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Palermo in the 1970s. Ten-year-old Salvatore Giammarresi's life revolves around school and his first love, his sister's escapades and his parents' dreams. But the shadow of the Mafia and its crimes hangs over everything.

OUR GODFATHER is a feature-length documentary about Tommaso Buscetta, the first high-ranking Italian mafia boss ever to turn against Cosa Nostra. Buscetta helped convict more than 400 Mafiosi. He became the Mob's most wanted man in the world - and 11 members of his family were killed. "He was the most important, protected and endangered witness in US criminal history" The film tells - for the first time- the Buscetta story with exclusive access to his family, which is breaking its silence after 30 years in hiding.

They rule the underworld. They make millions with racketeering and drug trafficking. For investigators, it's more than a fight against criminality - it's a veritable war. John Gotti; Maurice Boucher; Salvatore Riina and Pablo Escobar.

An exiled Mafia boss and an Afghan drug trafficker unite to create a 7000-mile-long narcotics pipeline pumping heroin into the USA.

As Byzantine power crumbled, a rebel governor invited Moors from Northern Africa, who ended up turning the whole island into an exceptionally tolerant Muslim emirate, establishing a new capital at Palermo, which became a rich, cosmopolitan, major European metropolis. While duke William of Normandy conquered England swiftly, the Hauteville family from his converted Vikings nobility joined the Crusades, and managed with great effort to turn Sicily into a crusader kingdom. It fell to the Staufian imperial dynasty of Henry VI, then after an Anjou Neapolitan intermezzo five centuries under Aragon's Spanish-Catalan rule. They introduced the Spanish Inquisition, a regime of Catholic intolerance and persecution of Jews and heretics. The Bourbon house of Spain was evicted as Garibaldi started his 19th century reunification of Italy in Syracuse, but under Italian rule a new scourge emerged from within: the mafia. Cultures continue to mix and foreigners to immigrate into the cosmopolitan island, even when right wing parties in Rome call for a fortress Europe.