🎬 Documentary

Freeway: Crack in the System

⭐ 7.3/10 2014 1h 43m Dir. Marc Levin

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FREEWAY: CRACK IN THE SYSTEM tells the story of broken dreams, drug dealers, dirty cops, and government complicity—more compelling than fiction, it’s the real story behind America’s longest war. This documentary by award-winning filmmaker Marc Levin (SLAM, Mr. Untouchable, Brick City) exposes how the infiltration of crack cocaine destroyed inner-city neighborhoods across the country. At the center of it all is the rise, fall and redemption of Freeway Rick Ross, a street hustler who became the King of Crack, and journalist Gary Webb, who broke the story of the CIA’s complicity in the drug war. Featuring exclusive interviews with Freeway Rick Ross, not to be confused with the rapper who took his name Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Gary Webb, his source Coral Baca, and wife Susan Webb former Los Angeles Deputy Sheriff Roberto Juarez drug trafficker Julio Zavala and many more.

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7.3/10 19 votes

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Year
2014
Runtime
1h 43m
TMDB Rating
⭐ 7.3/10
Votes
19
Genre
Documentary
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Language
EN
🎭 Documentary 🎬 Marc Levin

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Freeway: Crack in the System has a runtime of 1h 43m (1 hour and 43 minutes).
Freeway: Crack in the System was directed by Marc Levin and released in 2014.
Freeway: Crack in the System is a Documentary film (2014).
Freeway: Crack in the System has a TMDB rating of 7.3/10 based on 19 votes.

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