Originally produced as episodes of the television program The Wire from 2002 - 2008.

Special features: episode previews and recaps, Q & A with David Simon and creative team, conversations with David Simon, audio commentaries from cast and crew, four-season retrospective, 2 documentaries, 3 prequels exploring life before The Wire; gag reel.

Director of photography, Uta Briesewitz [and others] ; editor, Geraldine Peroni [and others] ; music supervisor, Blake Leyh.

Dominic West, John Doman, Idris Elba, Frankie R. Faison, Larry Gilliard Jr., Wood Harris, Deirdre Lovejoy, Wendell Pierce, Domenick Lombardozzi, Lance Reddick, Andre Royo, Sonja Sohn, Jim True-Frost, Corey Parker Robinson, Aidan Gillen, Jamie Hector, Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

Filmed on location in Baltimore, Maryland.

An urban epic set in Baltimore, where police detectives investigate cases involving the illegal drug trade, the seaport system, the city government and its bureaucracy, the school system, and the print news media.

In a city that can no longer even recognize its problems, much less begin to solve them, police detectives attempt to bring in one last, worthy case against a violent crew of narcotics traffickers. And when bureaucratic poverty and infighting threatens that case, one detective will risk everything, creating a fraud that will eventually entangle the city's newspaper, which is weakened by declines in circulation and advertising. With journalism itself so vulnerable and desperate, an unscrupulous, ambitious reporter will ride the story wherever it goes--or wherever he wants it to go.

Rated: TV-MA.

DVD, NTSC; region 1; 4:3 aspect ratio; Dolby digital 5.1 and 2.0.

English; English, French and Spanish language soundtracks; English, French or Spanish subtitles.

Closed-captioned.