Synopsis
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy (2021) is a Netflix documentary you can watch online on iFILM. In eighty-nine minutes it traces how a cheap, smokable form of cocaine tore through Black neighborhoods across American cities in just a few short years.
Director Stanley Nelson builds the film from mid-eighties news footage, political speeches, and people who lived it firsthand — among them neuroscientist Carl Hart, writer Nelson George, and former cops and dealers. The picture lays out how a sinking economy and public fear curdled into a panic shot through with racism, and how the government answered with brutally long sentences that fell hardest on the poor and on people of color.
What makes it land is that it refuses the easy "drugs are bad" line, asking instead who profited and why the punishment came out so racially lopsided. A solid pick for anyone who likes archival, socially sharp documentaries. Stream Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy online on iFILM.
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