October 24th, 2014

Freeway: Crack in the System

Documentary
7.3

FREEWAY: CRACK IN THE SYSTEM tells the story of broken dreams, drug dealers, dirty cops, and government complicity—more compelling than fiction, it’s the real story behind America’s longest war. This documentary by award-winning filmmaker Marc Levin (SLAM, Mr. Untouchable, Brick City) exposes how the infiltration of crack cocaine destroyed inner-city neighborhoods across the country. At the center of it all is the rise, fall and redemption of Freeway Rick Ross, a street hustler who became the King of Crack, and journalist Gary Webb, who broke the story of the CIA’s complicity in the drug war. Featuring exclusive interviews with Freeway Rick Ross, not to be confused with the rapper who took his name Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Gary Webb, his source Coral Baca, and wife Susan Webb former Los Angeles Deputy Sheriff Roberto Juarez drug trafficker Julio Zavala and many more.

Watch
Watch Later

Production Companies

Al Jazeera America
Blowback Productions

Find more on:

Videos

Cast

Similar Movies

Recommended Movies

Bushwick
The China Syndrome
Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me
City of Joy
Wildlands
The Ritual
Joker
Interstellar
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Parasite
1917
A Man Called Otto
Oppenheimer
Oldboy
Extraction
Shazam!
Knives Out
Challengers
Barbie
Venom: The Last Dance

Cinemaos

© 2025-2026 Cinemaos Private Ltd.

Data provided by Consumet and Tmdb API