Mobsters

"Mobsters" is a great documentary. There's no glorifying or anything, just begging with how they started off, and how they got locked up, or killed.

My favorite episodes are "Albert Anastasia, Mad Sam DeStefano. Mad Dog Sullivan", and so on because the Narrator they choose was the perfect one. It also shows these guys were huge savages, and that there best thing they like to do is kill.

Some of the images shown however are disturbing. Overall a great show.

I just watched the episode about Jimmy Burke and I have to say this is one of the better made Mafia shows that I've ever seen. Very well researched and moved at a great pace there's obviously some thought behind this product.

There wasn't a group like them before, or since - that's "Murder, Inc.," discussed (and shown, with some gory photos) in this one-hour show on the famous underworld organization.

They murdered hundreds of people in the 1930s, many of them fellow gangsters with hits ordered by Louis Lepke Buchalter who, after aborting a plan to kill New York Prosecutor Tom Dewey (who later ran for President), he killed off anyone who might squeal on him.

"Murder Inc." were the hit men for the "National Crime Syndicate," as we learn in this episode.

The mobsters are all either Jewish or Italian and it all began in a tough Jewish area of Brownsville, in Brooklyn. Names included Abe Relas, Harry Maione, Harry Strauss, Frank Abbandando. And then there was the famous Dutch Schultz, who met a very unpleasant ending to his life.

The most shocking person in this story, however, turns out to be Relas., one of the biggest thugs in Murder, Inc., but the one who turns informant and ruins the rest of the mob. In the end, this famous group of butchers got what was coming to them.

All in all, a very informative hour-long show. For some, you might beware of some graphic photos in this episode.

Solid and interesting, this strange, but fascinating series goes into great detail about how the Mafia became one of the most profitable criminal organizations in the world. A bleak, but truthful look at crime and how it influenced much of the the twentieth century, this series simply doesn't hold back, and it's better for it. It may treat the mobsters as more human, and there is definitely some disturbing content, but if you can stomach it, it really does become a great, if a bleak look at mobster life, and you do learn about crime and it's influence. Not a series for everybody, but if you're fascinated by crime, this is a good series to start with, and it's interesting to.