David Simon — Director (6)
The Plot Against America (2020) [TV] NeoDB IMDb TMDB
The Plot Against America
director: David Simon / Ed Burns actor: Winona Ryder / John Turturro
other title: La conjura contra América / 플롯 어게인스트: 미국을 향한 음모
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.
The Wire (2002) [TV] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Wire
9.3 (10 ratings) director: David Simon actor: Dominic West / Lance Reddick
other title: Sur écoute / Bajo escucha
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.
The Deuce (2017) [TV] TMDB
The Deuce
director: George Pelecanos / David Simon actor: James Franco / Maggie Gyllenhaal
other title: La 42e / The Deuce (Las crónicas de Times Square)
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.
Generation Kill (2008) [TV] TMDB IMDb
Generation Kill
director: David Simon actor: Alexander Skarsgård / James Ransone
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 Corner (2000) [TV] TMDB
The Corner
director: David Simon actor: T.K. Carter / Khandi Alexander
The Corner presents the world of Fayette Street using real names and real events. The miniseries tells the true story of men, women and children living amid the open-air drug markets of West Baltimore. It chronicles a year in the lives of 15-year-old DeAndre McCullough, his mother Fran Boyd, and his father Gary McCullough, as well as other addicts and low-level drug dealers caught up in the twin-engine economy of heroin and cocaine.
We Own This City (2022) [TV] IMDb TMDB WikiData
We Own This City
other title: We Own This City - Potere e corruzione / La ciudad es nuestra
The story of 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.