The Killing of America
"The film the American authorities didn't want you to see!"
7.2
R
1981
95 min
"The film the American authorities didn't want you to see!"
An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality.
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The boredom of small town life is eating Bill Williamson alive. Feeling constrained and claustrophobic in the meaningless drudgery of everyday life and helpless against overwhelming global dissolution, Bill begins a descent into madness. His shockingly violent plan will shake the very foundations of society by painting the streets red with blood.
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After a fateful miss, an assassin battles his employers, and himself, on an international manhunt he insists isn't personal.
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A chef's life is upended when a jet-setting, champagne-sipping, hotel-hopping woman claims to be his long-lost mother. This documentary reveals the untold story.
When his daughter is murdered, William Duncan takes the law into his own hands, setting out on a quest for retribution. After killing the street thug responsible for her death, he finds himself in the middle of a war with the thug's brother, father, and their gang, who are equally hell-bent on getting even. What ensues is a tense back-and-forth game of vengeance. By the end, William comes to find that the quest for revenge never has a winner.
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Chuck Riley
Self - Narrator (voice)
Ed Dorris
Self
Thomas Noguchi
Self
Sirhan Sirhan
Self
Wayne Henley
Self
Ed Kemper
Self
Susan Atkins
Self (archive footage)
David Berkowitz
Self (archive footage)
Kenneth Bianchi
Self (archive footage)
Lawrence Bittaker
Self (archive footage)
James Brady
Self (archive footage)
Arthur Bremer
Self (archive footage)