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The Crime of the Century is an American two-part documentary film directed, produced, and written by Alex Gibney.The film follows the opioid epidemic in the United States, and the political operatives, government regulations and corporations that enable the abuse of opioids, particularly the Sackler family and Purdue Pharma.
The Sackler family has been profiled in various media, including the documentary Crime of the Century on HBO, the book Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe, the 2021 Hulu miniseries Dopesick, the 2022 Oscar-nominated documentary All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, and the 2023 Netflix mini-series Painkiller.
The Sackler family, including Madeleine Sackler, is profiled in various media, including the documentary Crime of the Century on HBO and in the book Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe. As outlined in the book, she has scrupulously denied her family’s role in one of America’s largest public health crises, which has claimed the lives of ...
Several real-life members of the Sackler family are portrayed in the show, including the brothers Arthur (Clark Gregg), Mortimer (John Rothman) and Raymond (Sam Anderson), who co-founded the ...
Following the 2021 Peabody-winning miniseries Dopesick and this year's Painkiller, both of which dramatized the role that the Sackler family and Purdue Pharma played in the widespread ...
The purchase of the Glidden Spina + Partners building in West Palm Beach for a Sackler family office took place in July 2020, less than two months before Purdue Pharma filed for Chapter 11 ...
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed is a 2022 American biographical documentary film about photographer, artist, and activist Nan Goldin.The film is produced, co-edited and directed by Laura Poitras, [3] and tackles Goldin's life through her advocacy during the HIV/AIDS crisis in the ‘80s, and her fight against the Sackler family for their role in the current opioid epidemic in the United ...
At a 2020 Congressional hearing, David Sackler, former member of the Purdue Pharma board of directors and son of Richard Sackler, gave his family’s perspective on the epidemic.