Raw Opium
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Sociopolitical Documentary hosted by John Ralston, published by Kensington in 2011 - English narration
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Raw Opium is a feature length documentary (and two-part series) about a commodity that has tremendous power - both to ease pain and to destroy lives. The opium poppy is the raw material for heroin, fueling a vast criminal trade larger than the economies of many countries.
Raw Opium is a journey around the world and through time, where conflicting forces do battle over the narcotic sap of the opium poppy. From an opium master in southeast Asia to a UN drug enforcement officer on the border of Afghanistan hunting down the smugglers of central Asia; from a former Indian government Drug Czar and opium farmer to a crusading Vancouver doctor and Portuguese street worker who daily confront the realities of drug addiction.
We see how this flower has played, and continues to play, a pivotal role - not just in the lives of people who grow, manufacture and use it - but also in the increasingly tense sphere of international relations. In the process, our assumptions about addiction and the War on Drugs are challenged.
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- Avg. Duration: 47mn
- Avg. Filesize: 680 MiB
- Format: Matroska
- Video Codec: x264 core 106 r1732 b20059a
- Video Bitrate: 1800 kbps
- Video Resolution: 1024 x 576
- Video Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Frames Per Second: 25.000
- Bits-(Pixel*Frame) 0.122
- Audio Codec: AC3
- Audio Bitrate: 192 kb/s 48KHz
- Audio Channels: 2
- Audio language: English
- Subs: English
- Source: DVB-T
- Capture: DVBViewer
- Demuxer: ProjectX
- Encoder: Avidemux 2.5.3
- SubMux: MKVMerge
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