• Additional Details
• Number of Discs: 4
• Run Time: 10 Hours 50 Minutes + extras

THE MAFIA provides over ten hours of thrilling and revealing documentaries.

BONUS FEATURE: “Mob Hitmen” episode of American Justice

• DISC ONE: The Prohibition Years / Birth Of The American Mafia / The Kennedys and the Mob
• DISC TWO: Unions And The Mob / Empire Of Crime / Bonus Mob Hitmen
• DISC THREE: Lucky Luciano: Chairman of the Mob / Meyer Lansky: Mob Tycoon / Genovese: Portrait of a Crime Family / Bugsy Siegel
• DISC FOUR: Al Capone & The Machine Gun Massacre / America and the Mob: Wartime Friends / The Gambinos: First Family of Crime

(Disclaimer: The programs on discs 1 and 2 (not including the bonus feature) were originally broadcast as part of the series titled American Justice®: Target Mafia.)

MAFIA: THE HISTORY OF THE MOB IN AMERICA - VOLUME ONE

Starting with the prohibition years, this groundbreaking investigation traces the origins of the ethnic gangs that capitalized on criminal activities by turning them into family enterprises. With men like Al Capone, Lucky Luciano, and Lepke Buchalter at its heart, and bootlegging, racketeering, and murder at its soul, this four-part series is a sweeping saga of bloodshed, betrayal, and big business.

• THE PROHIBITION YEARS / BIRTH OF THE AMERICAN MAFIA: Prohibition spells 100 proof profit for local gangs…Until the “families” arrive from Sicily.


• THE KENNEDYS AND THE MOB: The Kennedys’ murky past returns to haunt them.

MAFIA: THE HISTORY OF THE MOB IN AMERICA - VOLUME TWO

Starting with the prohibition years, this groundbreaking investigation traces the origins of the ethnic gangs that capitalized on criminal activities by turning them into family enterprises. With men like Al Capone, Lucky Luciano, and Lepke Buchalter at its heart, and bootlegging, racketeering, and murder at its soul, this four-part series is a sweeping saga of bloodshed, betrayal, and big business.

• UNIONS AND THE MOB: The Mafia takes on the Communists for control of the unions.


• EMPIRE OF CRIME: The Mob steps on a gold mine in World War II.


• BONUS FEATURES: Documentary “American Justice: Mob Hitmen”.


• LUCKY LUCIANO: CHAIRMAN OF THE MOB: He ran the Mob like a corporation--diversifying rackets, organizing gangs and running his own political candidates--and his top-secret war efforts earned him parole from a 50-year sentence.


• MEYER LANSKY: MOB TYCOON: From the pogroms of Eastern Europe to the heyday of the Vegas Mob, rare footage and interviews reveal the double life of the man known as the Mob's financial leader.


• GENOVESE: PORTRAIT OF A CRIME FAMILY: Known for their high level of sophistication, the Genovese family not only played a leading role in creating the structure of organized crime in America, but in shaping how the mob used its vast power.


• BUGSY SIEGEL: Handsome, glamorous and the most vicious crime boss of all, Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel began as a hit man on the streets of Brooklyn and died the victim of a mysterious murder, but not before turning a desert mirage into a Las Vegas dreamland.


• MAN, MOMENT, MACHINE: AL CAPONE AND THE MACHINE GUN MASSACRE: Crime boss Al Capone elevated the violence of Prohibition Chicago to a new level with the Thompson submachine gun, a messenger of death that led to one of the most famous mass murders in history.


• DEAD MEN’S SECRETS: AMERICA AND THE MOB: WARTIME FRIENDS: Did WWII spur a partnership between the U.S. government and organized crime? In 1942, fire broke out on the luxury liner-turned-troop carrier, the Normandie. While some mafia leaders claimed responsibility, an alleged protection deal with the government kept the blame on “Nazi sabotage.”


• BIOGRAPHY: THE GAMBINOS: THE FIRST FAMILY OF CRIME: Trace the rise and fall of one of the most famous Mafia families, from crime legend Carlo Gambino to his successor Paul Castellano, and the reign of John Gotti.