Breaking the Taboo
7.1/ 10(32 votes)
1h 20m
June 3, 2011
PT
Narrated by Morgan Freeman, this groundbreaking new documentary uncovers the UN sanctioned war on drugs, charting its origins and its devastating impact on countries like the USA, Colombia and Russia. Featuring prominent statesmen including Presidents Clinton and Carter, the film follows The Global Commission on Drug Policy on a mission to break the political taboo and expose the biggest failure of global policy in the last 50 years
Directed byFernando Grostein Andrade
Cast (39)
Richard Nixon
Self (archive footage)
Ronald Reagan
Self (archive footage)
Fernando Henrique Cardoso
Self
Vitor Onofre
Self
Allan Turnowski
Self
Carlos Oliveira
Self
Dráuzio Varella
Self
Bill Clinton
Self
Ethan Nadelmann
Self
Jimmy Carter
Self
Ernesto Zedillo
Self
Carlos Fuentes
Self
Gael García Bernal
Self
Moisés Naím
Self
Pablo Escobar
Self (archive footage)
César Gaviria
Self
Andre Elissen
Self
Anthony Papa
Self
Neil Franklin
Self
George H. W. Bush
Self (archive footage)
Paulo Coelho
Self
Jim Kolbe
Self
Morgan Freeman
Narrator (voice)
Paul Wilhelm
Self
William Kramer
Self
Bob Keizer
Self
Freerk Bruinin
Self
Kathrin Honer
Self
Cedric Charvet
Self
Ruth Dreifuss
Self
Jean Claude Etienne
Self
Gro Brundtland
Self
Gregory Lannes
Self
Howard Josepher
Self
João Goulão
Self
Miguel Vasconcelos
Self
Manoel Pizarro
Self
Washington Rimas
Self
José Junior
Self
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