Uploaded June 2020 | Updated September 2026, 5 days ago
La Cosa Nostra, as the American Mafia is known to the government, emerged from the ghettoes of New York City in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and has dominated American organised crime for over a century. Over the years, ruthless and bloody wars have been constantly waged among the factions, and later families, of the Mafia, as well as with the government, as they struggled for control over the lucrative business of organised crime. Sometimes, these wars were even fought in the open streets of New York City, especially during the Prohibition years.
One of the "missing" Great Crimes and Trials of the Twentieth Century episodes from Series 2.
La Cosa Nostra, as the American Mafia is known to the government, emerged from the ghettoes of New York City in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and has dominated American organised crime for over a century. Over the years, ruthless and bloody wars have been constantly waged among the factions, and later families, of the Mafia, as well as with the government, as they struggled for control over the lucrative business of organised crime. Sometimes, these wars were even fought in the open streets of New York City, especially during the Prohibition years.
One of the "missing" Great Crimes and Trials of the Twentieth Century episodes from Series 2.
