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.
Four sons of well-known New York mobsters must retrieve a bag of cash from a small Montana town rule...
Takeoff on the Godfather with the son of a mafia king taking over for his dying father.
Upon learning that he has to come out of retirement to steal 50 cars in one night to save his brothe...
When an experienced thief accidentally makes off with a Van Gogh, his partner is kidnapped by gangst...
Mason Storm, a 'go it alone' cop, is gunned down at home. The intruders kill his wife, and think the...
Jean Claude Van Damme plays a dual role as Alex and Chad, twins separated at the death of their pare...
It's the 1940s, and the notorious Axe Gang terrorizes Shanghai. Small-time criminals Sing and Bone h...
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...
An FBI undercover agent infiltrates the mob and identifies more with the mafia life at the expense o...
A man confesses his sins and unveils the ugly truth of his life; he is killing for the same mobster ...
When undercover FBI agent Frank Castle's wife and son are slaughtered, he becomes 'the Punisher' -- ...
Officer Chan Ka Kui manages to put a major Hong Kong drug dealer behind the bars practically alone, ...
Bernhard Oestreich, called Bernd, son of one of the leaders of the Golzow LPG, did not stay in the c...
When a woman's father goes missing, she enlists a local to aid in her search. The pair soon discove...
After a mobster agrees to cooperate with an FBI investigation in order to stay out of prison, he's r...
Charlie is a former classical pianist who has changed his name and now plays jazz in a grimy Paris b...
A group of Boston-bred gangsters set up shop in balmy Florida during the Prohibition era, facing off...
The comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes advances t...