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Fear City: New York vs The Mafia
Documentary · 2020
New York City in the 1970s was ruled with a bloody fist by five mafia families, until a group of federal agents tried the unthinkable: taking them down.
The sides of Fear City: New York vs The Mafia
- The five mafia families of New York
- Federal agents and their wiretaps
- The city in the 1970s and 1980s
Fear City: New York vs The Mafia is good for you if…
- you like the mafia seen from the inside of a real investigation.
- you want the agents and prosecutors who were there telling it.
- you like seeing who really ran New York, and how they fell.
Fear City: New York vs The Mafia is bad for you if…
- you can't look at real crime scene photos of mob killings.
- you'd rather follow one person deeply than a whole case at once.
About: justice · fear · power
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