Louder Than Guns(2026)

Name: Louder Than Guns
Director: Doug Pray
Genre: Documentary
Released: May 8, 2026

- Documentary

Release Date: May 8, 2026 | Limited

After the 2023 shooting at The Covenant School in Nashville, Ketch Secor of Old Crow Medicine Show wrote an op-ed in the New York Times calling on country music to lead America out of its relationship with guns. His friend, public radio journalist David Greene, read it. The two decided to take the conversation on the road. Director Doug Pray followed them into barbershops, barbecue joints, church pews, gun stores, and concert halls across rural and urban America, where they convened people from opposing sides of the gun debate and asked them to listen to each other. A documentary about one of America's most intractable disagreements.

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Original Release | May 8, 2026

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Plot Summary

Louder Than Guns is a 2026 American documentary film directed by Doug Pray and written by David Greene and Ketch Secor. The film follows Secor, lead singer of Old Crow Medicine Show, and Greene, a former NPR host and journalist, as they travel through American communities in the wake of the 2023 Covenant School shooting in Nashville to facilitate conversations between people on opposing sides of the gun debate. The documentary is named after a song Secor wrote for the victims of the Covenant shooting. Old Crow Medicine Show's broad fanbase, which spans across American cultural and political divides, provides the film with access to communities that rarely engage across ideological lines. The conversations take place in barbeque joints, barbershops, church pews, gun stores, and concert halls across both rural and urban settings. Producers are Stephanie Meurer, Ashley York, and Doug Pray. Executive producers are Ketch Secor, David Greene, and Foster Phillips. The film was released in the United States on May 8, 2026, distributed by Abramorama. Runtime is 89 minutes. Core themes include gun violence, gun rights, civic dialogue, community, and the possibility of common ground. The film is for audiences interested in documentary treatments of American political and social division.

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Louder Than Guns (2026) is a documentary directed by Doug Pray that follows country-bluegrass musician Ketch Secor of Old Crow Medicine Show and journalist David Greene as they tour America to foster civil dialogue on gun rights and violence.