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Documentaries like Cartel Land

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The 3 reasons people love Cartel Land

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  1. You want to hear from people living with a cartel rather than a report about them.

  2. You can take a camera that stays in the room during a gunfight.

  3. You like watching who really governs when the state stops.

Picks that share your reasons

Which reasons were yours?

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  • Bus 1742002

    • you want to hear from people living with a cartel rather than a report about them
    • a camera that stays in the room during a gunfight

    Good for you if you want to understand a real hostage crisis that Brazil watched live.

  • Narcos2015

    • you want to hear from people living with a cartel rather than a report about them
    • a camera that stays in the room during a gunfight

    Good for you if you want the hunt for Pablo Escobar told through the American agents who were part of it.

  • Narcos: Mexico2018

    • you want to hear from people living with a cartel rather than a report about them
    • a camera that stays in the room during a gunfight

    Good for you if you want real names and real events from 1980s Mexico.

  • City of God2002

    • you want to hear from people living with a cartel rather than a report about them

    Good for you if you like stories based on real places and people.

  • The Dissident2020

    • you want to hear from people living with a cartel rather than a report about them
    • a camera that stays in the room during a gunfight
    • watching who really governs when the state stops

    Good for you if you want the facts of the Jamal Khashoggi case laid out piece by piece.

  • Cocaine Cowboys2006

    • you want to hear from people living with a cartel rather than a report about them
    • watching who really governs when the state stops

    Good for you if you want the true story told by the people who lived it.

  • Pablo Escobar: The Drug Lord2012

    • you want to hear from people living with a cartel rather than a report about them
    • watching who really governs when the state stops

    Good for you if you want the story of Pablo Escobar told from Colombia, about the country that lived through him.

  • Sicario2015

    • a camera that stays in the room during a gunfight

    Good for you if you like dread in every scene, especially at the border.

  • Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story2022

    • you want to hear from people living with a cartel rather than a report about them
    • watching who really governs when the state stops

    Good for you if you want to understand a real case that shook Britain.

  • The Wire2002

    • watching who really governs when the state stops

    Good for you if you like seeing how police, politics and schools keep a city stuck.

  • El Chapo2017

    • you want to hear from people living with a cartel rather than a report about them
    • watching who really governs when the state stops

    Good for you if you want the three decades of a real cartel rise, year by year.

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