Drag Kings: The Need for Speed

60 minutes • Documentary • Produced in association with: A&E • Production year: 2000

DRAG KINGS: THE NEED FOR SPEED is a one-hour documentary that brings viewers inside the shadowy subculture of illegal street racing—an ever-growing phenomenon. Employing gritty, cinema-verite style imagery, DRAG KINGS tracks the after-hours racing scene: garages dedicated to creating the ultimate power-enhanced vehicle; all-night hang-outs where challenges are made and bets are laid; blocked off highways overtaken by racers and their convoys; back-alley territorial scuffles between dragger; and crash sites, where the dangers of the addiction to speed are witnessed.

DRAG KINGS will take you on a thrilling ride. You can bet your life on it.

Written by: Robin Bicknell & Elliott Halpern
Directed by: Robin Bicknell
Producers: Simcha Jacobovici and Elliott Halpern
Executive Producer: Jack Rabinovitch