America in Color - Season 2 - Eps 3: Organized Crime
It's the 1920s. America is on the rise, and so is a dark underworld run by a new kind of criminal, one that is organized, sophisticated, and ruthless. For the next 40 years, legendary gangsters like Al Capone, Lucky Luciano, and Frank Costello build vast empires thanks to bootlegging, illegal gambling, and shady alliances with politicians. Follow the violent rise and fall of organized crime, presented in color for the first time through remastered archival footage and never-before-broadcast home movies.
About America in Color
Title: America in Color
First Air Date: 2017-07-02
Last Air Date: 2019-12-15
Status: Returning Series
Rating: 7.1/10 (from 7 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 3
Total Episodes: 17
Network: Smithsonian Channel
Genres: Documentary
Production Companies: Unknown
Synopsis
From the 1920s through the 1960s, America transformed from a young country on the rise into a global superpower. Using digital colorization technology, we present these formative decades as few have seen them, revisiting 50 vibrant years of good times and great despair, technological triumphs and natural disasters, and global villains and national heroes.
Cast
Liev Schreiber
Self - Narrator (voice)
