New York, 1863. Zwei Banden führen einen unerbitterlichen Krieg um die Straßen Manhattens: die Natives unter “Bill the Butcher” und die “Bad Rabbits”, die sich unter “Priest” Vallon, zusammengeschlossen haben.

Martin Scorsese has never made a western, but that genre’s approach to myth-making finds its urban equivalent in this vigorous historical epic. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Daniel Day Lewis, the vastly underrated Gangs of New York carries even more political potency today than it did on release.