Dive deep into the truth behind American mafia glamour with these documentaries - a real, gritty look at organized crime and its impact. Learn about the rise and fall of notorious figures from the ...

Instead, The Godfather showed us a world where criminals were businesspeople organized, in New York, into the Five Families.

Discover the real-life mafia figures behind Goodfellas—from Henry Hill to Jimmy Burke and Tommy DeSimone, and their ...

and Max documentary, Sammy has further opened up ... "That's the hub of the Mafia [New York]," he said. "It was right in the hub, right in the middle of it. Arizona, the people were more ...

"It's quite unheard of in New York," Oxford University professor of criminology Federico Varese tells the BBC. "It's a very significant event and shows that the Italian-American Mafia is still ...

(The Mafia) truly formed in the 1930s but became unraveled in the 1990s for a range of reasons, including the decision by Rudy Giuliani (then U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York ...

Businesses that remained open were frequently raided by the police. Already a strong presence in New York, members of the Mafia saw a business opportunity in catering to the otherwise shunned gay ...