Call Northside 777
In 1932, a cop is killed and Frank Wiecek sentenced to life. Eleven years later, a newspaper ad by Frank's mother leads Chicago reporter P.J...
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An intimate and revealing look at the world-changing musician, presented through a lens of archival footage and never-before-heard home recordings...
See moreThe Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond
Jack Diamond and his sickly brother arrive in prohibition New York as jewelry thieves. After a spell in jail, the coldly ambitious Diamond hits on...
See moreEliot Ness vs. Al Capone
January, 1947. The public receives the news of Al Capone's death with indifference, although twenty years earlier he had ruled Chicago's crime...
See moreChicago Syndicate
An ex-military accountant is recruited by the FBI to infiltrate the mob in Chicago in an attempt to break open the rackets. To complicate his job...
See moreThe Hidden Secrets: Gangsters of the 1920s and 1930s
Never before has a gallery of cops, robbers, and daredevil crooks ever been assembled into one collection. Using FBI and police film, archival...
See moreThe Golden Twenties
Feature-length compilation of 1920s newsreel footage, with commentary about news, sports, lifestyles, and historical figures.
See moreLittle Caesar: End of Rico, Beginning of the Antihero
An examination of "Little Caesar" (1931) by film historians and critics.
See moreThe Mystery of Al Capone's Vaults
The Mystery of Al Capone's Vaults is a two-hour live American television special that was broadcast in syndication on April 21, 1986, and hosted by...
See moreLoyalty & Betrayal: The Story of the American Mob
This historic documentary only aired once on July 25th 1994 on FOX. A special on organized crime as told by the people who lived it, as well as...
See moreWhy America
A film about America between the world wars that attempts to capture and interpret the vital moving forces in American society that caused the...
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