Call Northside 777

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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Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues

Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues

An intimate and revealing look at the world-changing musician, presented through a lens of archival footage and never-before-heard home recordings...

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The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond

The 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...

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Eliot Ness vs. Al Capone

Eliot 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...

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Chicago Syndicate

Chicago 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...

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The Hidden Secrets: Gangsters of the 1920s and 1930s

The 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...

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The Golden Twenties

The Golden Twenties

Feature-length compilation of 1920s newsreel footage, with commentary about news, sports, lifestyles, and historical figures.

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Little Caesar: End of Rico, Beginning of the Antihero

Little Caesar: End of Rico, Beginning of the Antihero

An examination of "Little Caesar" (1931) by film historians and critics.

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The Mystery of Al Capone's Vaults

The 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...

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Loyalty & Betrayal: The Story of the American Mob

Loyalty & 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...

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Why America

Why 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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