Biography mafia legends

Biography Presents Mafia Legends is an iffy grab bag of Biography profiles on three of organized crime's most notorious gangsters: Al Capone, Lucky Luciano, and Bugsy Siegel.

A bonus fourth disc, Mob Hitman comes from A&E's American Justice series.

Biography mafia legends

Quickly edited, with a nice selection of archival footage and stills, these glossy but essentially superficial bios certainly move well enough, and hit the highlights of these infamous mobsters. But there's a certain nagging sense of romanticism to two of the bios which makes this collection a questionable purchase.

There are quite a few genuine historians out there who have nothing but contempt for channels like The History Channel, A&E, and The Biography Channel - as I find out every time I praise one of their DVD box set releases.

But I would imagine that most viewers of those channels and their programs understand that, as with all historical studies, interpretation of facts - and the crucial omission or inclusion o