As America remains embroiled in conflict overseas, a less visible war is taking place at home, costing countless lives, destroying families, and inflicting untold damage on future generations of Americans. Over forty years, the War on Drugs has accounted for more than 45 million arrests, made America the world's largest jailer, and damaged poor communities at home and abroad. Yet for all that, drugs are cheaper, purer, and more available today than ever before. Filmed in more than twenty states, THE HOUSE I LIVE IN captures heart-wrenching stories from individuals at all levels of America's War on Drugs. From the dealer to the grieving mother, the narcotics officer to the senator, the inmate to the federal judge, the film offers a penetrating look inside America's longest war, offering a definitive portrait and revealing its profound human rights implications.
While recognizing the seriousness of drug abuse as a matter of public health, the film investigates the tragic errors and shortcomings that have meant it is more often treated as a matter for law enforcement, creating a vast machine that feeds largely on America's poor, and especially on minority communities. Beyond simple misguided policy, THE HOUSE I LIVE IN examines how political and economic corruption have fueled the war for forty years, despite persistent evidence of its moral, economic, and practical failures.
The War on Drugs has never been about drugs.
Over the past 40 years, the War on Drugs has cost more than $1 trillion and accounted for over 45 million arrests.
The U.S. holds 25% of the world's prisoners, yet accounts for only 5% of the world's population.
Black individuals comprise 13% of the U.S. population and 14% of drug users, yet they are 37% of the people arrested for drug offenses and 56% of those incarcerated for drug crimes.
CHARLOTTE STREET FILMS presents
an EDGEWOOD WAY production
a BBC/ITVS/ZDF co-production
"THE HOUSE I LIVE IN"
directors of photography SAM CULLMAN, DEREK HALLQUIST
editor PAUL FROST
music ROBERT MILLER
executive producers DAVID ALCARO, JOSLYN BARNES, SALLY JO FIFER, NICK FRASER, DANNY GLOVER, JOHN LEGEND, BRAD PITT, RUSSELL SIMMONS
producers EUGENE JARECKI, MELINDA SHOPSIN
written & directed by EUGENE JARECKI
Distributed By: Abramorama
Running Time: 108 minutes
Rating: Not Rated
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