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Breaking the taboo / a Films for the Humanities & Sciences presentation.
LIBRA DVD 025 506
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Drug control.
- Drug traffic.
- Drugs of abuse.
- Drug abuse and crime.
- International relations.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (52 min.) : color, sound ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Menu screen title: Breaking the taboo : have we lost the war on drugs?
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : Films Media Group, [2012]
- Language Note:
- English and Spanish with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- DVD-R; may not play on all machines.
- digital
- optical
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- "The war on drugs has been raging for more than 40 years. Over a trillion dollars has been spent, millions of people imprisoned, and countless thousands killed. And the result? Drugs are cheaper and more prevalent than ever before, and in a growing number of countries drug cartels are a major threat to national security. Narrated by Morgan Freeman, this documentary examines the UN-sanctioned war on drugs, charting its origins and its devastating impact on countries such as the U.S., Colombia, Russia, Mexico, and Brazil. The film features prominent statesmen including former presidents Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, and César Gaviria of Colombia, who press for the urgent need to break the political taboo and support drug liberalization, per the conclusions of the 2011 Global Commission on Drug Policy."--container.
- Participant:
- Narrator: Morgan Freeman
- Notes:
- Films on Demand is distributed by Films Media Group for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lachs-Adler Family Endowed Fund for Collection Development.
- OCLC:
- 889960482
- Publisher Number:
- 53283 Films Media Group
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