What is the name of the documentary that follows the lives of the heads of the most infamous crime families of England in the 1980s and 1990s?
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At Home with the Noonans At Home with the Noonans is a six part documentary presented,produced and directed by Donal MacIntyre following the lives of members of the infamous Manchester gangster Dominic Noonan and his son Bugsy Noonan broadcast on 22 April 2012 on Crime & Investigation Network UK
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Dominic Noonan Domenyk Lattlay-Fottfoy (birth name Dominic Noonan, born 1964) is an English gangster. With his brother Desmond "Dessie" Noonan, he headed a criminal organisation or "crime firm" in Manchester, England during the 1980s and 1990s and is a member of one of Manchester's most infamous crime families.
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Salvatore Lo Piccolo Salvatore Lo Piccolo (born July 20, 1942 in Palermo), also known as the Baron ("il Barone"), is a Sicilian mafioso and one of the most powerful bosses of Palermo, Sicily. Lo Piccolo rose through the ranks of the Palermo mafia throughout the 1980s and he became the capo-mandamento of the San Lorenzo district in the early 1990s, replacing Salvatore Biondino who was sent to prison. Lo Piccolo was a fugitive since 1983 and had been running his Mafia affairs in hiding. With the capture of Bernardo Provenzano on April 11, 2006 Lo Piccolo had been cementing his power and rise to the top of the Palermo Mafia until his own arrest on November 5, 2007. It is believed that his family spread across Europe due to rising tensions, settling in England, Portugal and southern Spain.
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Drama Connections Drama Connections is a BBC One documentary series which looks at the stories behind the production of some of Britain's most popular drama television programmes, showing how they tie in with the production of other drama shows (hence the name). The shows feature interviews with some of the cast and crew of the subject programme, as well as classic footage from the series.
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Skint (Channel 4 series) Skint is a British documentary series broadcast from 13 May 2013 to 27 April 2015 on Channel 4. It followed members of the general public in various locations who are either unemployed or have very little income as they live their daily lives. The series features many issues in episodes including alcoholism, drugs misuse, long term unemployment and legal matters.
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The Legend of Robin Hood The Legend of Robin Hood was a 1975 BBC television serial that told the story of the life of Robin Hood.
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Family Business (TV series) Family Business (referred to as Porn: A Family Business in the UK) is an American reality TV series produced for the cable network Showtime. Based in Los Angeles, the series focused on the pornography industry and the life of Adam Glasser, a reality porn star and video director who uses the stage name Seymore Butts.
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The Long Good Friday The Long Good Friday is a British gangster film starring Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren. It was completed in 1979, but because of release delays, it is generally credited as a 1980 film. The storyline weaves together events and concerns of the late 1970s, including low-level political and police corruption, IRA fundraising, displacement of traditional British industry by property development, UK membership of the EEC, and the free-market economy. It was voted at number 21 in the British Film Institute's list of the top 100 British films of the 20th century, and provided Bob Hoskins with his breakthrough film role.
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Live Forever: The Rise and Fall of Brit Pop Live Forever: The Rise and Fall of Brit Pop is a 2003 documentary film written and directed by John Dower. The documentary is a study of popular culture in the United Kingdom during the mid to late 1990s. The focus of the piece is British popular music, which came under strong media attention during the mid to late 1990s and was dubbed Britpop.
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Cortesi brothers The criminal Cortesi family originated in Italy, although the men, who would become part of the London underworld were all born in Paris, France. Augustus ‘Gus’ Cortesi (1886–1949) is buried in St Mary’s Catholic Cemetery, Kensal Green. Enrico ‘Frenchie’ (1884–1954) died in Hackney. Paolo ‘Paul’ (1891–1938) died in Islington. George (1888–1972) died in St Pancras. Their mother, Angele Cortesi, who brought her sons to England somewhere between 1891 and 1901, was born in Italy, about 1848, and died in 1935. In 1901, the family is listed at Little Saffron Hill, Clerkenwell, close to their friends the criminal Sabini family – until they fell out over protection racketeering when the Cortesi brothers believed they were being denied a fair share of proceeds from West End gambling clubs and money wrung from bookmakers by threats and blackmail. The Cortesi gang allied itself to Freddie Gilbert’s Finsbury Boys, enemies of both the Sabinis and the premier Jewish gang led by Alfie Solomon.
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The Nightmare Neighbour Next Door The Nighmare Neighbour Next Door is a British documentary television series broadcast on Channel 5 since 1 April 2014. The show follows some of the most extreme cases of fallouts between neighbours all over the country, using real-life interviews and reconstruction. The show has proven to be one of the most popular shows on the channel. A fourth series started airing on 29 July 2015.
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Disappearing London Disappearing London is a British documentary television series that was broadcast on ITV London. In each episode, Madness frontman Suggs ""searches out the people and places that give London its quirky appeal and charm, and discovers why they may not be around for much longer"".
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The Godfather (film series) The Godfather is an American film series that consists of three crime drama films directed by Francis Ford Coppola inspired by the novel of the same name by Italian American author Mario Puzo. The series follows the trials of the Corleone family, Italian Americans whose patriarch, Vito Corleone, rises to be a major figure in American organized crime. His youngest son, Michael Corleone, becomes his successor. All three films were distributed by Paramount Pictures and released in 1972, 1974 and 1990. The series achieved success at the box office, with the films earning over $550 million worldwide. The first two films have received wide acclaim since release; the former, "The Godfather", is seen by many as one of the greatest films of all time. Its sequel, "The Godfather Part II", is viewed by many as the best sequel in cinematic history. The series is heavily awarded, winning 9 out of 29 total Academy Award nominations.
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A Killer in the Family A Killer in the Family is a 1983 American made-for-television crime film directed by Richard T. Heffron. The film is based on the Tison v. Arizona case, which took place in 1978 in Arizona. The film first aired on ABC on October 30, 1983 and was released on DVD in 2010 by Warner Home Video.
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Bruce Johnston (criminal) Bruce Alfred Johnston Sr (March 27, 1939 – August 8, 2002) was the leader of one of the most notorious gangs in the history of Pennsylvania, USA. The gang started in the 1960s and was rounded up in 1978 after his son, Bruce Jr, testified against him. The 1986 film "At Close Range" is about Johnston's gang.
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The Sheriffs Are Coming The Sheriffs Are Coming is a British fly on the wall documentary series following High Court enforcement officers (known as Sheriffs Officers until April 2004), which started off as a one-off 10-minute feature on the BBC One show "Inside Out South West" in 2011.
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Secret History (TV series) Secret History is a long-running British television documentary series. Shown on Channel 4, the "Secret History" brandname is still used as a banner title in the UK, but many of the individual documentaries can still be found on US cable channels without the branding. It can be seen as Channel 4's answer to the BBC's "Timewatch". The series returned to Channel 4 on 10 November 2013 after a nine-year break.
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The American Gangster The American Gangster is a 1992 American crime documentary film directed by Ben Burtt and written and produced by Ray Herbeck Jr. The documentary is narrated by Dennis Farina and explores the lives of America's gangsters like Pretty Boy Floyd, John Dillinger, Al Capone, and Bugsy Siegel. It was directly released on VHS in 1992 and later released as part of a DVD box set in 2006.
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The Family (2011 TV series) The Family is an Australian fly-on-the-wall documentary series that began airing 24 November 2011 on SBS One. It is the Australian version of the British series of the same name.
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Coppers (TV series) Coppers is a British fly-on-the-wall documentary television series broadcast on Channel 4, about policing in the United Kingdom. First broadcast on 1 November 2010, the series followed the day-to-day lives of police officers (colloquially known as 'coppers') from four territorial police forces around the country, covering various activities: custody suite operations, road unit policing, 999 response, night time policing and riot control.
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Organised crime in Australia Organised crime in Australia refers to the activities of various groups of crime families and/or organised crime syndicates in Australia.
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Documentary Photography Archive The Documentary Photography Archive (DPA) is a founded in 1985 and held at the Greater Manchester County Record Office by Manchester City Council. The archive captures aspects of the people and places of the Greater Manchester region in the UK and includes over 100,000 images from family albums and elsewhere, from the 1840s to the 1950s. It also commissioned contemporary photographers to document aspects of everyday life from the mid 1980s to the 1990s, which is also held in the archive.