Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, Cameron Diaz, Liam Neeson
Director: Martin Scorsese
New York City, 1863, was a very different place, a fledgling young city where the desire for a better life raged in crime-ridden streets. Here, as the Nation's own survival was being tested by the ongoing Civil War, a vast and dangerous underworld was born in the streets.
These were the gangs of New York, as portrayed in Herbert Asbury's classic book, whose racketeering, bootlegging, swindling, gambling and murdering would become legendary - and whose culture of corruption threatened the very survival of America's working people.
Director Martin Scorsese sets his epic drama in this defining moment in New York City history, an era whose conflicts helped define who and what makes an American. Against the backdrop of this brave new world unfolds a story about a fatherless son's search for honor, vengeance and the courage to remake his life.