Gangster Empire: Rise of the Mob Atlantic City and the Boardwalk Empire (Season 1, Episode 2)
TV-14
TV Episode | 47 min | Documentary, Action, Crime

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Gangster Empire: Rise of the Mob

Atlantic City and the Boardwalk Empire (Season 1, Episode 2)

TV-14

TV Episode | 47 min | Documentary, Action, Crime

We meet the legendary figures of Atlantic City and the Boardwalk including Prohibition era kingpin Nucky Johnson who ran the area, and discover how rum running and bootlegging built an empire.

Director

Kevin R. Hershberger

Writer

Shawn Hambright

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Updated Jul 15, 2013

Release date

Jul 15, 2013 (United States)

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25 cast members

Name	Known for
Coby Batty Narrator (voice) Narrator (voice) See fewer	Loving (2016)
Matt K. Baker Historical Voice Historical Voice See fewer	Where Murder Lies (2021)
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James Christopher Cooke Historical Voice Historical Voice See fewer	Gangster Empire: Rise of the Mob (2013)
Brian Lee Gardner Historical Voice Historical Voice See fewer	Gangster Empire: Rise of the Mob (2013)
Shawn Hambright Historical Voice Historical Voice See fewer	The TREEzilla! (2011)
Trevor Jones Historical Voice Historical Voice See fewer	Gangster Empire: Rise of the Mob (2013)
Fred Keeler Historical Voice Historical Voice See fewer	Blues Brothers 2000 (1998)
Amanda Powell Historical Voice Historical Voice See fewer	Field of Lost Shoes (2015)
Charles Wissinger Historical Voice Historical Voice See fewer	Evan Almighty (2007)
Al Capone Self - Chicago Outfit Boss (archive footage) Self - Chicago Outfit Boss (archive footage) See fewer
Andrew Carnegie Self - Industrialist (archive footage) Self - Industrialist (archive footage) See fewer	Our Mutual Girl (1914)
Jack Dempsey Self - Boxer (archive footage) Self - Boxer (archive footage) See fewer	Fight and Win (1924)
Charles Dickens Self - Author (archive footage) Self - Author (archive footage) See fewer	Great Expectations (1946)
Walter Evans Edge Self - 36th Governor of New Jersey (archive footage) Self - 36th Governor of New Jersey (archive footage) See fewer
Frank S. Farley Self - State Senator, New Jersey (archive footage) Self - State Senator, New Jersey (archive footage) See fewer
J. Edgar Hoover Self - FBI Director (archive footage) Self - FBI Director (archive footage) See fewer	The Next of Kin (1942)
Enoch L. Johnson Self - Political Boss (archive footage) Self - Political Boss (archive footage) See fewer
Smith E. Johnson Self - Sheriff of Atlantic County (archive footage) Self - Sheriff of Atlantic County (archive footage) See fewer
Meyer Lansky Self - Jewish Mobster (archive footage) Self - Jewish Mobster (archive footage) See fewer
Lucky Luciano Self - Luciano Crime Family Boss (archive footage) Self - Luciano Crime Family Boss (archive footage) See fewer
Giuseppe Masseria Self - Sicilian Mobster (archive footage) Self - Sicilian Mobster (archive footage) See fewer
Florence Osbeck Self - Enoch L. Johnson's Wife (archive footage) Self - Enoch L. Johnson's Wife (archive footage) See fewer
Johnny Torrio Self - Chicago Outfit Boss (archive footage) Self - Chicago Outfit Boss (archive footage) See fewer
Woodrow Wilson Self - 34th Governor of New Jersey (archive footage) Self - 34th Governor of New Jersey (archive footage) See fewer	The Birth of a Nation (1915)