After Newtown: Guns in America

Documentary 2013 · 55m

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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.

Cast

20 people

R Richard Harris Narrator (voice)

S Steve Williams Self - Wildlife Management Institute

M Michael Pfleger Self - priest, Chicago

D Dean Rantz Self - gunsmith

J Jim Supica Self - curator, The National Firearms Museum

D Don Troiani Self - gun collector, painter

R Roger Lane Self - Haverford College

R Richard Slotkin Self - Wesleyan University

D 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

H Howard Safir Self - former New York City Police Commissioner

S Saul Cornell Self - Fordham University

C Charles H. Ramsey Self - former Commissioner of the Philadelphia Police Department

J John Welsh Self - sergeant, Philadelphia Police Department

After Newtown: Guns in America

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