
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
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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
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