Columbine High School massacre Columbine High School massacre The Columbine High School massacre was a school shooting that occurred on April 20, 1999, at Columbine High School in Columbine, an unincorporated area of Jefferson County (Jeffco), Colorado, United States, near Littleton in the Denver metropolitan area. The perpetrators, twelfth grade (senior) students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, murdered 12 students and one teacher. Ten students were murdered in the library, where the pair subsequently committed suicide. At the time, it was the deadliest school shooting ever. The crime has inspired several copycats, and "Columbine" has become a euphemism for a school shooting. They injured
Columbine High School massacre The film is believed to have been inspired by several shootings that are listed before the credits, Columbine being among them. The first documentary on the massacre may have been the TLC documentary "Lost Boys" in 2000. The 2002 Michael Moore documentary film "Bowling for Columbine" won several awards. Also in 2002, A&E made "Columbine: Understanding Why". In 2004, the shooting was dramatized in the documentary "Zero Hour". In 2007, the massacre was documented in an episode of the National Geographic Channel documentary series, "The Final Report". In the 2009 film "April Showers", which was written and directed by Andrew