The Crime of the Century | HBO Documentary | Interview with Director Alex Gibney
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- Опубликовано: 3 авг 2024
- Learn about the newest HBO's doc The Crime of the Century, directed by Alex Gibney.
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The opioid crisis in the US has killed half a million people and created millions of addicts, all because the pharmaceutical companies pushed opioid medicines as not being prone to abuse or addictive.
In his latest HBO doc-series The Crime of the Century (2021), Oscar- and Emmy-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney provides the most comprehensive look to date at the opioid crisis in the US. Alex joins us to discuss the making of the film, arguing that the opioid crisis has deeply criminal roots. The film finds fresh evidence that shows just how deep that criminality runs.
The Crime of the Century premiered on HBO and HBO Max on May 10th and May 11th. It comes to Sky Documentaries and streaming service NOW on Sunday, May 16th at 9pm.
"It’s the little acts of corruption that get bigger and bigger, and over time you get a fully corrupted system." - Alex Gibney
Time Stamps:
00:00 - Guest introduction.
00:12 - Trailer for The Crime of the Century.
03:00 - Introducing the director Alex Gibney.
04:14 - What The Crime of the Century is about.
05:50 - Why Alex is making this film now, and the new evidence he uncovered.
08:00 - How crimes by the pharma industry created the America opioid crisis.
13:10 - How the opioid crisis has evolved and worsened during Covid.
14:23 - The reactions of federal and state governments to the crisis.
19:45 - The number of pharmaceutical industry executives that were prosecuted.
23:48 - How the problem with opioids can be solved.
28:10 - How Alex Gibney approached the subjects of the film.
34:40 - Pharma rap video in the film is a smoking gun.
36:40 - The perseverance with which Alex Gibney explores corruption.
39:12 - What The Crime of the Century tells us about human nature.
39:45 - Alex Gibney's next projects and the topics he would like to explore.
41:15 - What he hopes the legacy of the film will be.
Resources:
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty, a book by Patrick Radden Keefe www.amazon.com/Empire-Pain-Hi...
The Washington Post - The Opioid Files www.washingtonpost.com/nation...
Innersound Audio innersoundaudio.co.uk/
Connect with Alex Gibney:
Website www.jigsawprods.com/
Twitter / alexgibneyfilm
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Best documentary I’ve seen in a long time! Coming from western Carolina I watched this progress first hand. Thank you showing everyone that this heroin epidemic didn’t just fall outta the sky.
My sweet dad is a victim of this drug. Thank God he survived. It changed him and he had strokes because of it but he is still here.
My dad, too. He passed away March 21, 2021. I miss him dearly every day.
I saw this doc yesterday and even though I knew about the Opioids crisis it surprised me the amount of sold pills, profits and people involved.
Gibney is very good at portraying the hole picture on the subjects of their documentaries.
Great as always, hope a lot more people can watch.
It was a great doc, these other commenters are right though. People need to see how the FDA really works.
This should have been on Netflix.
Why?
I tried to watch the documentary in Amazon Prime and it’s “unavailable to watch in your location” and I live in Alameda, California!
I am a survivor of a car bomb in 1991 from the time Pablo Escobar was killing police enforcement in Medellin, Colombia to fight against his extradition to the USA.
Did you investigate where and how these pharmaceutical drugs companies get their ingredients to process their narcotics?
I am SO tired of seeing my people in my country getting killed because of this “war in drugs”!
It’s on HBO Max
So, what can be done to stop the pain that people have? Please do something so people can get something for the pain!! Don't blame the doctors or the patients
Somebody desperately needs to do a film about how medical doctors in America have "a chokehold on the American public" and also in other countries, what I'm trying to say is the drug companies and the medical doctors~ none of us should ever be really "leaning on some medical doctor for better Health" if you want better health you seek out people that are professionals trained in the natural healing realm, and that would be more along the lines of Master healing therapists, holistic health practitioners, very talented acupuncturists, and some occasional chiropractic along with holistic nutritionist {not clinical nutritionists} that is the recipe for better Health it takes a while to switch over your habits, but anyway please somebody's got to do a documentary on the crimes of the drug companies this is barely touching on it there's SO MUCH MORE to it...
Excellent point...thanks for your comment!
This HBO show should be a must see of every public school's curriculum. When I saw that hill descend down into Wise County, VA. my heart sank. I literally have some relatives in that area. The amount of human suffering that has been caused is staggering. Paying fines is not even a slap on the wrist. CHINA are not on my Christmas Card list, but they knew that they had to rid themselves of the scourge of opium addiction and wrest control of their country and people from European colonial control and the opium trade. In a Just American, the Sacklers would be in prison for the rest of their miserable lives.
The Sacklers should be sharing a cell with John Kapoor but they are white and paid off the right people, so they'll never go down. Hopefully "Dopesick" will make them social pariahs.
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Great job 👍
Thanks 👍!
The full movie is Amazing and also DOPESICK was The best documentary on Opioid I've ever seen. We need more Awareness like these movies and shows.
Agreed. Thanks for your comment!
I loved your doc on the incident with bartman/Cubs in 2003 seat #113 … I remember it live on tv “Catching HELL” 🔥 ⚾️ and I’m a yanks fan! Thx
I nearly lost my life to OxyContin
Thank you for sharing - and thank you for watching
I'm so glad you did this this will bring out a lot of truths in every aspect
Thanks for the comment!
¿The 'American Dream' achieved by harming others?
Same people who make the vaccine.
Mis respetos. Éste documental me enseñó tantas cosas. Gracias
Thank you for watching - glad you enjoyed!
Will this be on DVD or only HBO??? I don't have HBO!!!!
Sometimes the enterprisers are the best criminals, but they have the approve from governement so they dont are criminals, this make me sick!
Well said, thank you for watching!
Just listened to the series on opioids in America (America scandal) in Wondery mentions this documentary
Interesting. I had no idea it’s mentioned there.
I heard about this on JRE 5yrs ago
Thanks for watching!
And we wonder why our communities are in such shambles
It should surprise no one after learning the CIA is the biggest drug dealers in America if not the world, right behind the medical cartel that makes your medicines and vaccines.
If only you knew I was one of the first people on that horrible drug took so much from me and my family and me and still in a maintenance program to this day sadly I’m a junkie and was hooked on Oxy for many years over 12 that drug is so powerful your physically sick if you don’t have it you really feel like your dying
Omg😱😱😱
Damn... I hoped I’m going to watch an ACTUAL Documentary, not a conversation... :(
13:36
Thank you for watching!
I felt sick to my stomach watching the video of those absurd sales conventions with them singing stupid songs about OxyContin. They destroyed so many lives.
I worked for a Big Pharma company from 2000-2008. Those absurd sales conventions are for real! They party like maniacs for a week, hyping the sales reps into promoting more drugs to doctors & increasing sales. It's true, sad to say.
Thank you for your addition!
You want to talk to someone that knew Dr Xuan Xiu Lieu....? Well here I am....he wrote 17 and 18 yo ! 5000 dollars of Fentynal lollypops and 10 boxes of patches a month.... anybody wants to know more just ask?
Money did not corrupt everything. Our wicked hearts are what corrupts everything.
"The love of money is the root of all evil", as the Good Book says. Also "the road to hell is paved with good intentions".
Well said.
remember us and pommy troupes garding opiem crops in afganistan
Reep what you sow
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Thanks for watching!
Too much extra gab about nada here n there...
Lawyers said opioids was a gate way drug to cocaine and heroine... Did everyone forget the 70s, the 80s, 90s??? Lmao wasn't there a increase in crack, cocaine and heroine back in those years.. But no oxycontin or any other pain pills back then 😂😂😂😂
LoL these guys have no clue 😂
Opioid crises my ass. You people are hurting chronic pain patients.
Interesting point....thanks for your comment!
Okay heroin comes from a foreign country growing a crop that takes up land that could be used for food grains for hungry citizens and malnourished animals especially mother cow, but also goats and sheep. That's the malfunctioning mistake from the get go. America has their own native soul and native plants and herbs, so it's a shame we go nuts over supporting this in an astronomically unnecessary dare I say greedy way. To me it's crazy and to God it's not acceptable. I'm with God who tells me lust anger and greed are the 3 gates to hell.
Well said!