Original Gangsters with Sean Bean

About Original Gangsters with Sean Bean

From Al Capone, to the real Peaky Blinders, from The Krays twins to the Queen of Harlem, each hour-long episode of Original Gangsters will see the legendary actor Sean Bean take a deep dive through a rogues gallery of some of the most notorious criminals in history to separate the fact from the fiction, as we find out what they mean to us today and just why they were the original gangsters.

Sky History's Original Gangsters with Sean Bean is a crime and documentary series. Since November 2025 it has reached one season of 4 episodes.

Its themes are true crime and history. Sean Bean plays Presenter.

In the United States it streams on AMC+, AMC+ Amazon Channel, and AMC Plus Apple TV channel.

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