Cocaine Cowboys
Miami in the early '80s witnessed the invade of Colombian cocaine lords. In this documentary, director Billy Corben gives us a thorough view on how cocaine take the city by storm and how the Miami drug war happen.
26 May 1949, Columbus, Ohio, USA
February 15, 1943 in Cartagena, Colombia
6 February 1940, Webster, South Dakota, USA
13 August 1926, Biran, Oriente Province, Cuba
16 March 1938, Patterson, New Jersey, USA
15 December 1949, Flat Creek, Missouri, USA
12 June 1924, Milton, Massachusetts, USA
26 March 1948, Yonkers, New York, USA
15 November 1978, Miami Beach, Florida, USA
February 11, 1934 in Panama City, Panama
29 June 1945, Miami, Florida, USA
November 23, 2007
Grisly crime scene snaps accompany the story, which makes Miami Vice look like a tea party and Florida like hell on earth.
December 01, 2006
The Jan Hammer music on the soundtrack works overtime to assure us that Cocaine Cowboys is the real, nastier version of Miami Vice
November 09, 2006
At half the length it would have been twice as good, but nevertheless it stokes a nostalgia some may have for a magic period in Miami history when it was ever so briefly the American Casablanca.
November 23, 2007
The haystacks of cash and coke are laughably insane - as is the head-count: thousands of people were gunned to death. This is the only state in the world where Scarface might raise a smile.
April 24, 2009
Documentarian Billy Corben's revealing film exposes the methods and players in South Florida's drug trade that literally built the city of Miami that we know today with billions of dollars in blood cash.
November 22, 2007
It's the sort of glamour-meets-violence drugs-crime story on which lads' mags thrive: unqualified, over-reverent and hysterical.
November 10, 2006
This is an ugly film, but with an undeniable allure.
March 06, 2008
With a nearly two-hour running time that includes its share of blowhards, repetition, and cheesy attempts to heighten drama, Cocaine Cowboys brings to mind an unfortunate comparison: Miami Vice. The movie.
November 23, 2007
Without narration, the doc has scant moral compass, its very title celebrating the machine gun-wielding mercenaries involved.
November 10, 2006
This documentary on Miami's lethal '80s cocaine scene is cut fast.
November 23, 2007
At nearly two hours, Cocaine Cowboys (appropriately) doesn't know when to stop talking, but as a chronicle of a demented epoch, it's both entertaining and just about definitive.
November 10, 2006
Forget Scarface and Miami Vice. Cocaine Cowboys is the real deal -- a down-and-dirty look at the high living and illegal drugs that dominated south Florida in the 1980s.
