Gun Documentaries?

[ronstafari]

Anyone know of any good gun-related documentaries? I just watched an episode of "American Genius" about Smith & Wesson and Colt, and it got me wondering what else is out there.

[SkyHawk]

MidwayUSA's Gun Stories on the Outdoor Channel

[AreWeFree]

Lots of great documentaries on youtube, check out Documentary Tube: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheDocu...iesTube/videos

[bigbearbear]

Tales of the Gun on History channel is very good.

[EspoMan]

[KHF1222]

The MidwayUSA TV program 'Gun Stories' hosted Joe Mantegna is one of my favorites.

[afteractionreport]

http://www.calguns.net/calgunforum/forumdisplay.php?f=313

Calguns is featured in this one.

[alameda]

CBS Sunday Morning had a 1.5hour news story on guns that was pretty good check their website. It was broke into different chapters and had some history etc

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[Milsurp Collector]

$4.99 at Amazon Guns - The Evolution of Firearms


If you have Amazon prime you can watch this one for free
America's Rifle - The M1 Garand

[ronstafari]

Cool, thanks all for the recommendations. I'll have to check em out.

[89 Vision]

+1 on Tales of the Gun. When they made a lot more of them.

[liberallyloaded]

I've found some by searching youtube for specific firearms/inventors. Watched too many to list, but lots of them seem to be converted from vhs... Yarr

[MrOrange]

Anyone know of any good gun-related documentaries? I just watched an episode of "American Genius" about Smith & Wesson and Colt, and it got me wondering what else is out there.

ugh, that was atrocious. 95% of it was Their personalities clashed! and the parts that did show guns were grossly inaccurate.

I have an old documentary that I recorded on VHS, which I have labeled as "A&E Doc Story of The Gun", that is still the best I've seen. Informative, a good history lesson, and features some prominent & scholarly gun people, including Ol' Bill Ruger himself.

I believe this is the one:

http://www.amazon.com/Story-Gun/dp/B000V4U0H8

A small bit from the program:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BL4PIzSNyoA

I recommend it despite the fact that the NRA once used it to try and extort money from their members. They sent out a VHS that had an abbreviated version of the braodcast, then followed it up with letters demanding payment for same. I wrote them back that what they were doing was in fact a crime, and they stopped their collection efforts.

[CGZ]

Don't know if you call it a documentary but the firearm episodes of GySgt R Lee Ermey's Lock n Load series that was on the History Channel are not that bad. It's very general, and there's a lot more history out there but it's a good start. You can even watch them on YouTube.

[sealocan]

https://youtu.be/lui6uNPcRPA

This documentary "Colonial gunsmith" has a easy-going, mellow feel and shows you almost everything you need to build blackpowder rifles along with teaching a lot about firearms.
it reminded me of the documentary classic "alone in the wilderness"

here is it's thread if anyone on Calguns wants to talk about..

http://www.calguns.net/calgunforum/showthread.php?p=17087772#post17087772