Newtown

Newtown

A documentary from Independent Lens on the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012, that took the lives of 20 elementary school children and six educators. Uses deeply personal testimonies to tell the story of the aftermath of the deadliest mass shooting of schoolchildren in American history. Through interviews with parents, siblings, teachers, doctors, and first responders, the film documents a traumatized community still reeling from the senseless killing, fractured by grief but driven toward a sense of purpose. Watch the trailer.