COLLECTION · Series · 1996

The Heroin Wars

Name: The Heroin Wars
Genre: Documentary

History of the narcotics trade in Burma and the War on Drugs. In 1964, director Adrian Cowell and cameraman Chris Menges went to mountainous eastern Burma to film the Shan revolutionary forces fighting a bloody civil war against the military dictatorship. The impoverished Shans had only one way to finance the war: opium. Cowell has returned several times over the last 30 years to record the ongoing civil war and the burgeoning opium trade. The first and last episodes are produced in association with WGBH/FRONTLINE.

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* 0.0 (0)DocumentaryUnited Kingdom

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Directors

Adrian Cowell

Countries

United Kingdom

Studios

Channel 4 · Carlton UK Productions

Release

06/07/1996

Score

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Seasons and episodes

Miniseries

3 episodes · 1996

Episode 1. The Opium Convoys

1996-07-06 · 51 min

Lo Hsing-Han, Khun Sa and the beginning of the war on drugs. Trafficking initially funded rebellion against the anti-democratic Burmese Army dictatorship. As guerilla armies fought to control the huge mule convoys transporting opium to…

Episode 2. Smack City

1996-07-13 · 51 min

Hong Kong, the drug capital of southeast Asia for the last century. The success of Hong Kong police in combating opium caused many opium users to switch to cheaper, more easily smuggled heroin in the 1970s.

Episode 3. The Kings of Opium

1996-07-20 · 51 min

Khun Sa changes sides in the narcotics carousel. Returning to the Shan war of independence, even with $80 million in U.S. military aid the Burmese Army never halted or captured a single drug convoy. Despite their dramatic arrests and…

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Keywords

war on drugsopiumdrug tradedrugsnarcotics