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The Liberty Way
A courageous group of survivors undertake a high-risk legal challenge against Liberty University, the powerful Christian alma mater that covered up their rapes. Terrorized into silence as students, and spurred by the recent sex scandal engulfing Liberty President Jerry Falwell Jr, and his wife Becki, they discover an epic coverup along with a deep sense of purpose as they confront the institution’s misogynistic, anti-gay culture and the leaders who carried it out.
The Liberty Way takes viewers inside the lacerating experiences of a group of young women who battled years of pain, shame and fear to stand up again the Christian university that promised to keep them safe and protect their purity. Instead, when these students tried to report their rapes, an openly hostile Liberty University turned on them, retraumatizing them and destroying their faith. Years later, in 2021, they chose to join a lawsuit against their influential and seemingly all-powerful alma mater, taking on a David and Goliath battle at great personal risk. What happened, and how they’ve changed, is the heart and soul of this deeply personal, investigative documentary.
With exclusive access to many of the survivors who gave up their anonymity to participate, their legal team and whistleblowers including former investigators and other Liberty staffers and police officers – and with a trove of emails, reports, video and audio recordings, most never before seen, this feature-length documentary will offer a rare inside look at systemic indifference, vindictiveness and human disregard under the guise of religion, and unveil a notoriously well-coordinated, decades-long coverup continuing to this day.