Storyville - Season 18 Episode 20 Arms Dealer: The Notorious Mr Bout
Storyville follows Viktor Bout, Russian entrepreneur, arms smuggler and, strangest of all, amateur film-maker. Until three days prior to his 2008 arrest on charges of conspiring to kill Americans, Bout kept his camcorder running. He documented a life spent in the grey areas of the arms industry, crossing the line morally, if not legally, many times over before he was eventually undone by a post-9/11 crackdown. Dubbed by some the Merchant of Death and portrayed by Nicolas Cage in Hollywood's Lord of War, Viktor Bout gained notoriety as the world's most famous arms dealer.
With unprecedented access to Bout's home movies and US surveillance material gathered during the sting operation to bring him down, this film is a portrait of a garrulous, adventurous individual, intent on exploiting the murky loopholes of the arms industry. Interviews with his wife, family and former business partners describe moments both comical and harrowing in a career which ended in a 25-year prison sentence.
First Air Date: Nov 15, 1997
Last Air date: Jun 18, 2024
Season: 28 Season
Episode: 660 Episode
Runtime: 85 minutes
IMDb: 7.57/10 by 7.00 users
Popularity: 27.891
Language: English
Keyword : current affairs
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