The Wire

TV Series

2002 min TMDB 8.6

EN 6 Seasons

Crime Drama

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 go...

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The Wire

2002 min TMDB 8.6

EN 6 Seasons

Crime Drama

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2002-06-02

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Episode 1: It's All Connected

A behind-the-scenes look at the fourth season of The Wire.

2006-08-20 29min

Episode 2: When Bunk Met McNulty (2000)

One of three short prequel films shot during production of the Wire's fifth season and offered via H...

2007-12-15 3min

Episode 3: Young Omar (1985)

One of three short prequel films shot during production of the Wire's fifth season and offered via H...

2007-12-15 2min

Episode 4: Young Proposition Joe (1962)

One of three short prequel films shot during production of the Wire's fifth season and offered via H...

2007-12-15 2min

Episode 5: Odyssey

Creator David Simon and members of the cast take you on a retrospective journey through the streets...

2007-12-20 29min

Episode 6: The Last Word

The role of the media is explored in this special that focuses on the upcoming fifth season of HBO's...

2007-12-21 27min

Episode 7: Tapping The Wire

Long-time Wire fan Charlie Brooker takes a journey to the mean streets of Baltimore to meet the cast...

2007-07-17 25min

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.

Episode 1: The Target

'... when it's not your turn.' - McNulty. Baltimore homicide detective Jimmy McNulty gets into hot...

2002-06-02 63min 7.6

Episode 2: The Detail

'You cannot lose if you do not play.' - Marla Daniels. McNulty feels the heat when a witness who te...

2002-06-09 58min 7.9

Episode 3: The Buys

"The king stay the king." - D'Angelo. The early-morning 'field interviews' by Herc, Carver and Pr...

2002-06-16 56min 7.9

Episode 4: Old Cases

"It's a thin line 'tween heaven and here." - Bubbles. Greggs and McNulty try to get Hardcase to t...

2002-06-23 60min 7.8

Episode 5: The Pager

"..a little slow, a little late." - Avon Barksdale. McNulty's detail finally gets 'clone' pagers...

2002-06-30 60min 7.8

Episode 6: The Wire

"..and all the pieces matter." - Freamon. When Rawls looks to make a premature arrest for three mu...

2002-07-07 60min 8.0

Episode 7: One Arrest

"A man must have a code." - Bunk. Tipped off by the wire, Greggs, Herc, Carver and Freamon make a...

2002-07-21 60min 8.3

Episode 8: Lessons

"Come at the king, you best not miss." - Omar. An unlikely source gives McNulty the tag of a car...

2002-07-28 57min 8.0

Episode 9: Game Day

"Maybe we won." - Herc. Barksdale plays an expensive game of one-upmanship with an east-side riva...

2002-08-04 57min 8.4

Episode 10: The Cost

"And then he dropped the bracelets..." - Greggs. With Wallace in custody, McNulty and Daniels try...

2002-08-11 56min 8.4

Episode 11: The Hunt

"Dope on the damn table." - Daniels. The police turn up the heat on tracking down Savino, Wee-Bey...

2002-08-18 57min 8.5

Episode 12: Cleaning Up

"This is me, yo, right here." - Wallace. The low-rise pay phones are out of service, so McNulty a...

2002-09-01 57min 8.4

Episode 13: Sentencing

"all in the game..." - Traditional West Baltimore. Every crew has weak links--including Avon Bark...

2002-09-08 66min 8.7

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. Setting up in the wake of the first season's joint homicide/narcotics detail that exposed a major drug operation — and left its members stigmatized and reassigned — the second season expands to include not only familiar drug dealers, but a group of longshoremen and organized crime members who are caught up in a major homicide case.

Episode 1: Ebb Tide

'Ain't never gonna be what it was.' -- Little Big Roy Det. Jimmy McNulty--exiled to police-boat dut...

2003-06-01 59min 7.9

Episode 2: Collateral Damage

'They can chew you up, but they gotta spit you out.' -- McNulty Major Valchek gets back at Sobotka...

2003-06-08 59min 7.9

Episode 3: Hot Shots

'What they need is a union.' -- Russell Bunk and Freamon chase their crime scene, a container ship,...

2003-06-15 59min 8.0

Episode 4: Hard Cases

'If I hear the music, I'm gonna dance.' -- Greggs Sobotka reprimands his nephew Nick for stealing t...

2003-06-22 59min 7.9

Episode 5: Undertow

'They used to make steel there, no?' -- Spiros Vondas Ziggy loses his prized Camaro to drug dealers...

2003-06-29 58min 7.9

Episode 6: All Prologue

'It don't matter that some fool say he different...' -- D'Angelo Trying to let go of police work an...

2003-07-06 59min 8.0

Episode 7: Backwash

'Don't worry, kid. You're still on the clock.' -- Horseface Russell tells Sobotka the investigation...

2003-07-13 59min 7.4

Episode 8: Duck and Cover

'How come they don't fly away?' -- Ziggy McNulty is back to his old self, on a drunken binge. Urged...

2003-07-27 58min 7.7

Episode 9: Stray Rounds

'The world is a smaller place now.' -- The Greek Bodie's effort to improve sales ends disastrously,...

2003-08-03 59min 8.0

Episode 10: Storm Warnings

'It pays to go with the union card every time.' -- Ziggy The Detail uses satellite technology to it...

2003-08-10 59min 8.4

Episode 11: Bad Dreams

'I need to get clean' -- Sobotka With the clock ticking, the Detail makes a desperate move, and Dan...

2003-08-17 59min 8.6

Episode 12: Port in a Storm

'Business. Always business.' -- The Greek The Detail has a setback, while Russell and Bunk revisit...

2003-08-24 63min 8.5

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 the police department hasn't got any answers. Wiretaps haven’t worked. Neither have stakeouts or street busts. With the demolition of the Franklin Terrace towers, Stringer Bell and the Barksdale crew have been forced to improvise. 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.

Episode 1: Time After Time

"Don't matter how many times you get burnt, you just keep doin' the same." -- Bodie A wave of urban...

2004-09-19 59min 7.9

Episode 2: All Due Respect

"There's never been a paper bag." -- Colvin Omar continues his bold strikes on Barksdale stash hous...

2004-09-26 59min 8.1

Episode 3: Dead Soldiers

"The gods will not save you." -- Burrell Colvin feels the sting of Burrell and Rawls during a Comst...

2004-10-03 59min 7.9

Episode 4: Amsterdam

"Why you got to go and fuck with the program?" -- Fruit West Baltimore residents get surprising str...

2004-10-10 59min 8.0

Episode 5: Straight and True

"I had such fuckin' hopes for us." -- McNulty Frustrated in his grass-roots reform efforts, Colvin...

2004-10-17 59min 8.0

Episode 6: Homecoming

"Just a gangster, I suppose." -- Avon Barksdale Stringer Bell gets an education in construction man...

2004-10-31 58min 8.3

Episode 7: Back Burners

"Conscience do cost." -- Butchie Herc discovers a blast from the past, which he belatedly reveals t...

2004-11-07 56min 8.1

Episode 8: Moral Midgetry

"Crawl, walk, and then run." -- Clay Davis With Amsterdam running full-tilt, Carver and Truck disco...

2004-11-14 59min 8.5

Episode 9: Slapstick

"...while you're waiting for moments that never come." -- Freamon Responding to an officer's call f...

2004-11-21 59min 8.1

Episode 10: Reformation

"Call it a crisis of leadership." -- Proposition Joe Brother Mouzone returns to Baltimore on a miss...

2004-11-28 59min 8.4

Episode 11: Middle Ground

"We don't need to dream no more." -- Stringer Bell The wire begins to yield information about the B...

2004-12-12 59min 8.9

Episode 12: Mission Accomplished

"...we fight on the lie." -- Slim Charles In the Season Three finale, a reticent Avon readies his t...

2004-12-19 64min 8.3

In the projects. On the docks. In City Hall. And now, in the schools. The places and faces change, but the game remains the same. A new story begins. This year, while expanding on storylines introduced in previous seasons — including the new vocations of several characters, the rise of a new drug empire, and the city's imminent mayoral election — the series expands its focus into Baltimore's school system, providing an inside look at the role of the urban educational system in shaping young people's lives. This storyline is played out through four new young characters, each of whom faces difficult choices amidst the temptation of crime and easy money.

Episode 1: Boys of Summer

"Lambs to the slaughter here." - Marcia Donnelly Four West Baltimore boys wrestle with what to do w...

2006-09-10 59min 7.8

Episode 2: Soft Eyes

"I still wake up white in a city that ain't." - Carcetti In the hopes of possibly saving her job, P...

2006-09-17 59min 8.2

Episode 3: Home Rooms

"I love the first day, man. Everybody all friendly an' shit." - Namond Brice Prez is shocked by his...

2006-09-24 59min 8.2

Episode 4: Refugees

"No one wins. One side just loses more slowly." - Prez Freamon and Greggs move to Homicide, while H...

2006-10-01 59min 7.9

Episode 5: Alliances

"If you with us, you with us." - Chris Partlow Commissioner Burrell loses Royce's support; Chris Pa...

2006-10-08 59min 7.8

Episode 6: Margin of Error

"Don't try this shit at home." - Norman Wilson Carcetti responds to a campaign smear. Randy is acc...

2006-10-15 58min 8.1

Episode 7: Unto Others

"Aw yeah. That golden rule." - The Bunk Omar calls in a favor to the police; Carcetti gets advice f...

2006-10-29 59min 7.9

Episode 8: Corner Boys

"We got our thing, but it's just part of the big thing." - Zenobia Prez wants to teach off curricul...

2006-11-05 59min 8.0

Episode 9: Know Your Place

"Might as well dump 'em, get another." - Proposition Joe Herc and Dozerman search for Little Kevin;...

2006-11-12 59min 7.8

Episode 10: Misgivings

"World goin' one way, people another." -Poot Walker catches Donut boosting cars and teaches him a l...

2006-11-19 59min 8.1

Episode 11: A New Day

"You play in dirt, you get dirty." - McNulty Randy has trouble with his friends at school, while Ca...

2006-11-26 59min 8.3

Episode 12: That's Got His Own

"That all there is to it?" - Bubbles While searching for the missing bodies, Freamon goes around th...

2006-12-03 59min 8.3

Episode 13: Final Grades

"If animal trapped call 410-844-6286" - Baltimore, traditional Burrell tries to help Daniels. Bubbl...

2006-12-10 79min 8.8

In the projects. On the docks. In City Hall. In the schools. And now, in the media. The places and faces change, but the game remains the same. 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 as they struggle to maintain integrity and meet deadlines in the face of budget cuts and staff reductions.