Both explain several of his methods, though the officers interviewed are quick to point out that they were often varied and extreme. The second documentary focuses more on his connections to the Mafia, specifically, his role as a top enforcer for the Gambino crime family. While only vaguely mentioning his connections to the Mafia, the first documentary does reveal his leadership of a crime ring. It follows his life as a teenager, where he discovered "it was better to give than receive" violence. The first explains his childhood and makes the case that his early violent home life made him accustomed and immune to violence as an adult. Over the course of watching the two documentaries, the viewer learns a fair amount about Kuklinski, and while there is some overlap between the two, the focus of each is different. Both interviews, each running about 42 minutes in length, are contained on this DVD, collectively titled, The Iceman: Confessions of a Mafia Hitman. The purpose of the interviews were to obtain details from his past murders that might solve open cases and to help profile the mind of a self-confessed unrepentant contract killer, who by his count, had killed over a hundred people. Almost ten years later, in 2001, HBO interviewed him again. In 1991, he broke his silence and was interviewed for an America Undercover Special that ran on HBO in 1992. The Iceman, remained silent for several years about the details of the murders he performed. After his arrest in 1986 and conviction for multiple murders in 1988, Richard Kuklinski, a.k.a.
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