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  1. Jun 4, 2013 · Among others, the Five Pointers initiated thugs like Al Capone, Lucky Luciano and Johnny Torrio into a life of organized crime. 7. The Eastman Gang. Led by the Jewish mobster Edward “Monk ...

  2. This half-hour documentary is for those looking for background information about the real struggles of New Yorkers in the 1800s. Featuring archival pictures,...

    • 9 min
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    • Don Rollins
  3. Aug 7, 2024 · How Prohibition Created the Mafia. In the Commission’s early days, many members of the Five Families—Genovese, Bonanno, Lucchese, Gambino and Colombo—were immigrants from Italy, particularly ...

    • Becky Little
  4. The Dead Rabbit Riot was featured in the History Channel documentary television series History's Mysteries in 1998. The story of the New York Dead Rabbits is told, in highly fictionalized form, in Martin Scorsese's 2002 film Gangs of New York, which was partially inspired by Herbert Asbury's 1928 nonfiction book Gangs of New York.

  5. Box office. $193.8 million [5] Gangs of New York is a 2002 American epic historical drama film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Jay Cocks, Steven Zaillian, and Kenneth Lonergan, based on Herbert Asbury 's 1927 book The Gangs of New York. [6] The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, and Cameron Diaz, along with Jim Broadbent ...

  6. About the Show. “American Godfathers: The Five Families,” executive produced and narrated by Emmy Award®-winning actor Michael Imperioli is a three-part, six-hour documentary series exploring ...

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  8. Martin Scorsese's period epic Gangs of New York took up residence in the chaos-ridden New York City neighborhoods of the mid-1800s, populated by eccentric ch...

    • 12 min
    • 1.7M
    • Weird History
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