''Public Enemy Number One'' is a 2019 American

documentary film A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional film, motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". Bill Nichols (film critic), Bil ...

directed by

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and produced by

, Chris Chiari, and Ice-T. It looks at the war on drugs from 1968 until today and looks at trigger points in history that took cannabis from being a somewhat benign criminal activity into a self-perpetuating constantly expanding policy disaster. The film won Best Documentary Feature at the Seattle Film Festival, and Storyteller Award and Best Producer at

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. It was released on various

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s after a limited theatrical release.

Synopsis

''Public Enemy Number One'' sheds light on the politics behind the war on drugs from Nixon to today, with first of its kind insight from U.S. Drug Czars, and the founders of the "Just Say No" movement.

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* * * * * * {{cite web, title=Public Enemy Number One at IMDb, url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6144162/ American documentary films 2010s English-language films 2010s American films