Lucky Luciano: The Making of a Mobster

Meet Charles "Lucky" Luciano, the godfather of organized crime in America and star of AMC's thrilling new docu-drama, The Making of the Mob.

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Tonight, AMC will air the first episode of The Making of the Mob: New York, an eight-part docu-drama from producer Stephen David. At the conclusion of the series, I’ll be back to discuss what David got right, what he got wrong, and most important of all, what he left out. But first, let’s meet the star of the series, Charles “Lucky” Luciano, and examine how a man who lived his life in relative obscurity came to personify organized crime in America.