Movies: War on drugs

Cocaine has always gotten a bad rap, and for a reason. It is a drug used by the rich and the poor legally and illegally, Mexican cartels fought over it with Colombia once associated with the brutal cocaine wars, and a source of tension between the Am...

DRUGLAWED is the explosive documentary exposing how New Zealand has been co-opted by the US into fighting the failed War On Drugs. Filmed in six countries over four years, this is the documentary that finally clears the smoke around the internationa...

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The Nightcrawlers provides unprecedented access to the the Manila Nightcrawlers as they look to expose the true cost of Filipino President Duterte’s violent war on drugs....

Una de Bandidos. Following after the events of CvM2 with the murder of DEA Agent Aníbal in Culiacán, the Zazueta cartel receives retaliation and punishment for it, will they survive?...

Trauma reporter Patricia Evangelista had a front-row view of the harshness and cruelty brought upon the lives of those who became victims of the Drug War under Duterte's administration. Witnessing the aftermath of violent killings, she struggles with...

Ken Howard hosts a series of role-playing vignettes (featuring some of Hollywood's top stars) to help parents and children deal with typical family situations involving the use of illegal drugs....

From its beginning during the Reagan years through current times, the War on Drugs has left many victims stranded in the prison system. PRISONERS OF THE WAR ON DRUGS reveals life behind bars in the nation’s prisons. Each prisoner has his or her own s...

“Use Your Eyes” is a police training film produced by the Alhambra Police Department, California, in 1970. It is intended to demonstrate to police officers how to search a residence for evidence of marijuana use, and what rights they have to search t...

The Rastreadoras de El Fuerte are a group of mothers of disappeared persons in northern Sinaloa who, in the absence of the authorities, twice a week go out with picks and shovels in search of the remains of their children; a testimony of the abandonm...

High up in the Northern California mountains there is a place, where not too many get to visit. Its called - The Emerald Triangle, real mecca of Americas cannabis game. Follow a ukrainian journalist Luka on a journey that explores lifes of real growe...

One of Hicks's most famous quotes was delivered during a gig in Chicago - known s the "Infamous Bill Looses it in Chicago" show - in 1989 (later released as the bootleg I'm Sorry, Folks). After a heckler repeatedly shouted "Free Bird", Hicks screamed...

Fox Night movie was made in 1996. This film is a product of the Iranian country in the genre of action and mystery genre. Mohammad Motoselani, Hossein Yaryar and Gholamhossein Lotfi have been featured in the film....

Shot over the course of 18 months in New York City's Lower East Side, METHADONIA sheds light on the inherent flaws of legal methadone treatments for heroin addiction by profiling eight addicts, in various stages of recovery and relapse, who attend th...

The war on drugs has been going on for more than three decades. Today, nearly 500,000 Americans are imprisoned on drug charges. In 1980 the number was 50,000. Last year $40 billion in taxpayer dollars were spent in fighting the war on drugs. As a res...

In 2013, five friends with no documentary experience embarked on a journey to expose the rise of dangerous substance adulteration, and provide a well-rounded critique of ineffective drug policy....

All hell is breaking loose in Bridgetown. The drug mafia terrorizes the city. Murders are committed on every street corner. The police are powerless. The mayor calls in the military to help. The Drug Enforcement Unit sends its best agent, Dolph Reine...

The transcript discusses the prevalent drug culture, particularly marijuana use, among youth in national parks. It highlights the perception that marijuana is less harmful than harder drugs and reflects on the challenges park rangers face in enforcin...

Why are white men poised to get rich doing the same thing African-Americans have been going to prison for?...

An insider's documentary describing the CIA's use of Mena, Arkansas as a staging area for covert activities which involved the Reagan-Bush administration and Governor Bill Clinton which resulted in the subversion of our judicial system....