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.
Set in the Bronx during the tumultuous 1960s, an adolescent boy is torn between his honest, working-...
An American master chemist plans to score big on a once in a lifetime drug deal. All does not go as ...
Rosario Inzulìa, a young man involved with the Mafia, was sentenced to labor camp, forced to pay als...
Vincenzo is hired by mobster Salvatore and moves to Turin with his sister Annunziata. After witnessi...
A revolution in Iran halts a heroin shipment, but an alliance of crime families is set on getting it...
The magistrate, Scauri, inquires into the mysterious poisoning death of Gaspare Pisciotta, the impri...
Mario Gastaldi, a lawyer with no clients and no money, agrees to be a negotiator in a deal on stolen...
Two mafia bosses, Don Antonio Marchesi and Don Peppino Scalise, battle over building contracts in Pa...
In Genoa, the Commissioner Sironi has identified the leader of the ferocious racket that controls th...
Someone's bumping off the Mafia bosses of Salerno and it's down to the newly elected leader to figur...
A Neapolitan camorra boss has retired from business but when his wife gets killed he gets back into ...
To take down South Boston's Irish Mafia, the police send in one of their own to infiltrate the under...
Charlie is a former classical pianist who has changed his name and now plays jazz in a grimy Paris b...
Chili Palmer is a Miami mobster who gets sent to L.A. to collect a bad debt from Harry Zimm, a Holly...
The comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes advances t...
The avenging angel of Marvel Comics fame comes brilliantly to life in this searing action-adventure ...
Officer Chan Ka Kui manages to put a major Hong Kong drug dealer behind the bars practically alone, ...
In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the fo...
Mark Kaminsky is kicked out of the FBI for his rough treatment of a suspect. He winds up as the sher...
With friends like these, who needs enemies? That's the question bad guy Porter is left asking after ...