Summary: An undercover policeman infiltrates a major drug ring and works his way to the position of heir apparent. When the leader of the syndicate becomes ill, the lure of power and money cause him to question his true identity.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Co. 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PROSummary: Armed with ruthless, streetwise tactics and a strict sense of honor, crime boss Frank Lucas rules Harlem's chaotic drug underworld. When outcast cop Richie Roberts sets out to bring down Lucas's multimillion-dollar empire, it plunges both men into a legendary confrontation. Inspired by a true story.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie American 2009Contents: Public enemies /Ennemis publics -- American gangster /Gangster Américain -- Casino -- Carlito's way /À la manière de Carlito -- Scarface /Le Balafré.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY LEGSummary: Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in the Harlem. He does so by buying heroin directly from a source in South East Asia. He comes up with a unique way of importing the drugs into the United States. As a result, his product is superior to what is currently available on the street and his prices are...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AMECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AME RATED RCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY AMESummary: Marseille. 1975. Pierre Michel, a young magistrate with a wife and children, has just been transferred to help in the crack-down on organized crime. He decides to take on French Connection, a Mafia-run operation that exports heroin the world over. Paying heed to no one's warnings, he leads a one-man campaign against Mafia kingpin Gaetan Zampa, the most untouchable godfather of them all. But...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF CONWeiden, David Heska Wanbli
Summary: Virgil Wounded Horse is the local enforcer on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota. When justice is denied by the American legal system or the tribal council, Virgil is hired to deliver his own punishment, the kind that's hard to forget. But when heroin makes its way into the reservation and finds Virgil's nephew, his vigilantism suddenly becomes personal. He enlists the help of his...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WEISummary: For many governments in the new political landscape of Central Asia, supporting America's war on terror translates into a dangerous internal juggling act. This Wide Angle documentary examines the uneasy relationship between forces aligned against the Taliban and the drug lords who control the cultivation of much of the world's heroin. With militias and tribal factions diluting centralized...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006