All the Empty Rooms
For seven years, journalist Steve Hartman has documented the empty bedrooms of children lost to school shootings.
2025 | Running Time: 34 minutes | Rating: PG-13
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. Hartman steps away from his heartwarming human interest stories and, unbeknownst to his network’s bosses, pursues a piece on absence, memory, and the unseen ripples of America’s gun violence epidemic. As these senseless incidents claim more young lives than any other cause in America, these quiet bedrooms reveal truths more powerful than statistics ever could.
“These empty kids’ bedrooms will break your heart.”
Faith Karimi, CNN
“All the Empty Rooms is a difficult but powerful 35 minutes. Don’t be surprised if it earns an Oscar nod. STREAM IT.”
John Serba, DECIDER