After Newtown: Guns in America poster

After Newtown: Guns in America

2013 9.5 55m

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.

Documentary

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