Crack USA: County Under Siege (1989) User Reviews

was on HBO

[jay_kahl · 7/10 · 18 December 2023]

I'm confused because as someone said, this was on HBO, i remember it pretty well.

I used to attend meeting at the Miracle Club in west palm beach when this was filmed. I wasn't there when it was filmed but i have met several of the people they did film. I haven't watched it recently but i do remember they spoke to one young man and his family and I remember that boy from several meetings. I hope he got well. This was a rough place (west palm beach) at the time. I didn't smoke crack but almost everyone i knew did. You met people from every walk of life at the Miracles Club. I made several life long friends there.

Marks my downfall

[chiynita · 10/10 · 28 April 2008]

Seems like I cant find a copy of this documentary anywhere. HBO.com has no clue what I am talking about. Little did I know at 14 seeing this documentary that I would soon be hanging with 3 of those kids that were featured on that documentary. I grew up in West Palm Beach Florida. And a few years later was the girlfriend of the kid who watched a girl have a seizure from doing crack and instead of helping her. He robbed her and left her there. That same kid turned me onto the evil substance when I was 18 years old. I would really like to find a copy of this documentary. It is very important for me to see again where I went wrong in my life. And why I missed the signs of a life about to go tragically in the wrong direction. That video marks the beginning of many years of substance abuse for me. And a few people in the video who played a part in introducing me to it.

HBO does the best Documentaries!

[jdb-4 · 1 December 2001]

This was a great documentary. But people should realize that everything that goes on in any community will eventually leak over into other communities. People would say; "Oh that only goes on in the black or Hispanic community". This is America! We may not all be of the same race, creed or religion but we're all Americans. When Black people scream out the white community HAS to listen! Blacks & Hispanics have been telling whites for years about police abuse, until "Rampart" in Los Angeles no one was listening. If you take care of EVERY community you take care of the country.