The Wire

Listen carefully.

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.

Director

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

Created by

David Simon,Nina K. Noble,Robert F. Colesberry

Writers

David Simon,Chris Collins,Joy Kecken,William F. Zorzi