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.

Directed by Jonathan Silvers

Top cast

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Richard Harris

Narrator (voice)

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Steve Williams

Self - Wildlife Management Institute

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Michael Pfleger

Self - priest, Chicago

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Dean Rantz

Self - gunsmith

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Jim Supica

Self - curator, The National Firearms Museum

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Don Troiani

Self - gun collector, painter

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Roger Lane

Self - Haverford College

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Richard Slotkin

Self - Wesleyan University

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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

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Howard Safir

Self - former New York City Police Commissioner

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Saul Cornell

Self - Fordham University

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Charles H. Ramsey

Self - former Commissioner of the Philadelphia Police Department

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John Welsh

Self - sergeant, Philadelphia Police Department

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Joan Burbick

Self - author of 'Gun Show Nation'

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Stephen Barton

Self - survivor of 2012 Aurora shooting

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