Cocaine Cowboys is a documentary film directed by Billy Corben and produced by Alfred Spellman and Billy Corben through their Miami-based production company rakontur. Jan Hammer composed and performed the film's original score. The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in April 2006, and distribution rights to the film in English speaking territories were licensed to Magnolia Pictures. The film opened in U.S. theaters with a limited release on October 27, 2006.
In the 1980s, ruthless Colombian cocaine barons invaded Miami with a
brand of violence unseen in this country since Prohibition-era Chicago
- and it put the city on the map. "Cocaine Cowboys" is the true story
of how Miami became the drug, murder and cash capital of the United
States, told by the people who made it all happen.