The 1950s Mafia

Explore how the NYC Mafia in the 1990s used extortion tactics to impose a 'mob tax' on legitimate businesses.

Follow the American Mafia from their early development in New York City neighborhoods through Prohibition, to the boom days of the 1950s.

Discover the dramatic rise of John Gotti, the notorious 'Teflon Don' who transformed the Gambino crime family.

Al "Scarface" Capone sparks one of the bloodiest massacres in gangland history, in this clip from Season 1, "St. Valentine's Day Massacre."