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"In a brief life that led to a violent end, Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel (1906-1947) rose from desperate poverty to ill-gotten riches, from an early-twentieth-century family of Ukrainian Jewish immigrants on the Lower East Side to a kingdom of his own making in Las Vegas. In this captivating portrait, author Michael Shnayerson sets out not to absolve Bugsy Siegel but rather to understand him in all his complexity. Through the 1920s, 1930s, and most of...
2) Bugsy
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Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel is a brilliant and violent gangster who leaves behind his criminal empire in New York to run the powerful rackets in Los Angeles. But his tumultuous affair with a Hollywood starlet inspires him to build something even bigger than his growing infamy. By doing this, he enrages his criminal backers. Bugsy will go to any length to see his dream realized, even if it costs him his life.
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From the producer of "The Men Who Built America" and "The World Wars," it will document the emergence of organized crime in Middle America through the rise and fall of iconic gangster Al Capone. From Capone's early days in New York running the streets with Lucky Luciano and Bugsy Siegel, to his prolonged war with the Irish gangs of Chicago and his final battles with Eliot Ness and law enforcement, the series will tell the true and full story of the...
5) Mobsters
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Mobsters follows the daring and violent exploits of four men growing up in New York in the 1920's: charming "Lucky" Luciano, skilled negotiator Meyer Lansky, headstrong, womanizing "Bugsy" Siegel, and diplomatic Frank Costello. From their humble beginnings and diverse ethnic backgrounds, they develop an impenetrable bond that leads them to the top of the underworld.
6) The mafia
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Traces the history of organized crime in the twentieth century, from prohibition to WWII to the Cold War to the time of JFK and up to the present day. Includes up-close profiles of some of the mob's most notorious figures, like Lucky Luciano, Bugsy Siegel, and Al Capone.
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America has been plagued with unspeakable crimes and unexplained phenomena that have captured nationwide attention and intrigue, demanding answers and retribution. This 30 episode documentary collection will strip the covers from a world of profiling, forensic science and painful investigation to expose the mysteries and truths behind history s most intriguing criminal masterminds.
Explores the psychology of serial killers and other criminals and...
9) Bugsy Siegel
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"From his stormy relationship with the beautiful Virginia Hill to his mysterious murder, Biography presents an up-close look at the mobster who lived his life at nothing short of full-throttla"--Container.
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The movie Bugsy was tough, funny, and sexy. As portrayed by Warren Beatty, Bugsy Siegel came across as the consummate charmer, except when he turned into a vicious, cold-blooded hoodlum and killer. Virginia Hill, played by Annette Bening, appeared as the romantic figure whose greatest love was Bugsy Siegel, the gangster who stormed Hollywood and created what we now know as the gambling capital of the world, Las Vegas. Now, in Bugsy's Baby we learned...
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