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2013 Documentary 0h 56m

After Newtown: Guns in America

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.

9.5 TMDB RATING
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Principal 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

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