The Wire: Complete HBO Season 1-5 DVD – Dominic West 

Note: This DVD is designed to be played at an aspect ratio of 4:3.The Wire Complete Box Set comes packaged in a black sleeve featuring all 60 episodes re-mastered on 24 discs. With special features including audio commentaries with writer/creator David Simon, director Clarke Johnson and writer George Pelacanos, Q&A sessions with the cast and crew and an hour long “behind the scenes” documentary.One of television’s most critically acclaimed programmes, The Wire addresses the seedy side of Baltimore’s finest looking into money, drugs, politics and murder. Told from the point of view of both the police and their targets, the series captures a universe of subterfuge and surveillance, where easy distinctions between good and evil, and crime and punishment, are challenged at every turn. A study on urban life in one of America’s toughest cities, each season of The Wire has focused on a different aspect of Baltimore, starting with the police force and the drug trade, then moving on to City Hall, the education system and concluding with the media.From the drug-infested streets of West Baltimore to the corruption of City Hall, The Wire chronicles the tribulations of a post-industrial American city.Viewed from the perspectives of both the police and their targets, the award-winning series captures a world where easy distinctions between good and evil, and crime and punishment, are challenged at every turn.- Four behind-the-scenes documentaries- 22 audio commentaries with cast and crew- Three prequels that explore life before The Wire- ALL-NEW Paley Centre for Media event: The Wire Reunion

All five seasons of the highly-acclaimed crime drama series which follows drug and murder investigations in Baltimore. Told from the point of view of both the police and their targets, the series captures a universe of subterfuge and surveillance, where easy distinctions between good and evil, and crime and punishment, are challenged at every turn. Season 1 episodes comprise: ‘The Target’, ‘The Detail’, ‘The Buys’, ‘Old Cases’, ‘The Pager’, ‘The Wire’, ‘One Arrest’, ‘Lessons’, ‘Game Day’, ‘The Cost’, ‘The Hunt’, ‘Cleaning Up’ and ‘Sentencing’. Season 2 episodes are: ‘Ebb Tide’, ‘Collateral Damage’, ‘Hot Shots’, ‘Hard Cases’, ‘Undertow’, ‘All Prologue’, ‘Backwash’, ‘Duck and Cover’, ‘Stray Rounds’, ‘Storm Warnings’, ‘Bad Dreams’ and ‘Port in a Storm’. Season 3 episodes comprise: ‘Time After Time, ‘All Due Respect’, ‘Dead Soldiers’, ‘Amsterdam’, ‘Straight and True’, ‘Homecoming’, ‘Back Burners’, ‘Moral Midgetry’, ‘Slapstick’, ‘Reformation’, ‘Middle Ground’ and ‘Mission Accomplished’. Season 4 episodes are: ‘Boys of Summer’, ‘Soft Eyes’, ‘Home Rooms’, ‘Refugees’, ‘Alliances’, ‘Margin of Error’, ‘Unto Others’, ‘Corner Boys’, ‘Know Your Place’, ‘Misgivings’, ‘A New Day’, ‘That’s Got His Own’ and ‘Final Grades’. Season 5 episodes comprise: ‘More With Less’, ‘Unconfirmed Reports’, ‘Not for Attribution’, ‘Transitions’, ‘React Quotes’, ‘The Dickensian Aspect’, ‘Took’, ‘Clarifications’, ‘Late Editions’ and ‘-30-‘.

Includes every episode from mini-series The Wire One of television’s most critically acclaimed programmes The Wire challenges viewers with a cop show unlike anything on air. Universally lauded The Guardian claimed that ‘you either love The Wire or you haven’t seen it yet’ – now there is no excuse with the release of this complete box-set. The HBO series addresses the seedy side of Baltimore’s finest looking into money drugs politics and murder. Told from the point of view of both the police and their targets the series captures a universe of subterfuge and surveillance where easy distinctions between good and evil and crime and punishment are challenged at every turn. A study on urban life in one of America’s toughest cities each season of The Wire has focused on a different aspect of Baltimore starting with the police force and the drug trade then moving on to City Hall the education system and concluding with the media. Over the course of five seasons David Simon has endeavoured to build a city. It is a groundbreaking complex and political look at the streets of America detailed and fiercely intelligent; there is no other show like it on TV.