After Newtown: Guns in America (2013)

9.5/10 • 55 min • Documentary

Overview

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

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

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