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The Wire
Why this pick
Like We Own This City, it anatomises Baltimore’s institutions and the human damage created when policing, politics and incentives fail the people inside them.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE SERIES
SERIES2022 1h 0m / episode USA
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Shows like
We Own This City
Mini-SeriesDramaCrime
CINEHUNCH / THE NEXT FRAME
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Show Me a Hero
Why this pick
David Simon brings the same procedural, fact-rooted attention to public systems, compromised officials and the intimate costs of civic policy.
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The Night Of
Why this pick
Its measured, immersive realism follows how one case passes through police, jail and courts, with institutional pressure steadily reshaping everyone involved.
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The Corner
Why this pick
A raw Baltimore precursor to We Own This City’s systemic viewpoint, concentrating on how drug enforcement and poverty entrap families, police and neighbourhoods.
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When They See Us
Why this pick
This urgent fact-based miniseries shares its anger at coercive policing and official self-protection, while keeping the emotional focus on lives crushed by the system.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Chronicles the rise and fall of the Baltimore Police Department's Gun Trace Task Force — and the corruption and moral collapse that befell an American city in which the policies of drug prohibition and mass arrest were championed at the expense of actual police work.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Jon Bernthal
Sgt. Wayne Jenkins
Wunmi Mosaku
Nicole Steele
Josh Charles
Daniel Hersl
Jamie Hector
Sean M. Suiter
Darrell Britt-Gibson
Jemell Rayam
Ian Duff
Ahmed Jackson
Tray Chaney
Gordon Hawk
Dagmara Dominczyk
Erika Jensen