All the Empty Rooms

All the Empty Rooms

34 mins | Documentary | Aug. 31, 2025

Follows veteran CBS News correspondent Steve Hartman and photographer Lou Bopp as they embark on a seven-year-long project to document the empty bedrooms of children killed in school shootings. Tired of whitewashing tragedy with obligatory uplift, Hartman steps away from his heartwarming human interest stories to pursue a project his network never approved. As gun violence claims more young lives than any other cause in America, these quiet bedrooms reveal truths more powerful than statistics ever could.

All the Empty Rooms

34 mins | Documentary | Aug. 31, 2025

All the Empty Rooms
Follows veteran CBS News correspondent Steve Hartman and photographer Lou Bopp as they embark on a seven-year-long project to document the empty bedrooms of children killed in school shootings. Tired of whitewashing tragedy with obligatory uplift, Hartman steps away from his heartwarming human interest stories to pursue a project his network never approved. As gun violence claims more young lives than any other cause in America, these quiet bedrooms reveal truths more powerful than statistics ever could.
Producers Artemis Rising, Hyperobject Industries, Smartypants Pictures
Original title All the Empty Rooms
Directors Joshua Seftel
Writers

Cast

Steve Hartman

as Self

Meryl Hartman

as Self

Gloria Cazares

as Self

Javier Cazares

as Self

Lou Bopp

as Self