The Wire(2002)

series - first aired/released 2002-06-02 - audience 8.6

Crime, Drama

Directed by Agnieszka Holland, Alex Zakrzewski, Anthony Hemingway, Brad Anderson, Christine Moore, Clark Johnson, Clement Virgo, Dan Attias, David Platt, Dominic West, Ed Bianchi, Elodie Keene, Ernest R. Dickerson, Gloria Muzio, Jim McKay, Joe Chappelle, Joy Kecken, Leslie Libman, Milcho Manchevski, Peter Medak, Rob Baieu, Rob Bailey, Robert F. Colesberry, Scott Kecken, Seith Mann, Steve Shill, Thomas J. Wright, Tim Van Patten

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.