Movies: Gun violence

1995. On the outskirts of Abidjan, the largest city in Ivory Coast, a policeman is murdered. Shot outside his vehicle, while his fiancée sits in the car, terrified. Superintendent Kouassi is the detective in charge of the investigation. Tall and lank...

A look at how the community of Newtown, Connecticut came together in the aftermath of the largest mass shooting of schoolchildren in American history....

After a series of personal and professional setbacks, a white advertising executive signs up to participate in a trial for an experimental drug designed to make your skin appear tanned....

A fugitive takes refuge in a manor where a blind retired thespian lives....

A look at the aftermath of the Sandy Hook massacre where 20 children were murdered at school by a crazed gunman, but lead to no changes in American gun laws....

A young man falls in love with a dominatrix, who is a member of a brutal gun gang out to assassinate the young man's father -- a Federal Prosecutor fighting for stricter gun laws....

A 45 second morality play in the form of a hand-drawn animation made during Katya Zamolodchikova's first or second year at Massachusetts College of Art in Boston....

A U.S. soldier struggles to make sense of civilian life when he is confronted with the complexities of gun violence in America...

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A suspenseful sci-fi journey tracking the turbulent relationship of Cole and Maya as they struggle to survive in a world where the human population has been left decimated after an extra-terrestrial attack....

A group of youths terrorise their local town by torturing and killing random people. A group of mercenaries attempt to intervene....

Santamaria and Urtigo are two bandits on the run, one is white, the other black. Santamaria is a mystical visionary and believes in the imminent coming of a purifying angel. Urtiga, his inseparable companion, is a simple-minded and ingenious man who ...

A riveting expose about the personalities of murderers and their motives. This 72 minute film covers the McDonalds' restaurant massacre, President Reagan's assassination attempt, serial murderer Henry Lee Lucas and others....

Through interviews with people on the street and songs recorded to memorialize JFK in the mid-1960s, the film explores the impact of the November 22, 1963 assassination on issues in today’s world, from lingering conspiracy theories to the proliferati...

Imagine in the life time of a gun all the hands it passes through. It's Just A Gun is just one chapter in that story....

Tells the story of Andrew, a 13-year-old whose mother dies and leaves him with an indifferent step-father. Andrew, receiving only hostility from his classmates and step-father, begins to steal. An understanding counselor at school helps Andrew reform...

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In May 1998, a year before the massacre at Columbine High, 15-year-old Kip Kinkel murdered his mother and father, and then opened fire at Thurston High School in Springfield, Oregon, killing two fellow students and wounding 25 others. In this first i...

On 12 August 2021, Jake Davison shot and killed five people before turning the gun on himself. How did a seemingly normal young man turn into one of Britain’s most lethal killers?...

For the past year, there have been rumors about the KroppCrew from KroppTown, set in the beautiful but bloody Saarland. BackDoorStorys is a smorgasbord of splatter, drug abuse, and grind tunes. In their 2005 debut film, the KroppCrew delivers an eleg...