Desc: American Dope: Cold War Heroin Heat: Directed by Alan Bradley. With Alan Bradley, Michael Levine, Tim Scully. "Cold War, Heroin Heat" tells a tale of corruption stretching from 1920's Shanghai through the Vietnam War and onto the streets of New York circa 1970. In the quest to fight Communism, even before the Cold War began, the U.S. Government allowed Asian and European criminal syndicates to ravage the American population with Heroin in exchange for supporting Capitalism- no matter what the cost.