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La historia de la famosa figura del sindicato estadounidense Jimmy Hoffa, quien organiza una huelga amarga, hace tratos con miembros del sindicato del crimen organizado y desaparece misteriosamente en 1975.

Jimmy Hoffa was one of America's most powerful men. He fought the Kennedys, made deals with the Mafia, and controlled 2 million union members. Then he disappeared.

For a generation, the mobs main money machine was the Teamsters Union. When Jimmy Hoffa disappeared, the fight was on to see who could follow him. Jackie Presser was the son of a long time union board member and when he retired, Jackie was elevated to one of the most powerful position in the country; President of the Teamsters Union.

Documentary broadcast on FOX in 1994, charting the history of organized crime in America from Al Capone to John Gotti.

An extensive overview of organized crime operations in and infiltration of the Las Vegas casino and gaming industry, covering the years 1931-1987.

In this two-part series, explore the mystery behind the assassination of President John F Kennedy with Dr David J Hall.

The Teamster's Union goes on strike against Overnite Transportation, a nationwide freight company that has resisted unionization. The Union, however, faces its own internecine battles as factions inside the organization, one led by James P. Hoffa (son of the infamous Jimmy Hoffa), vie for power.

A great documentary about the United Farm Workers Movement and their non-violent struggle against police brutality in 1973.

Once a Garden follows three artists in mourning for a lost friend and a lost New York. Leaving the funeral of Kevin, whose wife Sarah died in 9-11 and for whom that loss proves too much, Mikey, Lou and Nicky, seek solace in the public garden Sarah used to tend,and in a seemingly bottomless flask of booze. Unable to find comfort,the three men,an outsider artist, a refugee from television and a self styled "drunken poet and middle aged fraud", scour the bars of Manhattan looking for the city the used to love. Along the way they meet a radical Arab-American Professor, Patriotic Teamsters, Conga playing Jazz Musicians, Republican Bartenders and three beautiful, but eccentric, women. Their Odyssey climaxes in a long night in a Soho loft complete with Chemical Substances, Bathtub Kisses, Italian lessons, Marmite, Poetry and Despair.

The question continues to be raised: what happened to Teamster boss Jimmy Hoffa after his release from prison in 1975, when President Nixon commuted Hoffa's sentence? His disappearance decades ago led to reports that he was murdered; others claim to have seen him in foreign lands, living under a new identity. This program investigates the facts surrounding Hoffa's disappearance and looks at his life before he went to prison. Long the object of criminal investigations. Hoffa had many ties to the Mafia. Archival news footage chronicles his controversial public life. Interviews with family, friends, and colleagues paint an altogether different picture of the missing man.

Organized crime's involvement in the murders of President John F. Kennedy and labor leader Jimmy Hoffa.

The programme looks at the rise and fall of gangster, John Gotti, who took charge after arranging the murder of Paul Castellano. Bribing his way to freedom, justice finally caught up with him and he is now doing a life sentence.

When John Gotti emerged as head of the Gambino crime family, the media took notice of this charismatic new boss who was tried several times but never convicted. NGC revisits Gotti's rise to power and why it took the feds so long to bring him down.

In a deathbed confession, Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran revealed his role in one of the great unsolved mysteries of the 20th century - who killed Jimmy Hoffa? James "Whitey" Bulger was America's most wanted until his arrest in June 2011 in Santa Monica and only Osama bin Laden was sought more than him.

Told by family, friends, and others, is the life story of Jimmy Hoffa and the circumstances surrounding his mysterious disappearance.

Lesueur and Merlin Pitterlee, labor editor for Business Week, interview Dave Beck, the general president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters union. topics include the economic recession, the relationship of the Teamsters with employers and other unions, communist influence on the American labor movement and racketeers' infiltration of labor unions.

A powerful union activist disappears from a Detroit suburb. 45 years later, he is still a missing person cases. The mystery of Jimmy Hoffa's disappearance seems like a Hollywood movie plot.

In a deathbed confession Frank 'the Irishman' Sheeran revealed his role in one of the great unsolved mysteries of the twentieth century: Who killed Jimmy Hoffa?