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Gun Nation

Gun Nation

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 16, 2016

Runtime

0h 30m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

70%

Original Title

Gun Nation

Production Companies

The Guardian, Bertha Foundation

Director

Zed Nelson

Description

In the 18 years since Zed Nelson’s seminal photography book Gun Nation was published, 500,000 Americans have been killed by firearms in the US and many more injured. Nelson returns to the people he met, photographs them again, and asks why America is a nation still with an insatiable appetite for firearms. Avoiding stereotypical images of gang members or extremists, Nelson focuses instead on another side of America’s gun culture: the mainly white middle classes who sell and purchase guns in vast numbers. […]