Sean Bean
Presenter
TV SERIES
Original Gangsters with Sean Bean
DocumentaryCrime
From Al Capone, to the real Peaky Blinders, from The Krays twins to the Queen of Harlem, each hour-long episode of Original Gangsters will see the legendary actor Sean Bean take a deep dive through a rogues gallery of some of the most notorious criminals in history to separate the fact from the fiction, as we find out what they mean to us today and just why they were the original gangsters.
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Episodes
4 Episodes
011. Peaky Blinders
Sean Bean will guide audiences through the labyrinthine alleyways of industrial Birmingham where the city's ruffians battled with the police and with each other.
022. Al Capone
With exclusive testimony from the Capone family, expert analysis examines the personal life and complicated legacy of the 20th Century's most famous criminal: Al Capone.
033. Stephanie St Clair
Stephanie St. Clair, forcefully ruled Harlem's numbers rackets with an iron fist, facing off against all rivals and surviving assassination attempts.
044. Billy Hill & The Krays
Sean Bean revisits Billy Hill and the Krays, tracing how the twins spent most of their life in jail, while London's original 'Gentleman Gangster' lived out his days as a free man.