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Florida and Cuba were ruled by top don Santo Trafficante. The King of Cuba's casinos was on the verge of mob stardom when a revolution destroys his plans. It results in a secret alliance between the mob and the CIA and a failed assassination attempt.

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Santo Trafficante

Bugsy Siegel, a Jewish gangster with charm and a killer's instinct, plays hard and dreams big. He's got a vision to build a gambling mecca in the Nevada desert; but when he stops playing by the Mafia's rules, Bugsy pays the ultimate price.

Bugsy Siegel

Crazy Joey Gallo: psychopathic killer, beatnik hipster and renegade mobster. Determined to make his way to the top, he wages all-out war against the US government and sparks a revolution in the mafia before going down in a hail of bullets.

Joey Gallo

Reputed to have ordered the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre, mobster Al Capone gains fame during the Prohibition era; his notoriety leads to Capone's downfall after federal authorities become intent on jailing him and prosecute him for tax evasion.

Al Capone

In the lawless days of Prohibition America, one gangster, Dutch Schultz, stands out as the black sheep; when Dutch threatens to kill a state prosecutor, the mob can't risk the fallout, so they send Dutch a special message: a body full of lead.

Dutch Schultz

In the 1980's and 90's the mafia controls the New York criminal underworld; by the early 200's evidence surfaces that the mob has gone much further and has people inside the NYPD.

Mob Cops

Known as the "Last Don," Joe Massino crushes anyone who goes against the mafia code of "omertà," but when the FBI takes him down, Massino turns state's evidence and takes everyone down with him.

Joe Massino

Under the disguise of mental illness Vincent Gigante evaded the authorities and rose to become the most powerful mobster in New York. When FBI realised their mistake they would stop at nothing to take him down. But would he escape one last time?

Vincent Gigante

Murder, Inc. head Albert Anastasia oversees the American Mafia's most violent period in history, but eventually would outlive his usefulness.

Albert Anastasia

Arnold "the Brain" Rothstein schooled the founders of the American Mafia in the ways of organized crime in the 1920s; infamous for fixing the 1919 Baseball World Series, he was the criminal genius behind a bootleg empire.

Arnold the Brain Rothstein

Uncover the extraordinary truth behind some of the Mafia's most notorious killers.

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