Awards Received

1972 Best Picture, granted by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Best Picture Oscar

Cast and Crew

Al Pacino Michael Corleone
Francis Ford Coppola Director

Video Products

The Godfather, 11 May 2004
The Godfather, 21 May 2002
The Godfather DVD Collection, 23 Apr 2004
5-disc box set, includes all three Godfather films plus additional release material
The Godfather - Widescreen Edition, 6 May 1997

Articles

Mafia Movies, by Murray N. Rothbard, The Rothbard-Rockwell Report, Nov 1990
Related Topic: Anarcho-Capitalism
"... the great classic, the definitive, superb Mafia movie was The Godfathers I and II, in which Francis Ford Coppola poured out a work of genius, grounded in his own and novelist Mario Puzo's cultural history ... The Godfathers were perfection: an epic world, ... beautifully and broodingly photographed ..."

Reviews

The Godfather trilogy (1972, 1974, 1990), by Stephen W. Carson
"... the Godfather movies bring those who are willing to the recognition of the true nature of men in power. Underneath all the pomp and circumstance, all the glad-handing and talk of serving the people, the various gangsters in power over us ultimately always have 'an offer that you can't refuse.' ... If you thought these were just gangster films, you missed the point."