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By Gangsters Inc. Editors

A new six-hour documentary series titled “American Godfathers: The Five Families” will explore the inception, rise, and fall of New York City’s five Mafia families who over a fifty-plus-year period had a hand in every facet of organized crime in America from bootlegging and drug trafficking to extortion and gambling.

Mobsters, cops, historians, and experts

Based upon Selwyn Raab’s New York Times best-seller “Five Families: The Rise, Decline and Resurgence of America’s Most Powerful Mafia Empires,” this documentary traces the extensive history of the Mafia beginning with its early ties to Sicily.

The history and subsequent breakdown of the “omerta” code coupled with the ever-changing violent power struggles within each of the five families is vividly chronicled throughout each two-hour episode.

Through investigative archival images, footage, audio recordings, and recreation as well as new, candid on-camera interviews with authors includin