The Killing of America
Directed by Sheldon Renan
Written by Leonard Schrader and Chieko Schrader
1981/US
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[last lines] Narrator: While you watched this movie, five of us were murdered. One was the random killing of a stranger.
The scariest thing about this scary documentary is that violence in America is even worse more than 40 years later.
The film covers the history of violence in America from the assassination of John F. Kennedy to the assassination of John Lennon with other key assassination and assassination attempts along the way.
We also see footage of famous snipers, lunatics, serial killers, spree killers, etc. Very graphic footage.
While one can’t exactly recommend this movie due to its non-stop carnage, it certainly accomplishes its aim brilliantly. There is a ton of newsreel and other footage that I had never seen before. The interviews are also revealing.
