Mr. Untouchable: Videos

A dramatic account of the rise and fall of Nicky Barnes, a young black kid from the streets of Harlem who went on to become the economy of his community as the biggest heroin distributor in the country.

The true-life story of a Harlem's notorious Nicky Barnes, a junkie turned multimillionaire drug-lord, MR. UNTOUCHABLE takes its audience deep inside the heroin industry of the 1970s. The most powerful black drug kingpin in New York City history, Barnes came from humble beginnings to make himself and his comrades rich beyond their wildest dreams, ultimately reaching national infamy in 1977 when the New York Times put him on the front cover of their magazine with the headline "Mr. Untouchable".