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Texas filmmaker Kevin Booth sets out to prove his claim that the Drug War has failed. [3] Three and a half years in the making, the film includes sections showing 62 people including former DEA agents, CIA officers, narcotics officers, judges, politicians, gang members, prisoners, and celebrities.
Kevin Booth (born October 2, 1961) is an American film director, producer, lecturer and musician.He was known for his documentary film series American Drug War.Booth worked with comedian Bill Hicks, until the time of his death on February 26, 1994 and posthumously produced Hicks' records Rant in E Minor and Arizona Bay.
American Gangster is a 2007 American biographical crime film directed and produced by Ridley Scott and written by Steven Zaillian.The film is loosely based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a gangster from La Grange, North Carolina who smuggled heroin into the United States on American service planes returning from the Vietnam War, before being detained by a task force led by Newark ...
Drug War premiered at the Rome Film Festival on November 15, 2012. [ 1 ] [ 5 ] The film was the second "surprise film" from Asia at the festival, with the first being Back to 1942 . [ 5 ] [ 7 ] The film was released on April 2, 2013, in China and earned US$13,070,000 for its opening week, coming in third place at the Chinese box office behind ...
Thomas Edward Sizemore Jr. (/ ˈ s aɪ z m ɔːr /; November 29, 1961 – March 3, 2023) was an American actor.Born in Detroit, he started his career with supporting appearances in Born on the Fourth of July (1989), Lock Up (1989), and Blue Steel (1990).
The film chronicles his role in the Miami drug war (the resulting crime epidemic that swept the American city of Miami, Florida, in the 1970s and 1980s). The producers of Cocaine Cowboys use interviews with law enforcement, journalists, lawyers, former drug smugglers, and gang members to provide a first-hand perspective of the Miami drug war.
Drugs commonly shown in such films include cocaine, heroin and other opioids, LSD, cannabis (see stoner film) and methamphetamine. There is extensive overlap with crime films, which sometimes treat drugs as plot devices to keep the action moving. The following is a partial list of drug films and the substances involved.
The Tulia 47 drug sting events were to feature in a film directed by John Singleton and starring Billy Bob Thornton and Halle Berry. [23] [24] The 1999 drug arrests were also explored in the documentary American Drug War: The Last White Hope. Rattlesnake is a 2019 crime drama mystery film set in Tulia.