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Netflix’s new InstaDocs series is living up to its name — just weeks after the Jane Doe Cornell University case exploded into the public dialogue about sexual assault, the new doc Jane Doe v. Cornell will begin streaming tomorrow, Thursday, October 29.
The InstaDoc follows “the explosive lawsuit brought by Jane Doe — the former Cornell University student who alleges she was drugged and raped at the school’s Chi Phi fraternity house in October 2024,” Netflix said in its announcement, noting that the case “has sparked widespread protests and a fervent national debate about how colleges handle sexual assault.”
The doc includes firsthand accounts from the editors of the student newspaper The Cornell Daily Sun, editor-in-chief Sophia Dasser and senior editor Cereese Qusba, as well as New York Governor Kathy Hochul, and Jane Doe’s attorney, Thomas Giuffra.
“My first reaction was… how disgusting,” Hochul says in the trailer for the doc, below.
Other participants include Amanda Walsh, deputy director of the Victims Rights Law Center and a former Title IX coordinator at Brown University; a former Cornell fraternity president, and a recent Cornell graduate who went through the Title IX process.
Netrlix says the doc “examines the often-flawed systems that investigate student sexual assault claims. These include campus police and Title IX, the process for reporting sexual misconduct at most U.S. universities.”
“Generations of students have turned to these systems for protection and due process. Jane Doe tried both, and the outcry over her case has pressed the question: are they delivering on that promise?” the streamer’s news release asks.
Watch the Trailer for InstaDocs: Jane Doe v. Cornell
InstaDocs: Jane Doe v. Cornell follows such past quick turnaround InstaDocs as The Decoy Plane, which follows President Trump’s June use of a decoy aircraft to flee from Ankara, Turkey, to escape a perceived Iranian security threat, and AI Gone Wild, which investigates the HuggingFace incident, in which AI agents created by OpenAI broke out of an internal sandbox to execute a cyberattack on HuggingFace, a platform that hostsmachine learningmodels.
The executive producers of InstaDocs: Jane Doe v. Cornell are Josh Tyrangiel, Connor Schell, Steve Yaccino, Libby Geist, Aaron Cohen, and Alexa Conway, with Yaccino serving as showrunner. Max Gershberg co-executive produces.
The InstaDoc series reflects Netflix’s efforts to be incredibly responsive to stories in the zeitgeist, and breaking news: Its other recent efforts include Famous Last Words, in which notable people record interviews in anticipation of their deaths, and Netflix rushes them out upon their departure. The most recent edition featured Gloria Steinem, who at 92 on September 2. Her episodeo of Famous Last Words came out on September 3.
InstaDocs: Jane Doe v. Cornell premieres Thursday on Netflix.
Main image: InstaDocs: Jane Doe v Cornell. Netflix