Freeway
Subtitle: crack in the system
By: written and directed by Marc Levin
Contributors: Baca, Coral, on-screen participant; Juarez, Robert, on-screen participant; Ross, Rick (High school teacher) on-screen participant
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] :
Number of pages: 103
Subjects: Organized crime; Drug traffic; United States; Police corruption; United States. Central Intelligence Agency; Drug abuse and crime; Drug dealers; Corrupt practices; Biography
Other titles: Crack in the system; Freeway, crack in the system (Motion picture)
Description: Examines the crack cocaine epidemic that started ravaging inner-city neighborhoods across the country in the 1980s and government involvement in it, focusing on infamous Freeway Rick Ross, a street hustler who established a drug empire in Los Angeles, and Gary Webb, an investigative journalist who brought to light the CIA's role in the crack cocaine trafficking.
Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 2015.

Wide screen.

Coral Baca, Robert Juarez, Rick Ross.

MPAA rating: R.

For private home use only.

Closed-captioned.