After Newtown: Guns in America

  • Documentary
2/19/2013
56

Storyline

Explore America’s enduring relationship with firearms: From the first European settlements in the New World to frontier justice; from 19th Century immigrant riots to gangland violence in the Roaring Twenties; from the Civil War to Civil Rights, guns have been at center of our national narrative for four hundred years.

Director:
Jonathan Silvers
Writer:
Jonathan Silvers

    Cast

    • Richard Harris
      Narrator (voice)
    • Steve Williams
      Self - Wildlife Management Institute
    • Michael Pfleger
      Self - priest, Chicago
    • Dean Rantz
      Self - gunsmith
    • Jim Supica
      Self - curator, The National Firearms Museum
    • Don Troiani
      Self - gun collector, painter
    • Roger Lane
      Self - Haverford College
    • Richard Slotkin
      Self - Wesleyan University
    • David Keene
      Self - president, National Rifle Association
    • Daniel Okrent
      Self - author of 'The Last Call'
    • J. Edgar Hoover
      Self - first director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (archive footage)
    • Elaine Brown
      Self - former chairman, Black Panther Party
    • Frank Serpico
      Self - retired New York City Police Department officer
    • Bill Cosby
      Self
    • Howard Safir
      Self - former New York City Police Commissioner
    • Saul Cornell
      Self - Fordham University

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