Ridley Scott and Russell Crowe's acclaimed 2007 crime drama American Gangster, featuring Denzel Washington, sees a resurgence ...

Denzel Washington plays a 1970's drug lord named Frank Lucas in American Gangster. Lucas takes pride in many things, but most of all in the quality of his merchandise, Southeast Asian heroin as pure, ...

Over the years, gangster movies have become a prominent pastime in American cinema and a beloved film genre known for iconic titles such as The Godfather, Goodfellas, and A Bronx Tale. The gangster ...

The scourge of heroin use by Black Americans in cities like New York in the 1970s sparked Richard Nixon’s War of Drugs. The goal was to “associate the hippies with marijuana and Blacks with heroin” ...