Life of Crime in order

A series of documentaries featuring an unfiltered look at three friends from Newark and their experiences with drug addiction, prison and rehab over nearly 40 years. 3 films, 4h 55m in all, in release order.

1. 1
   

   One Year in a Life of Crime

   1989 · 55 min

   Their job is stealing, their lives a cruel dead end. Director Jon Alpert takes his cameras undercover for this hard-hitting look at men who live by theft and suffer addiction. Focusing on a year in the lives of three professional criminals, this gritty profile—which includes hidden-camera footage of actual thefts—exposes the "petty" crimes that are paralyzing America.

   New
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   Life of Crime 2

   1998 · 119 min

   This follow-up to the 1989 documentary ONE YEAR IN A LIFE OF CRIME revisits three of the original subjects in New Jersey during a five-year period in the 1990s. We share in their triumphs and setbacks as they navigate lives of poverty, drug abuse, AIDS, and petty crime.

   New
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   Life of Crime: 1984-2020

   2021 · 121 min

   An intimate documentary that looks at the vicious cycles of drug addiction and street crime in one of the roughest parts of New Jersey.

   New