Robert Redford’s emotional confession about the love of his life at 88, Hollywood stardom, Academy Awards, the founding of Sundance, and adoring fans worldwide. Robert Redford has experienced all the trappings of success during his illustrious career spanning over six decades. But behind the glamorous facade, and beneath the rugged exterior of the Sundance Kid…
It is a warm summer evening in 1977. And inside the Pagoda Theater on East Broadway in Manhattan’s Chinatown, a Bruce Lee film is playing on the screen. The theater is packed. Families, old men from the neighborhood, young immigrants who had just finished 10hour shifts in the garment sweat shops a few blocks away….
It’s 1985 in Southwest Detroit. The auto industry is collapsing. Unemployment is skyrocketing. And two teenage brothers are standing on a corner with $50 worth of crack cocaine trying to figure out a way out. Demetrius Flenory is 17. His younger brother Terry is 15. They’re selling $50 bags to anyone who walks by. Their…
Chicago, November 1st, 1983. A funeral procession stretches so far down Chicago Avenue that police have to come out and shut down a lane of traffic. 5,000 people, not a concert, not a rally, not some televised memorial with cameras and eulogies and politicians. A funeral for a 29year-old man that most of this city…
January 14th, 1979. A cold Sunday night in New York. Tommy DeSimone leaves home dressed for glory, not for burial. A double-breasted black suit, blue shirt, silk tie. He thinks he is finally going to get his button. He thinks all the bodies, all the robberies, all…
January 14th, 1979. A cold Sunday night in New York. Tommy DeSimone leaves home dressed for glory, not for burial. A double-breasted black suit, blue shirt, silk tie. He thinks he is finally going to get his button. He thinks all the bodies, all the robberies, all…
Sammy Gravano had looked across tables at some of the most dangerous men alive and read them correctly every single time. He had sat across from Paul Castaniano and smiled while planning his murder. He had sat across from John Gotti and calculated in real time exactly how much trust he could extend and how…
1995, Minneapolis, Minnesota. The city has a new name, Murder. Not given by enemies, given by a t-shirt sold out of a gun shop on Chicago Avenue. The city earned it. 97 homicides in a single year. The worst it had ever been, the worst it would ever get. Historian Will Culie spent years studying…
Hi, my name is Michael and this is Old Vegas Legends. One night in Las Vegas, a man sat down at a blackjack table, played until the sun came up, and won so much money that the MGM Grand, one of the most powerful casino operations on Earth, had to make an emergency phone call…
A woman walks into a federal courtroom in Manhattan, [clears throat] 1986. The most significant organized crime trial in the history of the Colombo crime family. Carmine Persico, the boss known as the snake, is seated at the defense table alongside his underboss, his capos, and seven co-defendants. The prosecution has spent eight months building…
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