Gangs of New York is a 2002 historical crime film set in the slums of New York City and based on Herbert Asbury's book of the same name. What conflict erupts into violence in the film?

In 1863, a long-running Catholic-Protestant rivalry explodes into violence, when an Irish immigrant group protests poor wages brought by the inflow of freed slaves and the prospect of conscription. Scorsese worked on the script for two decades until finally it was able to be produced.

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