Hearing opportunity knock, the promoters of this down-and-dirty documentary are piggybacking on the big-budget studio epic American Gangster by rushing out this take on Frank Lucas’ flashier, slicker ...

Showtime is teaming with Forest Whitaker to produce its own take on an American gangster. Cabler is developing “Mr. Untouchable,” a drama series that will chronicle the true story of flashy Harlem ...

A line in the "Godfather" movie gave birth to the current "American Gangster" flick, just as in real life La Cosa Nostra gave birth to the Black Mafia and "Don Carlo" leased the torch to Frank Lucas ...

American Gangster is the story of Frank Lucas and Leroy "Nicky" Barnes - their rise from street punks to the top of New York's 1970's high-flying drug market. The two men were considered the drug ...

Chronicled by actor Ving Rhames, American Ganster explores the life and times of some of Black America's most notorious crime figures. The show will explore without glorifying, and investigate without ...

Marc Levin brought a high level of personal curiosity and commitment to his previous documentary, The Protocols of Zion (2005), but those qualities are nowhere to be found in this standard true-crime ...

One of New York crime lore’s most influential and flamboyant gangsters, Nicky Barnes was one of the principal players in the seventies heroin catastrophe. Ever a proud, defensive man, Marc Levin’s doc ...