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.
Clarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood, wh...
They're the real 'goodfellas': 'Joe Dogs' Iannuzzi, Tommy DelGiorno, 'Big Dom' Lofaro. For the first...
Five different criminals face imminent death after botching a job quite badly.
In early-1970s Las Vegas, Sam "Ace" Rothstein gets tapped by his bosses to head the Tangiers Casino....
RHINO MAN follows the courageous field rangers who risk their lives every day to protect South Afric...
Four sons of well-known New York mobsters must retrieve a bag of cash from a small Montana town rule...
Chili Palmer is a Miami mobster who gets sent by his boss, the psychopathic "Bones" Barboni, to coll...
Officer Chan Ka Kui manages to put a major Hong Kong drug dealer behind the bars practically alone, ...
An African-American Mafia hit man who models himself after the samurai of ancient Japan finds himsel...
Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as th...
Batman must face his most ruthless nemesis when a deformed madman calling himself "The Joker" seizes...
Set in 1929, a political boss and his advisor have a parting of the ways when they both fall for the...
After Chief Superintendent James Hooper was able to arrest the legendary Gentlemen mail robbery gang...
Senator Walter Chalmers is aiming to take down mob boss Pete Ross with the help of testimony from th...
In order to foil a terrorist plot, an FBI agent undergoes facial transplant surgery and assumes the ...
The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourho...
Charlie is a former classical pianist who has changed his name and now plays jazz in a grimy Paris b...
Kong, a deaf-mute, lives a life of quiet desperation working for Bangkok mobsters. Despite his disab...