Oscar winners Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe teamed up with Ridley Scott to make 2007's crime epic American Gangster.

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CHIP JACOBS, WRITER: It's hard for us to imagine what it was like that day in July 1943. It appeared quite suddenly. CHRISTOPHER WELLS, HISTORIAN: Thick, dark, silvery blue clouds descended over the ...