Billy Corben
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In 1979, the U.S. Customs Service reported that 87% of all marijuana seizures in the U.S. were made in the South Florida area. Due to the region's 5,000 miles of coast and coastal waterways, and close proximity to the Caribbean and Latin America, South Florida was a pot smuggler's paradise. In sharp contrast to the brazenly violent cocaine cowboys of the 1980s, Miami's marijuana smugglers were cooler, calmer, and typically nonviolent. Square Grouper...
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Charles Cosby's life changes forever when he writes a fan letter to the "Cocaine Godmother," Griselda Blanco, who is serving time at a nearby federal prison. Six months later, Cosby is a multi-millionaire, Blanco's lover, and the head of her $40 million a year cocaine business. Cosby soon learns that he's in way over his head.
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The cocaine trade of the '70s and '80s had an indelible impact on contemporary Miami. Smugglers and distributors forever changed the once sleepy retirement community and turned it into one of the world's most glamorous hot spots and the epicenter of a $20 billion annual business fed by Colombia's Medellin Cartel. By the early '80s, Miami's tripled homicide rate had made it the murder captial of the country.
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As the owner of legendary hotspots like Limelight, Tunnel, Palladium, and Club USA, Peter Gatien was the undisputed king of the 1990s New York City club scene. The eye-patch-sporting Ontario native built and oversaw a Manhattan empire that counted tens of thousands of patrons per night in its peak years, acting as a conduit for a culture that, for many, defined the image of an era in New York.
6) Screwball
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"Recounting the high-profile doping scandal that rocked Major League Baseball, director Billy Corben ... takes viewers into the surreal Miami underworld that provided performance-enhancing drugs to Alex Rodriguez, Manny Ramirez, and other star players ... The documentary plays like a madcap Floridian crime comedy in the vein of Elmore Leonard or the Coen Brothers while it raises serious questions about the ethics of professional sports"--Container...
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What does it take to become a WWE Legend? BIOGRAPHY: WWE LEGENDS, VOLUME 1 from A&E Network and WWE Studios gives fans the ultimate ringside seat to the men behind the most iconic characters in WWE history. The documentaries are helmed by some of the industry's foremost directors and top storytellers, and feature WWE executives and Superstars. Learn about the tragedies, triumphs and meteoric rise to fame WWE giants "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, "Rowdy"...