Cartel Land
Plots(1)
In the Mexican state of Michoacán, Dr. Jose Mireles, a small-town physician known as “El Doctor,” leads the Autodefensas, a citizen uprising against the violent Knights Templar drug cartel that has wreaked havoc on the region for years. Meanwhile, in Arizona’s Altar Valley – a narrow, 52-mile-long desert corridor known as Cocaine Alley – Tim “Nailer” Foley, an American veteran, heads a small paramilitary group called Arizona Border Recon, whose goal is to stop Mexico’s drug wars from seeping across the US border. (Madman Entertainment)
(more)Awards
- Winner
- Nominations
Academy Awards
- 2016 - Matthew Heineman (Best Documentary Feature)
British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA)
- 2016 - Best Documentary Film
Critics Choice Awards
- 2016 - Best Documentary Feature
Florida Film Critics Circle Awards
- 2015 - Best Documentary
Sundance Film Festival
- 2015 - Matthew Heineman (Directing Award: U.S. Documentary)
- 2015 - Matthew Heineman, Matt Porwoll (U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Cinematography)
- 2015 - Matthew Heineman (U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary)