After Newtown: Guns in America
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.
Production Companies
Saybrook Productions
Languages
English
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
Frank Serpico
Self - retired New York City Police Department officer
Bill Cosby
Self
Howard Safir
Self - former New York City Police Commissioner
