After Newtown: Guns in America

After Newtown: Guns in America

201355mDocumentary

9.5

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.

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Cast

Richard HarrisNarrator (voice)

Steve WilliamsSelf - Wildlife Management Institute

Michael PflegerSelf - priest, Chicago

Dean RantzSelf - gunsmith

Jim SupicaSelf - curator, The National Firearms Museum

Don TroianiSelf - gun collector, painter

Roger LaneSelf - Haverford College

Richard SlotkinSelf - Wesleyan University

David KeeneSelf - president, National Rifle Association

Daniel Okrent

Daniel OkrentSelf - author of 'The Last Call'

J. Edgar Hoover

J. Edgar HooverSelf - first director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (archive footage)

Elaine Brown

Elaine BrownSelf - former chairman, Black Panther Party

Frank Serpico

Frank SerpicoSelf - retired New York City Police Department officer

Bill Cosby

Howard SafirSelf - former New York City Police Commissioner

Saul CornellSelf - Fordham University

Charles H. RamseySelf - former Commissioner of the Philadelphia Police Department

John WelshSelf - sergeant, Philadelphia Police Department

Joan BurbickSelf - author of 'Gun Show Nation'

Stephen BartonSelf - survivor of 2012 Aurora shooting