Plot Synopsis

MOBSTERS documents the most infamous names in the underground mob world. A few episodes feature multiple criminals, but the vast majority of the 60-minute episodes each features the story of a single mobster, including: 'Big Paul' Castellano, who served as boss of the Gambino crime family, the largest in New York during the 1970s and '80s; James 'Whitey' Bulger, who was one of Boston's most notorious gangsters; Tommy Lucchese, who was one of the most successful and notorious members of the Italian-American Mafia; Nicky Scarfo, who was one of the most violent American mafia bosses in the past half century; John Gotti, who went on to take the leadership position of the Gambino Crime family; Vinnie 'The Chin' Gigante, who was the suspected boss of the Genovese crime family trying to convince the world that he was crazy by walking the streets of New York City's Greenwich Village in a bathrobe and slippers muttering to himself; and many more mob hitmen, bosses, and capos.