American Gangster: The Real Story Behind the First Corporate Drug Lord

Описание: Fentanyl defines the modern drug epidemic, and today’s cartels operate like multinational corporations — not like the old Mafia families most people imagine. But this system did not appear overnight.

The movie American Gangster goes back to the roots of the problem, to a moment long before cocaine empires or fentanyl labs, when one man fundamentally changed how organized crime worked.

This video is the first and main episode in a documentary series exploring the TRUE story behind the film American Gangster (2007). It examines how Frank Lucas built what investigators later described as the first “corporate-style” drug organization — applying supply chain control, branding, and operational discipline to heroin trafficking decades before modern cartels adopted the same logic.

This episode focuses on:
– Who Frank Lucas really was
– How his organization actually functioned
– What the movie got right — and what it simplified or omitted
– Why his methods reshaped global criminal networks

📌 This is PART 1 of a multi-episode playlist.
Upcoming episodes will explore:
– The Golden Triangle and Southeast Asian heroin production
– Nixon's war on drug
– KMT generals, CIA blind spots, and global supply chains

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👇 Question for viewers:
Do you think modern drug cartels would exist in their current form without the systems built decades earlier?

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