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  • COUNTRIES: United Kingdom
  • Subtitles: English

History of the narcotics trade in Burma and the War on Drugs. In 1964, director Adrian Cowell and cameraman Chris Menges went to mountainous eastern Burma to film the Shan revolutionary forces fighting a bloody civil war against the military dictatorship. The impoverished Shans had only one way to finance the war: opium. Cowell has returned several times over the last 30 years to record the ongoing civil war and the burgeoning opium trade. The first and last episodes are produced in association with WGBH/FRONTLINE. Read More

Watch The Heroin Wars online. Featuring , The Heroin Wars has 1 seasons and 3 episodes in total. It is available for streaming online in the UK It is classified as Documentary genre series and the average rating across the web is 0. The TV series was filmed in United Kingdom and was first aired on 1996. Read Less