Chinese Triads are quickly earning a reputation as one of the fiercest and most brutal organized crime gangs in the world. This episode explores the growth of various Triad crime syndicates situated throughout China.
Explore the Neapolitan and Sicilian Cosa Nostra borgatas and their mob ties to American organized crime as well as infiltration of Italian business and government.
Organized criminal syndicates have sprung up on every corner of the planet. Take a look at the ways mobsters threaten to control and enslave businesses, governments and populations in dozens of countries.
Examine the Lucchese borgata, one of New York's five families of the Italian-American crime dynasty, beginning with the emergence of the Lucchese crime family founded by boss Gaetano "Three Fingers Brown" Lucchese.
Examine the biggest and most powerful organized crime syndicate since the Cosa Nostra: the Russian Mafiya, which inherited much of what was formerly KGB turf after the break-up of the Soviet Union.
The unification of the European economy led to the rise of organized crime in Western Europe. This episode details how major industrial nations in Europe have experienced a significant increase in Mafia activities.
Examine Jamaican "posses" and other Caribbean gangs that are making names for themselves in cities like London and New York through smuggling drugs and weapons, piracy and huge money-laundering operations.
This episode examines the Latin American drug cartels and primarily focuses on Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela, the one-time boss of the Colombian cartel Cali.
Explore the history of Vietnamese gangs, famous for quickly resorting to violence and specializing in home-invasion robberies and computer theft. This episode also details all-female Vietnamese gangs.
They pledge to defend the law and represent the will of the people, but time and again, elected officials have sold their souls and betrayed us all for mob money.
The Cold War is over and nuclear weapon development has diminished, but the stock piles remained. An underworld organization specializes in obtaining nuclear materials.
Journey into the dark side of the soul - into the nightmare world of Mafia hitman - wherein the secret of violent madness as you probe the minds of the killers from the underworld.