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ABC News Nightline The Badlands: North Philadelphia
 
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ABC News Nightline The Badlands: North Philadelphia

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2.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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Product Details

  • Format: NTSC
  • Region: All Regions
  • Studio: ABC News
  • DVD Release Date: May 14, 2007
  • Run Time: 44 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000QRIK18
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #126,554 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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My colleagues and I have seen a lot of what drugs can do to a neighborhood and to the people who live there. We have never seen anything quite as bad as the section of north Philadelphia. Almost everything about this part of town is cheap, sleazy, decaying and sad. It is an overripe cliche, down to the name the residents have given their neighborhood: the Badlands. It is the worst of what happens when the drug trade takes over a house, and then a street, and then a block. It's as invasive as crabgrass, as destructive as cancer." - Ted Koppel

But how does it get started, and what happens to people in the neighborhood who want to keep the disease from spreading to their block? In this Nightline special, people are sometimes breathtakingly candid about what's happening to them and their families. One of the heroin addicts, a man who goes by the street name of 'Tombstone,' suggested that what's missing these days is a sense of shame."

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1.0 out of 5 stars Worst 20 bucks I ever spent, December 19, 2007
By W. Young (Phila, Pa) - See all my reviews
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I cannot believe the whole series was not included on this dvd. It felt like it lasted 30ish mins. . The worst part is they even tell you to stay tuned for the rest of the series which never happen. Awful! What did they run out of DVD tape lol?? Cheap rip artist!
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4.0 out of 5 stars a classic, August 25, 2007
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I remember first seeing this multi-part special in my early twenties and being struck by how deep Koppel and co. went with the story. Reporters, cops, addicts, dealers, and parents were all interviewed right there on the sidewalks in what was certainly as harrowing a neighborhood as you could find in the entire country at the time. No punches were pulled, and the frankness of Koppel's questioning, the candidness of the subjects, and the terrific location shooting of the Percy Street neighborhood's destroyed row houses and factories made for an extremely haunting network news program.
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