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In 1860's lower Manhattan, the Five Points section is a dark, teeming corner of the city known for vice and chaos. Into this frontier of lawlessness arrives the young Irish American, Amsterdam Vallon.…

Director Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York was released in December of...closing shot. Amazingly, the next step for Gangs was to win exactly zero Oscars and be branded...failure" tag. However, I come not to bury Gangs of New York, but to praise it. With every...

...that I give the highest rating. Nuts? I don't think so. Gangs of New York is something better than perfect: It's thrillingly...built in Rome's Cinecitta studio. What Scorsese achieves in Gangs of New York is defiantly untrendy: a triumph of pure craft...

...laces history with poetic fire. OK, this isn't the apocryphal uncut Gangs that buffs lust for. But with Scorsese providing passionate scene-by-scene commentary, Gangs on DVD qualifies as a master class on filmmaking. PETER TRAVERS (July...

A young Irish American fights for family honor and freedom during a pivotal moment in New York and American history: the 1863 Civil War Draft Riots.

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We all know the Civil War took place in the…

Jessie Is the New HoH In A House Full of Gangs

...will end up dead. These neighborhoods in South Los Angeles are home to two of America's most infamous African-American gangs, the Crips and the Bloods. On these streets over the past 30 years, more than 15,000 people have been murdered in an ongoing...

A reformed gangster tries to protect his son who is a member of a teenage gang.