HARLAN COUNTY, USA is currently streaming on Criterion Channel and on HBO/MAX.īarbara is also a nine-time Emmy-nominated filmmaker. The Criterion Collection released a DVD of HARLAN COUNTY, USA in 2006. The film was restored and preserved by the Women’s Preservation Fund and the Academy Film Archive and featured as part of the Sundance Collection at the Sundance Film Festival in 2005. In 1991, HARLAN COUNTY, USA was named to the National Film Registry by the Librarian of Congress and designated an American Film Classic. His story defies all odds and stereotypes and proves that truth is indeed stranger than fiction.Barbara Kopple produced and directed HARLAN COUNTY, USA and AMERICAN DREAM, both winners of the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. He's 'Freeway' Rick Ross, the man who stood at the center of the crack epidemic, and whose name has been inextricably linked to the CIA-Contra-Cocaine connection.
He's an urban legend in South Central LA, a black godfather figure whom most people have never seen, but know by name and reputation. 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. 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. Untouchable, Brick City) exposes how the infiltration of crack cocaine destroyed inner-city neighborhoods across the country. This documentary by award-winning filmmaker Marc Levin (SLAM, Mr. What is Freeway: Crack in the System about?įREEWAY: 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.
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