New York Mafia

Fear City: New York vs The Mafia is a Netflix docuseries about the U.S. government's historic 1980s RICO prosecution of all five New York Mafia families, culminating in the landmark Mafia Commission Trial.

Truth and Lies: The Last Gangster is a Disney+/Hulu documentary special about Salvatore 'Sammy the Bull' Gravano, Gambino crime family underboss who admitted to 19 murders and brought down John Gotti.

American Godfathers: The Five Families is a 2024 three-part documentary series covering the history of NYC's Gambino, Genovese, Lucchese, Bonanno, and Colombo crime families, streaming on Amazon.

The Iceman Murders are a series of contract killings committed by Richard Kuklinski, a New Jersey hit man convicted of five murders between 1980 and 1984.

The Mafia Commission Trial was a landmark 1985–1987 federal prosecution targeting the leadership of New York's Five Families organized crime network under RICO statutes.

The Mafia Commission Trial was a landmark U.S. federal RICO prosecution (1985–1986) targeting the bosses of New York's Five Families for running the Mafia Commission as a criminal enterprise.

In the late 1970s, Camorra boss Raffaele Cutolo established Sacra Corona Unita in Italy's Puglia region, creating what would become the country's fourth-largest mafia organization. Operating across Brindisi, Lecce, Taranto, and beyond, the loosely-structured criminal network trafficked drugs internationally and terrorized southern Italy with extortion and bombings—until law enforcement dismantled it within two decades.