American Godfathers: The Five Families, executive produced and narrated by Emmy Award®-winning actor Michael Imperioli is a documentary series exploring the inception, rise, and fall of New York City's five Mafia families who over a fifty-plus-year period had a hand in every facet of organized crime in America from bootlegging and drug trafficking to extortion and gambling. Based upon Selwyn Raab's New York Times best-seller, Five Families: The Rise, Decline and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires, American Godfathers: The Five Families, traces the extensive history of the Mafia beginning with its early ties to Sicily. The history and subsequent breakdown of the "omerta" code coupled with the ever-changing violent power struggles within each of the five families is vividly chronicled throughout each two-hour episode.