The Best Mafia Documentaries

True Crime - 57 free documentaries about the mafia.

Start with The Downfall of the Yakuza (28 min, VICE), then The Teenage Mafia Academy (23 min, VICE). All 57 documentaries here are free to watch from their makers' official uploads. To read deeper, the top-rated book on the mafia is Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi.

• The Downfall of the Yakuza (28 min, VICE)
• The Teenage Mafia Academy | Crimewave (23 min, VICE)
• Inside the Dark World of Assassins | Trafficked: Underworlds with Mariana van Zeller (44 min, National Geographic)
• 30 Years With the Yakuza | Bad Blood (25 min, VICE)
• Las Vegas: The Shady Life in America's Most Sinful City (84 min, ENDEVR)
• The Rise of the American Mafia (S1, E1) | American Godfathers: The Five Families (86 min, HISTORY)
• The Men Who Ruled New York’s Mafia | American Godfathers: The Five Families (54 min, HISTORY)
• The Downfall Of America's Most Notorious Mobsters (87 min, Our History)
• Mafia Women: Born and Married Into Crime (86 min, ENDEVR)
• The Mob’s New Generation of Power (S1, E2) | American Godfathers: The Five Families (86 min, HISTORY)
• How The FBI Took Down New York's Most Notorious Mafia Bosses (84 min, Our History)
• The Fall of the Modern Mafia (S1, E3) | American Godfathers: The Five Families (86 min, HISTORY)
• The Mafia Member Who Single-Handedly Murdered 200 People (50 min, Real Crime)
• Japanese Mafia | Yakuza | Criminal Organisation (126 min, Moconomy)
• Uncovering The Deadliest Mob Boss In History | Mafia's Greatest Hits (50 min, Real Crime)
• Ed Hardy: The Godfather of Modern Tattooing | Tattoo Age Episode 10 (44 min, VICE)
• Catching John Gotti: The Fall of the Gambino Mob Family | Mafia's Greatest Hits (53 min, Real Crime)
• How The FBI Busted The New York Mafia's Garbage Truck Racket (51 min, Real Crime)
• Charles Luciano: The Richest Mafia Gangster To Ever Live | Mafia's Greatest Hits (50 min, Real Crime)
• Hunting down the mafia in Italy (28 min, DW Documentary)
• Joe Columbo: The Youngest Godfather That Redefined The Mafia | Mafia's Greatest Hits (49 min, Real Crime)
• How the Mafia’s cattle are terrorizing Italian villages (28 min, DW Documentary)
• Inside the Mafia: The Shocking True Story of Frank Costello and Vito Genovese (50 min, Real Stories)
• Mob Bosses & Hitmen: Trevor McDonald Investigates The Mafia (91 min, Real Stories)
• In the hands of the cocaine mafia - How European ports are being infiltrated (42 min, DW Documentary)
• Mafia Ties And FBI Lies: Donnie Brasco, Sonny Black And Lefty Ruggiero (200 min, Real Crime)
• Joe Valachi: The First Ever Mafia Member Who Snitched To CIA | Mafia's Greatest Hits (48 min, Real Crime)
• How The Mafia Controls America (151 min, Real Crime)
• Mafia Wars: Meyer Lansky's Secret Deal With The U.S. Navy In WWII (50 min, Real Crime)
• How the Mob Infiltrated the NYPD (43 min, Our History)
• Freddie Foreman: The Terrifying British Godfather (90 min, Real Stories)
• Women In The Mafia: Truth Behind The Money (44 min, Real Stories)
• Secret Lives of Mafia Wives (45 min, Real Stories)
• Hidden Mafia in Germany’s former East (42 min, DW Documentary)
• MONSTER OF FLORENCE: More Dangerous Than the Mafia? (95 min, Real Crime)
• James "Whitey" Bulger: The Irishman Who Outsmarted the Mob (90 min, Real Crime)
• The Real Story Behind Alto Knights (203 min, Real Crime)
• Rise of the Chicago Mafia: Rackets, Prohibition and Gambling (60 min, Real Crime)
• Joe Massino the Mob Boss Who Destroyed the Mafia from Inside (42 min, Our History)
• The Tragic Fall Of "The Gentleman Gangster" l How the Mafia Changed Forever (45 min, Real Crime)
• Sir Trevor McDonald Meets The Real Life Godfather (47 min, Real Stories)
• Italy's Mafia Hunters | Unreported World (48 min, Free Documentary)
• New York’s Underworld Empire Revealed | American Godfathers: The Five Families (27 min, HISTORY)
• What Hollywood Gets Wrong About the Mafia: The Reality Explained (48 min, Real Crime)
• Inside the FBI Operation that Destroyed the Mafia (50 min, Real Stories)
• Mobsters, Gangsters And Informants (135 min, Real Stories)
• How the Mafia Helped Win World War II (50 min, Real Crime)
• Did the Mob Kill JFK? Confessions Of A Mafia Hitman (45 min, Real Crime)
• Saving kids from the Mafia in Italy (26 min, DW Documentary)
• What Actually Happened Inside The Mafia (53 min, Real Crime)
• Inside The Dangerous Soccer Mafia (44 min, Real Crime)
• The Dark Side of Naples: Life between Pizza & Mafia Threat (68 min, ENDEVR)
• What Actually Happened In The Philadelphia Mob War (50 min, Real Crime)
• The NDRANGHETA - The Fight Against the Most powerful Mafia Family | RE - UPLOAD (55 min, ENDEVR)
• Exactly How Colombian Cartels & Italian Mobsters Built a Drug Pipeline (86 min, Real Crime)
• $1 Million WASTED: Nigeria's Violent Transport Mafia Exposed (59 min, Real Crime)
• How Italy’s Deadliest Mobsters Built An Overseas Empire (130 min, Real Crime)

Top-Rated Books About The Mafia

1. Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi (4/5) - View on Amazon
2. Five Families by Selwyn Raab - View on Amazon
3. Gomorrah by Roberto Saviano - View on Amazon
4. Donnie Brasco by Joseph D. Pistone - View on Amazon
5. I Heard You Paint Houses by Charles Brandt - View on Amazon
6. Mafia queens of Mumbai by S. Hussain Zaidi - View on Amazon
7. The Black Hand by Chris Blatchford - View on Amazon