The Mafia
| Television series | |
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| German title | The Mafia |
| Original title | Inside the mafia |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| year | 2005 |
| Production company |
Wall to wall media |
| length | 43 minutes |
| Episodes | 4 in 1 season ( list ) |
| genre | Thriller |
| First broadcast | June 13, 2005 (USA) on National Geographic Channel |
| German-language first broadcast |
November 28, 2005 on NDR television |
The Mafia (original title: Inside the Mafia ) is a four -part American crime thriller - documentary series by the National Geographic Channel about the American Cosa Nostra and the original Sicilian Cosa Nostra .
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The documentation provides insights into the life of the American and Sicilian Cosa Nostra, with high-quality game scenes, archive images and interviews with well-known people.
Interviews
Each episode contains several interviews with former mafiosi, authors and political figures.
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Episode list
| No. | German title | Original title | Summary | First broadcast in the USA | German language first broadcast (D / A / CH) |
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| 1 | In the crosshairs of the FBI | Mafia, What Mafia? | Topics: Salvatore "Bill" Bonanno , the Five Families ( Bonanno , Colombo , Gambino , Genovese and Lucchese ), Charles "Lucky" Luciano and the founding of the commission , J. Edgar Hoover and his fight against the La Cosa Nostra, the Palermo- Mafia Summit of 1957, the Apalachin Meeting of 1957, Joseph "Joe" Valachi and the Valachi Hearings , the Cosa Nostra initiation ritual | Jun 13, 2005 | Nov 28, 2005 |
| 2 | The pizza connection | Going global | Topics: Carmine "Lilo" Galante and the heroin trade through the so-called Pizza Connection , Salvatore "Toto" Riina and the Corleonesi , illegal levies of casino money in Las Vegas, the undercover investigation by Joseph "Donnie Brasco" Pistone in the Bonanno family, the so-called Zips | Jun 20, 2005 | Dec 5, 2005 |
| 3 | Treason and blood revenge | The Great Betrayal | Topics: the bloody rise of Salvatore Riina, Giovanni Falcone and his fight against the Cosa Nostra, the undercover investigation by DEA agent Frank J. Panessa, Roy DeMeo , the Pizza Connection, the betrayal by Tommaso "Don Masino" Buscetta , the gigantic one Maxi Trial , Henry Hill | Jun 27, 2005 | Dec 12, 2005 |
| 4th | The godparents in trouble | The Godfathers | Topics: the bloody rise of Salvatore Riina and his arrest, the rise and fall of John "Teflon-Don" Gotti , "Big Paul" Castellano as Gambino boss and his murder, the commission, the investigation of Giovanni Falcone and his murder, the betrayal by "Sammy the bull" Gravano | Jul 4, 2005 | Dec 19, 2005 |
Web links
- The Mafia in the Internet Movie Database (English)