The Public Enemy starts in 1909, Angels With Dirty Faces in the early '20s, and The Roaring Twenties in the trenches of World War I, where the narrator explains that the soldiers have been drilled ...

A Wild Ride Through the Roaring Twenties: Book on Outlaw Couple Traces Origins of True Crime Genre Richard and Margaret Whittemore ran a jewelry heist gang, and their crime spree in 1925 and 1926 ...

The Roaring Twenties feels like a grand summation of the whole genre, with a greater emphasis on the nuts and bolts of bootlegging, and an explanation of how the rackets expanded until the end of ...