The origin of the gangs that dominated crime and invented their own codes of conduct. A look at the roots of organized crime starting with the American Revolution to the prohibition of alcohol.
We meet the legendary figures of Atlantic City and the Boardwalk including Prohibition era kingpin Nucky Johnson who ran the area, and discover how rum running and bootlegging built an empire.
We tell the story of the rise of Al Capone and mob rule in Chicago and explore why the roaring twenties played the crucial role in gangster life and the impact of widespread police corruption.
1929 was the year of chaos and crime that saw the St Valentine's Day massacre with the shooting of seven members and associates of Chicago's North Side gang and the stock market crash.
Prohibition had been repealed but J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI have a new 'Public Enemies' list to gun down and collar criminals with Chicago's leading gangsters fast becoming America's most wanted.
While many mobsters ended up in jail or killed, still more found ways to keep themselves in power as well as profit - we explore the Italian mob and the real godfathers of New York and Las Vegas.
