Freedoms Under Assault is a full-length documentary that chronicles the systematic destruction of a world-class university and the politically motivated culture war against its faculty over a two-year period. A perfect storm of an autocratic university president collaborating with a supermajority reactionary state legislature following the cultural wars agenda of the White House has effectively curtailed the institutional autonomy of Indiana University as well as shared governance structures, academic freedom, free speech and assembly rights, tenure, and the viability of arts and humanities programs.
The film shows the extent to which a university administration conspired to silence, intimidate, scare, persecute and even exile faculty members accused of violating , absurd, and mean spirited “new rules.”.