True Stories: Cocaine Cowboys

10:00pm Tuesday, August 31 on M4

The True Stories strand, which showcases the best international feature documentaries, presents Billy Corben’s astonishing story of the sudden rush of cocaine into the then sleepy Miami in the 1970/80s. Colombian drug lords and Cuban and American gangsters realised that America had developed a taste for the drug but the authorities were slow on reacting to the threat. There was profit for all with, initially, very little risk attached.

About the author

  • BBC One
  • BBC Two
  • BBC Three
  • ITV1
  • ITV2
  • 4
  • E4
  • Film4
  • More4
  • Five
  • Fiver
  • Sky1