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A sprawling look at life on the front lines of the war against drug cartels in Mexico, this gripping film by Matthew Heineman explores the dangerous and messy moral dilemmas that arise when vigilante groups on both sides of the border take action.

The filmmaker discusses his harrowing, unsettling documentary about two rebel groups on both sides of the border trying to bring down a Mexican drug cartel.

Steklenski needs rescue groups on both sides of the border to help coordinate the airlift.

Not exact matches

Simultaneously, the Syrian army and the Lebanese Hezbollah group have revealed a similar campaign to rid IS from the Qalamoun mountains on the Syrian side of the border.

Unflinching and compelling, this gutsy documentary blames governmental failure for the rise of vigilante groups who are taking on drug cartels either side of the Mexican border.

On the U.S. side of the border, in Arizona's Altar Valley, Tim «Nailer» Foley — a wizened desert rat with piercing blue eyes — heads up the Arizona Border Recon, a militia group bent on keeping Mexico's drug wars south of the Rio GrandOn the U.S. side of the border, in Arizona's Altar Valley, Tim «Nailer» Foley — a wizened desert rat with piercing blue eyes — heads up the Arizona Border Recon, a militia group bent on keeping Mexico's drug wars south of the Rio Gborder, in Arizona's Altar Valley, Tim «Nailer» Foley — a wizened desert rat with piercing blue eyes — heads up the Arizona Border Recon, a militia group bent on keeping Mexico's drug wars south of the Rio GBorder Recon, a militia group bent on keeping Mexico's drug wars south of the Rio Grandon keeping Mexico's drug wars south of the Rio Grande.

Intrepid filmmaker Matthew Heineman embedded himself with two vigilante groups on either side of the US - Mexico border.

In «Cartel land» we meet another armed vigilante group fighting on this side of the border.

Heineman ultimately settles on a pair of divisive figures from both sides of the border: On the one hand, Dr. José Manuel Mireles, the galvanizing leader of the Michoacán - based militant group Autodefensas, provides a welcome alternative to the weak efforts of the state's police to combat cartel - related violence; on the other, by virtue of taking the law into his own hands, his gun - wielding army sets a dangerous precedenon a pair of divisive figures from both sides of the border: On the one hand, Dr. José Manuel Mireles, the galvanizing leader of the Michoacán - based militant group Autodefensas, provides a welcome alternative to the weak efforts of the state's police to combat cartel - related violence; on the other, by virtue of taking the law into his own hands, his gun - wielding army sets a dangerous precedenOn the one hand, Dr. José Manuel Mireles, the galvanizing leader of the Michoacán - based militant group Autodefensas, provides a welcome alternative to the weak efforts of the state's police to combat cartel - related violence; on the other, by virtue of taking the law into his own hands, his gun - wielding army sets a dangerous precedenon the other, by virtue of taking the law into his own hands, his gun - wielding army sets a dangerous precedent.

The movie is actually about two very different groups, on opposite sides of the Mexican - American border, who are fighting the cartels, and Heineman cuts back and forth between them in a way that creates an entirely false equivalence.

Filmmaker Matthew Heineman embedded himself with groups on both the U.S. and Mexican sides of the border, a dangerous endeavor that creates an immediacy and effectively conveys the protagonists» sense of desperation.

The deeply upsetting documentary chronicles the efforts of two vigilante groups bent on upending the Mexican drug cartels from both sides of the border.

Subsequently, Heineman's father sent his son an article about the Autodefensas in Mexico — a vigilante group combating the cartel violence — which broke the story open for the director, giving him his «parallel portrait of vigilantism on both sides of the border.»

Heineman's film focuses primarily on the high - risk activities of two men on either side of the U.S. - Mexico border: American Tim «Nailer» Foley of the paramilitary group Arizona Border Recon, whose members work to disrupt the activities of the Mexican drug scouts and couriers who ply their trade along the border; and José Mireles, a Michoacán physician who, at the time of filming, was the leader of an equally well - armed Mexican vigilante group called the Autodefensas, whose mission was to uproot the drug cartels that his country's own law enforcement officers seem unable or unwilling to coborder: American Tim «Nailer» Foley of the paramilitary group Arizona Border Recon, whose members work to disrupt the activities of the Mexican drug scouts and couriers who ply their trade along the border; and José Mireles, a Michoacán physician who, at the time of filming, was the leader of an equally well - armed Mexican vigilante group called the Autodefensas, whose mission was to uproot the drug cartels that his country's own law enforcement officers seem unable or unwilling to coBorder Recon, whose members work to disrupt the activities of the Mexican drug scouts and couriers who ply their trade along the border; and José Mireles, a Michoacán physician who, at the time of filming, was the leader of an equally well - armed Mexican vigilante group called the Autodefensas, whose mission was to uproot the drug cartels that his country's own law enforcement officers seem unable or unwilling to coborder; and José Mireles, a Michoacán physician who, at the time of filming, was the leader of an equally well - armed Mexican vigilante group called the Autodefensas, whose mission was to uproot the drug cartels that his country's own law enforcement officers seem unable or unwilling to control.