Popular Culture
- The 1981 movie Gangster Wars and the 1991 Mobsters are partly fictionalized accounts of the Castellammarese War, both from the point of view of Luciano.
- Events from the war (most notably the assassination of Maranzano) are included in Mario Puzo's novel The Godfather.
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