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.
Filmed in England but set in New York, No Orchids For Miss Blandish tells of a sheltered heiress who...
When Joe Valachi has a price put on his head by Don Vito Genovese, he must take desperate steps to p...
The fast career of a young Neapolitan among contraband, gambling dens, bribes and illegality. He wil...
Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with forclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law,...
Keong comes from Hong Kong to visit New York for his uncle's wedding. His uncle runs a market in the...
Terrence McDonagh is a New Orleans Police sergeant, who recieves a medal and a promotion to lieutena...
After discovering that his two money launderers, Cleveland and Carlos, had been stealing portions of...
George Kuffs didn't finish high-school, just lost his job, and his college-age girlfriend is pregnan...
Chronicles the rise and fall of the organised crime syndicate known as Murder, Incorporated, focusin...
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...
The seemingly random killings of an assassin puzzle her former lover, a wealthy Greek crime boss who...
A hit man whose mission is to prevent the printing of a tell-all book written by a former Mafioso, f...
As election time nears, current Triad chairman Lok faces competition from his godsons. At the same t...
Two untalented singers are mistaken for a pair of major league safe crackers in Providence, Rhode Is...
A Yakuza hitman travels to North America for his 27th job, only to find lingering memories of lost l...
Presumed dead, master con artist and recovering amnesiac Dorothy is discovered by Shanghai Longu-ban...