this may come off as mostly a review of Sue's book, but this documentary is very closely tied to the book. Ideally, I think everyone should watch and read (or listen to) both, but if you're not a reader, you'll still get the main gist of the book from this film.

(Oh, and I couldn't believe how much the actress who portrayed Sue actually looked like her!)

This documentary is shockingly unrealistic and shallow. The U.S. school shooting murderers are overwhelmingly young, white males.

Mindfulness as a preventative resolution for the children but not the educators offered in small segments of the nation does not address one of the most glaring issues - gun control. I am sorry. I believe strongly in mental health care and awareness, however, this is not a comprehensive response to a complex issue that involves weapons brandished illegally by children as a the life divider. I wish others had been interviewed as well.

This is healing propaganda.

Very well done! This film should be shown to all parents. This documentary should be used a tool when discussing mental health issues. Highly recommended for everyone

Susan Kliebold, the mother of one of the 1999 Columbine school shooters, courageously tells how she missed the mental anguish her son had before the shootings. His journal is read by a psychologist, and it shows how mentally off Dylan Kliebold was. No one caught it. The documentary shows mothers whose children committed suicide and how devastated they are and will be. There are 1 in 5 children killing themselves in the United States each year. Suicides are related to homicides. Dawson School was visited by Susan Kliebold where she observed the methods of teaching children to breathe deeply when feeling bad. The younger the child is shown how to express feelings the less likely they will suicide or commit homicides. The documentary should have had something from the other boy's mother, but Eric Harris' mother never showed up. Even a word from her would have been powerful. The main message is that loving your child is not enough, and that you must get to the bottom of negative behaviors instead of punishing them. Susan Kliebold remembers pushing Dylan against the refrigerator after he forgot Mother's Day. "I only wish I had sat down with him and shared the pain he was going through."

I thought Mrs Klebold used this video to make it very clear she was a great mother who had absolutely no responsibility for the actions of her son. The responsibility lies work the schools and systems that didn't provide "mindfulness" training to her little boy.

I'm all for mindfulness training and helping kids cope with stress and eliminating bullying because it will probably result in happier kids. Dylan didn't kill his classmates because he was unhappy, he killed his peers because he was consumed with rage and everywhere he turned he was invisible.

Was this film sponsored by the NRA? How can you have a documentary that analyses the cause of school shootings as a uniquely American issue and not mention guns. In Canada we have terrible mental health services, and yet we have only had like 2 school shootings. This documentary is dangerously misleading and a distraction from the real issue. Guns are now the leading cause of adolescent death in the US. Look at the stats.. It's so obviously guns. While they put the blame on mental health they didn't even do a good job analysing that. Instead they focused on teaching mindfulness. What specific connection is there with mindfulness rather than other mental health exercises like learning to manage emotions? It was not a deep dive.