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  • 2024-08-12T00:00:00Z on History
  • 42m
  • 4h 21m (3 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Crime, Documentary
An account of the founding and history of the Gambino, Genovese, Lucchese, Bonanno and Colombo families — also known as the famed five crime families of New York.

3 episodes

Series Premiere

2024-08-12T00:00:00Z

1x01 Death of The Old Rules

Series Premiere

1x01 Death of The Old Rules

  • 2024-08-12T00:00:00Z1h 27m

Chronicles the American Mafia's rise from NYC neighborhoods through Prohibition, the 1950s boom, and how violence, drugs, and hearings undermined their code of honor.

2024-08-13T00:00:00Z

1x02 Rise of the New Dons

1x02 Rise of the New Dons

  • 2024-08-13T00:00:00Z1h 27m

Rise of The New Dons focuses on the deadly conflict between the Families' old guard and a new generation of younger, American-born, mobsters willing to defy the authority of the bosses and the long-established rules in order to fulfill their own ambitions of power, wealth, and revenge.

2024-08-14T00:00:00Z

1x03 The Last Don

1x03 The Last Don

  • 2024-08-14T00:00:00Z1h 27m

The Last Don shows how a decidedly new, more aggressive commitment by law enforcement to "eradicate" the mafia forces the families to find creative ways to stay in business and out of jail. But it's not as easy as it's been in the past and some are willing to throw it all away, once and for all.

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