Mafia

THE SOPRANOS WAS FICTION - THIS IS ALL TOO REAL.
Discover 1950s home movie footage that reveals mob family life. Encounter interviews with surviving gangsters and join them in visiting locations that still bring a shudder of fear. Witness interviews with the FBI agents who risked their lives to break the mob, examine rare surveillance footage, hear taped conversations that took the Dons down, and more. This is a history of the Mafia that has remained shrouded by its code of honour until now.

Trevor McDonald meets the women who have lived the highs and suffered the lows of a life spent inside the Mob Family.

Discover Dixie and all its distinct and colorful history! Home to the finest whisky and bourbon, the American South is known for many things, including its charming drawl and glorious mountain ranges. However, there is another side to Southern history steeped in mystique, communal survival, ingenuity, brilliant entrepreneurship and distrust of the government. In this three-part documentary series you will hear the true stories of the crime, corruption and hard liquor production that influenced the customs and culture of the Deep South.

Albert Anastasia would oversee the American Mafia's most violent period in history. As Luciano's go-to killer, Albert and his hitmen committed murder wholesale. He was unpredictable, a psychopath who would outlive his usefulness.

Bafta-winning presenter and journalist Sir Trevor McDonald takes an immersive journey into this secret organisation, gaining intimate access to people who have experienced first-hand the money, glamour and violence of America's most famous organised crime network. We delve into the lives of real life Mafiosi, most of whom have never appeared on television before. From ‘made’ men who have risen to the heights of power, to hitmen who’ve killed multiple times, Sir Trevor reveals a new and unique story of a world that has been often glamorised in film and on television.

Joe Massino, the 'Last Don', crushes anyone who goes against the mafia code of omerta. Loyalty to his family, and obedience to their code of silence, is everything. But when the Feds take Massino down, Massino takes everyone down with him.

Under the disguise of mental illness, Vincent Gigante evaded the authorities and rose to become a powerful mobster in New York.

Explores the relationship between the singer and the president, and how both men's ride to success involved connections with the world of organised crime. When the two icons crossed paths, they immediately enjoyed each other's company. Sinatra became integral to the Kennedy presidential campaign - but his Mafia connections soon made Sinatra a political liability, requiring Kennedy to push him aside.

Wherever there is a Chinese community, including almost every city in the Western world, groups of Secret Societies known as Triads control the hard drug trade through bribery, extortion, and murder.
A major portion of the world's raw opium is grown in the Golden Triangle, the mountainous country on the borders of Laos, Burma, North Vietnam, and Thailand. After processing, the distribution of this heroin is under the control of Triad leaders in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Malaysia, who distribute it worldwide through their couriers. Western police officials did not realize either the extent of the heroin traffic or its organization until well into the 1970's.

Arnold Rothstein schooled the founders of the American Mafia in the ways of organized crime in the 1920s & set the model for running crime business. Infamous for fixing the 1919 Baseball World Series, he was the criminal genius behind a bootleg empire.