Cocaine Cowboys (2006)

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Rating: R

Release Date: Oct 27, 2006

Running Time: 116 mins.

Country Of Origin: United States

starring: Jon Roberts, Mickey Munday, Jorge Rivi Ayala, Dr Joseph Davis, Al Singleton

director: Billy Corben

Cocaine Cowboys

In the 1980s, ruthless Colombian cocaine barons invaded Miami with a brand of violence unseen in this country since Prohibition-era Chicago--and it put the city on the map. "Cocaine Cowboys" is the true story of how Miami became the drug, murder and cash capital of the United States, told by the people who made it all happen.

Dust off the white suit and pink bikini: We're going to Miami Beach, circa 1970s and '80s, where cocaine ruled the economy. The documentary Cocaine Cowboys tells you (more than) everything you wanted to know about Floridian gangsters awash in cocaine money.

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Today's club-goers may not know that Miami, with its decadent skyline, was once America's most violent city, built up by the Carter and Reagan-era cocaine street wars. This Billy Corben-helmed documentary explains that with the volatile…