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    UNDERWORLD HISTORIES

    UNDERWORLD HISTORIES

    Underworld Histories is a one-hour documentary series that explores the interaction between a city’s social history and its organized crime. 

    Each program features a single city. A hallmark of the films is that we feature only first hand testimony from individuals – on both sides of the law - directly involved in the story. 

    This is history that happened the day before yesterday. The stories are told in a compelling present tense: woven into the personal testimony are punchy moments of drama recon, and ‘puts you in the moment’ archive news clips.

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    • May 21 1887
      James Gladstone, Canada's first aboriginal senator, was born at Mountain Hill, NWT.
    • May 21 1914
      The ship Komagata Maru arrived at Vancouver, with 376 Sikh immigrants aboard. They were not allowed to land and the ship was forced out of Vancouver on July 23.