The Killing of America (1981) Poster

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Sex & Nudity

Violence & Gore

  • Real footage of a man being shot is shown within the first 10 seconds of the movie starting
  • Close-up of a body in a morgue. There is a bloody head wound and some brain matter is visible
  • Brief scene of bodies in a morgue and then in a large autopsy room. One of them has their chest fully cut open. Bloodied internals organs are shown bring weighed
  • Graphic detail shown in a close-up of the Zapruder film. JFK's head is shown exploding from the sniper's headshot
  • Footage of Lee Harvey Oswald being shot from two different angles
  • Footage of police and soldiers clashing with protestors following Martin Luther King's assassination is seen. A man is brutally hit in the head with the butt of a rifle. Some bodies are seen lying on the street- they appear to have been shot.
  • Footage from the Vietnam War of a man being executed with a gunshot to the head. His body is seen lying on the street in a large pool of blood.
  • A politician is shot in the stomach whilst in public. A small amount of blood is seen.
  • Photos of Robert Kennedy lying in a pool of blood are seen, post-assassination.
  • Bodies of victims after a sniper spree are shown, as are graphic photos of the sniper's body and that of his wife, who we are told he murdered before committing the spree.
  • Grainy footage of an armed robbery is shown. Graphic more so for the audio that's heard, rather than the footage itself, as the cashier is mostly off-screen during the actual shooting.
  • Descriptions of school shootings through narration. The footage is limited, but the descriptions of the murders against children are graphic and upsetting.
  • Brief montage involving suicide. A man jumps off a ledge approximately 10-15 metres off the ground, numerous bodies are seen in photographs hanging from nooses, and a photograph of a man who has shot himself in the head with a shotgun is seen. Some of his head appears to be missing.
  • Countless dead bodies are shown all over the ground after the Jonestown massacre.
  • A man is shown being shot and killed by police from a distance.
  • Montage of crime scene victims is shown, culminating with two very graphic morgue photos, one with an open head wound from a gunshot, and the other appears to show a blade sticking out from someone's skin.
  • Heavily decomposed bodies and body parts are shown being dug up from sites where they were buried. It's sometimes not clear exactly what's being retrieved, which makes it more disturbing.
  • Photograph of a naked corpse is briefly shown, and is said to be a victim of the Hillside Strangler.
  • Photos of victims from Ted Bundy's crimes are shown.
  • A gunfight on the streets and the bloody aftermath is shown. A man is seen seemingly dying, taking what looks like his last breaths.

Profanity

  • Infrequent but strong language, mainly during a section where one man takes another hostage and is interviewed repeatedly.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • All the footage described in violence/gore is real footage. This documentary is not for the faint of heart.
  • The segment on Charles Manson and the Manson killings is particularly disturbing
  • Frightening for anyone who lives in or wants to visit America, as the film argues it is a country with an alarming rate of violence and anarchy.
  • A murderer is interviewed and discusses interacting with the severed heads of his victims. It's incredibly confronting to hear.

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