Produced by Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker) and with unprecedented access Cartel Land is an explosive look at the journeys of two modern-day vigilante groups and their shared enemy - the murderous Mexican drug cartels. In the Mexican state of Michoacán Dr. Jose Mireles a small-town physician known as "El Doctor" leads the Autodefensas a citizen uprising against the violent Knights Templar 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 stop Mexico's drug wars from seeping across our border. Filmmaker Matthew Heineman embeds himself in the heart of darkness as Nailer El Doctor and the cartel each vie to bring their own brand of justice to a society where institutions have failed. Cartel Land is a chilling meditation on the breakdown of order and the blurry line between good and evil. [show more]
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Matthew Heineman directs this documentary about the Mexican Drug War. Across both sides of the US-Mexico border, the feature follows two groups of vigilantes caught up in Mexico's war on drugs and the country's corrupt government. In Michoacán, Mexico, Dr. José Mireles, known as El Doctor, runs the paramilitary Autodefensas group that seeks to end the operations of the area's drug cartels, particularly the Knights Templar Cartel. Across the border, military veteran Tim 'Nailer' Foley heads the Arizona Border Recon as they try to prevent Mexico's drug wars from spilling into the US by guarding Arizona's Altar Valley, a 45-mile-long desert corridor referred to as Cocaine Alley.
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