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Legend



It's worth bearing in mind, as you settle in to watch Brian Helgeland's take on the story of the Kray twins, that it's called Legend. It's also worth bearing in mind one of Google's convenient definitions of the word 'legend':

"a traditional story sometimes popularly regarded as historical but not authenticated"
Because a warts-and-all documentary about London's best-known villains this is not

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