The House I Live In

Journalist Eugene Jarecki embarks on a cross-country journey to examine America's decades-long War on Drugs, interviewing inmates, law enforcement officers, judges, and shattered families caught in the system's machinery. His investigation evolves into a sweeping indictment of a social institution that, rather than solving addiction, perpetuates a vicious cycle of violence, mass incarceration, and profound racial disparity. The film meticulously traces the economic and political underpinnings of this war, revealing how the crusade against drugs became a mechanism for controlling entire populations.