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Rakontur

Miami Beach, Florida(approximate location)

Rakontur is a Miami-based documentary production company founded by Billy Corben and Alfred Spellman, known for films about crime, corruption, power, politics, sports, and culture.

From their site

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Who works there

  • Tom Quinn· Founder/CEO, NEON The energy that they hav
  • Eamonn Bowles· Co-Founder, Magnolia Pictures Press Partne

Listed on the company’s own site. People move on; this is not a current roster.

Contact & details

TypeProduction Company · Film · Documentary
Founded2000Wikidata
LocationMiami Beach, Florida
Websiterakontur.com
Emailinfo@rakontur.com
Social
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Phone+1 786 539 4180
Statusactive2025 credit i
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How their work is rated

Average rating
7.3IMDb
4.0directory 6.28.0

11 rated titles, weighted by votes

Awards

3 wins from 7 nominations across all awards

Box office
$210,391

Combined US gross, 2 of 20 titles

From Russia with Lev poster
Highest rated
From Russia with Lev
2024
8.2734 votes
Dawg Fight poster
Lowest rated
Dawg Fight
2015
6.31,764 votes
Mostly
documentary, crime, history
Active
2001–2025
Rotten Tomatoes
80%
Best known for
Cocaine Cowboys

Ratings and awards from OMDb, matched by title and year across 16 of 20 titles. Unmatched titles are left out rather than guessed. Oscars, Emmys and BAFTAs are itemised; other awards sit in the totals. IMDb counts wins separately from losing nominations, so nominations here is wins plus losses.

Their television work

Series
22 seasons

2014–2021

Networks
  • Netflix1
  • VH11

Across 2 series matched to TMDB, 10 episodes.

Series identified from OMDb, falling back to the credit type where OMDb had no match. Season counts are each show’s full run, not only the seasons this company was credited on.

Credits20

18 films · 2 TV titles

Titles per year20 titles · busiest 2014 with 3

20 titles across 25 years, averaging 0.8 a year. The last five years hold at 0.8 a year. 10 of those 25 years carry no credit on file.

Quality over time11 rated titles · bigger dots carry more votes
579their average 7.3200020102020

Their 2000s work is their strongest, averaging 7.5 across 3 titles. The 4 titles since 2015 average 7.0, 0.3 below their 7.4 overall. 4 of 11 rated titles sit above their 7.4 average, which is weighted by votes: the most seen titles pull it up.

Who they work with

Directors
  • Billy Corben14
Notable cast
  • Nelson Andreu2
Genres
  • Documentary16 of 16
  • Crime5 of 16
  • History4 of 16

Names appearing on two or more of Rakontur’s produced titles, across the 16 matched to OMDb. Cast is the top-billed few OMDb lists per title, so it is notable cast rather than a full cast list. A title can carry more than one genre, so the genre counts overlap.

Works with5 companies

Companies that appear alongside Rakontur on the same productions. The number is how many titles they share.

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