Genovese, Gambino, Bonnano, Colombo and Lucchese. For decades, these Five Families ruled New York and built the American Mafia into an underworld empire. Five Families, based on Selwyn Raab's New York Times best-selling book, is the vivid story of the rise and fall of New York's premiere dons from Lucky Luciano to Paul Castellano and John Gotti. We follow the Mob from its explosive - and violent - growth in Prohibition, up through its golden age of domination in the 1970s and 1980s, ending with the Mob's defeat. Narrated by Michael Imperioli, the series will focus on the battles within the Five Families as they plot to increase their holdings and power, killing their rivals and mentors in the underworld, and, occasionally, the civilians.
