The legendary take down of real-life gangster Al Capone (played in the movie by Robert De Niro) is told in De Palma's ...

Also based on a real-life gangster, Frank Lucas was able to smuggle heroin directly from Vietnam on planes returning from the Vietnam War. Beloved in the community, Lucas was a charismatic and ...

Listen to The Conversation Weekly for an interview with gang expert Dennis Rodgers, and Gaz, a former gang leader from Sierra ...

and how his ties to real-life gangsters add a degree of realism to The Godfather. Sollozzo enters The Godfather as the first real view the audience gets at how the mafia underworld truly functions ...