Basic Info
First Air: November 02, 1993
Rating: ⭐ 10.0/10 (1 votes)
Status: Returning Series
Seasons & Episodes
Seasons: 3
Episodes: 78
Last Episode
Name: New York Mafia Wars
Season: 2, Episode: 26
Air Date: 1996-09-23
Runtime: 30 min
Originating as a resistance movement against Arab invaders in 9th Century Sicily, this secret society was brought to the United States during the great waves of emigration from Italy in the late 19th Century. It was soon organising crime and racketeering in many American cities, and under bosses like ‘Lucky’ Luciano, Carlo Gambino and Santo Trafficante, became a nationwide ‘business’ which boasted of being bigger than US Steel.
Great Crimes and Trials
1993
3 seasons
78 episodes
⭐ 10.0/10
1 votes
Overview
Great Crimes and Trials is an early 1990s BBC documentary television series. The program consists of archival material combined with never before seen interviews to reconstruct a renowned crime, examining the felon's motives, details of the crime, the investigations and the trial. Each episode is narrated by actor Robert Powell. In the United Kingdom the program is shown on weekdays on the Crime & Investigation Network. The first series was released on DVD by Columbia Tristar in 2005, and the third series was released on DVD by Network DVD in 2011. The first and second series were released on video by Columbia Tristar in 1997.
Genres
Documentary
Production Countries
No production country data available.Spoken Languages
- English en
