The wire. The complete 1st season

DVD 2015

This unvarnished, highly realistic series follows a single sprawling drug and murder investigation in Baltimore. Told from the point of view of both the police and their targets, where easy distinctions between good and evil are challenged at every turn.

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Murder Investigation Maryland Baltimore Fiction

Narcotics Maryland Baltimore Fiction

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Fiction Television cop shows Television programs Video recordings for the hearing impaired

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ISBN:

9781419869099
0783127928

Description:

5 videodiscs (775 minutes) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 inches
digital optical surround Dolby digital 5.1, 2.0
video file DVD video region 1
polychrome

Target Audience Note:

Canadian Home Video Rating: 18A

Other Title:

Wire. Season 1
Wire. Season one
Wire. The complete first season
Wire (Television program) [DVD]

Notes:

Originally broadcast on television in 2002
Special features: 3 audio commentaries with creator/writer David Simon, writer George Pelicanos and director Clark Johnson; episodic previews and recaps
Title from container
Cinematography, Uta Briesewitz ; editors, Allyson C. Johnson ... [and others] ; original music, Kenneth Burgomaster
Dominic West, Lance Reddick, Sonja Sohn, Wendell Pierce, John Doman
DVD ; full screen presentation ; Dolby digital 5.1, 2.0
For private home use only
Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired
Includes audio tracks and subtitles in English, French and Spanish

Contents:

Disc 1. The target
The detail
The buys
Disc 2. Old cases
The pager
Disc 3. The wire
One arrest
Lessons
Disc 4. Game day
The cost
The hunt
Disc 5. Cleaning up
Sentencing

Control Number:

2438820

UPC:

026359887321
883929023196
883929168675
883929357161
883929466610

Other Authors:

Alvarez, Rafael, 1958- screenwriter
Anderson, Brad, 1964- film director
Briesewitz, Uta, director of photography
Burgomaster, Kenneth, composer (expression)
Doman, John, 1945- actor
HBO Video (Firm), distributor
Home Box Office (Firm), production company, broadcaster
Johnson, Allyson C., 1959- editor of moving image work
Johnson, Clark, 1954- film director
Kostroff-Noble, Nina, actor
Pelecanos, George P., screenwriter
Pierce, Wendell, actor
Reddick, Lance, actor
Simon, David, 1960- actor
Sohn, Sonja, actor
West, Dominic, 1969- actor

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