I just can't stand the reenactments. It's so cheap. There is great stock footage available of these subjects they're covering, but they don't want to pay for it. It's cheaper to recreate the situations with these horrendous actors.

Bill Kurtis's docs from the '90s are still the best. Many of them are available on Youtube's "Mob Video Vault" channel.


"...the successful annihilation of organized crime's subculture in America would rock the 'legitimate' world's foundation, which would ultimately force fundamental social changes and redistributions of wealth and power in this country. Meyer Lansky's dream was to bond the two worlds together so that one could not survive without the other." - Dan E. Moldea