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
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...
Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family...
A boy named George Jung grows up in a struggling family in the 1950's. His mother nags at her husban...
Ray Tango and Gabriel Cash are two successful narcotics detectives who can't stand each other. Crime...
Professional driver, and former Special Forces officer, Frank Martin is living in Miami, where he is...
This film from Bill Moyers is the first documentary to focus exclusively on people formerly detained...
In 1997, before the visit of the pope to Rio de Janeiro, Captain Nascimento from BOPE (Special Polic...
The story of Richard Wershe Jr., a teenager who became an undercover informant for the police during...
Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but met...
As police and DEA agents battle sophisticated cartels, rural, economically-disadvantaged users and d...
After Carla’s brother is murdered, she goes on the run and becomes trapped in a cat-and-mouse game w...
A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pur...
A corrupt CIA agent Sands hires hitman El Mariachi to assassinate a Mexican general hired by a drug ...
A Japanese Yakuza gangster's deadly existence in his homeland gets him exiled to Los Angeles, where ...
Intent on seizing control of South East England's cocaine business, small-time crime boss Randall hi...
After a chance encounter, headstrong Kathy is drawn to Benny, member of Midwestern motorcycle club t...
Shot over the course of 18 months in New York City's Lower East Side, METHADONIA sheds light on the ...
Marijuana is the most controversial drug of the 20th Century. Smoked by generations to little discer...
From its beginning during the Reagan years through current times, the War on Drugs has left many vic...