ORGANIZED CRIME: A WORLD HISTORY travels the globe to get an insider's view of some of the most active, dangerous and diabolical criminal syndicates in existence. The five episodes in this documentary each focus on a different region, examining the conditions that helped create these groups, talking to law enforcement specialists about how they are being fought, and relating true stories of famous cases.
New York gangster Ben 'Bugsy' Siegel takes a brief business trip to Los Angeles. A sharp-dressing wo...
In a seaside California town, best friends Mac and Nick are on opposite sides of the law. Mac is a f...
Corky, a tough female ex-convict working on an apartment renovation in a Chicago building, meets a c...
John Smith is a mysterious stranger who is drawn into a vicious war between two Prohibition-era gang...
Gino Felino is an NYPD detective from Brooklyn who knows everyone and everything in his neighborhood...
The story of Venezuelan revolutionary, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, who founded a worldwide terrorist orga...
New York City English professor Axel Freed outwardly seems like an upstanding citizen. But privately...
January 6, 1980. President of the Sicily Piersanti Mattarella is going to Mass with his family when ...
Final installment in Juan Orol's Percal trilogy. In this film, Malena is freed from prison by a gang...
A young woman becomes pregnant but when his boyfriend leaves her she gets a job as a prostitute in o...
After the war, Kijima (Bunta Sugawara) returns to Tokyo where he meets Ôba (Noboru Andô), an Ex-Kami...
A tale of two gangsters from the eras of past and present, whose lives enter parallel paths as they ...
It's the 1940s, and the notorious Axe Gang terrorizes Shanghai. Small-time criminals Sing and Bone h...
Tom Ripley, an American who deals in forged art, is slighted at an auction in Hamburg by picture fra...
Japan blossomed into its Renaissance at approximately the same time as Europe. Unlike the West, it f...
Two young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum life...
Phoenix cop Ben Shockley is well on his way to becoming a derelict when he is assigned to transport ...
Set in Prohibition era Chicago, bootlegger Robbo and his cronies refuse to pay the greedy Guy Gisbor...
Corky Romano is a bumbling, simpleton, veterinarian and the youngest, outcast son of an aging gangst...