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Cartel Land

Cartel Land

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jul 3, 2015

Runtime

1h 40m

Genres

Drama, Documentary

User Score

72%

Original Title

Cartel Land

Production Companies

The Documentary Group, Our Time Projects, A&E IndieFilms, Whitewater Films

Director

Matthew Heineman

Revenue

$1,145,923

Description

In the Mexican state of Michoacán, Dr. Jose Mireles, a small-town physician known as "El Doctor," shepherds a citizen uprising against the Knights Templar, the violent drug cartel that has wreaked havoc on the region for years. Meanwhile, in Arizona's Altar Valley—a narrow, 52-mile-long desert corridor known as Cocaine Alley—Tim "Nailer" Foley, an American veteran, heads a small paramilitary group called Arizona Border Recon, whose goal is to halt Mexico’s drug wars from seeping across our border.