The true story of dope dealer Frank Lucas and how crime and ghetto culture entered popular culture

Pusherman is the real-life story of Frank Lucas, the Harlem dope-dealer who smuggled pure heroin from Southeast Asia's 'Golden Triangle' into the U.S. inside the coffins of dead GI's flown back from Vietnam. Narrated by Mark Jacobson, who wrote the original story for New York magazine, that the hit movie, 'American Gangster,' was based on, and produced by Legs McNeil, award-winning best-selling author and film documentarian, with extra commentary by Daily News and New York Magazine crime writer, Michael Daly. Pusherman will reveal the spectacular story of heroin and Vietnam and the cultural phenomena known as Blaxploitation films in the 1970's. The ending reveals the epidemic of police corruption in New York City during the 1970's-- all the subjects and stories the $255 million grossing film, 'American Gangster' left out.

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Cast & Crew

Actors:

•       FRANK LUCAS
•       NICKY BARNES
•       MARK JACOBSON
•       FAB 5 FREDDY

Director: LEGS MCNEIL

Producer: Legs McNeil

Additional Details

Label: MVD Visual

Genre: Documentary

Language: English

Run Time: 87 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 06/24/25

UPC: 760137156970