A Guerra das Drogas

Ten years after appearing in this mini-series, Steven Bauer, Benicio Del Toro, Miguel Ferrer, Eddie Velez, and Tomas Milian reunited in the similar themed movie Traffic - Ninguém Sai Limpo (2000).

The show originally aired as three episodes, running a total of 257 minutes sans commercial. For its VHS release, it was edited down to a single 130-minute feature. Thie edit was not endorsed by executive producer Michael Mann, and is notoriously bad, omitting whole characters and connective events, and leaving a threadbare story void of any narrative substance. In 2003, when Lions Gate released the show on DVD in North America, the 130-minute version was used, and it is now the most widely available version. The original 257-minute version divided up into its original three episodes, however, is available on DVD (albeit hard to find); it was released in Scandanavia by a now-defunct Finnish company called Atlantic Film.

Featured in The 42nd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1990)