The read
It runs a compact 55m.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb6.5/10
1 audience votes
Key crew
- Jonathan SilversWriter
- Jonathan SilversDirector
Cast
- Richard HarrisNarrator (voice)
- Steve WilliamsSelf - Wildlife Management Institute
- Michael PflegerSelf - priest, Chicago
- Dean RantzSelf - gunsmith
- Jim SupicaSelf - curator, The National Firearms Museum
- Don TroianiSelf - gun collector, painter
- Roger LaneSelf - Haverford College
- Richard SlotkinSelf - Wesleyan University
- David KeeneSelf - president, National Rifle Association
- Daniel OkrentSelf - author of 'The Last Call'
- J. Edgar HooverSelf - first director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (archive footage)
- Elaine BrownSelf - former chairman, Black Panther Party