Mobsters - Season 1

Episodes

Season 1Episode 160 min

Jack Ruby

A profile of Jack Ruby (1911-1967), the man who shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald two days after the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy. Included: a discussion of his possible motives for the murder.

Season 1Episode 260 min

Sam Giancana

Chicago mob boss Sam Giancana (1908-75) is profiled.

Season 1Episode 360 min

Louis Lepke

Profiling Louis "Lepke" Buchalter (1897-1944), who became a crime boss in the New York City underworld by controlling the garment industry. He was convicted of murder in 1941 and died in the electric chair.

Sammy 'The Bull' Gravano

Season 1Episode 460 min

Sammy "The Bull" Gravano

A profile of Sammy "the Bull" Gravano, the admitted mob underboss who testified against John Gotti, the head of the Gambino crime family in New York City, in the early 1990s.

Season 1Episode 560 min

Bugsy Siegel

A profile of Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel (1906-47) chronicles his rise to fame, including his role in building Las Vegas.

Season 1Episode 660 min

Jimmy Hoffa

A profile of Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa, who disappeared in 1975. Included: remarks by his daughter Barbara Crancer and biographer Arthur Sloane.

Genovese: Portrait of a Crime Family

Season 1Episode 760 min

Genovese: Portrait of a Crime Family

The Genovese crime family is the subject.

Season 1Episode 860 min

Frank Costello

A profile of Frank Costello includes an interview with Anthony Quinn. Frank Costello sees himself as a businessman, preferring diplomacy to violence.

Joseph 'The Rat' Valachi

Season 1Episode 960 min

Joseph "The Rat" Valachi

Joseph Valachi is the first syndicate member to testify against the Cosa Nostra and reveal its inner workings.

Season 1Episode 1060 min

Meyer Lansky

Financial wizard Meyer Lansky survives some 50 years in organized crime.

Season 1Episode 1160 min

Al Capone

A profile of Al Capone, who was Chicago's gangland kingpin in the '20s but was cut down by the IRS in 1931 and spent eight years in Alcatraz.

Vinnie 'The Chin' Gigante

Season 1Episode 1260 min

Vinnie "The Chin" Gigante

Vincent Gigante attempts to convince the world that he is legally insane.

Season 1Episode 1360 min

Joe Bonanno

Mafia crime boss Joseph Bonanno outlives enemies and publishes his memoirs.

The Gambinos: First Family of Crime

Season 1Episode 1460 min

The Gambinos: First Family of Crime

A profile of New York's Gambino crime family examines the rise of its founder, Carlo Gambino, and that of his successors, Paul Castellano and John Gotti.

Season 1Episode 1560 min

Henry Hill

Mobster Henry Hill's testimony brings down some of New York's most feared criminals. The mobster-turned-informant Henry Hill, who was portrayed by actor Ray Liotta in the 1990 film "Goodfellas."

Season 1Episode 1660 min

Lucky Luciano

A profile of Charles "Lucky" Luciano (1897-1962), a mob figure in 1930s New York. Salvatore "Lucky" Luciano creates Murder Inc. and makes millions in racketeering and prostitution.

Season 1Episode 1760 min

Whitey Bulger

Fugitive James "Whitey" Bulger is profiled. He rose to become a gangster in South Boston, became an informant for the FBI to end the Italian mob in, distract them from his own criminal activities and ended in the largest informant scandal in FBI history.

Season 1Episode 1860 min

Murder, Inc.

The story of Murder, Inc., a 1930s organized-crime group whose members were mob enforcers. Murder, Inc. was a ruthless gang that carried out an estimate 1,000 mob hits. founded by Meyer Lansky and Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, they were assassins that carried out contract killings for the Itailian American, Jewish American mafia, and others

Season 1Episode 1960 min

Tommy Lucchese

Tommy Lucchese, one of the most successful and notorious members of the Italian-American Mafia, pioneered and perfected labor rackets in New York City's kosher chicken industry, the garment district and the world of professional boxing.

Paul Castellano

Season 1Episode 2060 min

Paul Castellano

"Big Paul" Castellano serves as a boss of the Gambino crime family during the '70s and '80s, overseeing rackets in construction, pornography and more.

Season 1Episode 2160 min

John Gotti

John Gotti starts out as the leader of a group of young thugs in his South Bronx neighborhood and works his way up to a leadership position in the Gambino crime family.

Carlos Marcello

Season 1Episode 2260 min

Carlos Marcello

Carlos Marcello grew up in the mysterious milieu of New Orleans in the early 20th Century to become the city's mafia boss for almost four decades. Despite his modest beginnings, Carlos joined the mafia at age 26 and quickly climbed in the ranks, aided by success in illegal gambling ventures and a talent for making effective payoffs to public officials. In 1947, Marcello became the longtime boss of New Orleans in a reign marked by absolute power, corruption, and antagonism of the U.S. government. At his height he would be revered as possibly the most powerful mob leader in the nation. One day Congress would even suspect Marcello of participating in a conspiracy to kill the President to of the United States.

Season 1Episode 2360 min

Frank Lucas

Heroin kingpin Frank Lucas dominated the Harlem drug market from 1968 to 1975, before being busted for conspiracy to distribute heroin and serving 5 year of his 70-year sentence.

Santo Trafficante

Season 1Episode 2460 min

Santo Trafficante

In this shocking episode of mobsters, we deal with the brutal drug trade which flourished during the 1950s and 1960s, typified by the violent yet hugely interesting figure of the 'Santo Traficante'; literally, the saintly or sacred drug dealer.

Season 1Episode 2560 min

Mickey Cohen

Mickey Cohen became the king of West Coast mob rackets in 1947, following Bugsy Siegel's death.

Season 1Episode 2660 min

Tony Spilotro

Las Vegas mobster Tony Spilotro is profiled. Tony Spilotro made his name in Chicago's most powerful organized crime family and was given control of the gang's casino interests in Las Vegas.

Season 1Episode 2760 min

Mob Ladies

Virginia Hill, Arlyne Brickman and Karen Hill are mob ladies with looks that could kill and the connections to take out anyone in their way.

Nicodemo Scarfo

Season 1Episode 2860 min

Nicodemo Scarfo

Philadelphia mob boss Nicky Scarfo's paranoia, volatility and treachery ultimately lead to his demise.

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