Mob - From Hollywood To Vegas

The truth behind organized crime in America!

Two documentary series combined for 20 hours of criminal entertainment!

The American Mob began at the turn of the 20th Century as immigrants from Europe began pouring into US cities. Poor and isolated, these immigrants banded together to develop a unique form of business called organized crime. This unique DVD collection features two documentary series focusing on The Mob’s infiltration from the East to the West coast into the booming cities of Las Vegas, Nevada and Hollywood, California throughout the first half of the 20th century.

Las Vegas: The City The Mob Made - chronicles the untold history of this most American of cities...Las Vegas, the adult playground in the sun. Organized crime played out in Las Vegas differently than it did anywhere else in the country, and in the city that never sleeps, the organized crime syndicate realized that in Vegas, you can arrive as a nobody...and leave a King

Episode Guide - Las Vegas: The City the Mob Made: (9 Hours 45 Minutes)

Episode 1: The Mob Before Las Vegas
Episode 2: Las Vegas Before the Mob
Episode 3: The Mob Comes to Las Vegas
Episode 4: Las Vegas’ Golden Age
Episode 5: On Top of the World
Episode 6: Las Vegas Becomes a Modern City
Episode 7: Vegas Reinvents Itself
Episode 8: The end of Mob Rule in Las Vegas
Episode 9: Corporate Vegas
Episode 10: Las Vegas - America’s Third City
Bonus features include:
Vegas & The Mob Timeline

Hollywood vs. The Mob - reveals the truth behind the myth of the American Mob and its godfathers. Through newspapers and film, the leaders of organized crime became household names, often lionized in the mold of true American heroes, the rugged frontier individualists of the past including Al Capone, Lucky Luciano and Meyer Lansky.

Episode Guide - Hollywood vs. The Mob: (10 Hours 8 Minutes)

Episode 1: The Mafia Comes to America - Little Caesar
Episode 2: The Irish Gangs - The Public Enemy
Episode 3: Al Capone’s Chicago Mob - Scarface
Episode 4: The Law Gang: AKA the F.B.I. - G-Men
Episode 5: Lucky Luciano’s New York Mafia - Marked Woman
Episode 6: The Rackets - Loan Shark
Episode 7: The Black Mafia - The Black Godfather
Episode 8: The Jewish Mafia - The Purple Gang
Episode 9: The Godfathers - Honor Thy Father

Upplagd i sortimentet: 15 Januari, 2010