David Simon

Six-part miniseries from The Wire and We Own This City creator David Simon, starring Oscar Isaac (in a Golden Globe-winning performance) as Yonkers mayor Nick Wasicsko, who took office in 1987 during the city's most tumultuous time.

From creators David Simon and Eric Overmyer (The Wire), this drama series follows residents of New Orleans as they try to rebuild their unique community in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

From creators David Simon and Eric Overmyer (The Wire), this drama series follows residents of New Orleans as they try to rebuild their unique community in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

From creators David Simon and Eric Overmyer (The Wire), this drama series follows residents of New Orleans as they try to rebuild their unique community in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

From creators David Simon and Eric Overmyer (The Wire), this drama series follows residents of New Orleans as they try to rebuild their unique community in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

HBO crime thriller series based on the true rise and fall story of the Baltimore Police Department's Gun Trace Task Force—and the corruption and moral collapse that befell an American city. From The Wire creator David Simon.

Season 3 brings us into the world of 1985, just as VHS overtakes film as the primary medium for porn production and distribution. With the party of the 1970s winding down, 42nd Street has deteriorated into a hive of uncontrolled violent crime and seedy video stores, making urban renewal seem more unlikely than ever before.

The first 40 days of the war in Iraq as seen through the eyes of an elite group of U.S. Marines who spearheaded the invasion along with an embedded Rolling Stone reporter. A vivid account of the soldiers and of the forces that guided them in an often-improvised initiative.

The story of the legalization and subsequent rise of the porn industry in New York’s Times Square from the early ’70s through the mid ’80s, exploring the rough-and-tumble world that existed there until the rise of HIV, the violence of the cocaine epidemic and the renewed real estate market ended the bawdy turbulence of the area.

Resuming five years after the culmination of the first season, season two returns to the world of 1977. Disco and punk are in full swing, and police corruption and political tolerance for New York’s midtown demimonde is at its height. And the Mafia is now seemingly poised to reap great profits.

An alternate American history told through the eyes of a working-class Jewish family in New Jersey, as they watch the political rise of Charles Lindbergh, an aviator-hero and xenophobic populist, who becomes president and turns the nation toward fascism.

On the drug-infested streets of West Baltimore, there are good guys and there are bad guys. Sometimes you need more than a badge to tell them apart. Season 1 follows a single sprawling drug and murder investigation in Baltimore; one that culminates in a complex series of dangerous wiretaps and surveillance.

McNulty's on harbor patrol. Daniels is in the police-archives dungeon. Prez is chafing in the suburbs. Greggs has a desk job. The detail may be on ice, but corruption marches on . . . and a horrific discovery is about to turn the Baltimore shipping port inside out.

The heat is on in Baltimore. The drug war is being lost, bodies are piling up, and a desperate mayor wants the tide turned before the election. But no matter how hard McNulty and the detail try, the dealers always seem to be one step ahead of the game. It’s time to change the rules.

The places and faces change, but the game remains the same. A new story begins. This season, amidst the rise of a new drug empire and the city's impending mayoral election, four new young characters face difficult choices around the temptation of crime and easy money.

In the fifth and final season, the series expands its focus into the media - specifically the role of newspapers in big-city bureaucracy - as it follows a newspaper staff struggling to maintain integrity and meet deadlines in the face of budget cuts and staff reductions.