After Newtown: Guns in America

After Newtown: Guns in America

56 mins | Documentary | Feb. 19, 2013

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.

After Newtown: Guns in America

56 mins | Documentary | Feb. 19, 2013

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.
Producers Saybrook Productions
Original title After Newtown: Guns in America
Directors Jonathan Silvers
Writers Jonathan Silvers

Cast

Richard Harris

as Narrator (voice)

Steve Williams

as Self - Wildlife Management Institute

Michael Pfleger

as Self - priest, Chicago

Dean Rantz

as Self - gunsmith

Jim Supica

as Self - curator, The National Firearms Museum

Don Troiani

as Self - gun collector, painter

Roger Lane

as Self - Haverford College

Richard Slotkin

as Self - Wesleyan University

David Keene

as Self - president, National Rifle Association

Daniel Okrent

as Self - author of 'The Last Call'

J. Edgar Hoover

as Self - first director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (archive footage)

Elaine Brown

as Self - former chairman, Black Panther Party

Frank Serpico

as Self - retired New York City Police Department officer

Bill Cosby

as Self

Howard Safir

as Self - former New York City Police Commissioner

Saul Cornell

as Self - Fordham University

Charles H. Ramsey

as Self - former Commissioner of the Philadelphia Police Department

John Welsh

as Self - sergeant, Philadelphia Police Department

Joan Burbick

as Self - author of 'Gun Show Nation'

Stephen Barton

as Self - survivor of 2012 Aurora shooting

Eric Blumencranz

as Self - co-owner, F6 Labs

Cody Wilson

as Self - Wiki Weapons

Eddie Bocanegra

as Self - violence interrupter, Chicago

Elena Quintana

as Self - psychologist, Chicago