National Geographic - The Mafia HD (2005) 2 Going Global

THE SOPRANOS WAS FICTION - THIS IS ALL TOO REAL. Discover 1950s home movie footage that reveals mob family life. Encounter interviews with surviving gangsters and join them in visiting locations that still bring a shudder of fear. Witness interviews with the FBI agents who risked their lives to break the mob, examine rare surveillance footage, hear taped conversations that took the Dons down, and more. This is a history of the Mafia that has remained shrouded by its code of honour until now. Features interviews with Bill Bonnano, mobster-son of Joe Bonnano, the longest-serving New York Boss of all time; Henry Hill, mobster who became the subject of the movie Goodfellas ; Joe Pistone, undercover agent best known by his undercover name, Donnie Brasco; gangsters Dominick Montigilio and Frank Culotta; former Mayor of Palermo Leoluca Orlando; Town Councillor of Corleone in Sicily Dino Paternostro. These and more reveal - from firsthand experience - the rituals and structure, the murders and corruption that make up the business end of organised crime and the secret world of THE MAFIA.

Produced & Directed by Charlie Smith ; Produced by Wall to Wall Ltd in association with Five and NDR for National Geographic Channel

Part 2 Going Global

In Sicily, a murderous clan, the Corleonesi, which gave its name to Brando's character in The Godfather, blasted to the top of the mafia. While in the US, a new kind of police would expose and dismantle drug enterprises. The heroin trade boosted the fortunes of the Mafia in America during the 1960s but the fortunes it brought and the divisions it caused among the Italian mobster families ultimately sowed the seeds of their own destruction. Masterminding the trade was the ruthless and greedy Carmine Galante, head of the Bonanno family and his band of Sicilian killers, assassins who operated under the radar of law enforcement. The Sicilian Mafia were smuggling vast amounts of heroin into New York inside foodstuffs, distributed via Sicilian-owned restaurants in Brooklyn, hence it was dubbed 'the pizza connection'. But as the reckless Galante operated without the approval of the mob's board of directors, known as the Commission, sneered at their reticence about dealing in drugs and refused to share enough of the heroin proceeds with them, it was decided he had to go.

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