Discovery Uncovering the real Gangs of New York Part 2 of 4

This half-hour documentary is for those looking for background information about the real struggles of New Yorkers in the 1800s. Featuring archival pictures, documents, writings, and comments by scholars, this is a good little documentary from discovery that takes you beyond Scorsese's 'Gangs of New York' movie and into real life.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• gangs
• New York
• history
• discovery

[donnacha90]

Thanks for posting this. I'm from Ireland and I did my secondary school history project on the 1863 NYC draft riots and Irish gangs involved.

[Docmate]

@donnacha90 Glad I could help with your history projects.

[Bullettube]

Thanks for posting, this was very interesting!

[Docmate]

Thanks for watching!

[TheNigerianScammer]

thanks

[ssjsolidsnake]

I never thought that I'd ever see Daniel Day-Lewis look the way he does in this program. He really did deserve the Academy Award for that role along with his role in "There Will Be Blood". Just a side note I guess. Great stuff about the history of New York though.

[Sturmmann]

Bill the Butcher is a meat place today

their motto is "the only meat to eat"

[ThePsychoReturns]

And all this time I thought cop was short for "constable on patrol".

[jake666thehellion]

Original forefighters of new york, what a bunch of real heroes. Makes me wonder what Denis Leary and Peter Tolan think of that lil bit of history.

[powerfulnun]

lol so even though its a pro irish movie, the mayor that was Irish after Tweed was even worse, so worse that he forced a decision from the country about NY.

[heyheymonkees]

Boss Tweed, the father of modern American politics.

[kurt9876543210]

you'll never take me alive copper, sheee, ehhh