In the Mexican state of Michoacán, Dr. Jose Mireles, a small-town physician known as "El Doctor," shepherds a citizen uprising against the Knights Templar, the violent 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 halt Mexico’s drug wars from seeping across our border.
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- classical in formformally daring
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Cast
- Robert HetrickHimself
- José Manuel Mireles ValverdeHimself
- Tim Nailer FoleySelf (as Tim 'Nailer' Foley)
- Paco ValencianoSelf - Autodefensas Comandante
- ChanequeSelf - drug cartel thug
- CaballoSelf - drug cartel thug
- Enrique Peña NietoSelf
- Ana ValenciaSelf - Manuel Mireles' wife
- Estanislao BeltráninSelf - spokesman, Autodefensas
- Janet FieldsSelf - Tim Foley's girlfriend
Crew
- Matthew HeinemanDirector
- Matthew HeinemanDirector of Photography
- Matt PorwollDirector of Photography
- H. Scott SalinasOriginal Music Composer
- Jackson GreenbergOriginal Music Composer
- Matthew HeinemanEditor
- Pax WassermannEditor
- Bradley J. RossEditor
- Matthew HeinemanProducer
- Tom YellinProducer
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