*Netflix announced in a Tweet on Tuesday that Will Smith will play crime boss Nicky Barnes in an upcoming film that the actor will also produce. “Will Smith is set to produce and star as Nicky Barnes ...

Crime has come to the movies in a big way. Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe star in American Gangster, a film about the career of Harlem drug lord Frank Lucas. And the documentary Mr. Untouchable ...

Marc Levin brought a high level of personal curiosity and commitment to his previous documentary, The Protocols of Zion (2005), but those qualities are nowhere to be found in this standard true-crime ...

Suddenly it's raining African American drug lords. Marc Levin's documentary "Mr. Untouchable" beats Ridley Scott's "American Gangster" into the theaters by only a few weeks and probably means to ...

The Other American Gangster Tells It Like It Was, for RealMark Levin’s fascinating film is practically a how-to business disc, in which Nicky Barnes philosophizes at length on the art and science of ...

He posed as a mobster dealing drugs and laundering cash to help topple Nicky Barnes, who as “Mr. Untouchable” ran a formidable Harlem heroin ring. By Sam Roberts Sam Roberts interviewed Nicky Barnes ...