Mr. Untouchable

This documentary chronicles the rise and fall of 1970s Harlem, New York heroin kingpin Leroy "Nicky" Barnes, a.k.a. Mr. Untouchable. Note the parallels to the story of Frank Lucas and his cocaine empire dramatized in American Gangster.

White powder piled on a table for measuring with playing cards, brief scenes of dealing and cooking heroin in a spoon as well as drawing up the drug in a syringe. (1:01)

Packages of heroin, intravenous injection of the drug. (0:02)

Intravenous injection of heroin. More scenes of measuring large quantities of white powder. (0:10)

Nicky Barnes tells us, "I used to be a drug addict." (0:11)

More scenes of intravenous injection of heroin. (0:12, 0:13, 0:17)

Spoons of white powder. (0:29)

Barnes describes use of phencyclidine and its effects on his sexual experience. (0:39)

Using a razor to make lines of cocaine on a mirror. (0:50)

Crack cocaine: injection and in a pipe for smoking. (1:11)

heroin | phencyclidine