Lords of the Mafia: Sicily (2000)
Genres - Historical Film |
Sub-Genres - Law & Crime, Biography, Social History |
Run Time - 60 min. |
Countries - United States |
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Synopsis by Perry Seibert
Lords of the Mafia: Sicily one in a series of videos that trace the history of organized crime. This edition concentrates on Toto Riina who was known as "The Beast." Riina, seeing the amount of wealth to be amassed in drug trafficking, engineers the deaths of his rivals and eventually becomes the head of La Cosa Nostra. The film also documents the steps taken by government officials to shut down this powerful crime boss.
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Mafia, crime-lord, organized-crime, Sicilian, drug-trade, murder