American Godfathers: The Five Families | show | 2024 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

Explore five powerful New York Mafia families, who ran organized crime in America. | dHNfU3NMMlRqSjdJcTg

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00:00Bonesharking, prostitution, gambling, hijacking.

00:04They took over the docks.

00:05They got away with everything.

00:08They came here to a life that was not really much better.

00:11They decided we're gonna do it our way.

00:13This was a secret society.

00:15I respectfully decline to answer.

00:19They were so powerful, when their godfather was made,

00:22they made sure the word mafia would never be used in it.

00:26A lot of the guys were becoming too high profile.

00:29Organized crime became a ground zero for law enforcement.

00:33More informants are coming forth to put the mob away.

00:37We did not want to spend the rest of our lives in jail.

00:41This is the story of the rise and fall

00:43of the most infamous mafia families of all time.

00:47Every family of every member of this life

00:51is destroyed.

00:52American Godfathers, The Five Families.

00:55A three-night event premieres Sunday, August 11th at 8.

00:58Only on The History Channel.