A searing indictment of Big Pharma and the political operatives and government regulations that enable over-production, reckless distribution and abuse of synthetic opiates.
Presented in association with the Washington Post, whose reporters are prominently featured, Crime of the Century at times plays like a glossy thriller... As Gibney puts it, the truly awful aspect of the opioid crisis is that it was "manufactured."
As Alex Gibney's shattering two-part, four-hour HBO documentary The Crime of the Century makes devastatingly clear, the opioid crisis is more than a human tragedy that has claimed half a million lives. It's part of what America has become.
