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Told from the points of view of both the Baltimore homicide and narcotics detectives and their targets, the series captures a universe in which the national war on drugs has become a permanent, self-sustaining bureaucracy, and distinctions between good and evil are routinely obliterated.
Release
2002-06-02
Seasons
5 (2002 - 2008), 60 episodes
Network
HBO
Creator
Directors
Ernest R. Dickerson, Joe Chappelle, Steve Shill, Ed Bianchi, Daniel Attias, Clark Johnson, Tim Van Patten, Agnieszka Holland, Rob Bailey, Christine Moore, Anthony Hemingway, Elodie Keene, Brad Anderson, Seith Mann, Clement Virgo, Alex Zakrzewski, Peter Medak, Thomas J. Wright, Joy Kecken, Robert F. Colesberry, Rob Baieu, Gloria Muzio, Jim McKay, Dominic West, Milcho Manchevski, David Platt, Scott Kecken, Leslie Libman
Original language
English
IMDb
imdb.com/title/tt0306414/
Homepage
hbo.com/the-wire
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