Killing Us Softly is an American documentary series by Jean Kilbourne, produced and distributed by the Media Education Foundation.
[5] Killing Us Softly and its revisions have been developed from lectures that Kilbourne has been delivering at American universities since early 1970s.
The documentary has had four editions, each updating the previous release: Killing Us Softly has often been used in university lectures, as well as by community organizers and feminist groups.
[11] Its various editions have been described as "extremely popular"[12] and have attracted praise;[2][13] Bakari Chavanu, for example, notes that the documentary is "an engaging and even humorous analysis of how images and ads shape our values".
[14] Ford, et al. noted that the documentary raises feminist consciousness, up to the point that it has been positively correlated with boycotts of products whose advertisements were seen as offensive.