American Gangster
...I think that the film would have been even better if the filmmakers had shown Frank's childhood growing up in Jim Crow-era North Carolina, and his introduction to the Harlem underworld as a young adult.. we get the brief line from him about seeing his cousin tied up and murdered by local police/klan, but this would have been a powerful scene if it were filmed.. the idea being , that a black 'gangster' of Frank's generation just doesn't come out of nowhere (the film simply introduces him as a seasoned enforcer); showing how American racism, for better or worse, shaped his attitudes and beliefs, much differently than the 'immigrant dreams' that figure into the stories of white ethnic crime figures..