The Heroin Wars(1996)
Documentary
First Air Date: 1996-07-06
Average Runtime: N/A
Rating: 0.0
Votes: 0
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 3
History of the narcotics trade in Burma and the War on Drugs. In 1964, director Adrian Cowell and cameraman Chris Menges went to mountainous eastern Burma to film the Shan revolutionary forces fighting a bloody civil war against the military dictatorship. The impoverished Shans had only one way to finance the war: opium. Cowell has returned several times over the last 30 years to record the ongoing civil war and the burgeoning opium trade. The first and last episodes are produced in association with WGBH/FRONTLINE.
Keywords
war on drugsopiumdrug tradedrugsnarcotics
Seasons & Episodes
Miniseries
Episodes: 3E01
The Opium Convoys
Air Date: 1996-07-06
Lo Hsing-Han, Khun Sa and the beginning of the war on drugs. Trafficking initially funded rebellion against the anti-...
E02
Smack City
Air Date: 1996-07-13
Hong Kong, the drug capital of southeast Asia for the last century. The success of Hong Kong police in combating opiu...
E03
The Kings of Opium
Air Date: 1996-07-20
Khun Sa changes sides in the narcotics carousel. Returning to the Shan war of independence, even with $80 million in ...
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