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- An outcast New York City cop is charged with bringing down Harlem drug lord Frank Lucas, whose real life inspired this partly biographical film.
- Follows the lives of American gangsters.
- American Gangster: Trap Queens is a new installment of the critically acclaimed American Gangster series that examines the lives and the legend behind some of America's most notorious female criminals.
- Delrhonda "Big Fifty" Hood ends up running her own drug empire, becoming one of Detroit's wealthiest and most notorious women in the process. With her success, she discovers that money doesn't fix all of her problems, and she can only depend on herself if she wants to stay one step ahead of the law and stay alive.
- Program provides an historical archive of how gangsters took advantage of changes in public policy to gain wealth and power in the first half of the twentieth century and how they met their ends. The post World War I raise and fall of bank robbery gangs is briefly described.
- Anthony Salvatore Casso (Michael Madsen), was an American mobster and former underboss of the Lucchese crime family. During his career in organized crime, Casso was regarded as a "homicidal maniac" in the Italian-American Mafia. He is suspected of having committed dozens of murders, and had confessed to involvement in between 15 and 36 murders.
- The Hip-Hop artists Common and T.I. discuss their roles in American Gangster and the film's impact in the black community.
- A three-part feature that looks at several aspects of the behind-the-scenes work that went into the production -- Script Meeting, Heroin Test Show & Tell, and Setting Up the Takedown. We find "Script Meeting" (8:13), "Heroin Test Show and Tell" (8:57) and "Setting Up the Takedown" (7:45). These provide "fly on the wall" glimpses of various events. "Meeting" shows a chat among Scott, Roberts and Zaillian as they parse out some scenes, while "Test" looks at the specifics of that aspect of the film. Finally, "Takedown" gives us the prep work for the movie's law-enforcement climax.
- Matt Lauer interviews Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Frank Lucas, and others, while discussing the film and its portrayal of American history.
- Narrated with plenty of vigor, that looks at the film with cast and crew interviews, clips from the film, and various behind-the-scenes materials
- Small-time crook turned drug baron Frank Lucas was the first Harlem gangster.
- 2019–TV Episode
- Episode: (2007)1986–2010TV-PGTV Episode
- Martin Koolhoven discusses gangster movies of classic actors like James Cagney, Humprey Bogart and Edward G. Robinson and the method acting of Marlon Brando, Robert De Niro and Al Pacino.
- In this second episode Martin Koolhoven discusses the directors of gangster movies like Martin Scorsese and Brian de Palma and their movies Goodfellas and The Untouchables.
- American Gangster is the story of Frank Lucas and Leroy "Nicky" Barnes - their rise from street punks to the top of New York's 1970's high-flying drug market. The two men were considered the drug czars of Harlem at the height of the drug-fueled decade. Lucas and his gang "The Country Boys" claim to have smuggled heroin from Asia in the caskets of fallen American soldiers.
- 2017–Podcast Episode
- 2017– 19mTV Episode
- Episode: (2017)2017– 29mPodcast Episode
- 2021–TV EpisodeThe largely untold story of how a U.S. Judge Nathan Perlman secretly recruited a small army of Jewish mobsters to stomp out the rise of Nazi-loyal Americans who were pushing the US to side with Hitler before the official start of WWII.
- Episode: (2023)2020–2024Podcast Episode
- 2019– 1h 48mPodcast Episode
- 2019–Podcast Episode
- 2019–Podcast Episode
- In their first Spotlight Challenge, the surviving artists team up to create a series of Dick Tracy-style gangster makeups inspired by the nicknames of real-life gangsters.
- 2014–TV Episode
- Frank Lucas was one of the most successful heroin dealers of the 1970's. His brand of heroin known as "Blue Magic" was notorious on the streets of New York and New Jersey.