A filmmaker travelled the world tracking down allies and enemies of Pablo Escobar - the most notorious drug baron who ever lived.
David Whitney, from Horwich, came face-to-face with men associated with Columbia's cartels while making 'Killing Escobar'. The documentary merges archive footage with dramatic reconstructions, and tense interviews with key players from a bloody period in criminal history.
The film tells the astonishing story of how a group of British mercenaries were hired to take out Escobar at his Columbian hacienda retreat in the hills.
The 1989 expedition was led by ex-SAS operative Peter McAleese, who, along with a team of ex-special forces commandos, had been hired by a Colombian drug cartel to assassinate Escobar. 'Killing
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