Pirates, Drugs & Oil: Inside the Modern Mercenary Industry
This documentary investigates the booming global business of private security and modern mercenaries, an industry worth well over a hundred billion dollars a year. It follows the trail through piracy, drugs and oil to reveal how armed contractors now operate in conflict zones once reserved for national armies. The film weighs the money, the power and the accountability gaps that come with privatised force. Eye-opening and well-reported, it exposes a shadow world hidden in plain sight. Free to watch in HD on Dr Documentary.
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