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. The final interview with Webb before his death is also part of Crack In The System.Ĭheck out the trailer for Freeway: Crack In The System below.Barbara Kopple produced and directed HARLAN COUNTY, USA and AMERICAN DREAM, both winners of the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Other interviews include former Los Angeles Deputy Sheriff Robert Juarez, drug trafficker Julio Zavala, and of course Freeway Ross. That’s when I first heard the accusation that the CIA stood for ‘Crack In America.'”Ĭoral Baca, Webb’s source for his “Dark Alliance” drug war exposé, as well as Webb’s wife Susan appear in the film. “I was at the Iran Contra Hearings, producing for Bill Moyers on ‘The Secret Government’ and sitting only feet away from Ollie North. intelligence community’s connection to drugs and drug traffickers,” states Levin. As a child of the sixties I have long been fascinated by stories of the U.S. The film centers around 1980’s drug kingpin Freeway Ross and Gary Webb, the journalist that broke the story of the CIA’s alleged involvement in trafficking illegal drugs into the United States. Untouchable) explores how the crack cocaine epidemic destroyed neighborhoods throughout America. Award-winning filmmaker Marc Levin ( SLAM, Mr.
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