The Mafia’s Golden Age: Crime and Controversy | American Godfathers: The Five Families (S1)

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Follow the American Mafia from their early development in New York City neighborhoods through Prohibition, to the boom days of the 1950’s. Explore how public violence, involvement in the drug trade, and appearances at government hearings affected the families’ operations and conflicted with their alleged code of honor. Learn more in this clip from Season 1, Episode 1, “DEATH OF THE OLD RULES.”

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