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[06/27/24 - 10:03 AM]
Executive Produced and Narrated by Michael Imperioli New Three-Night Event "American Godfathers: The Five Families" Premieres August 11 on The History Channel
Produced by Propagate and the Barnicle Brothers, this six-hour docuseries explores the inception, rise, and fall of New York City's five Mafia families who over a fifty-plus-year period had a hand in every facet of organized crime in America from bootlegging and drug trafficking to extortion and gambling.
[03/08/23 - 09:19 AM]
The History Channel Adds Emmy Award-Winner Michael Imperioli to Narrate and Executive Produce New Three-Part Nonfiction Series "Five Families" Covering the Rise and Fall of the American Mafia
Produced by Propagate and Barnicle Brothers, each two-hour episode will explore the dramatic rise, collapse, and resurgence of the American Mafia.
[03/02/22 - 10:15 AM]
The History Channel Orders New Nonfiction Series "Five Families" Executive Produced by Emmy Award Winner Ray Liotta and Propagate About the Rise and Fall of the American Mafia
The series will follow the Mob from its explosive and violent growth in Prohibition, its golden age of domination in the 1970s and 1980s, up through its heated war with law enforcement - a feud they ultimately lost.






AMERICAN GODFATHERS: THE FIVE FAMILIES (HISTORY)
BROADCAST HISTORY:
8/11/24 - 8/13/24
STATUS:
canceled/ended (2023-2024 season)
TIME SLOT:
completed airing its current season
SEASON(S):
1 (6 episodes, 0 of which have yet to air)
VISIT THE OFFICIAL WEB SITE
ADDITIONAL NOTES:
limited series
DESCRIPTION:
(from History's web site, August 2024) “American Godfathers: The Five Families,” executive produced and narrated by Emmy Award®-winning actor Michael Imperioli is a three-part, six-hour documentary series exploring the inception, rise, and fall of New York City’s five Mafia families who over a fifty-plus-year period had a hand in every facet of organized crime in America from bootlegging and drug trafficking to extortion and gambling. Based upon Selwyn Raab’s New York Times best-seller “Five Families: The Rise, Decline and Resurgence of America’s Most Powerful Mafia Empires,” “American Godfathers: The Five Families” traces the extensive history of the Mafia beginning with its early ties to Sicily. The history and subsequent breakdown of the “omerta” code coupled with the ever-changing violent power struggles within each of the five families is vividly chronicled throughout each two-hour episode. Through investigative archival images, footage, audio recordings, and recreation as well as new, candid on-camera interviews with authors including Raab himself, historians, experts, law enforcement, witnesses, and former mafia affiliates, viewers will get an inside look at the inner workings of the most powerful criminal organization of the twentieth century.
PRINCIPAL CAST INFORMATION:
· Michael Imperioli as Narrator (Voice)
CREW INFORMATION:
· Ben Silverman as EP
· Chelsea Friedland as EP
· Colin Barnicle as EP
· Howard T. Owens as EP
· Mary E. Donahue as EP (History)
· Matthew Davis Walker as CO-EP
· Michael Imperioli as EP
· Nick Barnicle as EP
· Zachary Behr as EP (History)
GENRE(S):
· reality (all)
· reality (documentary)
STUDIO INFORMATION:
· Barnicle Brothers
· Propagate