Episode 1 of 3 | Machine Gun: History Down the Barrel of a Gun Episode 1 — White Smoking Devil. The opening chapter of a sweeping documentary on the machine gun: how a single invention remade warfare, powered empire, and drove the American century. From the mills of Hartford to the plains of Wyoming, a…
Episode 2 of 3 | Machine Gun: History Down the Barrel of a Gun Episode 2 — The Gun Comes Home Then Goes to War Again. After the American Civil War, the machine gun returns as an instrument of domestic repression and colonial conquest. From Ludlow to Cuba and the Philippines, the weapon follows the…
Episode 3 of 3 | Machine Gun: History Down the Barrel of a Gun Episode 3 — Age of the Kalashnikov. From the trenches of two world wars to the anti-colonial uprisings of the 20th century, the AK-47 becomes the people’s weapon and the defining symbol of modern asymmetric warfare. At the center of every…