June 12, 2025

Pusherman Documentary: Winner of Film Festival Awards!

Alex Rosas with journalist, Mark Jacobson (whose New York Magazine article inspired the hit movie: 'American Gangster', starring Denzel Washington).

The film “Pusherman” won the Best Feature Documentary award at the New York Movie Awards. It also won the same award at the London Movie Awards. The documentary, directed by Legs McNeil, explores the life of Frank Lucas, a notorious drug lord. Premiers on Tubi, June 24.

🏆 Best Documentary – New York Movie Awards

🏆 Best Documentary – London Movie Awards

🎬 Official Selection – Florence Film Awards

Watch The Official Trailer:

Review From @ReelBlack:

PUSHERMAN is the real-life story on Harlem kingpin Frank Lucas — the infamous Harlem drug lord who built an empire by smuggling pure heroin from Southeast Asia’s “Golden Triangle” into the U.S. inside the coffins of dead GI’s flown back from Vietnam. Mark Jacobson wrote the original story for New York Magazine on which the hit movie “American Gangster” was based. The film is produced by Legs McNeil, award-winning best-selling author and film documentarian, with extra commentary by Daily News and New York Magazine crime writer, Michael Daly.

Pusherman will reveal the spectacular story of heroin and Vietnam and the cultural phenomena known as Blaxploitation films in the 1970’s. The ending reveals the epidemic of police corruption in New York City during the 1970’s– all the subjects and stories the $255 million grossing film, “American Gangster” left out. Read More

Alex Rosas with Legs McNeil (Director of Pusherman & Co-Author of Please Kill Me).