Ed Burns (Writer)

Making Generation Kill

A behind the scenes look at HBO's critically acclaimed reality-based seven part miniseries 'Generation Kill' about some marines which was apart of the Iraqi invasion in 2003. You'll get an inside look in how the series was made.

Release Date2008-12-16

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The Wire Odyssey

A retrospective documentary of the first four seasons of the acclaimed series The Wire.

Release Date2007-12-20

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The Wire: The Last Word

A documentary exploring the role of the media in relation to the acclaimed series The Wire.

Release Date2007-12-27

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The Wire

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.

Release Date2002-06-02

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JobProducer

Episode Count47

Vote Count2412

Generation Kill

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.

Release Date2008-07-13

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Episode Count5

Vote Count461

We Own This City

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.

Release Date2022-04-25

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count6

Vote Count222

The Plot Against America

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.

Release Date2020-03-16

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count6

Vote Count183

The Corner

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.

Release Date2000-04-16

DepartmentWriting

JobBook

Episode Count6

Vote Count70