Gunfight barbara kopple biography

Barbara Kopple (born July 30, 1946) is an American film director known primarily for her documentary work.
In the aftermath of the Virginia Tech shooting, Oscar winner Barbara Kopple takes an in depth look at the issue of gun rights and gun control.
Barbara Kopple is a two-time Academy Award® winning filmmaker.

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Gun Fight

Almost eight years after the drama at Columbine High School, history repeated itself in the United States. Thirty-three people were killed in a shooting incident at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. This prompted two-time Oscar winner Barbara Kopple to look at the role of the gun in American society. This documentary gives a nuanced representation of the arms debate. The terrific impact of lax firearm legislation is demonstrated using archive news footage of dramatic shootings. Footage from old films featuring the likes of John Wayne shows how deeply rooted gun culture is in American society. The filmmaker interviews various supporters and opponents of stricter laws. The National Rifle Association (NRA) lobby is as strong as ever. Collin Goddard, who survived Virginia Tech and still has bullets in his body, takes on the NRA. His story forms a leitmotif throughout the film. He is campaigning for a ban on the "gun show loophole," which makes it possible for private citizens to sell guns without performing background checks on the purchaser. is a lively film on gun

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(CBS News) Documentary filmmaker Barbara Kopple is a two-time Academy Award-winner, for "Harlan County U.S.A." (1976) and "American Dream" (1990). Her other films include "Fallen Champ" (about boxer Mike Tyson), "Bearing Witness" (about woman journalists in war zones), "Wild Man Blues" (about clarinet player Woody Allen), "Shut Up & Sing" (about the Dixie Chicks), and "Gun Fight" (about firearms in the wake of the Virginia Tech mass shooting).

Her latest film, "Running From Crazy," explores the mystique of the family of Mariel Hemingway, grand-daughter of writer Ernest Hemingway, and of the actress' struggle with the personal demons that have left seven members of her family dead by suicide.

The film, which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival, will play at theaters in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago in early November, before being broadcast on Oprah Winfrey's OWN cable channel in 2014.

In this web-exclusive interview, correspondent Mo Rocca asks Kopple about culling material together for "Running With Crazy" (including never-before-seen footage sho

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In the aftermath of the Virginia Tech shooting, Oscar winner Barbara Kopple takes an in depth look at the issue of gun rights and gun control. She interviews both gun and anti-gun advocates ... Read allIn the aftermath of the Virginia Tech shooting, Oscar winner Barbara Kopple takes an in depth look at the issue of gun rights and gun control. She interviews both gun and anti-gun advocates in an effort to shed some light on this not-quite black-and-white issue.In the aftermath of the Virginia Tech shooting, Oscar winner Barbara Kopple takes an in depth look at the issue of gun rights and gun control. She interviews both gun and anti-gun advocates in an effort to shed some light on this not-quite black-and-white issue.

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great doc. that states a point and states it well.

This documentary film has but one agenda - to get across that gun laws are too lax in the US. And it does, with flying colours. Watching it, I felt lucky to live in Canada, where, per capita, we have a fraction of the violence. Is it bias? I guess, yes, in the same