We Own This City
David Simon, George Pelecanos, 2022-
We Own This City
Justin Fenton, 2021
We Own This City is a TV mini-series created by David Simon and George Pelecanos in 2022 and based on the book We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops and Corruption in an American City by Justin Fenton, first published in 2021. The TV series features Jon Bernthal, Treat Williams, Josh Charles, Jamie Hector, Domenick Lombardozzi, Don Harvey, and others.
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Storyline
Baltimore, 2015. Riots are erupting across the city as citizens demand justice for Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old Black man who has died under suspicious circumstances while in police custody. Drug and violent crime are surging, and the city is reaching its highest murder count in more than two decades. Facing pressure from the mayor’s office turn to a rank-and-file hero, Sergeant Wayne Jenkins, and his elite plainclothes unit, the Gun Trace Task Force, to help get guns and drugs off the street.
Movie vs Book
Year
2022
Minutes
60
Movie Rate
7.70
Source: IMDb
TV Mini-Series
We Own This City
Creator: David Simon, George Pelecanos
Country: USA
Year: 2022-
Length: 1h / 7 episodes
Year
2021
Pages
352
Book Rate
8.58
S: Goodreads
Book
We Own This City
Subtitle: A True Story of Crime, Cops and Corruption in an American City
Author: Justin Fenton
Country: USA
First published in: 2021
Length: 352 pages
Genre: Non Fiction
User polls & recommendations
“Making the book into a television show makes it feel so much more real and so much more like a real rock documentary.”
TAYLOR JENKINS REID (Writer)
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