The Rise of the American Mafia (S1, E1) | American Godfathers: The Five Families | Full Episode

Follows the American Mafia from their early development in New York City neighborhoods through Prohibition, to the boom days of the 1950's. In Season 1, Episode 1, "Death of the Old Rules." Stay up to date on all of your favorite The HISTORY Channel shows at http://history.com/schedule. #AmericanGodfathers Subscribe for more from American Godfathers: The Five Families and other great The HISTORY Channel shows: http://histv.co/SubscribeHistoryYT Find out more about the show and watch full episodes on our site: https://www.history.com/shows/american-godfathers-the-five-families Check out exclusive The HISTORY Channel content: History Newsletter - https://histv.co/newsletter Website - https://histv.co/History Facebook - https://histv.co/Facebook Twitter - https://histv.co/Twitter American Godfathers: The Five Families, executive produced and narrated by Emmy Award®-winning actor Michael Imperioli is a three-part, six-hour documentary series exploring 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. Based upon Selwyn Raab’s New York Times best-seller “Five Families: The Rise, Decline and Resurgence of America’s Most Powerful Mafia Empires,” “American Godfathers: The Five Families” 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 including Raab himself, historians, experts, law enforcement, witnesses, and former mafia affiliates, viewers will get an inside look at the inner workings of the most powerful criminal organization of the twentieth century."