To a growing number of Mexicans and Latinos in the Americas, narco-traffickers have become iconic outlaws and the new models of fame and success. They represent a pathway out of the ghetto, nurturing a new American dream fueled by the war on drugs. Narco Cultura looks at this explosive phenomenon from within, exposing cycles of addiction to money, drugs, and violence that are rapidly gaining strength on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border

A boy named George Jung grows up in a struggling family in the 1950's. His mother nags at her husban...

A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pur...

An exploration of the United States of America's war on drugs from multiple perspectives. For the ne...

On his first day on the job as a narcotics officer, a rookie cop works with a rogue detective who is...

A corrupt CIA agent Sands hires hitman El Mariachi to assassinate a Mexican general hired by a drug ...

When a mysterious prisoner lands in jail, a border town sheriff faces the wrath of a brutal cartel.

Professional driver, and former Special Forces officer, Frank Martin is living in Miami, where he is...

Ray Tango and Gabriel Cash are two successful narcotics detectives who can't stand each other. Crime...
The transcript discusses the prevalent drug culture, particularly marijuana use, among youth in nati...

An idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by a government task force to aid in the escalating war against ...

In 1997, before the visit of the pope to Rio de Janeiro, Captain Nascimento from BOPE (Special Polic...

Cocaine has always gotten a bad rap, and for a reason. It is a drug used by the rich and the poor le...

Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but met...

High up in the Northern California mountains there is a place, where not too many get to visit. Its ...

A neighborhood divided by gang violence that may prove impossible to heal unless the killing stops i...

Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family...

A Japanese Yakuza gangster's deadly existence in his homeland gets him exiled to Los Angeles, where ...

Aswang follows a group of people whose lives have been caught up in these events: a journalist who t...

The true-life story of a Harlem's notorious Nicky Barnes, a junkie turned multimillionaire drug-lord...